<p>Good luck guys! I was a Finalist last year, not matched with any schools but I ultimately got into Brown with heaps of FA money. Questbridge is so worth it <3</p>
<p>Good luck guys! Now the waiting game begins! (and the filling out of endless supplements)</p>
<p>'Ello choyphin 
are you going to use one of your QB essays for the Yale “tell us something we don’t know” prompt?</p>
<p>Sent from my Vortex using CC App</p>
<p>Someone please tell me something good…(be harsh if needed, I can take the criticism)
URM chances for 2012 National College Match Enrollment…
Applied for Questbridge National Match for Princeton, Yale, Brown (possibly Pomona) - only schools that can give aid to certain ppl…
URM: Full Peruvian (did not come to U.S. until I was 7) - main language: Spanish</p>
<p>$30,000 - $35,000 (2010) (4 people)</p>
<p>Academics
SAT I: March 2011 (Reading 520, Math 680, Writing 580) (Total: 1780)
October 2011 (retaking…will get a 2000)
ACT w/Writing: September 2011 (English 28, Mathematics 31, Reading 35, Science 25, Combined English/Writing 26, Composite 30)
SAT II: May 2011 (U.S. History 690, Spanish 780)
Unweighted GPA: 3.99/4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.21
Class Rank: 3/38 (top 10%)
AP Scores: AP U.S. History (5) AP Calculus AB ( ) AP Literature ( ) AP Spanish ( ) AP Chemistry ( )
Senior Year Course Load: (3 AP Classes school only offers 5) AP Chemistry, AP Literature, AP Calculus AB, Criminal Justice, Economics, Mass Communications, Public Speaking
Intended Major/Minor: History/Film Studies</p>
<p>Accomplishments
Recipient of Union League of Philadelphias Citizenship Award (11th Grade)
Biology Award (10th Grade)
Named Vice President of Senior Class
Highest GPA in all French classes (10th Grade)
Earned Honor Roll status eleven consecutive times (9th Grade to 11th Grade)
Extra Effort list 12 consecutive times out of 12 marking periods
Citizenship Award for the 11th Grade
Awarded 2nd place for academic excellence with an average of 96.3 (10th grade)
Accepted into the National Honors Society in May 2010 (10th Grade)
National Honors Society Officer (12th Grade)
Graduated from the National Student Leadership Conference (Mastering Leadership) in July 2010
Received Honors Plaque (since 9th Grade)
Named Class Representative (10th Grade and 11th Grade)
Qualified for DECA (Marketing) National Competition in Entrepreneurship Written Event (4th place in State Competition) (11th Grade)
Volunteered over 500+ hours at local church (since 9th Grade)</p>
<p>Activities
Member of Greystock News (school newspaper) (since 9th Grade)
Dormitory Prefect (Assistant) (12th Grade)
Editor-in-Chief of Greystock News (11th and 12th Grade)
Member of Student Congress (since 10th Grade)
Model UN Member (12th Grade)
JV Soccer (9th Grade)
Varsity Soccer (since 10th Grade)
JV Wrestling (10th Grade)
Member of Ethical Leadership Committee (since 11th Grade)
Track and Field (9th Grade)
Youth Group Leader at Local Church (since 9th Grade)
Student Tour Guide (since 9th Grade)
JV Tennis (11th Grade)
Member of the Church Farm School Ambassador Program (since 11th Grade)
Member of the National Honors Society (since 11th Grade)
Member of the Conduct Review Board (since 11th Grade)
Co-founder of a Bible Study Program (in 10th Grade)
Teacher Assistant (to Mr. Eric Fulmer) (12th Grade)
Peer Tutor at schools Learning Center (12th Grade)
DECA Member (Marketing Club) (11th Grade)
DECA Officer (Head of Communications) (12th Grade)
Participated in Chester County ¶ Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership Program (11th Grade and 12th Grade)
Member of Chapel Council (since 10th Grade)
Sunday School Teacher (since 9th Grade)
Pre-Calculus class through Middlesex Community College (July 2011 to August 2011)
Church Video Engineer (since 9th Grade</p>
<p>Interests
Soccer, Latin America History, Film Editing/Directing, Journalism, Apologetics, Marketing (Business), Entrepreneurship, Baseball History, Church, Teaching (studies/classes), Poetry</p>
<p>+++I have letter of recommendation letter from the mayor of my town, and from my church++++(very legit)</p>
<p>Don’t doubt my essays, I lived 3 years of my life in a single room when I came to America…it was a crazy story of how where overcame…</p>
<p>Gracias y que Dios los Bendiga…</p>
<p>P.S. I am undocumented, but the residency papers are in progress…</p>
<p>@drumwriter
Why, yes I am! My friend (who was matched with Yale) reused his essays and everything seemed to turn out great for him!</p>
<p>@Markkinho
“We require two teacher recommendations and one counselor recommendation for the National College Match Application. We prefer that the teacher recommendations come from teachers who have taught you in core academic subjects and who represent two different subject areas.” You were taught by your mayor and church…?</p>
<p>Yale and Stanford require for an applicant to select “Regular Decision” on the common app. Princeton does not indicate which to select. Does anyone know which one to select for Princeton?</p>
<p>@Cryrogenics Sorry, I forgot to mention that…I have a counselor rec (normal), and two teacher recomendations (one of them is the High School Head - history teacher as well) and the other is an English teacher (his recommendation is personal, because I went through a dilemma with him, and gaining his trust again was arduously difficult, but now we have an even better relationship…and my grades in his class we’re impeccable - I’ve stayed at his house sometimes for fun, too)…</p>
<p>That has to be a ■■■■■. Someone can’t be trying to convince themselves of something that bad.</p>
<p>@Markkinho
How are there only 38 people in your class… There are over 400 in mine and my school isn’t even that large</p>
<p>Yale and Stanford require for an applicant to select “Regular Decision” on the common app. Princeton does not indicate which to select. Does anyone know which one to select for Princeton?</p>
<p>@crygogenics its a private all boys boarding school…extremely selective…i also talked in one of my essays how I struggled to live hundreds of miles from my home and heritage…there is nothing I can do that there is only 38 peeps in my class … :(</p>
<p>Don’t doubt my essays, I lived 3 years of my life in a single room when I came to America…it was a crazy story of how where overcame…</p>
<p>You mean your private school’s dorm room?</p>
<p>[QuestBridge</a> Applicants - Caltech Caltech Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/applying/questbridge]QuestBridge”>http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/applying/questbridge)
[App</a> Requirements](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/caltech-app-requirements]App”>http://www.questbridge.org/caltech-app-requirements)</p>
<p>For college match finalists do you have to submit FAFSA forms to your ranked schools? Caltech, for instance, states on questbridge that an applicant needs to send a CSS Profile and financial information as prescribed by the cover sheet. However, their website states that FAFSA is also required. Do you need to do FAFSA for each school too?</p>
<p>@cryrogenics umm…no my whole family lived in a one bedroom apartment when I first cam to America and we were broke…through overcoming that…i did good in school and got a scholarship to the private school I currently attend…but apart from that I really hope that you become a finalist and go to ur top school :)</p>
<p>@ Markkinho
Cynicism asked you that question :s not I… but thank you, and good luck to you too</p>
<p>Suppose I have ranked three different universities, and I decide not to apply to the first two, and instead send my supplementary materials to only the third university, will QuestBridge still send my application to the third university if I become a finalist? Will I become disadvantaged in any way?</p>
<p>Hey guys!! I am SOO confused about something. Alright, so all the partner schools require a common app. The common app essays are the same as the QB essays…do I just put the same thing in there? Or would that seem lazy? Would writing another essay be a better choice? Or is writing another essay what we are supposed to do??
THANK YOU (:</p>
<p>@ladyspeedstick
I am under the impression that the schools that require the common app. do so to avoid reading the questbridge application. The schools must have a certain application process that they don’t want to change so they require the common app. I am reusing my essays, and I have read that everyone does basically. I would only write a new one if you feel that you could improve an essay or topic.</p>
<p>@TheJavaDuke. QB will forward your application to all the schools you rank, but obviously the schools won’t make a decision without all the required information. The schools might contact you to give you a chance to send in the missing material. Don’t know whether it would be a disadvantage.</p>
<p>But why would you rank schools for the match that you are not interested in matching? If you are a finalist but not matched you will get a chance to list up to 15 schools that you want QB to send your application to be considered for regular decision. That list is due Dec. 15th, after matches are announced.</p>
<p>Here’s the flowchart, which might be clearer: [National</a> College Match Flowchart](<a href=“http://questbridge.org/for-students/ncm-flowchart]National”>QuestBridge)</p>