<p>Guys...chill!! You'll be fine!!</p>
<p>Not everyone is going to be a finalist. We can be as crazy as we want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I thought it would be perceived as not being able to follow directions. BTW 3 stamps should be sufficient for a 11 by 14 envelope right?</p>
<p>what are we talking about? I thought we're sending in stuffs after the finalists are announced.....am I missing something? are we suppose to send in something to our ranked colleges now?
wow, i feel so lost haha
please reply
thanks~</p>
<p>We have to send them in those big envelopes? I thought the regular 4x11 would do, but I guess not. Is this for all material (e.g. application, school report, teacher rec)?</p>
<p>harvardprincess, I think people are just starting early. </p>
<p>My school counselors already send the materials for all of my partner schools even though I told her that I won't find out if I need them until the 26th :-P</p>
<p>Wow...your counselor seems really energetic and sure about your candidacy!! So, you don't have anything else to do, huh google2008? That's great for you.</p>
<p>How many more essays do we have to write in common app and Stanford supplement that isn't included in any Questbridge essays?</p>
<p>well I am working on all the essays right now. I do hope that I get the finalist status, otherwise I feel like that I kinda of disappointed my counselor. A couple people applied for Questbridge from my school, but I am the only one who she already wrote everything for :P</p>
<p>Sheed30, for Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Stanford you essential do the ENTIRE applications for each of the respective schools. I didn't count the number of essays but you can basically forget about anything you did for Questbridge and just do everythin the Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Stanford application asks you. You can use the same essays that you used for Questbridge though...that might save you some work.</p>
<p>Yes, that was my point, how many are NOT part of those respective applications</p>
<p>Um for Princeton- 2 one about how you spent your summer and one about your favorite quotation</p>
<p>Stanford 3- note to your roomate, what intellectually excites you, what makes stanford a good fit for you</p>
<p>Yale- a short why yale essay? but other than that the other thing they require is a free write so you can use one of your other supplement essays or a questbridge one.......</p>
<p>For the common app writing samples you can use your questbridge one .........</p>
<p>Stanford, stanford, stanford- SO MUCH gotta get to work</p>
<p>Wow, thank you sooo much. so 6 essays in about 10 days....NICE!!!</p>
<p>wow about one week left before finalist status peoplz.....
the thing that gets me is this is only round one....The harder and more selective part is being actually accepted by the colege.
So i guess i won't be in tears of joy upon hearing finalist status, its just one part of tha process. Becoming a finalist isn't enough for me, I hope to be matched!! I consider it a failure to become a finalist and not get matched... I'm sure most of yall feel the same way.</p>
<p>That seems a tad bit dramatic to me. I don't feel as pressured as I'm sure most of you do, as I have pretty decent chances @ UCLA and CAL, and I can honestly envision myself attending such schools. Thank god I'm a CA resident.</p>
<p>The CSS profile is taking me a long time to complete. My parents don't speak English so I can't really ask them about the terms. Do you guys get help from your parent's tax accountants? </p>
<p>Also, do we have to complete the FAFSA form prior to mailing in our application?</p>
<p>knguyen142 where in CA to you live? I am a CA resdient too, but I don't want to go to UCLA or Cal, too stressful for me and it is hard to graduate with a high GPA. </p>
<p>I think you mail/fax all the necessary information as soon as you find out if you are a finalist or not. </p>
<p>what schools did you rank?</p>
<p>ugh
css profile
ugh</p>
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<p>I wouldn't necessarily. Becoming a finalist with so many great applicants would be still quite an accomplishment. I would think that if you were fortunate enough to be selected as a QB finalist and not matched, you could parlay that into an acceptance into a fine school via QB RD or another school not part of the QB consortium. Either way, you will be fine.</p>
<p>madville, I agree completely with you. All I am hoping desperately for is to become a QB finalist. That alone, would be such a honor...to think that among so many qualified applicants I have a fair chance? That's wonderful. Being a finalist would be like a great dream coming true for me and it'd keep me happy forever. It's the little steps that are big---because if you were to skip one, you'd never get to your main goal.</p>
<p>If I don't get in through QuestBridge, I will have seriously wasted a month of my life</p>
<p>Google2008, I live in SoCal near UCI, around 13 miles away. The parents want me to go to Irvine (Asians, go figure), but I'm not that keen on staying close to home. Anyway, did you say that UCLA and Cal would be more stressful and harder to get a high GPA than the colleges on QB? I am somewhat confounded my that remark. I always thought that Stanford and Yale and Williams were more rigorous, and the public uni's were more laxed. Care to elaborate?</p>