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Questbridge

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This policy option or model program profile relates to the following issue overview(s):

Access to Higher Education for First-Generation and Students of Color

Summary one paragraph description

QuestBridge selects high achieving, low-income students (annual household income of $60K or below) to compete for four-year, full-tuition scholarships (including room and board, and often books and travel costs) to partnering schools. Free application to institutions using the QuestBridge Application, which uses essay questions that turn low-income status into an opportunity to highlight overcoming obstacles. An early decision program. Functions an a preselection/prescreening process for colleges, which ultimately select scholarship recipients.

Goal short description of the policy or program goal

QuestBridge, an initiative of the Quest Scholars Program, serves as an intermediary between the nation's brightest, under-served youth and leading institutions of higher education. QuestBridge provides a single, internet-based meeting point which links exceptional students with the colleges, scholarship providers, employers, and organizations seeking students who have excelled despite obstacles. By facilitating these exchanges, QuestBridge aims to increase the percentage of talented, low-income students attending the nation's best universities, and excelling beyond.^[1]

Cost total policy or program cost; also include per person cost if available

Scholarships funded through the partnering schools directly.

Implementation describe how the policy or program is implemented (esp. who, how)

Students apply to QuestBridge via online application, transcripts, recommendations, etc.
Students select and rank as many as 8 partner colleges for consideration for admission. A binding agreement to attend the college if selected for scholarship.
QuestBridge selects finalists and forwards applications to institutions.
Partnering schools select students from the pool for admission and awards them full-tuition, four year scholarships.
QuestBridge matches student with the highest ranking school on their list to which the student was admitted.
Students not selected through the College Match, early decision process can then apply, using QuestBridge, through the regular decision process.^[2]

Evaluation summarize any evaluation findings that policy or program effectiveness

Status indicate whether this policy or program has been adopted in more locations or remains a proposal

QuestBridge partners with 27 selective colleges across the nation.

Point of View quotations from those in support or opposition to this policy or program

"The future of our democracy rests upon ways of finding opportunity and mobility that are not happening in our unequal world. Quest is at the crossroads of doing just that." - Anthony Marx, President, Amherst College (also on the QuestBridge Board of Advisors)^[3]

Contact contact information for sponsor of this policy or program