<p>The following is from the QB website. "Students complete one application by September 28 and use it to apply to up to 8 of QuestBridge's partner colleges. Students rank their school choices in order of preference. The rankings are binding, meaning if a student is selected for a Match scholarship with a school he or she ranked, the student must attend that school."</p>
<p>In your example, you would be matched to College a OR College b OR College c…OR College h; only the FIRST on your list of colleges that select you.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that only a small percentage of QB applicants are matched, and many more QB applicants are admitted during the regular admission cycle of their QB colleges.</p>
<p>Is the QB app in Sept an app to a school or an app to get into the QB scholarship pgm?
Do all partner schools in the QB match pgm read each QB app?</p>
<p>Who makes the match, the QB pgm or the school (a, b c, …or h)? if the QB pgm makes the match, which school wd they pick (on what basis wd they pick a school)?</p>
<p>I guess I am still trying to better understand this pgm.</p>
<p>I did have another question: in Sept, the student applies to the QB pgm. I assume they look at parents financial condition. In Sept, what are the sources of financial data from the parents that they look at? Last yr’s (in this case, 2012) taxes? Do they look at 2013 at all - say, last few paychecks? do they look at 2013 data in january like the regular process and therefore the 2012 data wd be provisional?</p>
<p>OP, you apply to QB and then they decide which student’s are finalists, usually around 50
% IIRC ( it has been 6 years since D applied.) YOU rank anywhere from 1-8 schools (or you can opt out of the match round) then QB forwards your application to every school you ranked for the match round. Hypothetically, lets say you ranked 8 schools, and your #3, 5 and 8 told QB they wanted you. You would then be matched to #3 since it was the highest one that you ranked that also wanted you, and you wouldn’t know that 5 and 8 also wanted you. If #3 is a QB binding school, you would be obligated to go there. If #3 was a NON binding school, you could hold that acceptance and continue to the RD round to see your other options.</p>
<p>Edit #2. My daughter’s year, I believe about 5% were matched, but most QB applicants, especially finalists have excellent results in RD with QB partner schools and others.</p>
<p>edit to answer on of your questions. If you are a finalist, every school that you ranked will be forwarded your app, LOR’s and transcript and they will decide if they want you. QB only determins who the finalists are, and then they are the middle man between you and the schools you ranked.</p>
<p>QB is a service that matches high achieving, low income students to elite schools. The schools themself provide your grant aid, not QB. Hope this helped.</p>
<p>OP, my daughter’s year, about 5% were matched to a QB partner school.
The match is only one aspect of QB, many QB applicants and particulary finalists have excellent results in the RD round with QB partner schools and other’s.</p>
<p>I’ll go one step further and say that even if you are not selected as a QB finalist, schools will still contact you. My son was not selected as a QB finalist, but still had quite a few schools contact him through the program. They all offered to waive the app fees. Other than the time it takes to complete the app, I cannot see any downside to applying.</p>
<p>OP - when you apply to be a QB finalist, you provide financial information similar to that required for the CSS Profile - this is used to qualify you as a finalist. The website should have the specifics. If you rank colleges and are chosen for the match, you receive, for four years, the scholarship as shown in each college’s section on the QB website (different for each). If you’re not matched, you can still send your QB app to partner schools and follow their regular FA rules. All the QB finalists I know of who got accepted to partner schools received excellent FA. Our experience was even better than the NPC showed.</p>
<p>Net Price Calculator. Every school website has one. You plug in your tax information (both parents and yours) and the NPC will calculate what your cost of attendance will be. If there isn’t much of a change in income from year to year for your parents, this should be fairly accurate if you use your 2012 tax returns. The caveat to this would be if your parents are self-employed. The NPC isn’t nearly as accurate for self-employed parents as the schools sometimes add back in business deductions taken by the parents.</p>
<p>How does the Questbridge Commitee accept someone as a finalist? Is it based on financial information only, or do they take into account academic criteria also?</p>
<p>scoutsmom, thank you. Does that mean that applicants have to become finalists first, and then get matched in order to be accepted? Essentially, there are two ‘checkpoints’ before admittance?</p>
<p>Yes. First you are named as a semifinalist. If you reach that point you rank the schools on your list, from there you can potentially be matched.</p>
<p>QuestBridge does add a level of selection to the application process. If they select you as a finalist, then they submit your application to (up to 8) schools you list (ranked in your order of preference) of their partner schools. You can be matched or you can continue to the regular admissions cycle with the “hook” of being a QB finalist. </p>
<p>Here’s an overview: [National</a> College Match Flowchart](<a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge)</p>
<p>the ‘selection criteria’ cited in a previous post ( <a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge; ) indicated on the site that it was for the cps or college prep scholarship, which is a pgm held during the summer for people who applied to that pgm.</p>
<p>So the question is – are those criteria for cps the same criteria used for the sept regualr QB application ?</p>
<p>2nd, if one applied to the cps summer prep pgm, and did not make it, does this mean that the applicant wd not make the regular QB Sept cut?</p>
<p>Also, On the flow charted cited above, I did not see mention of a semi finalist catergory. Teh flow chart says ‘finalist’ or ‘non finalist’. the latter looks like you are wholly out of QB classification and just another applicant in the regular non qb flow (EA, ED (1 or 2), RD). So what is meant by ‘semi finalist’ in this thread?</p>
<p>I saw that someone in this thread mentioned a semi finalist cat. </p>
<p>“Yes. First you are named as a semifinalist. If you reach that point you rank the schools on your list, from there you can potentially be matched.”</p>
<p>when people refer to a qb finalist, does that mean you have been awarded the qb scholarship or that you are in the running for the qb scholarship, distinct from all the others who applied?</p>
<p>also , I looked at the selection criteria and it said the following under financial hardship</p>
<p>“Annual household income
College Prep Scholars typically come from households earning less than $60,000 annually for a family of four”</p>