Would I be a good candidate for Questbridge or Should I just apply RD?

Paying for College Access Programs (Questbridge, Posse)
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<p>Hi, I was wondering if I would be a good candidate for Questbridge? I am also wondering if one were to apply for collegematch and be rejected from all colleges, would one have the chance to apply RD through the common app?</p>

<p>SAT:2110(planning on retaking which is why I'm worried about being rejected and not being able to apply RD)
CR:730
M:670
W:710</p>

<p>SAT2:
USH:800
Lit:660(planning on retaking, didn't study for this test)
Bio: Studying</p>

<p>Rank:3/452(again freshman year B-'s in art BOTH semesters XD)
Unweighted Gpa: 3.852(3.92 without freshman year)
Weighted Gpa: 4.51</p>

<p>AP:
World History:5
US History:5
Calculus AB:5
Psychology:5
Physics B:4
Eng Lang:4</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule:
APES
Calc BC
Eng. Lit.
U.S. Government and Politics
Macroeconomics(Self Study)
Microeconomics(Self Study)
Biology(Self Study)</p>

<p>EC's:Pre-Med Club(Co-founder and treasurer)
Academic Decathlon(Treasurer)
Key Club
CSF
Volunteered at library 200+ hours</p>

<p>Income:<60,000 in a 7 person household(Single Parent Income). 3 family members are mentally incapacitated and unable to work.(One has schizophrenia)
Ethnicity:East Asian
Gender:M
First Generation</p>

<p>Essay: Will talk about the infidelity of my father and how their divorce impacted my life when I was 8 and its long standing effects now. Basically seeing my mom in pain and bitterness for so many years after this taught me a valuable lesson about integrity and trust.(Cheating in one aspect of life warms you up for cheating in other aspects of life)</p>

<p>Major: History/Pre-Med. History has been the great passion for me in life but I want to one day become a Psychiatrist so I'm also a prospective pre-med student.</p>

<p>Recs: One from my History teacher.(Talks about my passion for history and my genuine work ethic and love for the subject.)</p>

<p>One from my Calculus Teacher(Renowned for being a industrious and passionate teacher in our School district. Over 80% of his 180 calculus students pass their AP exams in a district where the next school only has 10 calc ab students)</p>

<p>Chance:
Stanford
Pomona College</p>

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<p>To me, there is no downside to applying through QB. If you make finalist all your application fees are waived. If not, there are still selected QB schools which will waive your application fee. My son applied, wasn’t chosen as a finalist, but two of his schools chosen for a match (NU and Yale), waived his application fee for RD. He was accepted to NU and waitlisted, and then chosen off the waitlist at Yale, where he will attend this fall.</p>

<p>P.S. I wouldn’t be discouraged if you didn’t make finalist as it’s more likely because of the low EFC they are looking for (i.e. close to zero). Ours was around 3.5K. My son only applied RD to 3 of the QB schools (Brown, NU and Yale) and was also waitlisted at Brown so he received no rejections.</p>

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<p>@littlewing,</p>

<p>As posted I in a previous thread:
Not being matched is NOT a rejection. If you are not matched with any of the schools you list for the College Match, you CAN apply to them RD through QB by requesting that QB forward your application and then following up with the individual application requirements of each school as listed on the QB site. You can also add colleges to your RD list. You will let QB know which colleges to forward your app to by Dec. 15th.</p>

<p>Here’s the link to the RD page from QB: Application Process: QuestBridge Regular Decision</p>

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<p>Sorry, the link didn’t copy…
Here’s the RD link to QB: [Application</a> Process: QuestBridge Regular Decision](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/for-students/ncm-regular-decision-process]Application”>http://www.questbridge.org/for-students/ncm-regular-decision-process)</p>

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<p>I’m also wondering could I replace my scores on my RD application through Questbridge? For example my Sat score in October and my SAT2s in November.</p>

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<p>@littlewing</p>

<p>From the QB site under [Standardized</a> Testing](<a href=“http://questbridge.org/for-students/ncm-standardized-testing]Standardized”>QuestBridge)</p>

<p>QuestBridge will accept any test scores that you receive prior to the National College Match application deadline of September 30, 2011. If you expect to receive scores after September 30, please list your testing date(s) on the “Testing Information” page of the application, leaving the score fields blank. If you are selected as a finalist and want to have your new test scores considered for the College Match process by the colleges you have ranked, you should request that the College Board and/or ACT forward your scores directly to those colleges. Any testing done after October will be considered only in the Regular Decision process.</p>