<p>There are a bunch of Facebook groups of new QuestBridge applicants. Check this one out: <a href=“http://www.facebook.com/groups/questapplicants2011/[/url]”>http://www.facebook.com/groups/questapplicants2011/</a></p>
<p>There are several QuestBridge Finalists, as well as QuestBridge scholarship winners, there who answer questions from new applicants.</p>
<p>Okay so I applied for the College Prep Scholarship one. I won the Yale Conference, A Summer Program at Penn, a free fully expense paid trip to Williams, etc. </p>
<p>Do I have a shot as a finalist or maybe even being matched? </p>
<p>Hispanic btw</p>
<p>@Jarodriguez34, if Questbridge chose you for College Prep then you certainly do.</p>
<p>It seems Grinnell is a partner college now! Was there an announcement I missed?</p>
<p>Is there an advantage to applying through the Regular Program of QB vs. applying regular outside of QB? </p>
<p>For example: My plan is to be chosen as a QB finalist but I plan to apply to a non-QB college early (so I’m not doing the College Match) then apply to QB colleges regular through QB. Is this recommended? Or should I just forget QB?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Will the colleges that I rank in my QB application know in which order I have ranked them?</p>
<p>@masterclass, no.</p>
<p>THe APP is open!!</p>
<p>Do Columbia University and University of Chicago confer national college match to the international students? Which others do?</p>
<p>The new application is kind of annoying. It will not let you move ahead until you’ve completed the required portion of the page. I think this is supposed to be so people do not forget anything? </p>
<p>Anyway, do you guys think it would be a good move to use our old QB essay for the second essay prompt? It’s the same one as before. I liked my topic, and feel it would be good if spruced up.
This application is for colleges to see too, so it does not really matter if the QB staff recognizes, I don’t think.</p>
<p>@masterclass- as far as I know, only Brown, Yale, Princeton and pomona do. </p>
<p>@azyrk13- That’s what I’m doing with the second essay. But mine is significantly different (you can recognize it came from that essay though). I think you can though, and to a certain degree I think they want you too or else they wouldn’t have chosen the same prompt or actually copied and pasted your essay.</p>
<p>Good luck to all :)</p>
<p>@Azyrk: I don’t believe the app is any different from last year…you have to put something in the essay field to move on to the next page (and there will be a warning if it’s less than 100 words), but until you hit “submit,” you can go back and add to/edit your essays. So the essay doesn’t really have to be “done” to go on to the next page.</p>
<p>Anyone actually go on to the short answers and then go back and edit the first essay this year?</p>
<p>I did scoutsmom! Finished half my short answers and I can still go back to the essay. Also, 2 of the short answer questions are different than last year’s. Other than that it looks the same!</p>
<p>Sent from my Vortex using CC App</p>
<p>My personal statement essay correlates to the 800 word essay. Did you think my application will be looked down upon when colleges see that my personal statement and QB essay are pretty much the same?</p>
<p>I’m planning to apply to tech schools like MIT and CalTech, and I have to have a math/science recommendation. The problem is, I finished all my math courses up to Cal BC in 10th grade, so I don’t have any math courses for 11th and 12th grade. I also self studied physics in 11th because we don’t have an AP Physics teacher. My other science teacher in 11th grade is not a native English speaker and a lot of students have trouble understanding her in class, so I don’t really think I can get a well-written recommendation. Since I finished all AP science/math courses offered by my school, except AP Psychology if I really want to take it, I’m not sure who I should get my recommendation letter from. </p>
<p>So I either have to ask a 10th grade science teacher, or a potentially poorly written recommendation, or take AP Psychology and hope that it’s good enough. </p>
<p>To what extent would a recommendation from a teacher during my sophomore year hurt me?</p>
<p>@masterclass- actually, I jus heard Uchicago might be part of that list of 4 (well 5, i guess now). Its website says so but QB still just has Brown, Yale, Princeton and Pomona. I’ll call QB on Monday to check it out.</p>
<p>I got a question about questbridge. If I apply for the program and rank colleges, can I still use the common app to apply to the same colleges through early decision/action?</p>
<p>^ nope. If you participate in college match AND rank the colleges you can’t apply to any other colleges (even if they are the same ones you ranked) through early decision/action.</p>
<p>If I get rejected from the college match and am not a finalist, then could I still apply early decision/action to those colleges? So would using questbridge or the common app to apply early decision/action to those colleges give me a better chance of acceptance?</p>
<p>^ You’d have to double check on this but if you’re not a finalist, you’re not affiliated with Questbridge anymore so you can’t use their app for early decision/early action. You’d have to use the common app and wtv supplement the school you’re applying to asks for. But I definitely know that you’re free to apply ED/EA if you’re not a finalists. However, since you find out if you match on Dec. 1st, it would be too late to apply ED/EA if you’re a finalist but you don’t match.</p>
<p>@ sumoninjapirate</p>
<p>From experience, it wouldn’t hurt you. I used a sophomore recommendation when I went through the process. </p>
<p>The crucial part is that, the recommendation letter reveals who you are as a person - not simply “he/she has good grades, participates attentively”. The reader should be able to recognize who you are by reading - the recommender should not stray from boasting/bragging/etc. (WOW THE ADMIN. OFFICER!)</p>