<p>GPA: 3.608 unweighted weighted: 3.87
Female
Mostly honors and ap courses
11% of class
ACT-33
SAT II Bio-790
SAT II Chem- 780
SAT II Math- 740
SAT II APUSH- 780
AP Chemistry- 3
AP Bio- 3
AP US- 5</p>
<p>Environmental Club + Envirothon Competition
Science Teachers Aid
Tons of activities through key club
National Honors Society (Secretary)
Robotics Club (Project Manager)
Hospital Volunteer in Two Hospitals + other hospital related volunteering 300 Hours
Brain Research Internship
2nd Brain Research Internship--Resulted in a Publication
Another publication on the brain
Paid Internship this Summer, related to cancer
Medical Lectures attended
Science Honors Institute selected and attended
Tutor + Board Member of the organization I tutor for
Leadership Conference (selected to attend)</p>
<p>Asian (indian) American Female
Single Mother
Low Income
First Generation College Goer</p>
<p>Would I have a shot at the ivy’s through Questbridge?</p>
<p>Well, the Match process IS extremely competitive. </p>
<p>In fact, a good number of Questbridge finalists end up getting in during the RD round. So capitalize on your low-income experiences through the QB application–let it be your supplement–in order for the adcoms to get a fuller picture in your accomplishments. </p>
<p>For QB app, I think the essays are more important than the other stuff you have to full in. It’ll be doable.</p>
<p>I was hoping to make Brown or Northwestern my first choice through Questbridge and apply to their direct med programs</p>
<p>Yes you would qualify. As to whether you would get into Ivies, well, QB can only do so much. However, you certainly have a better chance through QB. Best of luck!</p>
<p>You definitely could be. Just try to maximize your strengths.</p>
<p>QB definitely helps. Honestly, the Ivies are a crapshoot, and it’s pretty unlikely that without a significant hook that you’ll get in. However, it’s always worth a try, and the other QB partners are really amazing schools, and realistically, I think you’d be happy at any of them.</p>
<p>Do I have to attend the school they match me with if it wasn’t in my top 8 choice?</p>
<p>They will only send your application to the schools you rank.</p>
<p>So, if you rank a school that is binding (the only non-binding ones are Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Notre Dame, I believe), you are agreeing to go there if matched, so yes, you would have to attend.</p>
<p>If I rank MIT number one through Questbridge and indicate a biology major would that increase my chancces of acceptance?</p>
<p>because I realize so many people think of MIT as only math</p>
<p>anyone have any idea?
thanks it would be very helpful for
me to decide whether I want to apply to Questbridge
or not! =]</p>
<p>dear collegebound247,</p>
<p>I don’t think that major preference has anything to do with QB chances or match chances, from the entire experience we went through last year (Stanford matchee right here), it seemed as though they took the applications in as a whole. What major you choose is most likely not considered because most people tend to change their major as they go through college and try out new things that they enjoy. </p>
<p>In my opinion, you should do the match because it forces you to have your applications done early, helps with the fees that you’d pay otherwise, and gives you a really great advantage in the RD round. </p>
<p>If you want to know more about the QB process and what it was like living through it, or want to ask questions to a bunch of people who had different QB experiences, i recommend for you to look into the QB group </p>
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<p>its a group of the QBers from last year’s nat’l college match, and a few juniors who are eager to learn about QB. We’ll answer questions and are a pretty friendly group of people (:</p>
<p>Sorry this is so long winded, but i hope it helps.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Anahi Gonzalez
Stanford Class '15</p>
<p>I didn’t see any mention of income. Typically your family would need to earn less than 60K/year to meet the requirement.</p>
<p>Hey thanks Anahi!
I was looking at passed applicants and it
seems that many of the students who get into these
top school still had really great stats like a 4.0 gpa
I dont have that at all and I still am low income
so why would an ivy want me through
Questbridge?</p>
<p>Also, my families income is way less than $60,000</p>
<p>As long as you make less than 60K then you are a candidate. Whether you become a finalist is another story altogether and I would say the poorer you are the better chance you have as opposed to stats as my son didn’t make finalist and he had a 35 on his ACT and 4.0 UW GPA with many EC’s. Our EFC was around 6K according to FAFSA and I think that was more of a factor. Regardless, it worked out for him and he is attending Yale with a generous fin aid package.</p>
<p>So regardless of my poor stats if I put ivies and highly ranked schools I won’t be thrown out…because of the Questbridge Program I would be considered?</p>