<p>Basically I want to ask the people in this forum if with the information posted [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dartmouth-college/964881-chance-me-please.html%5Dhere%5B/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dartmouth-college/964881-chance-me-please.html]here[/url</a>] if you think it would be better for me to attempt to use the College Match program, or as I've seen suggested, just apply ED and turn in a CM application w/o selecting schools hoping for finalist status, which can then be used to apply to QB schools during RD without having to pay.</p>
<p>Please keep the QB discussion here just so this doesn't end up just being a thread linking to another thread for the mod's sake. Thank you for your responses.</p>
<p>Given your stats, IMO your chances would be much greater applying through QB. Dartmouth ED is going to take the “cream of the crop” so to speak, in addition to athletes and legacys. Although you have a solid application, it probably wouldn’t hold up for ED. The QB app will give you a much broader application with which you can expand on more personal experiences. This is of course only my opinion, but I am wondering why you are considering ED over QB match process for the same school?</p>
<p>Well, there are a few reasons.</p>
<p>1) I have to become a QB finalist in the first place.</p>
<p>2) Some colleges will only take students with $0.00 EFC through the QB process, and that is not me, although it is probably a question I could resolve by contacting the finaid office.</p>
<p>3) Some people have suggested that having the QB flag on the application may turn off some adcoms (conscious or unconsciously) just because they know that the school would have to pay full or near full tuition for the student.</p>
<p>4) If I do become a finalist, I am then competing with other QB students who are applying to Dartmouth who are probably worse off financially than I am and have stories of immigrating to the US and learning English in 3 years, etc, something which is fairly common if you look at the profiles of former QB College Match recipients.</p>
<p>5) I have also heard that the school has to pay QB for each match made, so that would be another reason for colleges to resist taking CM applicants unless said applicants were downright amazing, which I sadly am not.</p>
<p>I don’t know about Dartmouth but when I visited Amherst during its diversity weekend last September, the admission officers said that if Amherst is truly your first choice, you should apply ED. Perhaps you should email Dartmouth about this…?</p>