QuestBridge (QB) (2023-2024)

[royal bear]

how old were u

[zinc terrace]

16

[royal bear]

did you fight his ass

[royal gorge]

Just as a reference, this is is the distance from Caltech to UCLA

This is an eight hour walk

[zinc terrace]

he pulled out a GLOCK

[royal bear]

daMN

[royal gorge]

And then you gotta zoom out to the rest of LA 😭

[zinc terrace]

well thats a whole 'nother city tho

[royal gorge]

This city has no right to be this big

[royal gorge]

Yeah but LA city borders look like this

[zinc terrace]

thankfully he didnt take my phone

just my cash

[zinc terrace]

DAMN

[royal bear]

NYC seems.. not like my first choice to move anymore

Imagine columbia students

[zinc terrace]

columbia is pretty safe

[graceful ridge]

Is someone else doing RIce?

[royal bear]

https://tenor.com/view/digimon-digimon-kizuna-kizuna-digimon-adventure-last-evolution-kizuna-last-evolution-kizuna-gif-25374613

[royal gorge]

Oh god, it'd take 30 straight hours of walking to get from one side of the LA metro area to the other

[zinc terrace]

nyu is kinda safe but washington sq has lots of homeless ppl wandering around

[zinc terrace]

thanks to henry ford

[zinc terrace]

tbf ive lived here all my life so i have like 17-18 years of random experiences so stuff like that was statistically bound to happen

but its not that normal

[graceful ridge]

Is it worth it to make the optional essays?

[royal bear]

Idk I always do the optional essys

essays

Just bc Iw ant them to get omre of an idea of WHO I am

[zinc terrace]

its just more context for them so go for it

unless you feel like its redundant in which case you should be sure that the info they ask for is alr somewhere in ur app

[royal bear]

are any of you guys goign to do a college reaction video

like going to record yoruself open the decision letters

i feel like that would be fun but also kms if i get rejected

[royal gorge]

I wanna record my shame

[royal bear]

I am going to record it and post the ones I get accepted into

how many schools did you match? @royal gorge

or rank*

[royal gorge]

I'm putting three on my final list

I'm planning on going insane on QBRD

[tired yarrow]

I don't need to see a video of me getting rejected, don't need that memorialized

[royal bear]

Good

[zinc terrace]

im not gonna

[royal gorge]

assuming, ofc, I don't get matched to the schools I did rank

If I managed to get matched to MIT, Stanford, or UPenn M&T tho then that'd be insane - but also insanely unlikely

[royal bear]

I feel like too many people are like ranking so many, but like it's binding so if you don't get into your top 5 you just give up your chance of getting into them EA/RD if you get matchd with a lowe ranked

[royal gorge]

So 🗿

[royal bear]

I hope we both make it into MIT 💪

[royal gorge]

💪

[royal bear]

but I didnt' do QB because I didn't really know what it was

[zinc terrace]

i started panic researching williams since its my last ranked school and i feel like id end up matching

[royal bear]

sad

[royal gorge]

Yeah I had six on my list before but realized I didn't want to be bound to the second half of my list

[zinc terrace]

i ranked 5 schools i either really like or wouldnt mind attending

[main briar]

would yg b willing to help me pick photos for my portfolio 🥹

[royal bear]

send ur 3 ranked @royal gorge

[royal gorge]

.

[royal bear]

oh

[main briar]

same; only ranked 4

[royal bear]

bro you could get into UPenn

[tired yarrow]

It's ok, you'll do great without it!! Maybe you can tell your counselor about it so they can advertise it to your school better so your underclassmen have better opportunities too

[royal gorge]

They let you be binding only to the Dual Degree program(s), which I'm shooting for

Ain't getting in tho that program hella competitive 💀

[main briar]

lowk i was gonna try m&t and reevaluated and went yeh mby not

[royal bear]

My stats are bad QB woulda helped me alot

Well only my ACT score is bad* the rest of my stats are fine 18 APs 4.58/4.0 Valedictorian

[tired yarrow]

LMAO you said that your stats were bad

Sorry sorry

[royal bear]

33 ACT is bad bro

I'm taking it again this weekend. My breakdown is:
36 Reading
34 English
34 Science
29 Math

[royal gorge]

18 APs/Valedictorian bro...

[tired yarrow]

Yeah, it's not ideal but I honestly have about the same in SAT score, I've just accepted I'm going test optional

[royal bear]

MIT require ACT/SAT

You guys better pray for me or manifest a 35 on Math this Saturday

[royal gorge]

I signed for the November and December SATs last minute this 'gon be my last hurrah 💀

'Gon get a 1600 ready for QBRD we goin' (Not)

[tired yarrow]

I'm going to be real and say that MIT would still look for a high test score regardless of whether or not you were a QB finalist

[royal bear]

Anyone here take ACT?

[royal bear]

BUT my school's average is a 24-26 ACT

[tired yarrow]

We're manifesting this energy, easy 1600

[royal bear]

Which I know it doesn't matter, but I'm hoping I can get AT LEAST a 34

[tired yarrow]

That's actually better than my school I think

[royal bear]

Like honestly I don't think 34/35/36 has a huge difference but a 33 bro

That math score's gotta be better for MIT

But just to be frank with you, Algebra/Geometry is predominant on the ACT. That year was COVID-Year/Online year for me. I'm good at Calculus, like I've gotten the letter for Calc I, Calc II, and hopefully AP Calc BC this year but I just have a gap in knowledge in that area.

[tired yarrow]

Are you signed up for the one this weekend? (At least I think there's one this weekend?)

[royal bear]

Yes

Like my gap in geoemtry/Algebra is mad crazy

BUT BUT BUT BUT

I've never studied for the ACT before. So I mean 33 without studying if I study I should be able to bridge the gap easy peazy right?

[tired yarrow]

Should I sign up? My volunteer opportunity fell through and I'm only signed up for the Dec ACT so I want to at least have a reference score

[main briar]

yeh

[royal bear]

Is late sign up still availble?

I'd do it. Honestly, you're in the home stretch give it your all man

[royal bear]

What was your math score?

[tired yarrow]

I feel you, my algebra skills are only now probably up to standard because I took pre-cal

[royal bear]

Yah pre-calc helped me alot

[main briar]

uh lemme check

33

[tired yarrow]

Well, we're about to find out

[royal gorge]

Calc I and II and BC?

Goofy

[royal bear]

Yessir

[main briar]

idk if it changes anything but i also took the act like 2 yrs ago lmao

[royal bear]

Any tips? I just need to improve math I can superscore up lmao

[royal gorge]

I only have tips for SAT math 😔

Nobody takes the ACT here in Cali

[main briar]

bruh fr

everyone takes the sat, so cringe

[royal gorge]

Ngl should've signed up precisely because all those spots are open lmao

[main briar]

ngl idr much on it 😭

u h

...practice?

i dont think i can give any advice that u cant find online

[tired yarrow]

It's closed lol, I thought so since it's the week of

[royal bear]

sad

[tired yarrow]

It's fine, I've already basically resigned myself that I'm going test optional

[main briar]

o except tiger balm carried my test 💯

[tired yarrow]

I just have 0 patience with test prep

[royal bear]

same

[royal gorge]

I mean, a 1470 is 75th percentile for QB Finalists

[royal bear]

Like everything looks so easy on practice tests and then you get in there and it leaves your body

wwww

[graceful ridge]

I´m trying to gaslight myself that a 1360 is good

[tired yarrow]

Even with AP tests, I just face each one like it's my day of reckoning, I didn't even really study for physics 1

[tired yarrow]

That's fair, I just don't think I

[graceful ridge]

I ranked 10 I feel weird that everyone ranked less than halg

[graceful ridge]

Same with me for Pomona lol

[tired yarrow]

I'll send my score to any of my RD schools

[royal gorge]

Tbf the Claremont Colleges are really cute and cool

[graceful ridge]

They don´t engineering

[royal gorge]

Harvey Mudd does engineering

And they're damn good at engineering

[graceful ridge]

Only Pre-engineering

But really idk

[zinc terrace]

williams is a great school but i honestly got so caught up in the other schools i felt disconnected from it

[graceful ridge]

And for U Chicago there's "Preparation for Engineering" which is ???

[graceful ridge]

yeah I feel you

Tbh I only ranked it because it's in Cali, no supplemental essays, and it seemed a good last hope of being matched

Also it seems the Sierra Nevada or some other Mountain is close and the people go there often, which seems cool

[royal gorge]

Goddamn claremont mckenna apparently has a 3-2 Engineering program with Harvey Mudd

[royal gorge]

Hell no you're in the desert

SoCal is a goofy place

But yes there are mountains there

[graceful ridge]

Mountains are mountains

The only mountains I have seen are the Sierra Madre Oriental that go across North Mexico

Pretty cool

[zinc terrace]

oh the mountains were nice

[zinc terrace]

technically you can just dual major at any of the other claremont schools

[graceful ridge]

Sierra Nevada (You are in the desert, there's no nieve over here)

[royal gorge]

Yeah, that's the neat thing about the Claremont Colleges

[royal gorge]

Snowy Mountain moment

[graceful ridge]

Yeah that's another reason, the whole thing of many colleges together seems cool

[royal gorge]

If you really do get matched to Pomona tho look dual-majoring with Harvey Mudd for engineering (They're really, really fucking good at engineering) if you wanna do that

[zinc terrace]

@graceful ridge what major are you going for

[graceful ridge]

I hate Montana for this reason, my Spanish just refuses to say that instead of Montaña

[graceful ridge]

mechanical Engineering

[royal gorge]

Fun fact, Pomona also has partnerships with Caltech, WashU, and Dartmouth for their own Dual-Degree engineering programs (fun fact, WashU's transfer admissions is completely guaranteed!)

[zinc terrace]

so you can take that at mudd and just major in something else at pomona

[graceful ridge]

Double Majoring, if possible, in Pol Sci too

[graceful ridge]

WashU really earning that W for this

[royal gorge]

Pomona is also just a really great LAC in its own right

Unorthodox path for an engineer but a great one if you're open to it

[graceful ridge]

Yeah I saw some reviews and they were overwhelmingly positive

For the applications that I mentioned, UChicago and Pomona, should I put the closest thing to Engineering?

[graceful ridge]

.

[graceful ridge]

.

[zinc terrace]

prob just pre engineering

do something engineering adjacent at uchi if you want but then you might have to go the masters route to get an accredited engineering degree

[graceful ridge]

There's a lot of Molecular Engineerings

[royal bear]

if my dual english teacher doesn't grade my essay SO FAST me and him are going to fight

it's been 3 weeks

theres only like 14 people in the class

[graceful ridge]

I'm in the same situation

And I wrote that essay literally last day

All four pages

I know I did bad just tell me already

I also realized I can't apply for CalTech

[royal bear]

why

[graceful ridge]

It requires me to have taken Calculus

I haven't

[royal bear]

You haven't taken calculs

Calculus

how

[graceful ridge]

I CAME TO THIS COUNTRY

IN MY SOPHOMORE YEAR

[royal bear]

calculus is world known good sir

an international language of math

[graceful ridge]

but for real

They messed me up

[royal bear]

what is your highest math taken

[graceful ridge]

They didn't take into account my 9th grade math and English

[royal bear]

?

[graceful ridge]

Pre-cal currently

[royal bear]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-kidding-me-dick-kelly-robert-de-niro-dirty-grandpa-are-you-serious-gif-18163874

[graceful ridge]

And AP Stats

I had to take Geometry as a sophemore

While others were already doing Calculus BC at that time

[royal bear]

For MIT/Caltech you need to have taken and/or be currently taking Calculus and Physics

[graceful ridge]

i have Physics too

Damn my school for that, honeslty

Coping

[royal bear]

https://tenor.com/view/massaging-give-me-a-massage-relax-relaxing-cat-gif-14481050

[graceful ridge]

Welp not MIT either

[royal bear]

Actually

Nah MIT is just a recommendation @graceful ridge

[graceful ridge]

For Chemistry they don't take like, Freshman year-Chem I assume

DAMN MY SCHOOL

They wouldn't let me take AP Chem

It is the only class (other than seminar and the other one) that has a requirement

And it was Pre-cal

Completed

Why does Yale doesn't have a "Save for later" button?????

[royal bear]

wut

[graceful ridge]

For their Supplementals

There's only submit

[royal bear]

Oh I'm sure if you close out it will save ?

I couldn't imagineotherwise

[royal gorge]

My counselor let me take AP Chem without ever taking Chem before lmao

Some of my friends too

Tfw three years of Physics, one year of Chem, and one year of Biology 💀

[royal gorge]

Not caltech tho right

Because I remember they got flamed some time ago (rightfully so tbh) for basically excluding kids whose schools didn't offer calculus from the get-go i.e schools in underfunded/rural areas 💀

[royal bear]

Most underfunded rural areas hasncalculus nkw adays

[hallow crane]

i went to dallas for internationals and we had to ride charter busses back and forth from the hotel 💀

[hallow crane]

Caltech says u need a test to prove ur proficient if ur school doesnt offer it

[graceful ridge]

BUT HOW

I mean

Never taken Calculus

And they expect you can get a 5 on Calc AB?

[zinc terrace]

wtf thank god im not applying lmaoo

[graceful ridge]

How do you remove a college from the Ranking?

Just not making the application??

[zinc terrace]

you could do the official redoing the ranking list or just not submit anything

[graceful ridge]

How does it work?

Redoing the ranking

[zinc terrace]

you have to change your match agreement form and then have it signed and uploaded again

[graceful ridge]

I wouldn't be that hard but if I just want to take out one college I may just not submit it

Or maaaaybe and can do it regardless if I have the time

[royal gorge]

Gah damn 😭 MIT App submitted

[royal bear]

https://tenor.com/view/band-of-brothers-gif-27205452

good luck

[royal gorge]

🫡

[royal bear]

A2C doesn't like outside emojis

[royal gorge]

Oh no it's not an outside emoji

It just doesn't fit the mood

[royal bear]

Oh u right

Are you excited

December 1 is coming fast

[royal gorge]

Scared and excited at the same time

Shit's fucked

Reality is falling down

Only a few months left before we get decisions this feels so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[royal bear]

I just bombed my last AP Calc BC test for the quarter. Made 100s on all the rest hoping I make it through second Quarter flawlessly and then I can just die third and fourth quarter

[royal gorge]

Mood

[royal bear]

How it drop my grade so much is beyond me

[royal gorge]

Hoping I get in through QB so I never have to show my AP Lit grades to my schools

[royal bear]

MIT still requires a mid year report through QB

wdym?

if you apply EA/RD I mean

[royal gorge]

Yeah, but they don't ask it if you're going through the match

[royal bear]

Fair nuf

yet another reason to add to my disappointment in myself for not doing QB

[zinc terrace]

the way i wish it was earlier so i can just be done with this process

[royal gorge]

Mood

Imagine it tho. August deadline for the QB app

[royal bear]

I’ve been excited for MIT since 5th grade bro

[zinc terrace]

me with yale since 6th grade

i watched gilmore girls for yale not the other way around lmaoo

[graceful ridge]

Stanford since 7th, now Rice is my #1 lol

[royal gorge]

Ngl I didn't give a shit about colleges until this year
I just kept finding more and more things to like about MIT when I was researching, so now it's my #1

[hallow crane]

QuestBride Timeline/Deadlines

Match Participants

• September 26th: National College Match Application Is Due
• October 12th: Match Rankings Are Due
• October 18th: Finalist Decisions Released
• November 1st: Match Requirements Due
• December 1: Match Results Release
• December 10: QB Regular Decision Choices Due (If Rejected & Not Rolled Over)

Non-Match Participants

• September 26th: National College Match Application Is Due
• October 12th: Match Rankings Are Due
• October 18th: Finalist Decisions Released
• November 1: Most Common ED/REA Deadline (Varies)
• December 10: QB Regular Decision Choices Due
• December 15: Most Common ED/REA Decision Date (Varies)

[royal gorge]

Guardian of the Rankings Moment

Screw it Imma add some resources:

Financial Aid Stuff

• QuestBridge's handy-dandy one-page summary of financial aid forms
• FAFSA
• CSS Profile
• IDOC
• QB's financial glossary
• QB's financial aid overview

[graceful ridge]

The IDOC is the same one for questbridge

[royal gorge]

💀

Ok it's fixed now

[royal bear]

silly oats

[zinc terrace]

why is everyone guardian of the ranking lmaoo

[royal bear]

not usre

[still berry]

wait wtf how do you get guardian of the rankings

[hallow crane]

applied for mod awhile back

indicated we'd be interested in guardian later if we weren't mods

[still berry]

what does a guardian do

[hallow crane]

Manage mega threads

[still berry]

ahhhhh

[royal gorge]

Bruh Penn uses their own portal for finaid documents that isn't IDOC and you need to submit supps before you can upload them

[hallow crane]

Thats stupid

i think penn just doesnt wanna give qb kids aid 💀

First they ask the question in a confusing way

and then they dont reveal finaid until u submit supps

[still berry]

its so weird to see you guys orange lol

[zinc terrace]

wharton bros now how to keep us poor

[grim narwhal]

Im tryna upload the financial aid stuff for penn and its dummy annoying

[zinc terrace]

so glad none of my schools are weird like that

[grim narwhal]

is IDOC easy to use?

[zinc terrace]

its rough but manageable

[graceful ridge]

Bruh I hate this whole system tbh

CSS

Is unnecesarily confusing

[royal bear]

@royal gorge as guardian of the rankings

what is your OFFICIAL

statement

regarding your chance of matching

[royal gorge]

💀

[royal bear]

I can only take official statements in the form of words

[untold raptor]

did you get finalist

wait you did

[royal bear]

yes

[untold raptor]

ok then it’s 25% at minimum, right?

[royal bear]

Are you the one who goes to UVA?

I forgot

[untold raptor]

since a little over 1 out of every 4 finalists match

me?

[royal bear]

Yes

Or is it yale

[untold raptor]

no I go to Yale

[royal bear]

Yale :tehe

[untold raptor]

QBRD

[royal bear]

Interesting

[untold raptor]

mit is a vibe though.

[royal bear]

I wanted to do QB, but I didn't know what it was until too late

I would've matched

[untold raptor]

dw about it

[zinc terrace]

that sounds nice but im def that 3/4

[untold raptor]

you can ball either way

[royal gorge]

I basically put all the hardest reaches on my match list lmao I'm gon' get destroyed

[untold raptor]

I was too lol

[royal gorge]

QBRD 🛐

[untold raptor]

how many did you rank?

[royal bear]

MIT isn't a reach we are gaslighting it's a T50 school until we get in

[royal gorge]

Three

[untold raptor]

have we had this conversation before

[zinc terrace]

im fine with qbrd like i can just apply to more schools

[royal gorge]

This is the mood

[untold raptor]

absolute baller.

good luck!

[royal bear]

What is Yales community like? @untold raptor

[untold raptor]

tis a vibe most of the time

[royal bear]

as in

how easy is it to like

[untold raptor]

to be yourself?

[royal bear]

yeah

like not have to be like an awkward mf tryna fit in

[untold raptor]

I think it’s somewhat common for people to be genuine

[royal bear]

I've read some things that it's a big like upper class-style students type vibe which is not me

[untold raptor]

I mean everybody finds fitting into a given environment to be different levels of difficulty relative to each other

[untold raptor]

yeah sometimes it is

[royal gorge]

Tbf if you're talking about that vibe, Princeton exists

[royal bear]

tru

[untold raptor]

but in my experience the upper class students (nyc socialite class) self-segregate into clubs and cliques

[royal bear]

Have you made any friends? Sorry if that's too personal lol

[untold raptor]

most of my Yale friends are either FGLI or middle income

[royal bear]

oh good

I'd hate to be like by myself my entire college career

[untold raptor]

I have made more (genuine) friends at Yale than throughout all of HS

[royal bear]

Yale is my #2 choice

[untold raptor]

you have our admitted student days— bulldog days— to figure out whether you fit the vibe and whether the vibe fits you

tbh that’s why I feel admitted student days are valuable (for students, not the school)

[royal bear]

I mean if I get into Yale I'm going to Yale regardless of the vibe ||unless I get into MIT please mit||, but I still appreciate the comfortability that kinda getting to know the school before going to school would give

[untold raptor]

I understand 100%

all I ask is that you not commit to Yale over a full ride at a state school if you really aren’t feeling the vibe

as my dad likes to say, you’re no good to anybody crazy or incapacitated

and part of anybody’s success at college is dependent on whether they like the people and the environment; it’s harder to do good work consistently for months on end if you hate the school

[royal bear]

I feel like I might still commit because of the doors it would open for me as opposed to a state school (though is UVA really just another state school )

[untold raptor]

don’t let the label blind you from your happiness

[royal bear]

Honestly what worries me the most about MIT, is I've never heard a success story of someone getting into their dream school

I've heard stories of like my dream school was MIT or my dream school was Harvard but I ended up going to Stanford/Caltech (somewhere else equally cracked)

Never My dream was mit and I went to MIT

[graceful ridge]

I'm an atheist but I'm gonna start praying on November 30 to Match

I'm doing essays for 8 colleges help

Only me to blame of course

[untold raptor]

🫡

Just know you can always choose to take schools off of your match ranking up until submission (IIRC; please check the QB website for a deadline)

[graceful ridge]

I have to take CalTech out

Because I cannot even apply without Calculus lol

I was thinking of just not completing the application but not sure honestly

Nevermind I finally found how to lol

Only one chance to change apparently

I'll wait a bit

[zinc terrace]

ik for yale you can switch out of match to rea

[royal gorge]

*You have opt out of the match entirely

So you revise your rankings, remove all schools, and check the box that say you're only gonna do QBRD

Ngl there's like, next-to-no point in switching out of the match if you wanna go to Yale

Like, why pick yale for REA when you could just do the match

You'd only pick Yale as REA if it really is your first choice anyway, and tbh in that case you'd probably do better to just rank yale on the top of your match

[royal bear]

@royal gorge you should embed a match timer here and pin it

[royal gorge]

How tf do I do that

[royal bear]

<t:1701437732:R>

hold

@royal gorge is there a time the match comes out

[royal gorge]

Typically noon (1 PM) PST iirc

[royal bear]

1 PM PST so 4 Pm EST

wow is it just gonna say a month until it’s less

QuestBridge Match will come out at approx. <t:1701464433:f> OR in <t:1701464490:R>

@royal gorge ok the “IN A MONTH” will update as time progresses

So eventuakly it will be down to like 30 days

[royal gorge]

Neat

[royal bear]

yah

[royal gorge]

QuestBridge National College Match decisions release:

• <t:1701464433:f> or <t:1701464433:R>

[royal bear]

Yessir

[royal gorge]

In a month bruh 💀

Time's flyin'

[royal bear]

Fr

Imagine we all look back on this time and think abt the fact that a bunch of seniors congregated in a discord server just flaming each other lmao

[graceful ridge]

CAN THE COLLEGES KNOW HOW YOU RANK THEM????

My dad just got a text saying that "I should consider Pomona near the top of my ranking"

They were my very lasy

They definitely know

[royal gorge]

No

[sour palm]

no

they literally are not allowed to know

colleges are not allowed ot know what other colelges youve applied to

[royal gorge]

Tbf you can always be the omega brained person who writes shit like "Princeton is my dream school" on some part of the app that isn't supps

[zinc terrace]

or those kids that a write a separate PS for each school

[graceful ridge]

Then why the message

It just so random lol

[sour palm]

caues they want u to rank em up top

they want u going there

[sour palm]

is that u abe?

[graceful ridge]

I had a friend who did like three different PS

One was like 1000 words

[zinc terrace]

that is a literal red flag

[sour palm]

LMAO

[graceful ridge]

So he decided to just make a new one than be cutting down that one

[sour palm]

what?

why

[zinc terrace]

wtv floats his boat lmaoo

[graceful ridge]

I think it also had something to do that one of the two was MIT

So he focused it more on STEM

And the other one was another Ivy and he used a completely different topic

[royal bear]

Wish me luck on my ACT tmmr! Just need to increase math

[untold raptor]

gl!

[royal bear]

@royal gorge so when are you supposed to do your CSS profile/FAFSA?

[royal gorge]

Same deadline as supps so nov 1

[royal bear]

wdym

[royal gorge]

The CSS profile is already open so it's due November 1st with the other supplemental stuff; the FAFSA we're supposed to give 'em as soon as it opens

[royal bear]

what the hell is a CSS profile

I HAVENT done one tf

[royal gorge]

I pinned financial stuff in this channel 😔

Read 'em

[royal bear]

False

I have to do it even if I’m not doing QuestBridge?

[royal gorge]

Yes schools like MIT use to the CSS profile in addition to the FAFSA to determine financial aid

[royal bear]

son of a bitch

[royal bear]

@royal gorge You lie

CSS Profile due date is on a school-to-school basis

[royal gorge]

Smh it's due Nov 1 for QB kids

[royal bear]

bro had me freaking otu

MIT's isn't due until February 15th

[royal gorge]

Best to do it early rather than late tbf

Plus iirc financial aid is first come first serve

[royal bear]

it is

[royal gorge]

so the faster you get that application in the better off you're gonna be

[royal bear]

I'm goign to do it now

[royal gorge]

It takes like an hour, and the CSS profile website fucking sucks, so you might as well get it over with now

[royal bear]

ikr

no

it will take more than an hour for me

not only did my parents go through what I can only assume is to be labelled as the World War of divorces

but I don't live with EITHER of them now

I will spend 5 days just trying to get documents

[tired yarrow]

It took more than an hour for me and I live in a very standard household arrangement with married parents

[royal gorge]

Don't forget about IDOC, that pain in the ass

💀

Actual hell

[royal bear]

what is IDOC

I hate all of htese differnt forms

[sour palm]

how the fuck do i acces idoc

[zinc terrace]

they send u an email wwith ur code after u finish css

[sour palm]

oh i have to FINISH IT?

broooo

alr ill ask my counselor tmrw

[royal bear]

why ur counselor

css just asks for familial information, no?

[sour palm]

needa double check smth

[graceful ridge]

I love UChicago the more research about it but they don't have Engineering programs and that was my planned major

[still berry]

SAME but journalism😭

[graceful ridge]

You know what

I don't even want Engineering

I'm a history nerd

Not a math nerd

Never more shall the foreigners of thy mind interfere with thy fate

I'm gonna get there and study HISTORY AND POLITICS AND LANGUAGES AS I WANTED

[hallow crane]

Has anyone gotten their questie package yet

im patiently awaiting my sticker

This is my cps one

[tired yarrow]

I don't know what I did with my sticker...

But no package yet

[zinc terrace]

they give out a package??

[zinc terrace]

LETS GOO

[royal bear]

@royal gorge This stupid ass CSS site

Everytime I put my parent's 2 AGI it disappears when I click save and continue

So it won't let me submit because it thinks I haven't completed the stupid thing

But I've tried to complete it 3,000000000 times

[royal gorge]

Certified CSS profile moment tbh

[royal bear]

Wtf

I've been on hold for like 2 hours with them lol

Nobody picked up yet

[sour palm]

real

[royal bear]

they finally picked up

[graceful ridge]

I just PRAY for everything to turn out well

[royal bear]

submitted css

[graceful ridge]

Is the IDOC hard or long to do?

[hallow crane]

Depends on ur financial situation

U just submit documents

For me i just had to submit my W-2 and 2 non-tax filer statements

[graceful ridge]

I'm worried because my case is I think more unusual

Single Parent and she lives in Mexico while I live in the US

Living with a Guardian but not really a "Legal Guardian"

Just a mess

[royal bear]

won't be bad

you just put you don't live with either guardian

all they do is ask you to clarify

like i had to put "I live with my brother, (brothers name)"

they didn't ask anymore details about him or the living arranagement

[graceful ridge]

Mostly the fact that the taxes we'll be submitting are not the W-2 and those US tax forms, as she doesn't lives here

It would be a translated (both in language and currency) from her original tax forms from Mexico

[royal bear]

that might be difficult

[graceful ridge]

And I wonder if I have to submit the notary's translation AND the original forms

[royal bear]

if it's a notarized translation

[graceful ridge]

My fanancial aid office said it should be all right

But then again

The haven't done a CSS profile EVER

Only my counselor did one, and it was years ago

[royal bear]

imagine having a financial aid office in your higihschool

[graceful ridge]

What is that supposed to mean

[royal bear]

that means my high school doesn't have

a financial office

AND my cousnelors don't evne know what a CSS profiel

AND My cousnelors version of cousneling is telling me to google it and tell them so they know what to tell others

[royal gorge]

Word of mouth moment

[royal bear]

Oats is guardian of the rankings @graceful ridge ask him and he is required by A2C Statute VIIIIIII Subsection X Article 4 to give you an appropriate and adequate answer

[graceful ridge]

Help @royal gorge

[royal gorge]

I have no idea

Your best bet would probably be to legit email the financial aid offices of the school you're applying to ask what the fuck you're supposed to do

[graceful ridge]

I'm MEETING with them and we are basically walking ith a blindfold in a minefield

How do international students do it?

[tired yarrow]

Just explain your situation clearly and then corporate the best you can, it'll be ok!! Most schools should be understanding and if you figure out you've made a mistake or two, just email or call the schools you've applied to with the correct information

[graceful ridge]

I'm almost done with my things, it's so stressful doing all of this

CSS and IDOC

[royal bear]

https://tenor.com/view/nervous-shy-kermit-terrified-scared-gif-17697469

[graceful ridge]

And my counselor accidentaly submitted the Updated Match Form to the IDOC so what's gonna happen now

I mean it should be a big deal, right?

[royal bear]

wdym

[graceful ridge]

The document

I have some I needed uploaded to the IDOC and that one was among the things

[royal gorge]

Lmao

[graceful ridge]

So she thought it was part of the IDOC and uploaded, and documents cannot be removed

[royal bear]

Wth

[royal gorge]

Iirc they just won't process it and send it

Dw

[graceful ridge]

Now they will

[royal bear]

Fr

Nah you should be fine

I think they just don't send random aa documents

[royal gorge]

Also why does your counselor have access to your IDOC

[graceful ridge]

We were working on it together but I left for a moment and told her to "just upload those" while I came back

And that happened lol

I ended up removing Brown, too many essays and not enough time

[tired yarrow]

It'll be ok, I think with IDOC you have to access each document individually, so they probably won't touch it? Even then, most colleges admissions and financial aid offices are separate, so unless the financial aid office deliberately calls the admissions office to report your matches (which seems like a big waste of time when they probably have thousands of applications to read before December) it's unlikely to affect how colleges see you

[graceful ridge]

I hope so

The Financial Aid Office counselor said to upload the notarized tax form so they could check it and consider that

The weather got so bad here at Texas

[tired yarrow]

Got super cold all at once and now it's going to be 80 next week 🙃

[graceful ridge]

I'm reconsidering all my options north of Nebraska just for this lol

I saw a video from a Upenn student saying that "It's usually hot here at Phily, always at 60"

[tired yarrow]

I can't handle the dramatic changes, it makes my body so exhausted that I can't work because I'm spending like all my energy trying to stay alive

[graceful ridge]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

[graceful ridge]

I hate cold

[zinc terrace]

yh brown was asking for too much

[tired yarrow]

I rather it just be cold all the time or warm all the time, 30 degree weather to 80 degree weather is just too much

[graceful ridge]

Has anyone else done Upenn?

Why can't they be normal and use the CSS too

[graceful ridge]

30?!

Let me live at three digits and I'm fine

[hallow crane]

I bought a $60 for $20 at walmart for my visit to new york and also to prepare for when i go to college

[royal gorge]

80 degrees is the minimum here bruh

It was 80 degrees here for the past few weeks and I was honestly shivering

[tired yarrow]

I live up north in texas, not specifying the region (but not the panhandle) which only really leaves one densely populated area

???

[graceful ridge]

No idea I'm South Texas

[royal gorge]

Penn's essay are giving me an aneurysm

Then again I'm doing M&T so that's a pain

[graceful ridge]

M&T?

[royal gorge]

Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology

I.e dual degree in Wharton and Engineering

These essay prompts are war crimes

[graceful ridge]

I thought you misspelled MIT

[tired yarrow]

What is this supposed to mean 😭 Is it like.. you bought a $60 giftcard or...?

[zinc terrace]

ooh what're you doing in ny?

[hallow crane]

OH

i forgot the word

I meant $60 puffer jakcet

[tired yarrow]

OH

[graceful ridge]

he bought a $60 for a $20

[hallow crane]

fly in

[zinc terrace]

columbia?

[tired yarrow]

That makes 100% more sense

[hallow crane]

Urochester

[zinc terrace]

oh rochester

oh yh a puffer is not gonna help you

[royal gorge]

If I'm getting admitted to a college in New England first thing I'm gon' buy fr

[zinc terrace]

you need a parka to survive in roch

[hallow crane]

it was super warm when i wore it today in wet-cold

And i heard new york has dry-cold

[tired yarrow]

I already have a puffer jacket, what I'm investing in for sure is nice boots

[royal gorge]

I have clearly underestimated how cold it is up there, I stand corrected 😔

[zinc terrace]

thats nyc

[hallow crane]

i figured it would be all of new england

[zinc terrace]

rochester and syracuse face the great lakes northern wind storms

[zinc terrace]

nope

so theyre both some of the coldest cities in the us

[royal gorge]

Aren't they in a massive snowstorm rn

[zinc terrace]

yh cuz of the lake effect

[tired yarrow]

How's ithaca then....

[zinc terrace]

nyc has moderate temperature since its more mid-atlantic

[hallow crane]

Ill be there nov 9

Will it be cold

[zinc terrace]

not as cold as roch but yh its freezing in winter

[zinc terrace]

its snowing there this week

[royal gorge]

SUNY Ithicca 😳

[hallow crane]

Are there sidewalks

in rochester

[zinc terrace]

im going to wesleyan nov 9-10

[zinc terrace]

yes

[hallow crane]

Yo thats my rochester date

[zinc terrace]

yh i rejected roch for wes

[hallow crane]

Will they be slippery

Will i fall down

[zinc terrace]

if it does snow then yh black ice might form

get some boots

[tired yarrow]

Expected tbh, I don't think it'll be too bad looking at the weather atm at least

[tired yarrow]

Make sure to take care and walk slow!! Don't walk on any painted parts of the road or sidewalk because they're always 3000% more slippery than the surrounding area for some reason

[graceful ridge]

Is this a thing in Chicago?

[zinc terrace]

yh its literally snowing there

its called the windy city for a reason

[royal gorge]

Chicago's winters are pretty infamous no

[graceful ridge]

HOW DID I FORGET

I've never seen sno before

[hallow crane]

Is obama from chicago

[graceful ridge]

What am I supposed to do if I get into UCHicago

[hallow crane]

Like did he live there

[zinc terrace]

yh he lives there

[hallow crane]

ok that makes more sense

i watched ERB of history and mitt romney said "ur from the windy city"

I never bothered to google it 💀

[tired yarrow]

WOAh, really?

[graceful ridge]

50 Degrees here rn

Is that usual over there?

Like North

New England/Great Lakes area

[graceful ridge]

The closest thing was what we call aguanieve

Like in between rain and snow lol

[tired yarrow]

Sleet?

[graceful ridge]

Yeah kinda

I'm worried that WashU doesn't ask for anything

Like CSS profile \

[zinc terrace]

its like 45 in nyc rn

apparently its gonna snow next thurs/fri

[sour palm]

It is ?

[zinc terrace]

yh lightly in the morning

flurries

[graceful ridge]

how the hell do we have the same weather

This Texas my god

[zinc terrace]

lmaoo but its really windy so it feels colder

[graceful ridge]

[tired yarrow]

Is everything ok?

[graceful ridge]

Yeah, better than I expected it would be lol

At least I'm not doing all of this the last day

[tired yarrow]

You'll make it, you still have tomorrow!!

[royal gorge]

I have no idea

That's different for school to school

In any case the CSS Profile shouldn't be that hard to complete so it's in your best interest to just get it done and over with already

The sooner you do it the quicker you're gonna get that aneurysm-causing experience done

If you want a financial aid award if and when you actually do get admitted, yes

Just submit the CSS Profile 😔, you have nothing to lose

[graceful ridge]

DONE

DONE WITH THE IDOC

DONE WITH SENDING THE THINGS TO UPENN AND UCHICAGO INDIVIDUALLY

I hope whoever reads my UChicago essay likes history

[royal bear]

UChicago doesn't know what history is

[hallow crane]

full send 🙏🏽

[tired yarrow]

We will be seeing your acceptance letter in December kace 🥳

[graceful ridge]

I hope all the documents I submitted are good lol

I feel relieved but at the same time worried lol

Honestly that's better than stress

It's up the whims of fate now

[royal bear]

I feel like I want the process to be over like so soon but at the same time I don’t want it to be over if I get rejected

[zinc terrace]

FELT

[graceful ridge]

I'm planning on either opening the response in Class with my friends or wait until I get home and with my family

I would like the latter more but I don't think I would be able to wait if I have received the email already

[zinc terrace]

im pretty sure it releases at like 3-5pm est so i would just open it at home or with my friends

cuz i end at 3 anyways

[silver jay]

kace if you don't get in i am going to FREAK

we all believe in you lol

[cinder linden]

prayers to you gang 🙏

[royal gorge]

Tbh might just film myself in class

Gotta repeat history

The kid in my school that got into last year opened their decision in her AP Chem class

Aaaand I have the same AP Chem teacher - and his period's gonna be at the same time when match decisions release

Prayin' history is cyclical rn fr, gotta repeat that shit (this time with )

[royal gorge]

Mood

[graceful ridge]

WhatIfAltHist moment

[royal gorge]

QuestBridge Match Timeline plus Dates and Deadlines:

[royal gorge]

We on the final stretch fr

Second-to-final stretch for QBRD 😳

[zinc terrace]

😟

[brisk spindle]

I know that QuestBridge cps is supposed to help prepare you for the actual college app process, but like how specifically? What do you actually get once you're told you're a QB CPS

[royal bear]

I mean, as far as equipping you with colege app process it's more along the lines of informative emails and opportunities

But the big thing is it's basically an award. Saying that you are a high-achieving low-income background student who is most definitely going to college and that is kind of your proof that "hey I got this award and I'm competitive" kinda beat

It also, at least AFAIK, can help with getting NCM

[brisk spindle]

Opportunities?

[brisk spindle]

Yes, I've heard that it increases your chances

[royal bear]

Though, you're a senior now so why are you worrying about CPS now?

oh you're a junior

nvm

[royal bear]

Like scholarship opportunities or otherp rogram opportunities

could be a variety of different opporuntiies

Or it could just be an opportunity to meet with a QB Advisor/Rep/Student that has went through the college application program

[brisk spindle]

Oh, well, it'll look nice as an award if I get in

[royal bear]

Oh yah

Also, in all honesty, it's always good to apply for programs/scholarships no matter the benefits lol

[brisk spindle]

I've just already talked with a lot of college AOs and people who've gone through the college app process that this part seems pretty unappealing to me

[royal bear]

It's a competitive program

It shows that not only are you interested in attending a top university, but shows that you already have proven high achievement

It's something to put on your awards section for sure

[brisk spindle]

Yeah, it would be really nice if I got in. I've looked at past CPS profiles and it feels like everyone has something so big going for them

Or an EC that they're really passionate about. I mean, I like my ex's but I'm not like over the moon about them

[royal bear]

ecs?

I assume you mean ec's instead of ex's

[brisk spindle]

Yeah that's what I meant

[hallow crane]

it gives u access to qb info sessions, a community, and also u can use it as an award

it also helps if u dont know much abt the app process

Before a2c, qb was my only resource

[royal bear]

My only resource was google lmao

[brisk spindle]

Thats good

[cinder linden]

What time do they release?

Like while in school?

[royal gorge]

PST 1 PM I believe

About noon

4 PM EST, so just after school for y'all east coasters

[cinder linden]

Ima be at home

Yeah

[royal gorge]

Tfw match day is exactly one day after the UC deadline

The end of this month is gonna go crazy

[cinder linden]

What schools you ranked in order?

[royal gorge]

MIT, Stanford, and Penn (M&T)

[cinder linden]

That’s it?

You had a lot of time to do those three or two cause mit doesn’t have supplements

Damn bro I had to rush some of mine but we got this 🙏

[royal gorge]

I had Yale, JHU, and Darty too but I figured out I didn't really wanna ED there

[royal gorge]

They had a grand total of one essay

Barely even an essay tbh it's a 100 word short question

Stanford was pretty easy since it only asked for the roommate essay and some short answers

[cinder linden]

Yeah

How about your Questbridge essays you feel confident about them?

[royal gorge]

I can see some areas of improvement but honestly I'm pretty happy with them

My PS I'm particularly happy with

The other three essays and the various short answers were cool too

I managed to tie my goofy ahh ECs and my major choice together in my historical person essay, which was nice

[royal gorge]

In fact, not

Penn killed me

1.5k words worth of essays 💀

They're gonna have to read 4k words worth of essays, short responses, and additional info

[cinder linden]

W

[cinder linden]

HOW

[royal gorge]

Their own fault for asking for so many supps tbh

[cinder linden]

didn’t they want only like 3 essays

And each was like 150/200

150-200

[royal gorge]

Some of Penn's programs ask for additional essays

[cinder linden]

Oh nah

[royal gorge]

M&T asked for a 650 word and a 250 word

CAPS length 💀

[cinder linden]

Damn

You got this bro

🙏

[royal gorge]

Ngl I don't wanna ever touch my QB application proof ever again

Gonna save myself the pain of finding minor errors and shit to improve on

[cinder linden]

I know bro

Bro I skipped so many school days

Stayed up all night

Spent hours revising

DAYS tryna fix stuff

So many essays

[royal gorge]

I'm gonna just take Finalist as a stamp of approval saying that it's good enough and let it rest tbh

[cinder linden]

In less than 2 weeks

[cinder linden]

💀

Nah ong

[royal gorge]

Mood

Really thankful that QB is so early though

Really got us ahead in terms of essay writing and with LORs

[cinder linden]

Ong

Just worried about the financial stuff

[royal gorge]

Going through the gauntlet of essay writing for QB sharpened our writing skills fr

[cinder linden]

Since I’m still waiting for them to be processed

[cinder linden]

Yeah big improvements for sure

[royal gorge]

I did my Financials early precisely because I wanted to save myself the aneurysms I'd get trying to do them by the deadline

The CSS profile and IDOC suck ass

[cinder linden]

Good

Cause even tho they said it will take til next week for it to be processed still worried

💀

The amount of ppl uploading shi delayed the hell outa it

[tardy forum]

Is it just me or do I get a reminder that I have missing documents for idoc even though I submitted all of it

[zinc terrace]

same here

[hallow crane]

Its just cus they havent been processed

Each doc submitted by a student has to be approved manually

[royal gorge]

What

But I already have my portal

[royal bear]

They have 2 portals

One for UPenn and one for people who are named Oats

[tired yarrow]

QuestBridge RD is open...

[grim narwhal]

Was there an email

[hallow crane]

Yes

[grim narwhal]

Send a pic

[grim narwhal]

Dang I guess they dont like nonfinalists

Im just submitting qb for all the no supps anyways and then commonapping the rest

[royal gorge]

Lmao the QBRD form is deadass a gigantic checklist with all the partners on it with nothing stopping you from selecting them all

[zinc terrace]

i selected almost all of them ngl

[royal gorge]

They had to put this warning right on the form huh

[hallow crane]

Prolly for the ppl who were just tryna shot gun 💀💀

[royal gorge]

Me fr but seriously

They got the benefit of hindsight lmao

Another reason why the QB App > Common App tbh

Y'know what lemme just write and pin a message with some info about QBRD

[grim narwhal]

How to become finalist from nonfinalist

[hallow crane]

Build a Time Machine

[royal gorge]

QuestBridge Regular Decision Forms Due:

• <t:1702281599:f> or <t:1702281599:R>

Other Resources for QBRD:

• Options Following the Match
• QuestBridge Regular Decision
• For Non-Finalists
• QuestBridge Midyear Report

Note: Many QB Partners will automatically roll you into their EA or RD rounds if you ranked them in the match round; often, you can email them to ask if you can participate in their Early Decision rounds too.

Note 2: QBRD is not binding, unlike the match.

Reminder: Complete the FAFSA ASAP.

[royal gorge]

Full Chart of QBRD Requirements:

[grim narwhal]

Do you have one for nonfinalists lol

[royal gorge]

Naw but here's QB's own page for it https://www.questbridge.org/high-school-students/national-college-match/non-finalists

[hallow crane]

@grim narwhal genuine question, why r u using qb app as a nonfinalist

like ur reasoning

[grim narwhal]

Qb has a lot of material that would outline circumstance beyond commonapp and ngl maybe I’m delusional but I think my stats essays and recs were pretty good and probably got rejected from assets

But I’m only qbing a few schools just in case it was just 💩 in general and I overlooked it

[tired yarrow]

Have I told you that I love you

[hallow crane]

talking so it goes back on my channel list

[royal bear]

Coming Soon December 1st, 2023™️

[zinc terrace]

omg stop i keep panic checking all my match portals

[royal bear]

[royal gorge]

Menacing sound effects start to play

• <t:1701464433:f> or <t:1701464433:R>

[still berry]

23 days wtf

[mental cobalt]

Did they announce the 1pm

Or 4pm ET

[royal gorge]

Ngl I have no idea of the exact time

It's typically around noon PST though

That's when Finalist decisions released and also happens to line up with the anecdotes I've heard from past finalists

[mental cobalt]

Then why’d you put 1pm PT

[royal gorge]

*When I say noon I mean 1:00 PM smh

Close enough >:(

[mental cobalt]

!qbday

[forest nymph]

QuestBridge Match Day Date

QuestBridge Match Day decisions come out <t:1701464400:F> in your local time
22 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[graceful ridge]

The IDOC thing hasn't reviewed my documents help

It's already more than 3-5 business days

[royal gorge]

It took me an entire week for my documents to get reviewed

[graceful ridge]

But it should be OK right

Right?

I submitted them before the deadline

[royal gorge]

Yeah usually that's the guideline

[tired yarrow]

I submitted mine over 10 days ago...

[graceful ridge]

And it hasn't been reviewed?!

[tired yarrow]

"in progress" my dad submitted the files again today for some reason

But the ones I submitted 10/27 are still "in progress"

[zinc terrace]

met a bunch of questies at my fly in

[royal bear]

where did you fly in

[zinc terrace]

wesleyan

[royal bear]

ooo

[zinc terrace]

it’s basically a knock off brown

[royal bear]

did you have fun

[hallow crane]

Sameee

Mine ranked mit as his first and i told him we were rivals now

[royal bear]

||MIT is obviously superior, he knows what he is talking about.||

[zinc terrace]

lmaoo

i met so many ppl who all ranked the same schools

and we all had mutuals we knew irl so it was fun

also met some ppl ik

met a friend who goes to wes and met some ppl from my pitzer fly in

[royal bear]

So many Fly Ins

[tired yarrow]

Does anyone have a document with the supplemental prompts updated for this year?

[royal gorge]

Tfw match decisions release in exactly three weeks

[main briar]

STOP

[royal gorge]

Ok y'all, to ease some anxiety, here's some facts about last year's QB outcomes (https://www.questbridge.org/news-and-media/press-release-12-1-2022):
Totally didn't get this idea after seeing a post on the QB Subreddit

[In 2022,] QuestBridge selected 5,613 Finalists to be considered for the QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship (Match Scholarship). This year, QuestBridge’s 48 college partners matched with 1,755 Finalists, who are recognized as Match Scholarship Recipients. This is the highest number of Match Scholarship Recipients to-date for QuestBridge.

In addition:

Since 2003, the QuestBridge National College Match has successfully connected over 12,000 students with full scholarships at college partners. These 2022 Match Scholarship Recipients become the first QuestBridge Scholars for the Class of 2027. Based on previous years, it is estimated that approximately 2,000 Finalists will be admitted to QuestBridge college partners through Early and Regular Decision processes.

In other words, with 1755 admits during the National College Match, and approximately 2000 admits during the Regular Decision round, that's an acceptance rate of (3755/5613) or about 67%, which is in the 60% to 70% range adjusting for some differences in the RD round. In other words, y'all are very likely to get admitted into one of your selected partner colleges; even if you don't, the other 33% includes the possibility of getting admitted to a non-QB partner that gives great aid (e.g Harvard, Cornell, whatever) or getting admitted into a great public college in your state. In other words, QB selected y'all as finalists for a reason—y'all are gonna do great!

[graceful ridge]

OMG OMG OMG OMG

"We were contacted by Pomona because they are considering you for the Match but are missing the following materials per their Match Requirements:"

HOW DO I SEND THEM MATERIALS??

Wait they say it here lol

[sour palm]

Nice 👍

[tired yarrow]

Seems like a good sign!!

[graceful ridge]

This was from Friday I just saw it

[tired yarrow]

It's probably ok, the offices aren't supposed to be open/working since they're closed on weekends

[graceful ridge]

It also says the deadline for sending the materials is tomorrow and I just did it

[mental cobalt]

#📆-decision-dates message

[graceful ridge]

Is it normal if the Financial Aid Checklist is marked missing for many things or did I just fucked up my chances of being Matched? 🙃

[winter cove]

questbridge yalls match day is ALMOST HEREE

[zinc terrace]

we gotta talk more y’all

questies are better for a reason

[sour palm]

no

[winter cove]

perioddd

as a rejected qb finalist I STAN

[winter cove]

@cinder linden awkward!

[fresh quartz]

wait fr????

[floral plover]

That's what I heard, only like200 ppl get the scholarship I think

[royal gorge]

150 out of 100k applicants 💀

Even the semifinalist stage is horrifyingly competitive

1.45% get into the semifinalist state, which is more than half of Harvard's acceptance rate for reference

[fresh quartz]

jesus

my friend got into the semi finalists

he has a really "bad" gpa but insanely good ecs and is a very well spoken essay writer

[fresh quartz]

eh, less qualified and more applicants than harvard

majority of ppl who apply to harvard prob deserve to be there

[zinc terrace]

not everyone 👀

[fresh quartz]

true

no one is stopping a 2.0 applicant

but a large majorty

ivys and top unis are just a fucking coin flip

me personally im praying for jhu and sweating out as much shit related to med/science as possible

[zinc terrace]

honestly lmaoo i ranked 3 ivys and 2 top lacs

i need those poli sci connections fr

[fresh quartz]

this kid who went to my hs

got accepted by jhu

but went to georgetown

political sci major

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/713101721571688549/827948186693795861/image0.gif

[zinc terrace]

ooh good for him

my poli sci friends from last yr ended up at upenn or american

[fresh quartz]

a few kids were accepted to jhu from my school last year

and the thing is that they all had nutty gpas and sat scores

i can pull off a good sat score

but my gpa isnt "elite"

[royal gorge]

Me to JHU in QBRD fr

Tfw I wrote their supp only to find out they don't even ask for supps from QB applicants 💀

[royal gorge]

Tbf there's more to admissions than stats

[zinc terrace]

im doing jhu qbrd cuz they have a good polisci/ir program thats not that well-known

[royal gorge]

When the views are holistic 😳

[zinc terrace]

and its in their dc campus not even baltimore ❤️

[royal gorge]

Tbh I like JHU but I just didn't vibe with them enough to go with the binding match

[royal gorge]

Also yeah Baltimore

[zinc terrace]

yh im avoiding the slumtown called baltimore

[zinc terrace]

me with upenn and pomona

[royal gorge]

The prospect of flying all the way to the opposite coast just to end up in Baltimore 💀

[royal gorge]

Ngl Penn was borderline for me but Penn lets you only apply binding to M&T and so I shot my shot

I didn't wanna go Penn just for their engineering program or just for wharton 😭

[zinc terrace]

i like penn but i dont wanna bind myself to penn since i like other schools more

[royal gorge]

Their engineering program is like the most meh program out of the schools I've researched tbh

Like, it's good, but like, ehhhhh

[zinc terrace]

im lowkey delulu rn cuz dartmouth called my counselor today asking for some info bcuz theyre considering me 😍

[royal gorge]

Zamn they want you

[zinc terrace]

im pretty sure they hated me cuz i didnt submit my fly in thing on time lmaooo

but my darty essays are fire

[royal gorge]

Me to my Penn essays fr

God forgive the Penn reader that has to go through my app

Nine essays

[zinc terrace]

princeton supps drive me crazy

[royal gorge]

500 word supp lmao

[fresh quartz]

nah im like full decicated

ed1 next year without a doubt

[fresh quartz]

im pretty close to baltimore, ny

but still

its baltimore 💀

[fresh quartz]

that is NOT hopkins

hopkins seems to bias gpa and class rank a bit more

[hallow crane]

I GOT A FUCKING HARVARD INTERVIEW

we making it to harvard questies 🙏🏽

[zinc terrace]

OMG CONGRATS AND GOODLUCK

[graceful ridge]

The IDOC finally processed my documents my god

They are still missing one nooo

[royal gorge]

[royal bear]

[graceful ridge]

the problem with that one is that we had to sent it as three different pictures lol

the scanned document wasn't loading

Everything else has been processed after TWO WEEKS

[royal gorge]

Why tho

Couldn't you have sent it as like one pdf or smth

[graceful ridge]

It was a PDF yes

All documents were

[royal gorge]

Goofy

[graceful ridge]

But for some reason THAT ONE was just not loading

We tried submitting it for like an hour

[royal gorge]

Technical errors 😍

To be fair you can still get matched if you're missing some fin aid documents

[graceful ridge]

Not sure if I should try again to submit it like the rest or just wait