<p>I made a thread like this in the Princeton forum for a few reasons. I am sort of trying to collect data on students who were accepted through QB. Although the website gives general statistics, it does not give statistics on the SAT/ACT/rank/etc. of the students accepted for each particular college.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is redundant, but if anyone can give any help on this area, that would be great. I'd like to track down some of the people that were listed as match finalists for Stanford from the QB website, but have come up short through Facebook! So any help you guys can provide here would be very welcome and valuable!</p>
<p>I'm looking for info on it too.</p>
<p>It's sort of difficult to find information on the specific colleges. I emailed QB and they said that the information was provided on the partner colleges' websites, but it's clearly not.</p>
<p>are you guys both going to apply?</p>
<p>I am. I hope I get it =] there's no way my parents can pay for college =[.</p>
<p>lol same here, where are you from? Is stanford your first choice?</p>
<p>what grade are you guys in? The questbridge prep scholarship deadline has just passed. I was able to get it in 5 minutes before the deadline. Hopefully, I can get one of those 10 spots. Good luck with College Match!</p>
<p>I'm from Michigan, I just found out about this though. I am a junior and Stanford is my first choice, Yale and Princeton are my next choices. My sister is a sophomore and she might apply to the for the prep scholarship next year.</p>
<p>Uh oh. On the website it says you can't apply SCEA if you apply through Questbridge. How badly would not applying SCEA hurt someone's chances?</p>
<p>I know a little about this because they pegged me as a potentially very competitive student for a scholarship. I was going to enter the competition, but didn't because I found out that if you became a finalist, it's a binding early-decision admission if you recieve a scholarship. So first, make sure the college you want to apply to is your FIRSTchoice and you really want to go there- you WILL be forced to withdraw any other applications if you get a scholaship.
That being said, students from QB have very good abilites- they will have strong test scores, As and Bs in the toughest courses their high school offers, and depth in their extracurricular activities. From what I've seen, they are all pretty well-roundedand a sever desire to continue their education. However, beyond this, I would not know. You may wat to look up the profiles of students who have gotten scholarships on the website if you have not done so.</p>
<p>IMO, applying early via QB would be trouble because most universities would defer you to compare you in the regular pool.</p>
<p>I hope I get in, too! </p>
<p>Princeton is my first choice, but Stanford is a really, really close second. Yale is my third choice. </p>
<p>Spacepirate, I think not being chosen for the Match program just means they treat you like any RD applicant whose file they have never seen before. At least that was the impression that I was getting. It is NOT the same as applying EA.</p>
<p>And I would assume applying ED (which is essentially what QB is) is much better than applying SCEA.</p>
<p>Hamchuck, I applied for the College Prep scholarship as well. No way my parents can pay for college, either.</p>
<p>Anyways.. I wish I could find some Stanford Match students .. I really want to ask them what their stats were. I'm really paranoid that I'm not up to par, especially since the Princeton QBers had very, very good scores..</p>
<p>ED is better than applying SCEA only if that's your first choice (and you have to make sure- rejecting an ED offer is the fastest way I know to get blacklisted by other colleges). Also, although they try to match you with your first choice, you may get your second or third- whichever schools want you and whichever you want. Although my impression is that you will usually get your first choice. If getting a full ride to a particular school is what interests the most, then go for it. QB is a very good program, and the only way I know for students from families with higher incomes to get full tuition to the school of their choice. Good luck :)</p>
<p>lol, you guys, I just want to throw in something. I know Stanford is a great school and I'd love to go there too. However, I know the chances of this happening is slim to none, but aren't y'all afraid of that one big earthquake that's going to happen on the san andreas fault line? I looked it up on a map and stanford happens to be right on there. </p>
<p>Lol, I just want to throw that out to see people's reaction, cause it's a silly thing but then I also don't want to risk my life. Scientists have said that the earthquake is coming within 30 years and if y'all get accepted in, you're going to be spending at least 4 or 5 years there, that's like 1/6 chance of dying.</p>
<p>Man, I'm so superstitious. lol, so what comes to your mind when you finished reading this?</p>
<p>Hamchuck, I laughed out loud at your post. Nah, I don't think a big earthquake is going to cause everyone at Stanford to die. California's beautiful and safe for now -- don't jinx it!</p>
<p>My dad's convinced it will- that's why we moved. Just remember to hide under something sturdy. :P</p>
<p>Scary! I would love to go to California. You guys are crazy XD</p>
<p>haha, from what I understand, the college look at QB applicants separatly. Something on the website said that the colleges rank all finalists. I will look into this and see if I can find it. </p>
<p>I think it's a really good opportunity anyway. Its a 4 year FULL RIDE!! Common!</p>
<p>I though Yale wasn't part of the COLLEGE MATCH PROGRAM. Did they change it?</p>
<p>Actually, it's very likely that there could be an earthquake, but at the Hayward fault. Currently, Berkeley gives various precautionary suggestions on the case of an earthquake. From Wikipedia:</p>
<p>"The estimated probability of a major earthquake within the next thirty years is estimated at over 30 percent, compared to about 20 percent for the San Andreas Fault, which can have larger earthquakes but further away from a significant portion of the urbanized parts of the Bay Area."</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward_Fault_Zone%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward_Fault_Zone</a></p>
<p>But that shouldn't scare you off from Stanford. =p</p>
<p>westcoastlove: Yale recently became one of QB's partners.</p>
<p>haha I think Stanford will be fine. I live in LA, that's almost as bad :p</p>