QuestBridge (QB) (2023-2024)

[royal gorge]

But let's just wait and see what actually happens 💀

[hearty nova]

Tru lmfao

Also bro it might be wraps

Im thinking of ranking like 7 or 8 schools

And applying to 7 or 8 ea thru common app

Supp grind goes crazy

[royal gorge]

Wait you can't EA and do QB Match at the same time-

[hearty nova]

You can to ur in state public schools

[royal gorge]

7-8 EA in-state publics wtf? 💀

[hearty nova]

As well as anyschools where to be considered for scholarship u have to paply ea

As long as its non binding

[royal gorge]

Damn

[hearty nova]

But that is p much every school cuz of the full ride scholarships they offer only for ea applicants

So legot qb has virtually no restrictions to schools u can apply to besides ed

[royal gorge]

Neat

Here in Cali we don't have EA options so we're just stuck here lmao

[zinc terrace]

yeah i applied ea to my state schools and safeties for scholarships

[spice wyvern]

just found out i won't receive the honors diploma bc i never took a fine arts class

[zinc terrace]

can you take it now

[spice wyvern]

My schedules full 😭

I mean ngl even if I do have an open i don’t wanna take a fine arts class

[royal gorge]

Oh yeah a friend of mine just found they need to take an art class since it's a grad requirement (and a requirement for the UCs)

[zinc terrace]

yh its a graduation requirement in nyc

so im taking it now

[royal gorge]

Tbh art classes and electives in general are neat af

I wanted to take an Elective this year but it was the ONLY class they couldn't fit into my schedule 😭

I had to take AP Stats instead

Horrendous

[zinc terrace]

im just taking a digital art class and my teacher is chill so i just catch up on hw in her class

[zinc terrace]

lmao electives are also a grad requirement here

[royal gorge]

Tbf usually if you take more core classes than required that becomes part of elective credits

[zinc terrace]

not here

[royal gorge]

Art is defined separately from elective credits here

[zinc terrace]

we count electives as all none core, none arts, and none health/pe classes

so im taking forensics as my elective

[royal gorge]

Goofy

Here's our categories

[royal gorge]

Digital art 💪

[royal gorge]

4 years PE 💀

[zinc terrace]

yeah thats normal here

i thought it was normal everywhere lol

[royal gorge]

Here we only have two

[zinc terrace]

i hate it if I didn’t have pe id have a free period

[royal gorge]

Juniors and Seniors look upon Freshmen and Sophomores with pity here because of it lol

[zinc terrace]

the only way outta pe is joining jrotc

and that’s just worse

[royal gorge]

Technically nothing stopping em from just leaving PE for later years but no kid wants to do junior/senior PE so they just deal with it lol

[royal gorge]

One of our JROTC kids got on the news recently for getting their pilots license, which was neat

[zinc terrace]

ooh that sounds cool

jrotc culture is big in my school

which makes sense since we have the most students in jrotc in the entire us

[royal gorge]

West Point Junior Academy 💀

[zinc terrace]

we actually feed into west point 😭

[royal gorge]

Ivy feeder 🤢
West Point feeder 😍

[zinc terrace]

yh we feed into most of the service academies or into rotc at other schools

like we have a lot of cornell rotc kids

[royal gorge]

Oh man I just remembered my Graphic Design teacher

She was really cool but her mouth didn't hold back lmao

She'd just be sitting there grading our work and she'd just roast everyone in the class' work just like

[zinc terrace]

thats my teacher lmaoo

[royal gorge]

[zinc terrace]

she just goes on a gossiping spree or roasts everyone in the class

[royal gorge]

Not the gossiping 😭

My history teacher was like that no joke

LIke, I'm pretty sure he legit set up his class plans specifically with alloted time for goofing around like that

Shit'd turn into a gossip hall real quick 💀

[zinc terrace]

my ap world teacher was like that

[royal gorge]

Yeah he was my AP World teacher too lmaooo

[zinc terrace]

my apush teacher was all work and no play

[royal gorge]

Even still he was still better than my APUSH teacher holy shit

He taught us well on the DBQs and stuff especially

[royal gorge]

I've fallen asleep in my APUSH teacher's class like, 20 times 💀

Bro just kinda gave up, just did lectures all year and then complained kids were disengaged

[zinc terrace]

mine would bang on your desk lmaoo

[royal gorge]

We used to submit notes in that class but bro just gave up on that in the middle of the year, so by the end we just did lecture marathons until we got a test, and repeat

[royal gorge]

😭

Those teachers are the worst

This guy at least just didn't give a shit

The teachers who give a shit but are also simultaneously awful are the worst

[zinc terrace]

like he’d keep talking and walk up to your desk and bang it while continuing his lecture

it was so funny tho

like the whole class would watch to see who his next victim would be

[royal gorge]

"victim" 💀

Well that's one way of keeping the class' attention

[tired yarrow]

You have so many credits required.... For my school, classes are worth only one credit for a year, half for a semester

[royal gorge]

Classes are five credits per semester here

So you get 30 credits per semester, and 60 credits in a year

[tired yarrow]

240 credits if maxed out... Crazy

[grim narwhal]

Damn I coulda graduated last year

[royal gorge]

This feels wrong

Match day is in less than two months

I ain't read for this man 😭

For finalists, match materials will be due in less than four weeks from now

awful

[brisk spindle]

What are match materials? Do you mean like the supps essays that some colleges have

[zinc terrace]

start early so even if you aren’t a finalist you can still apply early of you want

[spice wyvern]

That’s what we do too

[spice wyvern]

Same but I don’t understand why ppl would wanna graduate early

[royal gorge]

Yeah match requirements

Those aren't just supplemental essays btw iirc it also includes financial documents and the CSS profile

[grim narwhal]

Life is short 🤷‍♂️

[hearty nova]

praying that I become a finalist 😭

[silver jay]

fr
im actually so scared

i have bad demographics

[royal gorge]

The A2Cer to UPenn pipeline is real

[tired yarrow]

Should I put family commitments in my activities list for common app? I already explained it in my additional info section and I already have 9 out 10 activities so I don't want to seem like I'm packing on activities just to pack on activities like I already feel super odd about have 9/10 activities but like I genuinely spend time and like doing all of the things I'm doing...

[royal gorge]

I mean, if you've already addressed it in your additional info section then they're gonna get the info either way

Doing it again in the activities section without adding something new seems sorta redundant

Plus tbh if you're already hesitant about it, doesn't seem like there's any reason to fill that last slot

Not like they're gonna miss the info about your family commitments since you already talked about it

[tired yarrow]

You're right, thank you 🫶 I should stop filling out my common app at 2am

[hearty nova]

Does anyone know which schools let you rd to them even if you dont rank them?

[hallow crane]

Every school

[untold raptor]

^

[hearty nova]

Oh really? Great! Cuz there are a bunch of schools i dont wanna rank but still wanna apply to rd with qb if i dont match

[hearty nova]

yo it might be wraps 😭 my teacher just submitted my commonapp but checked the file she submitted for questbridge and apparently it is corrupted

i just emailed QB but im praying that it wasn't corrupted

especially cuz shes a great writer and said the reccomendatio nturned out very well

[untold raptor]

you might be alright

technical mistakes happen all the time

[hearty nova]

Praying lol

[sleek parcel]

if u don't get matched and withdraw your qb app, can you still apply to that same college using commonapp?

[hallow crane]

What do u mean withdraw? Like withdraw from RD?

[sleek parcel]

uh i think withdraw from rd

i read on some colleges' websites that u can withdraw ur qb app from their rd cycle

[royal gorge]

Depends on the college

[sleek parcel]

their websites are vague

lets say i keep my qb app

can i change my test scores for their rd cycle

[untold raptor]

i would be surprised if you weren't allowed to send better test scores as an application update for any individual school

[sleek parcel]

do u know if i can leave the ncm after submitting my rankings

[untold raptor]

bro why

if you don't want to do NCM don't submit a rankings form

[sleek parcel]

im just afraid my qb wont be good enough

[untold raptor]

did you submit a rankings form already?

[sleek parcel]

no

[untold raptor]

ok then don't submit a rankings form

you have until RD to figure that out

[sleek parcel]

my thoughts are everywhere rn

[untold raptor]

don't let your anxieties about the college admissions process cloud your judgements

if your QB application is good, then you should keep it

[sleek parcel]

thing is idk if its good or not

[untold raptor]

do you want me to review your essay

i can just say whether they were good or bad

if that helps to alleviate some of your anxieties

[sleek parcel]

its fine

[untold raptor]

ok

if you're anxious about your apps, then I recommend not ranking any schools

if you get into NCM

and then just doing QBRD

i genuinely believe that the QB app will give you a slight leg-up in comparison to filling out a common app just due to the increase of space

you also don't have to shelve your QB app

you can try your hand at writing a common app now or later as you get closer to RD

you can also (and this isn't exactly encouraged but doable) submit a new and improved personal statement or revised essay under additional ifno

(only do that last option if your original essay was bad)

[sleek parcel]

nah my ela teacher said my personal statement was great

[untold raptor]

ok then what would be the problem with your QB app?

the short takes?

[sleek parcel]

its just that my other essays are prolly not that great

[royal gorge]

Shitty Topical Essay 💪

[sleek parcel]

indeed

[untold raptor]

also

just because you have one bad essay doesn't mean you are slated for rejection

the converse is also true: just because you have one good essay doesn't mean you are slated for an acceptance

[sleek parcel]

nah its like the rest of the essays

[untold raptor]

to be accepted or rejected requires many different factors

[sleek parcel]

theyre mid at best

[royal gorge]

Holistic admissions moment

[untold raptor]

essays are only a component of your application

are they the most importat part? yeah.

but they'd make up at most 30-50%

because you still have your teacher recs, ECs, grades, test scores, interview reports (for the schools that consider an interview), and more

[royal gorge]

QB when they ask you for 2000 Words of Essays while simultaneously giving you a grand total of 500 characters to describe ECs:

[untold raptor]

i mean i think that makes sense

[royal gorge]

It does but like, bruh

[untold raptor]

my impression of that is that people who qualify for questbridge generally don't have amazing or stellar ECs

[royal gorge]

At least give 150 characters like the common app come on 😭

[untold raptor]

since ECs are so heavily tied to income

since most ECs are generally direct and to the point

like "accountant for my family"

or "pizza store employee"

[royal gorge]

Tbf that would probably go into the family responsibilities and paid employment sections instead

[untold raptor]

i forgot those were separate

[royal gorge]

Though that's probably the reason why they even separated them into their own sections lmao

[sleek parcel]

i mean those are technically ecs tho right?

[royal gorge]

Yes but QB makes their own sections for them because well, low income kids

[untold raptor]

by any other standard i think so (?)

[untold raptor]

if you're concerned about your topical + short answers you can always ask one of your teachers to review them

[royal gorge]

Mmm nepotism

[untold raptor]

if the issue is an anxiety about "not being good enough", then checking that opinion can help

or at least asking a teacher can allow you to determine whether your fears are irrational or rational

[sleek parcel]

true

[untold raptor]

big fan

i have to ask

what major are you applying under?

if you aren't going in undecided

@sleek parcel

[sleek parcel]

cs

the dreaded ajor

[untold raptor]

may god have mercy on your soul

[sleek parcel]

i need all 3 abrahamic gods

[untold raptor]

do you have hobbies outside of video games and cs?

[sleek parcel]

i do play violin

[untold raptor]

and instruments

[sleek parcel]

and i like math and physics

[untold raptor]

forgot to exclude instruments

[sleek parcel]

but no ecs

[untold raptor]

ok you're fine

fellow 3b1b viewer

(assuming)

[sleek parcel]

YES

[grim narwhal]

My topical is fire but ps is not that good lol

[sleek parcel]

do colleges in questbridge prioritize low income students in the match?

[hearty nova]

Yep

Tons of schools only consider or prioritize students who have around 0-500 efc

Using their net price calcs u can get a good idea of ur efc for the school

[zinc terrace]

oct 18th we'll all be finalists fr

[hallow crane]

As a questbridge ao, i can confirm

[silver jay]

im so scareddddd

[main briar]

wait since usc also requires the caps

and the qb personal statement is basically the same as the caps

do the 2 have to be abt diff topics 😭😭😭

[spice wyvern]

f notre dame css profile

the only school in my css that's requesting additional tax statements

[grim narwhal]

How long does css take?

[hallow crane]

wdym

Like how long it takes to fill it out?

[royal bear]

Don’t forget match form due tonight

[hearty nova]

Takes like 1-1.5 hours

[spice wyvern]

yeah also some schools require additional documents

like notre dame

[graceful ridge]

I just submitted it lol

10 Universities

I don't regret anything

Maybe

Too late to change anyways

I got a little bit to carried with the "one more" mentality

[hearty nova]

Lmfao i lowk went from 15 down to 7

I just second guess myself too much 🙃

[tired yarrow]

7 sounds like a good amount

[graceful ridge]

I was going to 6

But I ended up adding some that seemed good

Brown and Yale for example

[royal gorge]

I ended up with like six

Yall are fine

Good luck writing the supps for y'all that ranked 15 schools 💀

[royal bear]

@royal gorge holy shit aren’t those Suppe due likr nOv 15??

[brisk spindle]

I'm looking at jhu on QB and it doesn't say anything about supps so I can safely assume that it doesn't have any, right?

[royal gorge]

November 1st

[royal bear]

yikew

[royal gorge]

Frown marks where we are rn

[royal bear]

😦

[royal gorge]

We're only five days until finalists are announced and three weeks until ALL supps are due

Plus financials

[royal bear]

why you choose frown?

[royal gorge]

The anxiety of being chosen as a finalist 💀

[royal bear]

i hope you do

[royal gorge]

Aaaaa

Exactly seven weeks until QB's match date

Pros: Decision date on the first of December
Cons: Decision date on the first of December

Ngl tho extremely chill if you do get matched tho

You pack all the stress into your first semester so you can slack off during the entirety of the spring

[royal bear]

@royal gorge I wish I did it but oh well

[zinc terrace]

you can still get rescinded

so dont slack off too much

[hearty nova]

as long u dont like fail classes then u should be fine

[hallow crane]

No

Jhu is a brand new partner

Im applying so ill tell u if they have any when the thing opens

[brisk spindle]

Omg thank you so much

Ngl I only like jhu cause they're research

[hearty nova]

Guys my internship professor said hes write me a recc W hopefully i get finalist so i can actually send it to colleges lmao

[royal gorge]

Tbf for a lot of classes you'd legitimately have to be trying to fail

[royal gorge]

Yeah I heard JHU has strong research opportunities and resources in general

Very strong in academics

[brisk spindle]

Yeah I couldn't find anything else to like about them cause I don't know anything else tbh

I need to email and ask if they allow double majors

[royal gorge]

Oh yeah I talked to a JHU student and they actually said it was pretty easy to do one at JHU

[brisk spindle]

Thank god 🙏🏽

[brisk spindle]

But would it come up as two bachelors or like your primary major being your bschelor

[royal gorge]

Tbh the thing that solidified JHU on my list for me was their library lmao

👀

[brisk spindle]

Pretty 😍

[royal gorge]

Hot af

[brisk spindle]

Not but like actually what else do they have going for them cause I'm desperately trying to find reasons for myself 😭

[royal gorge]

Here's some main points this guy summarized to me about JHU

• Very strong academics and resources
• Easy to dual major
• Rigorous academic culture
• Baltimore

[brisk spindle]

Baltimore is a questionable city no?

[royal gorge]

It is

[brisk spindle]

I wanted rice but they're in Texas and I don't like texas

[royal gorge]

Speaking of Baltimore tho iirc this guy also talked about how they'd regularly interact with the local community, speaking to kids at schools and such, so that’s nice

[brisk spindle]

I like community which is great

But I'm clearly gonna have to do a virtual tour cause it's pretty far from me

[royal gorge]

To be also fair to Baltimore, they're still in the BosWash area of the Northeast

Very close to D.C and not too far from Philly

So you have options

[brisk spindle]

I think my biggest fear would be lack of diversity tho

[royal gorge]

Here's their statistics on the QB website

[brisk spindle]

That act is high 😭

Praying that more rigourous schools still admit me even with a lower act

But I'm loving that 13% international 😍

Okay, thank you!

[hallow crane]

They will

U can be 25th percentile and still get in

[hallow crane]

starting to realize my qb essay was actual ass

While editing my caps

[hearty nova]

Guys 5 more days 😭😭😭

[zinc terrace]

i scheduled a meeting with my counselor on the day just to either celebrate with her or rant to her

[tired yarrow]

Don't results come out at like 5pm?

[hallow crane]

I know i was at home for cps results

Idk what day it was

[tired yarrow]

I was at an after school practice when I opened cps results, it was around 5:00pm CST time for me at least

[grim narwhal]

These mf supplementals are killing me

My counselor wants them done by 15th and she might be a lil disappointed to find out I still have two more essays to go

[hearty nova]

Wait i thought they came out at 11:59 pm pst?

[hallow crane]

no

Why would they release at 12 am

[hearty nova]

Just cuz on thw website they say everything in the timeline is set for 11:59pm on their respective days

And cuz pple online keep saying it will happen at 3am est

[hallow crane]

Thats deadlines

Results arent a deadline

[hearty nova]

Ohhh ic ic so then we should expect results to come out 5pm pst?

[hallow crane]

CST

which is about 3 pm pst if im not mistaken

[zinc terrace]

my meeting is at 6:30 pm so its fine

[hearty nova]

Oh ok bet thanks

[hearty nova]

Bro i just saw the questbridge email about doing supps and almost shit my pants even tho ik finalist doesnt come out until thursday 😭

[brisk spindle]

Is there a reason as to why certain schools aren't on QB? Did they just not want to partner

[royal gorge]

Hahvahd and Corn University moment

[brisk spindle]

Yeah cause like why, is it cause they already give out fin aid

[royal gorge]

I believe that's Harvard's justification at least

[brisk spindle]

Oh, so each school just has their own reason(s)

[royal gorge]

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/10/15/overlooking-questbridge-applicants-merema-m-ahmed

While Harvard’s peer schools, such as Princeton and Yale, use QuestBridge to access more low-income students, Harvard pursues socioeconomic diversity on its own. Because of such independence, Harvard may be missing out on exactly the kinds of students it is looking for.

[brisk spindle]

Ohh

I wish Georgia tech was on there but then I remember that I'd already get a full ride cause I'm in state

[royal gorge]

Huh, I also found a Harvard student's study interviewing some QB kids

Goofy https://husrhe.fas.harvard.edu/files/undergraduate-research-into-higher-education/files/petrovic_vera_research_paper.pdf

Couldn't find shit for Cornell tho

legit the only thing I could find was from a CS Class that viewed QB's NCM in terms of its matching algorithm lmao

https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2022/10/05/the-matching-game-getting-students-into-college/

[brisk spindle]

What happens if you get matched and your parents income increases after that match?

Will they take it away

The uni I mean, since they might classify you as needing less aid?

[royal gorge]

I have no idea

[brisk spindle]

Oh

[royal gorge]

AFAIK the policy differs from school to school

QB doesn't give out the money; the colleges do

[brisk spindle]

Ohh

I thought QB like forced the colleges or something

[royal gorge]

I think they do but frankly QB's website is unhelpful on that 💀

[brisk spindle]

They are

[royal gorge]

Really though don't worry too uch

You'd need a ridiculously high increase in income to get your aid slashed that much

Yale for example gives full rides up to 75k in income

[brisk spindle]

That's nice

[royal gorge]

And it doesn't get that much more expensive from there

Huh, MIT with 100k income only asks for $8.8k annually, which is less than a lot of public schools

Just in general unless you rocket up from the poverty line to like $200k/year your fin aid is going to be fine

[brisk spindle]

Alright, thanks for answering my questions!

I get nervous that aid might be revoked

Since the only guaranteed aid I get is from my state which is based on grades and not income

[royal gorge]

Looking at this paper now

Unsurprisingly, there were fewer common themes in the “belonging” portions of the
interviews. While all participants identified under the umbrella term of “high-achieving, low
income,” they diverged in more specific categories of belonging. They ranged from feeling
completely confident in their abilities and prospects to feeling like an imposter, and several
observed that the national scope of the program was intimidating. However, most uncertainties
about belonging appeared to surface prior to participants’ acceptance or immersion in
QuestBridge programs. In other words, participants mainly reported doubts about whether or not
they would become finalists, not whether or not they were qualified. Student E was the only
subject to state that she felt intimidated by the achievements of her QuestBridge peers, but she
eventually came to feel comfortable in the community.

😭

This is the mood rn

[brisk spindle]

Thats how I'm gonna feel next year when I'm applying

[tired yarrow]

My theory for Cornell has to do something with the fact that it has land grant colleges so it already has a contract with New York that makes them unable to fulfill or take on the QB partnership

[royal gorge]

But wouldn't that same argument apply to MIT

[tired yarrow]

Is MIT obligated to serve Massachusetts by taking in a certain amount of students from there? I didn't realize that MIT was a land-grant university

[royal gorge]

Dunno, but they are a land grant uni

https://ras.mit.edu/document/land-grant-institution-confirmation-status-letter-april-2016

Strangely though govt. websites fail to list MIT on their map

[sleek parcel]

maybe some sort of contract that mit was released from???

idk

or maybe how mit became a land grant college was a bit different from cornell

[royal gorge]

Weird

I found a congressional research service report talking about it

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45897/4

[tired yarrow]

Maybe, I know that for Cornell, certain schools receive funding from the state gov, so I'm pretty sure they have a certain obligation to New York students

[royal gorge]

It seems that , unlike 🌽 University, doesn't receive funding from Massachusetts' state govt, so it seems they don't have the same sorts of agreements despite both being land grand colleges

[sleek parcel]

why doesnt hahvahd do questbridge?

[tired yarrow]

I think it's because Cornell continued its contract with the state for funding certain schools like the college of agriculture & life sciences, human ecology, ILR, etc.

[hallow crane]

U gotta pay fees for qb

Which they can use for finaid rather than qb

[royal gorge]

Tbf they have an endowment of $53.2 Billion..

Not like that makes much of a difference

[tired yarrow]

Stingy...

[hallow crane]

harvard just doesnt have a reason to use it

idk why other places use qb honestly, they dont really gain anything

ive been wondering abt that

[tired yarrow]

Yeah, that makes the most sense to be honest, the people who would have applied there would have applied there

[hallow crane]

For lacs and stuff qb def benefits them

But for ivies idk why a lot of them use it

Ppl wouldve applied to hypsm regardless

[sleek parcel]

ig boosts their reputation as institutions that increase access for the poor

even though they can throw money around for finaid

[tired yarrow]

Maybe it's a way to cut out some work for the admissions officers? Like if you're a finalist, your application already went through at least one set of eyes, so it cuts out some work

[hallow crane]

perhaps

idek if i wanna do qbrd.... i feel like my stuff couldve been so much better

[tired yarrow]

It also ties down students they really want to their school, though I don't think that's really all that important to the ivies so it's probably more of an afterthought

[hallow crane]

its fine but its not great

[tired yarrow]

I would use my QBrd app if I'm allowed to somehow check off that I don't want my colleges to count my SAT as part of my application

[hallow crane]

Ya u can

as long as its not on ur transcript

[tired yarrow]

Ok, that's great!! My sister said there should be an option but it's been a long time since she used qb

[hallow crane]

ill have to figure stuff out later

depends if i get into harvard or not prob

Idk when qbrd closes

[tired yarrow]

I think qbrd form closes on Dec 10th or something, but you have until the regular decision due dates for all colleges to get all your materials and supplementals in

[hallow crane]

ok good

[spice wyvern]

my qb topical essay prompt is the same prompt for my state school's honors program let's goo 🙏

[tired yarrow]

Reduce reuse recycle 💪

It says to fill in the form only if you intend to fully complete the application, and like, I'm 100% intend to apply to those schools, but if somehow I get into Cornell for ED then those schools will forever just have my half-completed apps I guess

[hallow crane]

Yeah same

thats me w harvard

if i get in to harvard im only gonna do yale and jhu apps

[grim narwhal]

What lol if I get into Harvard I’m going you crazy

[hallow crane]

Aid

Its a strategy used to leverage aid

and also so you can visit those institutions and speak more personally with their offices about how they can help you

[royal gorge]

Tbf as a QB kid we'd probably get full aid from every single one of those colleges anyway

[grim narwhal]

Is it possibly to take a college off my ranked or nah

[royal gorge]

Iirc yes

[grim narwhal]

How

Im tryna take Columbia off I aint got time for that

[royal gorge]

After becoming a finalist they give you a form to update your list (remove and rearrange; no adding)

[grim narwhal]

But no adding

If theres removing then why wouldn’t everybody just rank 15 and then remove them as they complete the supplementals

[royal gorge]

Dunno ¯_(ツ)_/¯

They barely mention it on their website and application (like, one line), but you can do it

[grim narwhal]

Ok bet

Cuz if I finish my Columbia might have to sacrifice some quality from my others

What schools u ranking

[royal gorge]

Tbf with a binding commitment, you'd want to think carefully about what schools you'd wanna get matched to anyway

[royal gorge]

MIT, Stanford, UPenn, JHU, Dartmouth, Yale, in that order

[grim narwhal]

Sheeesh when did you start your supps

[royal gorge]

The only thing I've written so far are Stanford Supps (MIT doesn't ask for any essays tho, thankfully) 💀

[grim narwhal]

Damn shouldve thrown MIT in there for funzies

[royal gorge]

MIT isn't binding either, which is goofy

[grim narwhal]

Yo bro theres like 2 weeks left u not stressed?

[royal gorge]

MIT really is my top choice tho, so that works out

[royal gorge]

Ofc I'm stressed af 💀

[grim narwhal]

I still got Yale and one UPenn left to do and Im shitting bricks rn

[royal gorge]

Yale only asks for like 300 words total tbf

It's not much

UPenn tho is gonna kick my ass

[grim narwhal]

Ya but gotta make it count

Btw in case you’re using the doc that was shared for the prompts some of them are hella wrong like Upenn updated their prompts for this year on the website

[royal gorge]

I don't even know if JHU is gonna require their supplemental essay or not, their website says jack shit about it 😭

I'm just planning on writing Yale and UPenn supps over this weekend, and then writing Darty & JHU supps the next week (if I become a finalist 💀)

[grim narwhal]

How do you write supps so fast

[royal gorge]

By losing sleep

[grim narwhal]

I spent this whole day doing the UPenn community one

Lol I cant I literally lose creativity and brainpower at a certain point then write like crap or no efficiency

[royal gorge]

mood

[grim narwhal]

Shhh bro do most people do supps fast like that what am I doing wrong

[royal gorge]

I have no idea

[hearty nova]

Lowk i just grind them out all at once 💀 finished 25 essays last weekend

The trick lowk is to put on music and make a list of a bunch of stuff u did / experiences that kind of relate to the essay prompts and find when prompts are similar to each other

[tired yarrow]

??? I still take like a day per supplemental, 2 if they're like 200 words each

[royal gorge]

Ok I just finished one of my Yale essays

💀

267/200

Pain

[royal gorge]

I finished the other one

Yay

About three hours to write the 125 Why Yale essay 💀

[hearty nova]

Its just that i find that you make better essays when u rush the first draft, then go back on it tons of times later to refine and revise it keeping the good stuff you wrote the first time and expunging the bad

[tired yarrow]

It's very rare that my final draft looks super different from my first draft, if it's a long essay (500-800 words) most is that there's a rewrite of a paragraph and some rephrasings/word changes, it's just who I am at this point, I'm the type of person to go through an entire test only once because I'm 100% sure of my answer, double-checking and everything, before I move on to the next question

This is also why I'm so bad at timed tests

[royal gorge]

Mood I wrote my personal statement like 5 times over

The first draft went to 1.1k words and it SUCKED so much

I managed to get down the basic idea of what I wanted to write about tho, so that's nice

My final draft's basically about the same thing, just written in a way that's more insightful and less... blegh

[zinc terrace]

took me 3 days and i finally finished

[royal gorge]

Didn't your teacher roast that one at first? 😭

Damn got that revision grind on

[zinc terrace]

yep 💀

[zinc terrace]

i rewrote it twice and then worked on my other qb match supps

so now im just gonna do light edits and wait

[grim narwhal]

The thing is though I don’t see a benefit in writing a horrible first draft if I’m gonna spend more time rewriting when I do a good first draft and spend less time

I heard its a good strat though

[tired yarrow]

I think the time about evens out to be honest, I think I still spent about the same amount of time that most of you did on my questbridge essays

[brisk spindle]

Does QB NCM cover food and board along with tuition or do you have to pay for your room and board yourself?

[royal gorge]

Room and Board is like 99% of the cost ofc it's covered 💀

[brisk spindle]

Then what about food 😭

[royal gorge]

Yes that's covered

[brisk spindle]

OMG YAY

[royal gorge]

https://www.questbridge.org/high-school-students/national-college-match/scholarship-details

Match Scholarship Recipients are granted admission to one of QuestBridge's college partners with a full four-year scholarship worth over $200,000 each. Our college partners use a combination of their own funds as well as state and federal aid to fund the scholarship. Please view each college partner's Financial Aid section for further details and see a glossary of financial aid terms.

The Match Scholarship is offered as part of a generous financial aid package provided by the QuestBridge college partner that covers the cost of attendance, including

• Tuition and fees
• Housing and food
• Books and supplies
• Travel expenses

All Match Scholarship packages:

• Have NO parental contribution
• Have NO student loans
• May contain a student contribution in the form of work-study, summer work, or student savings

*most QB schools would basically give the same financial aid regardless of whether you get in through QB or not, so this isn't really just the match scholarship

[brisk spindle]

Oh, okay!

[hearty nova]

Guys 3 more days 😭😭😭

[main briar]

AAAAAA

[royal gorge]

Chaos

[tardy forum]

So if you aren't a finalist, can you apply to REA outside of the QB?

[hearty nova]

Yep

[hearty nova]

Im dying rn

[hallow crane]

U can apply rea even it ur a finalist

Just depends on if u ranked schools or not

Im doing Harvard rea

[tardy forum]

So let’s say I want to do Princeton REA but didn’t rank them,

[royal gorge]

If you ranked nobody else and chose to opt out of the match, yes

But also, like, why not just match to princeton

You get way more essay space on the QB App, and you have to write all of Princeton's supps anyway

[tardy forum]

Well, I only did Stanford and mit and well, I can’t change it now

[royal gorge]

Damn

[tardy forum]

So it’s just wait and see if I get finalist, if not, then do the other suppls

[zinc terrace]

3 days is crazy

im gonna puke

[royal gorge]

It's nearly halfway through the month 💀

Either we get our ass kicked halfway through the QB process or actually become finalists and get forced to submit supps in a grand total of two weeks

Pain/pain situation

[zinc terrace]

yeah it sucks

i started my supps last week so in case i dont get finalist i might yale rea or brown ed

[royal gorge]

Imagine if I ranked 15 schools 😭
I only have 17 supps so far and tbh that's on the low end

[zinc terrace]

im so glad i cut down to 5

[royal gorge]

Same I kinda just deflated after submitting the QB app 💀

[zinc terrace]

i only have 9 supps and 2 vids

[royal gorge]

VIDS

VIDEO SUPPS?

😭

[zinc terrace]

yep

brown and bowdoin have video supps

[royal gorge]

💀 https://admission.brown.edu/first-year/video-introduction

Man

[zinc terrace]

its “optional” but you cant get in w/o it

[royal gorge]

Nothing is truly optional.jpg

Speaking of that oh shit I need someone to write the Darty peer rec 😭

[zinc terrace]

i forgot about that 💀

[royal gorge]

Ngl my supps consist of UPenn and then everyone else

Yale only asks two supps, Stanford asks for one and a few short questions, Darty asks for three, and JHU asks for one (🙏)

But Penn... I'm applying to one of its Dual degree programs

Five entire essays, and they're big ass essays too 💀

Well, one of them is a 600 worder, the other ones are 250 words or so, which is arguably even worse

[zinc terrace]

brown = 3, yale = 2 darty = 3, bowdoin = 1, williams = 0

[royal gorge]

Schools that have mercy on QB kids with supps 🙏

[zinc terrace]

literally the non qb kids with the 6 yale qs

[royal gorge]

Tbf Yale got the idea to torture the common app kids with so many additional essays partly because of QB

(Approximately 35 words)

[zinc terrace]

true

[royal gorge]

It really do be a 35 words moment tho

[zinc terrace]

i really like the college course one

[royal gorge]

My urge to write a shitpost response to that prompt is extreme

[zinc terrace]

lmaoo frr

[royal gorge]

Ngl tho pretty sure if there's any place in the app to write a funny response, it's in these short questions

You can fire off tons of small bits of your personality that you couldn't fit in the other essays through these short questions

[zinc terrace]

yeah i did one for one of the qb ones

[royal gorge]

oh god there's only two days left until finalist announcements

[hearty nova]

Crying 😭

[zinc terrace]

praying for finalist

[grim narwhal]

Only 30% get it :(

[hearty nova]

Hopefully 30% is everyone here lmao

Also maybe higher cuz percent of finalist has been increasing every year

[royal gorge]

Tbf A2C self-selects for kids that generally have stronger apps

Probably higher than 30% for the kids here ngl

Then again QB in itself is also self-selecting

Competitive pool 😭

Man this survey request email gave ma heart attack 💀

[hallow crane]

idk, its 20% for CPS and i got it

Im sure yall are better than me too

[brisk spindle]

Where's the list of qb schools that have/don't have a supp?

[royal gorge]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k6r04w9qK3P2Pce3Xw2p22qxToFcAhX9236MTQmPr-0/edit

Prompts may be outdated but this should show all the no-supp schools

Hmm lemme just list them all out

• Swarthmore
• Wesleyan
• Hamilton
• Oberlin
• Colby
• Denison
• Grinnell
• Pomona
• Emory
• Vanderbilt
• Bowdoin
• Williams

So basically a ton of LACs for some reason, Emory, and Vandy

Some schools do have supps but don't ask much beyond some small questions; no essays

[brisk spindle]

Emory and vandy 😍

[royal gorge]

MIT does this iirc* and some other QB schools

[brisk spindle]

Wait what are lacs?

[royal gorge]

Liberal arts colleges

[brisk spindle]

Oh!

Okay, thank you! I'm trying to be more organized so my future self can be grateful

[zinc terrace]

add williams and bowdoin

[royal gorge]

Some schools ask for some, but not all of their essays e.g Yale asks for two of the short essays, and not the longer one and the short questions

Stanford only asks for the short answers and the roommate essay and not the other ones

And then there are some schools that have no mercy and ask for ALL of the essays

[brisk spindle]

UChicago 🙄

Could never be Emory

[hallow crane]

Anyone know if the qb match supps are the same as the qb rd ones

[zinc terrace]

ik for most schools they are but for some they might have more supps for rd but i dont think theyre completely different

[zinc terrace]

i might ed brown or bowdoin if i dont get finalist

idk if i wanna rea yale

[royal bear]

why not rea yale

i thought that was your goal

your dream

[zinc terrace]

yeah but i feel like rea is a waste cuz no boost plus yale heavily defers applicants

so i might as well rd

[hallow crane]

Yale doesnt heavily defer

Its like 30%

[zinc terrace]

hmm i might consider rea

[hallow crane]

Dont ed somewhere else if yale is ur top school

[zinc terrace]

i mean i also really like bowdoin and brown but yh yale is like my 1st

[grim narwhal]

How many of you are CPS

Just curious

[royal gorge]

@zinc terrace You mentioned that your dad works as an Uber Driver before, right? (I'm in the same situation)

You should look into applying to ASU as an option, 'cause they somehow have a partnership with Uber where they'll pay for eligible Drivers' -- or their family members -- tuition and fees for an ASU Degree (*Online, but hey, it's a degree; they dont distinguish between degrees awarded through online and on-campus programs either)

https://files-next.online.asu.edu/edplus_partners/prod/2021-07/Uber Driver Thank You Page.pdf
and
https://uber.asu.edu/

[zinc terrace]

yep my dad was telling me about this

[royal gorge]

Nice

[hallow crane]

Me and honey

I dont think anyone else is

[untold raptor]

idts

[untold raptor]

real talk I do not like this diagram

it’s not accurate

[zinc terrace]

tomorrow is gonna be hell

[brisk spindle]

It's not? Are the dates actually later or something?

[untold raptor]

the dates aren't my issue

my issue is that the graph is linear with one exception

in reality there are multiple branching off points where you can be admitted

[zinc terrace]

its the QB way of making u think there is no other path

[untold raptor]

at least that's my opinion

[brisk spindle]

Ohh, cause there's qb rd too

[hallow crane]

People could also rea

or ed somewhere

And not even do qbrd

Theres many choices and qb likes to make it seem like the match is the only way for poor kids to attend a good college

[brisk spindle]

That's true, it really does make it seem like matching is an all or nothing thing

[hallow crane]

Nah

Im confident in yall

As a cps, i know some of yall are way better qualified than me

No way qb likes me and not yall 😭

[zinc terrace]

dont undermine yourself

you absolutely deserved cps

[sour palm]

GL

[hallow crane]

I def did not 💀 my essay was actual ass

it was a poorly written trauma dump💀

[sour palm]

kace acting like his life isnt worth more than mine

bro is much better than me

[hallow crane]

im still shocked i got cps

At the time i was like "damn my essay was fire"

That essay was water

[sour palm]

that means u grew

[hallow crane]

I feel the same way abt my current qb essay since i revised it for common app 💀

I feel like qb couldve been sm better

[zinc terrace]

my qb essay is a revised version of my common app which is a revised version of cps

[hallow crane]

i like my caps

my qb essay wasnt bad it just couldve been better

I think everyone has that feeling though

When u look back ur inevitably gonna find smth that couldve made it better

[zinc terrace]

yeah

[sour palm]

everytime u do smth theres always a better way to do it

[zinc terrace]

ugh i gotta do interview prep now

[sour palm]

doesnt mean that was the one u shoudlve done nor coudlve done

[sour palm]

what school

[zinc terrace]

hws

[sour palm]

i have no idea what that is

[zinc terrace]

hobart and william smith

[sour palm]

oh that one

any school that emails me does not get to be put on my list

[zinc terrace]

its the school with the 3+3 cornell law program

[sour palm]

if u deserve to be on my list u do not pester me with emails

[sour palm]

ooooo

[zinc terrace]

yeah so i decided to apply

cuz a safety with a cornell pipeline is a good safety

plus they have ea merit stuff

[zinc terrace]

time to start prepping

https://www.questbridge.org/high-school-students/national-college-match/non-finalists

[grim narwhal]

Bro if we are not a finalist we gotta pay mad fees

And if its not strong enough to get Finalist on QB then we might as well redo our app for commonapp or something else

[royal gorge]

All of these colleges give out fee waivers regardless or not you get QB or not tho

If you're applying through common app instead then you just ask for fee waivers like normal

[royal gorge]

Tbh true but like, ehhh, you never know why QB itself might've not liked your app

Maybe it's the financial cutoff, maybe it's something else and whatever

[royal gorge]

Huh, JHU and Penn accept QBRD from non-finalists

So my supps won't go to waste let's fucking goooo 💪

Huh UVA, WashU, Vandy, W&L, Notre Dame, UChicago, Tufts, Northwestern, CWRU, Caltech, and BU all accept QBRD from non finalists, cool

Basically all of the QB LACs (except Claremont McKenna for whatever reason) accept non-finalist QBRD too

[royal gorge]

Also why the fuck is Caltech's entry so long on this page bruh 😭

[grim narwhal]

Bruh I’m actually worried man

[royal gorge]

Mood, but it is what it is™️

[grim narwhal]

I like that

It is what it is

If I reject QB before they can reject me then Im a winner

[zinc terrace]

this makes me feel better about tmmrw

[royal gorge]

Tbf realistically your common app wouldn't be that much different unless you managed to write a truly horrendous essay

Though I suppose it can benefit kids with strong ECs and Awards

Just in general though you'll just have way less space to tell your story

Like, you get 2000 words of essays on the QB app and God knows how many additional info sections, but only 650 on the common app

[grim narwhal]

I pray

[royal gorge]

Many schools use the same supps for QB and Common App too so you can't go through that way to get nearly the same lecel of detail (though some schools like Yale ask less from QB applicants)

[grim narwhal]

I’m manifesting it rn we are all gonna be finalists and live happy ever after

[royal gorge]

So unless your EC section can pop off on the common app I'd just use the QB application anyway tbh

[royal gorge]

This the spirit fr

[grim narwhal]

Nah it not popping off

My wcs are bootycheeks

[graceful ridge]

Do you think QB will send the message early tomorrow?

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

[zinc terrace]

where did he get in

[zinc terrace]

i think its like 5pm est

[grim narwhal]

3pm est no? That's what I heard

I don't know where he got in

[grim narwhal]

It'll be okay man I was freaking out for the last thirty minutes then realized that at the end of the day, acceptance or rejection, there's nothing much I can do about it after I hit submit.

[hallow crane]

Its like 5 pm cst

After school

[grim narwhal]

Wait how do ytou know lol

[graceful ridge]

And there's a College Fair at my school tomorrow lol

I wonder if I should check it before or after

It will be in the night

[zinc terrace]

damn thats 6 pm est

[hallow crane]

Cus thats about the time CPS came out

Its an educated guess

a hypothesis if you will

[zinc terrace]

i hope it comes out earlier around 4 pm est

[graceful ridge]

It's just a theory

[grim narwhal]

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuestBridge/comments/k0kqii/does_anyone_know_what_time_does_match_decisions/

[hallow crane]

A POOR THEORY!!

[grim narwhal]

Guy said 3pm est but tbh it doesn't really matter

Just a nice thing to know

[hallow crane]

yeah its any time 2-6 pm est honestly

[grim narwhal]

My classmates want me to open it in class if its in class lol

[hallow crane]

it just depends on when they feel like it 💀

[grim narwhal]

I don't know if I want to do that anymore

[hallow crane]

they could say fuck it and release it at like 8 pm est for all we know

[graceful ridge]

The moment I submitted the rankings I felt ill

[zinc terrace]

imma open it with my friends

[graceful ridge]

Like regretting everything lol

[grim narwhal]

Honestly gonna do that too so if I get sad at least I'll have a shoulder to cry on

[graceful ridge]

I would like to but the shame I would feel if it was rejection

[graceful ridge]

GOOD POINT

[hallow crane]

Qb wont change much for me

[grim narwhal]

Lol you got into cps I don't see why they would reject you

[hallow crane]

Other than being able to add it on common app and also having a much easier way to apply rd

[hallow crane]

It would be statistically unlikely but its always possible

[graceful ridge]

I think for me it would like

[hallow crane]

Cus CPS AR is 20% and NCM AR is 30%

[graceful ridge]

My only chance to afford it

[hallow crane]

So being rejected by the higher would be crazy 😭

[hallow crane]

Why

Are u intl

[graceful ridge]

No, but my parents don't live in the US

[hallow crane]

Does that affect ur aid?

cus for me my aid is the exact same regardless of whether i did qb match or not

[graceful ridge]

Do you mean like demonstrated need financial aid?

[hallow crane]

Yeah, like if ur parents are low income ur aid shouldny change much at all

have u done a net price calculator for ur top schools?

[graceful ridge]

Well yeah, if I get accepted in most of my ranked colleges I would still get it

[graceful ridge]

yeah, only like 4 of the ones I ranked I'n not entirely sure

But they are Ivies so I assume it doesn' change much

But even then, I feel like QB gives me more chances than just applying normally

I've been doing some applications outside of QB and they sometimes feel shallow

[grim narwhal]

Only thing I'm worried about though is my house's value I hope that doesn't play a big role

[hallow crane]

I mean, they cant reasonably expect u to sell ur house

Unless u live in like an actual mansion

[grim narwhal]

Its 12.4 mil value

[zinc terrace]

bay area?

[grim narwhal]

Hahaha I’m kidding ofc not even close to that much but Im bay area yeah

[zinc terrace]

honestly id believe it if it was true tho

my family's house is worth like $3 mil now but my dad bought it for like 800k in 2008

too bad the bank foreclosed it 💀

[grim narwhal]

You applied qb right

I dont remember whos doing lol

[zinc terrace]

yeah

im doing the match

[grim narwhal]

Makes me feel a lil better

[zinc terrace]

we dont own a home anymore and we pay a shit ton in rent w/ low income so i hope i get in

[grim narwhal]

Parents bought mine for 300k now its 500k ish value so if that asian kid was perfect scores was rejected from his 280k house value Ima have problems

Oh

[graceful ridge]

WAIT

Was he rejected????

[grim narwhal]

Yeah

[graceful ridge]

With those scores

[zinc terrace]

hope he got in somewhere with great aid w/o qb

[grim narwhal]

https://abc7news.com/amp/stanley-zhong-college-rejected-teen-full-time-job-google-admissions/13890332/

Fun read

[hallow crane]

his essays had to be bad, no way 😭

[grim narwhal]

Lol why is the action word banned from SFFA v harvard

I can't say it without it being insta deleted

[silver jay]

can someone ping me when results come out

tysm

[royal gorge]

Five hours left (presumably)

[still berry]

whats a qb finalist

[zinc terrace]

no fr i cant wait anymore

they haven’t even sent an email yet

[silver jay]

honestly
i sent them an email BEFORE the deadline and i havent gotten a response

[royal gorge]

Two and a half hours left...

Iirc they release at 12 PM PST or about 3 PM EST

Dear god

[hallow crane]

What was it about

[silver jay]

i personally don't qualify for free lunch
but my school is in such a poor area the state gives everyone who attends free lunch

so do i mark i qualify???

i said no but
it was probably not the right move

[royal gorge]

You mark that based on USDA Free & Reduced Lunch income eligibility and not on actually receiving free lunch

[silver jay]

alr tysm

[royal gorge]

https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/fr-020923

[silver jay]

it would have taken them two seconds to email me.:.

[hallow crane]

No

[royal gorge]

For a family of four it's $55k for reduced lunch, $39k for free

If you qualify for QB then you probably also qualify for reduced

Though there's a funny $65k-$55k range where you somehow don't (Tbh the income guidelines suck, especially for kids in high Cost-of-Living areas that may earn higher than that but still be extremely financially insecure)

[silver jay]

literally me
my dad works for cps and got like 65k a year
but my mom got a job last year to save up bc the house we rent is getting sold (long story)
so technically our income was 80k?
but then my mom got a brain hemmorage so she stopped working, it was a one time spike

i wrote this all in the "extra financial info" section

i really hope they read it
my demographics are so bad 😭

[sour palm]

GL

Guys remember u will be crying regardless of the outcome

[royal gorge]

Thirty minutes 💀

[sour palm]

Gl

[zinc terrace]

is it confirmed????

[royal gorge]

No, but the last few years it's been released at PST noon

I.e twenty three minutes now

[zinc terrace]

omg 😭

i end school exactly at 3 too

imma head straight to dunkin with my friend and we’ll open our qb decisions together

[hallow crane]

5 mins (maybe)

[zinc terrace]

1 min now

im gonna wait till me and my friend get our food

but lemme know if it releases for any of you

[silver jay]

did it happen

[grim narwhal]

Not yet…

[hallow crane]

Check ur email on the hour

cus they'd release it at :00

[hearty nova]

Yea prob gonna come out 4pm est

[royal gorge]

Anxiety fr

[zinc terrace]

20 min more

[sour palm]

💀💀

[silver jay]

watch it be a fluke again 💀

[hallow crane]

Prolly

We all gonna regroup here every :30 and every :00 until they release 💀

[zinc terrace]

ping me if it drops

i have shit to do

[sour palm]

Bro got priorities

[tardy forum]

ping cuz I have a test

[zinc terrace]

me and my friend went to haagen daz but we just left cuz im not waiting there till 5

[sour palm]

Deadass

[sour palm]

ABE IM DONE WITH COLUMBIA

WOOO

[hallow crane]

What is haagen daz

[zinc terrace]

an ice cream shop

[hallow crane]

Is that the ice cream thats sold at walmadt

[sour palm]

The ice cream?

Yes

[zinc terrace]

yeah they have their own ice cream boutique shops

[hallow crane]

I didnt know they had shops

Cool

we dont have those here :(

[zinc terrace]

i just got a pumpkin spice sundae

[hallow crane]

but ik they have pints at walmart

[silver jay]

ishdhdksgs
i haven't done any ea or ed work bc of this
i just want it to end

[zinc terrace]

the pints at walmart are cheaper than the pints in store

its like $5 at walmart but $8 in the store

[hallow crane]

I tjink here its like $4 for the smallest one they have at the dollar store

[sour palm]

NYC got it all

[sour palm]

Bros overprice their own stores but not Walmart???

[zinc terrace]

you’re paying extra for this experience

[sour palm]

Oh ofc my bad how could I forget

The 6 dozen types of ice cream that no one buys

[hearty nova]

Bro its def comingvout at 5 😭

[tired yarrow]

Good to know results aren't out yet lmao

[sour palm]

Prolly

[zinc terrace]

im so mad about that ngl

i hope its like 4:30

[sour palm]

Couldn’t be me

[zinc terrace]

IM TIRED OF WAITING LIKE TF

[tired yarrow]

I have to drive home from my internship but now I'm excited from everyone else being nervous

[sour palm]

My bad for not being poor enough to suffer with u Abe

Like I’d love to but ya know how it is

[zinc terrace]

just ed columbia

[sour palm]

Bro is trying to make me poor

[hallow crane]

Same tho

[sour palm]

And get me rejected

Still doing it tho Fr Fr

[zinc terrace]

my friend is hoping he gets rejected qb so he can just ed columbia

cuz his parents said hes not allowed to leave nyc

[grim narwhal]

ITS OUT

[cinder linden]

I’m in

[zinc terrace]

im gonna wait till 4:30 to open with my friend

[zinc terrace]

@hallow crane

[hallow crane]

Oh

Let me check

[hearty nova]

Dam im out 😭

[zinc terrace]

no finalist?

[zinc terrace]

if its open why is #✨-celebration-station and #💪-chad-rejects empty 😭

[zinc terrace]

OMG OMG CONGRATS

[hallow crane]

Im rlly taking W after W

[zinc terrace]

as you should

im gonna pull through just need to let my patience get the better of me

[hallow crane]

I was taking nonstop L's a month ago

Things r looking up 🙏🏽

[zinc terrace]

harvard ‘28 here you go

[sour palm]

ITS OUT

[hallow crane]

@tired yarrow its out

Who else needs to be pinged

@silver jay

[sour palm]

Bro is about to put me to shame

😔😔

[tired yarrow]

I'm driving 😭

[zinc terrace]

me and my friend are gonna ft and open it at 4:55 so im just gonna distract myself

[hallow crane]

i could never

id be opening rn 💀

Let me check the CPS facebook group and insta gc

See if anyone got sent to the shadow realm

NOO THIS IS SO SAD

IT CANT CLOSE 😭😭

[royal gorge]

Holy shit it actually is out

[zinc terrace]

are u in?

[zinc terrace]

we made a deal

[royal gorge]

🔥

[hallow crane]

WOOOOP

CONGRATS BRO

Ur officially a questie, welcome to the club

[royal gorge]

Congrats to you too 🎉

[silver jay]

I DIDNT GET IT

[zinc terrace]

CONGRATS YOU DESERVED IT

[royal gorge]

Now the pain of rejections getting delayed to December 🔥

[zinc terrace]

im getting more and more nervous waiting

[silver jay]

hdkahsjs i hate my demographics so much

gg

[hallow crane]

NOOO, do u meet the income reqs

[silver jay]

time to go to #💪-chad-rejects

[hallow crane]

Or do u think it was ur spike in income

[grim narwhal]

I dont understand man but its ight

[silver jay]

my mom got a brain hemorage
so my income spiked
i think they looked at my gender, skin color, and weird finances
and noped out

[grim narwhal]

I thought I had a really good shot

[hallow crane]

Im sure you'll get into one of ur tops regardless

[silver jay]

i hope so...

what are yall's stats

im 3.98 UW 1510 34

[hallow crane]

33 act, 4.0/4.38 gpa

Uw/W

[grim narwhal]

4.0/4.83 1510

[hallow crane]

But my demographics are actually insane 💀

[silver jay]

i guess they just hate 1510s

[hallow crane]

Like almost unbelievable

[silver jay]

fr lol

[grim narwhal]

How

Im just a poor asian dude from cali

[tardy forum]

I was test optional💀

[zinc terrace]

same i hope it works out for me

[cinder linden]

IM INN

omg

[silver jay]

niceee
what are ur stats and demographics

[cinder linden]

94 gpa, went test optional and didnt submit no ap scores

[hallow crane]

my demogs 💀

• African American
• Asperger's Syndrome (didnt mention, but mentioned some minor symptoms that contribute to who i am)
• Transgender Male/Bisexual
• Rural Alabama
• High School is Title 1 Eligible
• Very Low-Income, 0 EFC
• First-Generation
• Adopted
• Dead Parent

[cinder linden]

my essays and ecs carried me 😭

[cinder linden]

hispanic and less than 20k income

family of 3

[silver jay]

‼️

[hallow crane]

im not an academic weapon im a demographic weapon 💀

[silver jay]

alr thank you

[tardy forum]

Congrats y’all

[tired yarrow]

Congrats everyone!!

When should I open it lol

[silver jay]

now

dont wait

[royal gorge]

Whenever you feel comfy

[hallow crane]

Im excited for my sticker

Cus ill compleet my collection

i have my QB CPS sticker on my macbook rn

gotta wait on NCM

[royal gorge]

Fr

[hallow crane]

They staying on there until i graduate ug ong

[royal gorge]

I saw a QB sticker on one of parody music video from Stanford's students

[silver jay]

anyone know any other scholarships to apply to
or is it too late ;-;

[royal gorge]

Med school too

[tardy forum]

legit, I’m surprised I got it..

[hallow crane]

If my macbook breaks or the stickers start to peel im gonna tske it to someone and have them professionally remove it or print me another

Aint no way im losing these 😭

[tired yarrow]

Well I'm at home, so I'm comfy

[hallow crane]

OPEN!

Ur alrdy questie i doubt you'll lose your status

[royal gorge]

Look into local scholarships and institutional scholarships

[hallow crane]

WOOHOO

[royal gorge]

Seriously those can add up iirc

[hallow crane]

i havent seen any questies get rejected except one person who posted on the facebook "good job guys."

like the tone felt sad 😭

[tired yarrow]

Poor guy 😭😭

[tardy forum]

I had to post it on my Instagram with the caption:
“Ready to feel the joy/pain on December.”

[tired yarrow]

My stats aren't crazy either, so it's kind of surprising they even liked me as a cps 😭

[hallow crane]

Me too girl

my demographics are great but based on pure stats im pretty average

[royal gorge]

Tbh I have no idea what specific part of my app got me finalist but yknow what I'm just taking the validation and running with it 💀

[hallow crane]

I think being CPS got me finalist 💀

but also my essays

[tired yarrow]

My demographics are pretty bad too 😭😭

[tardy forum]

same, idk how esp I went test optional

[scarlet plume]

CONGRATS QB PEOPLE EVEN IF U DIDN'T BECOME FINALIST WE'RE ALL HAPPY FOR YOU

[royal gorge]

To be faaaiiir, nobody is actually denied at the Match stage

They just get deferred to RD

[tardy forum]

But still

[royal gorge]

Hey, at least we delayed the sting of rejection to December instead of October

[untold raptor]

you guys are all cracked.

[tired yarrow]

@hearty nova have you looked at your results yet?

[untold raptor]

be proud.

[tardy forum]

That’s my caption for my insta story

[tired yarrow]

Thank you 🫶☹️

[untold raptor]

iirc 50-75% of ALL finalists go or get into a partner

y’all know the list

[royal gorge]

My ass boutta flood QBRD if I don't gonna get in through the match frfr

[untold raptor]

your ass will