Hi All! I cannot believe this college application and admission process is over! It has consumed our lives since last summer. Anyway… I thought it would be nice to see where the QuestBridge Finalists (non-matched/non-ED) ended up committing to.
My D was accepted to Washington and Lee, Brandeis, Boston U, Syracuse U, and U Pitt. She will be attending
Washington & Lee in the fall.
Son was accepted to Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Rice, Northwestern, Colby, Tufts, Wesleyan, and USC through QuestBridge.
Non-QuestBridge acceptances were Harvard, Duke, AL, and Auburn. (The only ones he applied to outside of the program.)
He’s visiting his top 4 before deciding (the 3 ivies and Stanford). He will return from his last visit the day before his deadline to choose (yikes)!
Congrats to your daughter!
I applied to Tufts and Princeton through the college match and was rejected by both. For QB regular decision, I applied to Tufts, Brown, and Wellesley, and outside of QB I applied to Brandeis, Northeastern, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins, UConn, and UMass Amherst.
I ended up being accepted to all ten, and I’m between JHU and Brown, but I’ll most likely be attending Brown!
@hufflepuffle do you mind sharing your stats. Awesome job by the way 10 for 10, I’d be lucky to get 1 for 20!
Great schools!
SAT: 690 M, 750 R, 780 W, 2220 total
Subject Tests: 730 Spanish, 760 US History
GPA: 3.91/4 UW, 6.69/7 W
Class Rank: 20/406
A note is that my grades were good with a few A-s and a B+ or two freshman and sophomore year, but I’ve had a 4.0 both junior year and this year
Extracurriculars: Co-president of GSA, treasurer of animal rights club, tutoring chair of NHS, journalist for school newspaper, content editor for school literary magazine, member of science team, Spanish Honor Society, and writer’s club
Volunteering: Volunteered at a hospital from June 2013-June 2014, volunteer at a library since November 2014
@WouldYouAcceptMe Hope this helps? Not sure what people usually put for stats, haha. I think my essays (which I feel were really good) and my recommendations (which I’m pretty sure were both sincere and extremely positive) helped quite a bit; I do have being a first-gen URM as a hook. I didn’t expect to get into either of the schools I’m choosing between, so you never know how well you’ll end up doing!
I didnt apply through the match process, but I applied to a few RD.
USC- rejected
Yale-R
Princeton- WL
Emory- A
Vanderbilt- A
Unless I get off of the WL at Pton I will be attending Vanderbilt 
@hufflepuffle I have a couple of questions for you. Was it heck tick applying to so many schools in terms of writing the essays and filling out the applications? Also, with your awesome stats is there a reason you didn’t apply to Stanford, Yale, etc.?
@Alamom Cuttin’ it down to the wire!!! My D was so relieved when she finally made her decision. I know your S will make the right choice for him!
@WouldYouAcceptMe It was a little bit hectic, but only because I left pretty much everything (including my Common App essay) until the very last minute…I actually did Brown’s supplements on the day the application was due, haha. If you actually set a timeline for yourself and get stuff done, it’s probably not all that stressful at all. I know people who applied to around 20 schools, so 10 is easy by comparison.
As for the second question: I don’t really like the atmosphere of most of the extremely selective schools! I’m well aware that there are a lot of very nice people, but there’s a little too much of a preponderance of the snobby type there for me. Harvard and Princeton are the two HYPS schools in comfortable range for me—Stanford is way too far, and Yale is WAY too close—and I didn’t feel like I would fit very well at either of them.
I just think fit is super important, considering the school you choose is going to be the place you live for the next four years, but what you look for in a school is going to be different than what anyone else is looking for, so.