QuestBridge kids taking half the spots at top schools, and it’s unfair

[Anonymous]

The privileges that come with growing up upper middle class with tons of financial and social support far outweigh any admissions “boost” a Questbridge applicant may have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The privileges that come with growing up upper middle class with tons of financial and social support far outweigh any admissions “boost” a Questbridge applicant may have.

Social support? You can't be too sure of that.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry you failed to sufficiently educate your over privileged child, OP. Kid can't coast on God-given gifts and silver spoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can I hide my ex’s income? He is ruining it for our child, no intention to pay for college (I am the low income parent)

Squeegee Luigi

[Anonymous]

High SAt and GPA = Basic B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I hide my ex’s income? He is ruining it for our child, no intention to pay for college (I am the low income parent)

Squeegee Luigi

Not gonna lie I let out a good laugh

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t matter that they are QB. The top schools have so many athletes that take priority and then legacies that they need the FGLI to fill the Diversity buckets. They are a 2 or 3 for 1. Middle, high income achievers who are not legacies get the short stick.

[Anonymous]

People have already figured out how to scam it.

[Anonymous]

I'm confused, because I thought Questbridge was extremely competitive. Meaning that QB kids should more than meet the criteria for the school even without a scholarship.

[Anonymous]

OP: At DD’s top private school, the number of acceptances of rich, mediocre kids - with parents who are on the Board of various top 20 schools - is staggering. Don’t blame the QB kids please! Makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The privileges that come with growing up upper middle class with tons of financial and social support far outweigh any admissions “boost” a Questbridge applicant may have.

Social support? You can't be too sure of that.

Growing up in a UMC family/community/social circle filled with college-educated professionals is a form of social support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused, because I thought Questbridge was extremely competitive. Meaning that QB kids should more than meet the criteria for the school even without a scholarship.

It’s very competitive to get to the College Match level. And the process is exhaustive with a ton of documentation required including tons of financial documentation.

None of it is easy especially for families who aren’t tech savvy and distrusting of organizations asking for so much information

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sorry, what school is 50% QB?

QB is not the only program and, anyhow, I think it is being used here as a catch-all, proxy category to include Pell recipients and any first gen. Especially at SLACs like Swarthmore, that category is 1/3 (even more in ED, so it could indeed approach 50%). Then you have 25%-40% recruited athletes in the ED round on top of that…

Don’t be an unhooked middle class kid. Might as well instead go to a mid-size or large top 15-30 uni, where admission chances are way better and the real academic talent is going anyhow. More and more of the top unhooked students are eschewing SLACs each year. This may not be noticeable to the outside world yet, but in another 20 years, the top 1/4 at SLACs will be the athletes (who now occupy the middle 50%). The now top 1/4? Gone forever.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much to the posters fighting hate and discrimination from OP and others.

A. Questbridge is very competitive.

B. Questbridge dissects your finances. It's the rare person who is willing to quit their job or divorce to comply with some of their criteria.

So no, massive numbers of low income intelligent kids are NOT displacing your precious middle class kid.

But maybe you want to bring the fight to the legacies, athletes and development cases. They do not deserve a leg up!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused, because I thought Questbridge was extremely competitive. Meaning that QB kids should more than meet the criteria for the school even without a scholarship.

It's very low acceptance rate, so there's a lot of competition, but that doesn't mean that they are selecting for the same characteristics as the rest of the student body.