<p>same here blah, on both accounts.</p>
<p>i guess i'll just send in my transcript and have the "questbridge junior prep recipient" stamp. online courses don't help much.</p>
<p>is the email specifically sent to you guys? or is there other email addresses in it?</p>
<p>all the letters are the same, except the "Dear ____" part. they send each individually.</p>
<p>i know right?...lol</p>
<p>they saw that I already took the SAT...haha</p>
<p>I'm dissapointed. First MITES, then this...</p>
<p>Excel, are you sure your application was submitted. Your status should have said "completed"</p>
<p>yeah. first tasp for me, then found out that QB wasn't having their summer program this year (applied last year as a soph), then found out william & mary wasn't having their summer program either (after i completed all the essays and crap), and now this.</p>
<p>this year blows.</p>
<p>yes....but the thing says : "in progress"</p>
<p>I even emailed them about the "in progess"</p>
<p>they said:</p>
<p>We will contact all applicants to let you know of your status. Your current status should say "complete", even though it says "in progress" at the moment.</p>
<p>Hopefully you will receive your email soon. Best regards.</p>
<p>thats strange excel</p>
<p>thanks......</p>
<p>I got the SAT prep class!</p>
<p>who is sending the emails?</p>
<p>I really don't want to turn this into another stats or sound ungrateful but can xrose or someone who got the laptop/ssp give me feed back as to why I got the online prep class?</p>
<p>Ethinicity: asian</p>
<p>PSAT - 216
SAT - 2170</p>
<p>2005 AP scores:
U.S Hist - 5
Comp Sci A - 4</p>
<p>Income - ~35k</p>
<p>Essay: (more or less like this...I cut and pasted from an English assignment)</p>
<p>The kitchen light cast a yellow-orange glow over the dinner table. The aged wood cracked and rocked, tired, after years of being used as an anchor to help pull chairs closer and as an elbow rest. Piles upon piles of legal papers littered the polished top. My parents sat across from each other, thumbing through each page with care, squinting at the foreign language, as if staring at it long enough would make them suddenlly literate in the English language. After endless minutes of struggle, the clock struck midnight and they sighed with defeat
[name],they called softly into my room. Rubbing sleep from my eyes, I looked up and bounded from my bed, gripping my pillow, eager to help my parents. I ran into the kitchen and strained on my tiptoes to see over the edge of the inexplicably high table
Can you tell us what this means [name]?my mom asked quietly.
Um
I started, trying to remember what my teacher taught me about sounding out words at school. Li
ab
ill
i
ty
I drawled.
Liab-ility, they repeated.
I guess I said, shrugging.
Do you know what this means? Dad said.
No daddy, I answered in annoyance. I just started to learn how to read! How could they expect me to know all the words in the world already? Hurt and holding back tears, I grabbed my pillow and ran off to bed, leaving my parents faces behind me.
At the age of 16, I know that my parents were not testing me to see how I learned, but using me as a last resort to help them decipher words they did not understand. Immigrating to the United States seemed like a dream come true at the time, but soon my parents woke up. With no home, no money and no one to help them, they had to start from the bottom. Illiteracy was the first and probably biggest obstacle they had to overcome; born as a part of the first generation raised in the United States gave me a better start than my parents, but I believe it was one of the highest hurdle I have ever had to jump.
As I grew older, I learned learned how much money went into my education, how could I not feel obligated to do well in life. The whole reason my family moved here was to give me a better education. How could I possibly repay them by living a mediocre lifestyle. This particular hurdle became more of a giant ladder to climb, but I feel as if I have not done enough to repay my family. Asian tradiditon says that the children are cared for by the parents since infancy, and then when the children grow up, they must return the favor. Its my turn.
Growing up in an American lifestyle presented its challenges as well. My Vietnamese heritage and American influence often clash and make me feel like Im being ripped in two. I always feel that when I lean toward American ways that Im turning my back on my heritage; or that when I choose to lean toward vietnamese ways, I feel out of place among my friends. For instance, when my family sets the table with chopsticks and rice bowls, I sit aside and eat burgers with my hands. And when my friends have a cross hanging from their necks, I wear my jade buddha. Over the years I realized that I dont have to be asian or american. I could just be [name] ; that was enough
All of my life, my schools boasted no majority of just one race or culture. I am surrounded by friends that feel as divided as I do and together we help each other to not just be Vietnamese, Chinese, or Mexican but to also be Vietnamese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and Mexican Americans. With the assistance of others, I learned to adopt the American way of life without losing my personal heritage.
Obstacles and hurdles will be forever present in all of our lives. Sometimes I clear the hurdles but when I dont, what else can I do but get up and keep running? The setbacks Ive mentioned I do no believe are barriers that stood in my way, rather, I see them as goals scored, the star I pointed to and the ball I kept my eye on.</p>
<p>blah123, I'm thinking that maybe the laptops were given to the people who said they didn't have a computer and internet at home (I'm assuming you do have those since you're posting here). So it's not like you had a bad app, you just have a computer already.</p>
<p>you have much higher test scores than i did. we're not allowed to take APs until junior year of high school, so you have that on me also. weird that i got the same thing. probably because my household income is really low(~10000) 25 were awarded classroom classes, i don't know why you weren't selected.</p>
<p>maybe they thought your word count was too long. i remember the essay had to be max 3000 characters with spaces, and you have about 4000. i remember that because on the day that it was due, i read the instructions over and missed the part about 3000 characters. i thought it said 3000 words, so i had to erase this long essay i was writing and had to try and condense it.</p>
<p>wasnt this a Junior scholarship? ^ are you a junior???</p>
<p>excel: I am. You can take APs at any level at my school though you need a bunch of prerequisites.</p>
<p>Thx guys</p>
<p>and yea dai i had to cut down quite alot for it to fit...</p>
<p>I didnt list the APs I took this year...didn't even know that you can list test that you don't have scores for lol. I dont think it wouldve made a dif though</p>
<p>LOL, I didn't get selected for the Junior Prep Scholarship accordiing to the e-mail hehe. It's probably because my household income is 100K+ and the fact that I basically completed the application like 10 minutes AFTER it was due online.;)</p>
<p>Good luck to you guys, although I don't really see what the point of this scholarship is. I have already taken the SAT/ACT myself so I don't need a free prep course and I already have enrolled at a summer program other than the Harvard/Yale one so yeahhh. I basically applied for a chance to win a free laptop hehe and I guess that didn't work out.</p>
<p>Soo.. what do you have to do to be a Questbridge scholar or finalist?</p>