<p>^^Dang those numbers are no joke. So does the EFC for the college need to be at $0? There goes my chances at Emory then.</p>
<p>QB colleges very much prefer $0 EFC students because $0 EFC students would receive the same financial aid provided under the Match even if they didn’t apply through the Match. The QB National Match scholarship is barely a merit scholarship (though all QB students are amazing!!!) since needs plays a HUGE factor. Most of the QB schools do not offer merit scholarships so it is wise for them to give out the Match scholarship to students who have $0 EFC.</p>
<p>I’m a junior. I don’t necessarily understand what this matching thing is. Do you apply for Questbridge and the school? If so what if you get Questbridge but not a partner school? Or is it like you apply for Questbridge and they match you to a school? I’m so confused, can someone help me lol. Thanks.</p>
<p>@yytan12 </p>
<p>Yes the EFC has to be $0…but the EFC is different for each school. Ex: Yale considers applicants with incomes below $60,000 to have an EFC of $0, while a school like Williams would consider applicants with similar incomes to have an EFC somewhere above 0 (I apologize for the vague wording). Each school has their own EFC calculator (I believe, don’t hold me accountable to that), just punch away and calculate your EFC at that particular school. </p>
<p>I read somewhere that schools like UChicago don’t make it mandatory for their match recipients to have an EFC of $0 as well. </p>
<p>-- All questions will be answered in six (almost five now!!) days, however. So just wait, enjoy life, catch up on reading, and appreciate the opportunity at hand. </p>
<p>@Jphu8414</p>
<p>I believe Tufts was a recent addition as a partner college…that would explain the 0. That just means you’ll be one of the pioneer Match recipients at Tufts if you do get matched. </p>
<p>@rainydays05</p>
<p>That’s exactly how I dealt with the Finalist emails – I was out of town and had my parents check on my behalf.</p>
<p>@TinnyT</p>
<p>You apply to become a Questbridge finalist via the National College Match. This means Questbridge recognizes you as a high achieving, low income scholar, and waives all of your application fees to the 31 or so “partner colleges” they are affiliated with. </p>
<p>Becoming a Questbridge finalist doesn’t mean you are guaranteed admission to any of their partner colleges, it just means Questbridge believes you have a strong chance at getting admitted to at least one of their partner schools. However, only about 60% or so (off the top of my head, forgive me if incorrect) Questbridge finalists end up at the partner colleges. ** Some still opt to go to a state university or maybe even a school not affiliated with Questbridge (ex. Harvard, Georgetown).</p>
<p>For the Match process, it’s entirely optional. Participating in the Match process means you are disallowed from participating in ED1. Instead, you can rank up to 8 colleges you’d like to “Early Decision” at once – some which are binding, some which are non-binding. If matched to a school, you receive a full-ride education for the next four years. If it’s a non-binding school, you can still participate in RD and weigh your options then. If it’s a binding school, you withdraw all of your pending applications and pack your bags – to go to that school. Well, you still have the rest of senior year to deal with :). If you don’t participate in the Match process, you can participate in ED and/or RD to all the schools of your liking.</p>
<p>Being a Questbridge finalist has many perks – waived application fees, ability to “Early Decision” to up to 8 colleges (how cool is that?), to possibly find out where you’re going to college before December, get your essays done two-three months before everyone else, chance to get a full-ride scholarship, receive recognition as a low-income, high achieving scholar…But it is stressful, I won’t lie (Check out CC threads tagged Questbridge this upcoming week, you’ll see). In closing: definitely apply for it. It’s a fun process altogether, and I’m still halfway through the ride. You won’t regret it. Cheers!</p>
<p>Good luck, everyone! Ds didn’t due the Match round, but I’m nervous for y’all anyway!</p>
<p>Oh ok thank you!! I would love to do Questbridge but the only partner school they have that I’m considering is USC. And USC isn’t even in my top 5. I’m better off using my time for Gates Millennium lol. Good luck to everybody!!! I know a few people who are doing the match thing.</p>
<p>@wallysmithjr, Lol. I told my sister she could hack into my email and check for me. It’ll take the pressure off immensely. I hope we have a lot of matches on this thread on friday!</p>
<p>It’s 5PM Pacific Time , right? So, that means 8PM Eastern Time? Or, will they start notifying the eastern coast earlier?</p>
<p>@Jphu8414 Can you please post a link to the page where you got those numbers from? I would like to check out the numbers for other schools.</p>
<p>^ I’m pretty sure they notify everyone at around the same time so 8pm EST it is…</p>
<p><a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge;
<p>Amherst: 6
Bowdoin: 2
Dartmouth: 3
Grinnell: 5
Haverford: 8
Oberlin: 3
Pomona: 14
Scripps: 2
Swarthmore: 1
Trinity: 8
Vassar: 8
Washington and Lee: 9
Wellesley: 5
Wesleyan: 10
Williams: 14</p>
<p>Hey dude or dudette can you please answer the question I asked above? It seems like you replied while I was editing my post lol</p>
<p>Grinnell had five and Oberlin had three. Do you guys think this is a bad thing? I’m guessing the numbers are low because both colleges are LACs and are not well-known. Does anyone here agree?</p>
<p>Did no one else rank Haverford and ND?
I feel all alone!!!</p>
<p>@SwaggaLikeANerd
I agree with you, I’m pretty sure it’s just because less people actually ranked them, not a bad sign at all</p>
<p>@bestlife
lol that’s what I said, I too ranked ND</p>
<p>@SwaggaLikeANerd
That’s most likely the case. It’s not bad at all. They attract certain students, so if you fit the school well, you’re in good standing. </p>
<p>@bestlife
Don’t feel alone! The people on this forum are an inaccurate representation of the QB pool. I’m not sure about Haverford, but ND is a semi-popular school to rank. I’d say at least 200 kids ranked it, probably even more considering how many kids were advanced to finalist standing. </p>
<p>On that note, if QB becomes even more popular, do you think they’ll start capping the number of finalists they name? I thought the ~4000 they did this year was a massive number quite honestly.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I know in past years the notification time was around 5 PM Pacific – but I just checked the Questbridge calendar on the website, and they have the event “Match Notification Results Announced” as starting from 0:00 - midnight on Friday, November 30. Maybe it’s just a website calendar event or something, just pointing it out.</p>
<p>Past QB finalists said the times vary so don’t expect it at a certain time.</p>
<p>T-minus five days, and it’ll be here before we know it.</p>
<p>Well fellow finalists, the days are coming to a close very rapidly. We are soon approaching Friday and I have a quick question for anyone out there. I know that only around 7-10% will get chosen on Friday so I was wondering what you think my odds are at getting in to one of my colleges. Ranging from Columbia, Upenn, Princeton(sibiling regacy), Chicago, ND, Northwestern, Haverford I have a 2230(cr750, m760,w720) Subjest mathlevel2:780, chem:760, 4.3 gpa, 8aps, P of math club, vp of latin , academic team captin, tri-state(SC,NC, GA)2nd place computer science comp and math state 2nd place, all state band, all county band, class rank 1 of 60 and a household income of $25,000. Opinions? Oh and good luck to everyone! Hoping for the best!</p>
<p>I am a QB finalist and ranked 7 schools, however, I have not visited any of them (as obviously flying to schools across the country is very expensive.) I was wondering if anyone is somewhat terrified at the thought of getting matched to a school- and basically “having” to go there- without visiting it before?</p>