<p>Is anyone else still getting these emails? Now he got an invite for a special chat with one of the partner schools exclusively for Questbridge participants.</p>
<p>He can't be the only one getting emails from colleges.</p>
<p>I am also getting them and am really confused</p>
<p>@sbjdorlo and @mubaracus
Recruitment. Lots of talented students in the pool who will not become finalists. Great pace to cherry pick. </p>
<p>If the school is actively recruiting your child, they have reviewed his College Prep and like what they saw. Follow up. This could be just what he needs. </p>
<p>This isn’t quite accurate^^^. Clearly colleges are interested in your son, as a Questbridge applicant and possibly because of information from College Board or ACT, so do follow up with any colleges he is interested in. </p>
<p>However, at this point, no colleges have reviewed any students applications, and do not have any details about the student ( including GPA, scores etc.) from Questbridge. The CPS award is just for juniors and for most kids is just a summer conference including a college fair with QB partner schools. The next step ( whether he won CPS or not) would be to apply for National College Match. If he is chosen as a finalist, he will have the option of choosing up to 8 colleges to forward his application to. Until that point (in November) no college will have any submissions from the student or access to any information about your son. However, even NCM non-finalists often kind of hang on to their affiliation with Questbridge ( there is a very active facebook group where the kids offer each other tons of support and help with editing essays etc.) and some colleges offer the option for non-finalists of forwarding the QB application to them along with the Common App. The wisdom of doing this is debatable…but at any rate, I just wanted to clarify for you that the colleges have not seen your sons application so their recruitment efforts are not based on that…however, the Questbridge organization is esteemed by the partner colleges, and if your son feels he knows how he could improve his efforts on the CPS application, it might be wise to consider applying for NCM. </p>
<p>The process is so laborious, I don’t think my son will apply. Our income is just too high for QB. Even though my dh is current out on disability, our income will likely still be over 70K for a family of 5 living in So Cal, and I know many other families who need the help a lot more than we do.</p>
<p>Thanks for the explanation, though.</p>
<p>@sbjdorlo
My daughter was rejected for College Prep (like your son). She soon started receiving emails from Questbridge Partner schools. I personally contacted several of those school and Questbridge. Each school and Questbridge confirmed that all partner schools can see Questbridge documents. One of the emails read, “Hello from a Questbridge student at Yale.” Another read, Vanderbilt Welcomes You to Questbridge"</p>
<p>05/13/2014</p>
<p>Dear XXXXXXXXX,
As a Questbridge member institution, we are honored to welcome you to the Questbridge program. We look forward to getting to know you throughout the process."</p>
<p>On July 29, 2014, she received another email. It read:
Dear XXXXXXXXX,</p>
<p>As a QuestBridge partner college for six years we invite you to learn more about Wesleyan University, one of the nation’s premier colleges of liberal arts and sciences. Located in Middletown, Connecticut, a small city of 50,000 residents, Wesleyan offers an abundance of academic majors and programs across traditional academic subjects as well as a rich curriculum of interdisciplinary opportunity combining Humanities, Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. Our student body of 2,900 undergraduates has access to top faculty who are leading scholars in their fields and who provide significant research opportunities to undergraduates. While we offer graduate programs in the Sciences, Ethnomusicology, and Psychology our graduate students never teach classes but rather offer another opportunity for the mentorship and collaboration that characterizes great education."</p>
<p>She was invited to apply for college fly-ins at Williams College (Windows on Williams), Wellesley College (Discover Wellesley), Amherst College (Amherst Diversity Open House), Swarthmore College (Discover Swarthmore), Dartmouth (Dartmouth Bound) - all Questbridge partner schools. Those are the schools on the College Prep form where she indicated she did not have much information. She has also been contacted by Oberlin, Pomona, Trinity, Washinton & Lee, and Rice. All of those schools are Questbridge partner schools. </p>
<p>Pages 5-7 of the College Prep Application has your son’s grades and standardized tests scores. Thus, the information is available to all Questbridge partner schools.</p>
<p>I have no idea who@nynightowl is, but clearly that person has insufficient information. All Questbridge partner schools have access to the College Prep application submitted by your son. My daughter has never contacted Yale or Princeton but each of those schools contacted her. Finally, if you want to verify the information, you are welcome to simply ask the colleges. They will verify that they are reaching out to your son because something on his College Prep application impressed that college. </p>
<p>Finally, the $70,000 is not etched in stone. The cost of living in California is a LOT higher than the cost of living in Alabama. In Alabama, $60,000.00 almost makes you rich. In California and New York, that same amount does not go as far. Thus, it seems like you don’t need the money to send your child to a top college but based on your purported income of $70,000, your yearly income will only pay for one year of college for a single child. Tuition at Columbia is $65,000. I was there for an information session last week. Your family income will qualify your son for significant financial aid at all of the Questbridge partner schools. </p>
<p>I write this level of detail because you seem to think that a Questbridge partner school did not know about your son’s achievement and family income when they contacted you. Follow up. It cannot hurt. But more importantly, it can help. </p>
<p>^^^^bump</p>
<p>Thank you, Tampa, for doing some digging and research. That’s awesome that your D was offered fly ins! My oldest son, who was also rejected from QB, got offers for fly ins, but he is a URM. This son is white as the driven snow and will get no diversity fly in offers. That is interesting to know that schools do see the application. My son has high SAT scores (2230) and a strong GPA (3.95/4.48), and has faced some challenges (diabetes, several disabilities), but I don’t know how interesting he is to top schools. I think he got the Vandy email, a Yale email, and a number from LACs that he’s not interested in.</p>
<p>Sounds like your D will do just fine without QB! Will she apply for the senior program? </p>
<p>I do know our income would qualify my son for significant aid at top schools as was the experience with my oldest. Vanderbilt and Caltech were insanely generous, and Princeton was right behind. MIT, Penn and Mudd were also generous. Only WUSTL was stingy comparatively. </p>
<p>@sbjdorlo
My daughter was selected to attend an all expense paid trip to Wellesley College, a top thirty institution according to Forbes and #7 in National Liberal Arts Colleges according to US News.</p>
<p>Wonderful! Sounds like she will have some great choices, Tampa. Seems that just applying for QB was advantageous for her in that schools got to see her stats.</p>