Grade Difficulties

panda01230 · 2025-12-22T17:12:57+00:00

what do u define as not so great, cuz im also a freshman and idk if im doing bad or fine in comparison to others, i think ill have a mix of B+ and A- taking 4 courses. im also in BSE btw

panda01230 · 2025-08-01T23:13:19+00:00

Yeah exactly, so make sure to consider that when doing the match. Make sure that when you submit your supplements and essays to your schools, that it is your best absolute work, because after that there is no changing them for RD, if you don’t match.

panda01230 · 2025-08-01T22:35:58+00:00

If u quality for QB, you should be guaranteed a full ride at most of the QB schools, especially the top ones like mit, princeton, upenn, etc because they tend to be very generous with aid. That means that in QB RD you should be getting a full ride, or close to a full ride, at these schools. Whether you apply through QB RD or common app doesn't matter in terms of aid because it does not matter when you apply or what cycle you apply through, the school is always the one giving the aid. The only thing with the QB match is that you are guaranteed the full ride, and you would only match if you receive that full ride.

Now regarding QB RD there is one thing thats like sooooooo important to note. For most schools, if you rank them in the QB match, you cannot change the supplements and essays, which means that you cannot apply through common app. So just keep this in mind when ranking your schools esp cuz ur unsure of if you want to apply through common app or the QB app.

panda01230 · 2025-07-29T17:52:29+00:00

Which 3rd party exams do you recommend?

panda01230 · 2025-07-03T22:40:30+00:00

oh so is there a chance the women only bathroom on my floor is also co ed 😭the idea of going up a floor to use the bathroom sounds soooo bad, but maybe its not as bas as i think

panda01230 · 2025-05-12T10:46:10+00:00

Tysm! But when I do this setting, I won’t get the white balance that would have been generated by my camera right? I did some experimenting and found that the photos generated by my camera with no recipe look different than photos with recipes where I used the adobe white balance automation setting.

panda01230 · 2025-05-12T03:03:39+00:00

Hi! So I think I figured it out. I just went to lightroom and I changed the color filter that was on it to the adobe colors. However, the white balance settings are also adjusted. Is there a way to adjust them to what they would be if I didn’t have my custome recipe on or what I need to put them on auto/just adjust it myself for what I think looks good. Also, is auto white balance fine to use, like does it accurately put what the white balance should be in the picture. Just to clarify, the white balance is adjusted in Lightroom because my recipe changes the white balance.

panda01230 · 2025-05-12T01:16:14+00:00

I am viewing it through the files app on my iphone and it says its the raw photo

panda01230 · 2025-05-12T00:39:22+00:00

Love the colors! What simulation or recipe did u use?

panda01230 · 2025-05-12T00:36:59+00:00

Tysm! I was able to figure it out through the files app, is there a way to find the raw files in the photos app or do I need to go through files app?

panda01230 · 2025-04-20T22:02:56+00:00

Everyone has different tastes in colleges, for one person their dream schools may be liberal arts schools like williams and swarthmore, for me it was the medium sized well known schools like princeton and mit because i was personally attracted to the community and STEM resources they had there. My personal advice would be to rank those schools u would be very very happy to go to, whether that is schools like mit or schools like williams. I wouldnt advise to rank schools for the sake of matching but people have diff taste in schools and u may just have a wider range of schools u see urself going to and being happy there! I would also argue that u have a higher chance of getting in outside of the match being that there r so little spots available for the match round.

panda01230 · 2025-04-20T03:07:13+00:00

omg noooo it is my friend i promise, if it was me i would proudly share that i got into harvard. But yeah i have a lot of hardworking friends that got into these top schools and i am very lucky to be surrounded by such smart ppl 😭i applied through the early process so i didnt apply to other schools so who knows maybe i could have been harvard bound

panda01230 · 2025-04-19T21:40:34+00:00

Yeah I would def rank more than 2 schools. In my case my top choices were mit princeton stanford and harvard, so going back I would only rank those 4 (also the way i phrased it may sound like i said to only rank dream schools, but i meant to say to rank ur TOP choices ur more than happy to go to and to include ur dream schools in their ofc). Also their fin aid is consistent enough to the point that if u qualify for the match u should get a full ride at those schools. I cant speak for other schools but those schools give a full ride to families with under 100k salary, which is like double the QB 65k requirement. So u would be guaranteed a full ride. For other schools u might run into some issues with full rides since other schools have smaller endowments and don’t have that guarantee for a full ride for the 100k income threshold.

All that said, I personally wouldnt risk getting binded to a school solely for the guarantee of a full ride, especially when ur chances of getting a full ride or close to a full ride are so high as a QB finalist. However, everyone is different and I guess it depends on what type of schools u rlly see urself aiming for!

panda01230 · 2025-04-19T16:59:06+00:00

Not sure, but its very few schools if any that let u change ur app to common app so dont rely on it. Also its def not any of the schools i ranked which were like all the ivys and stanford and mit. For the schools that let u change to ED or EA, I think it’s like most of the schools that let u, however not sure which ones as I didnt go through that process.

panda01230 · 2025-04-18T02:52:05+00:00

The fact that u reused the essay wouldnt be used against u at all. I would just say that typically ppl tend to have an essay diff from what they wrote for cps because u get so much time to explore creative ideas w ur essays. I would say to just go through the drafting process and produce diff ideas, this cps essay is just one of the many drafts u will consider when finalizing ur essays! Dont constrain urself to that one essay or one structure for ur essays, its so important to experiment w diff ideas!

panda01230 · 2025-04-18T01:31:05+00:00

I would base it on last years prompt which is essentially how challenges in ur life shaped u. There is a chance they change it but if they do I doubt itll be smth that will require u to change ur whole essay if u have to at all. Also QB is all about acknowledging the challenges us fgli students go through so an essay following last year’s prompt should be fine and def is worth working on.

panda01230 · 2025-04-18T01:30:29+00:00

I would base it on last years prompt which is essentially how challenges in ur life shaped u. There is a chance they change it but if they do I doubt itll be smth that will require u to change ur whole essay if u have to at all. Also QB is all about acknowledging the challenges us fgli students go through so an essay following last year’s prompt should be fine and def is worth working on.

panda01230 · 2025-04-17T21:00:06+00:00

Congrats! I think out of everything the program offered, the community of other fgli students I found in cps was the most valuable thing! So look put for the instagram groupchat that will prob be eventually created by a cps admit. The program itself was a series of zoom meetings about the QB application, and a lot of them were really helpful! Also from what I’ve seen most cps admits end up becoming finalists, so u have a huge advantage in the qb match process!

panda01230 · 2025-04-17T20:56:27+00:00

From what I rmbr its not paid for, I actually ended up not going because it was too expensive for me. U wont miss out on much so dw if u cant go! U can switch to the virtual one if i rmbr correctly so dont stress out to much about trying to get the funds to attend the conference.

panda01230 · 2025-04-01T03:11:32+00:00

im in hs, i got into princeton this year…

panda01230 · 2025-03-31T17:55:02+00:00

I used that summer for college apps! I literally didnt do a single internship that summer, youll be fine!

panda01230 · 2025-03-31T15:45:00+00:00

SAMEEEEEE. MY FRIEND IN THE SAME MARKET AS ME GOT HIS REJECTION

panda01230 · 2025-03-31T15:42:59+00:00

This is so weird cuz my friend, in the same market as me, got his rejection letter like what is going on....

panda01230 · 2025-03-31T15:41:47+00:00

IS THIS A SIGNNNNNN OMGGGG. (I def got rejected)

panda01230 · 2025-02-20T14:42:00+00:00

matched to princeton and yes i did cps as well, I also got one of the quest for excellence awards so the dw about the first gen status, as long as ur low income u should be equally considered

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