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

[Anonymous]

Troll post.

Decisions are not eveb out yet for most schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

And related to some of the "gender imbalance" threads, most of the mediocre kids are boys, i.e. the lax bros.

[Anonymous]

cry me a river...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with Questbridge is that so many people cheat. There are a zillion ways to hide your income. Tiktok is full of Questbridge kids posting from their large suburban homes. My teens are very salty about it: "i know the cost of living is lower elsewhere but what the heck?"

The number of QB kids I see applying from families which own restaurants, but "pay" relatives 30K to look low income comes to mind.

Asian households

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now you know how my kid feels.

Super high stats kid, rejected to T15, Asian male.

Awww. Poor thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now you know how my kid feels.

Super high stats kid, rejected to T15, Asian male.

Awww. Poor thing.

Yes, the system is inherently unfair. It's not like I grew up in a wealthy household myself. My parents are uneducated immigrants who don't speak English, and I went to a no name cheapo state u because we couldn't afford it. I worked my way through college. We were on food stamps for a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with Questbridge is that so many people cheat. There are a zillion ways to hide your income. Tiktok is full of Questbridge kids posting from their large suburban homes. My teens are very salty about it: "i know the cost of living is lower elsewhere but what the heck?"

The number of QB kids I see applying from families which own restaurants, but "pay" relatives 30K to look low income comes to mind.

Asian households

I don't blame Asian parents for finding loopholes. The system is stacked against these kids.

It's no worse than rich parents buying their kid's way into college.

[Anonymous]

My DC's top SLAC accepted fewer than 20 Questbridge students this ED round. Less than 10% of incoming class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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!!!

yup! Cannot imagine quitting your job/career to try and qualify for something so competitive. Doubt many are doing that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll post.

Decisions are not eveb out yet for most schools.

+1000 Yes this forum is overrun by trolls who for some inexplicable reason seem to enjoy the milquetoast outrage responses. I don't get it. Don't feed them, stop and think about the post first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now you know how my kid feels.

Super high stats kid, rejected to T15, Asian male.

Awww. Poor thing.

Yes, the system is inherently unfair. It's not like I grew up in a wealthy household myself. My parents are uneducated immigrants who don't speak English, and I went to a no name cheapo state u because we couldn't afford it. I worked my way through college. We were on food stamps for a bit.

But if that’a not how your kid grew up, why is this relevant to anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC's top SLAC accepted fewer than 20 Questbridge students this ED round. Less than 10% of incoming class.

Same with ours! I am happy dc’s top lac is interested in people across the income spectrum, even middle class kids recently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does QB look at assets? DH could quit tomorrow, but I think our assets would give us away unless they aren’t checking.

Yes they look at assets. You are always going to hear rumors of the welfare queen getting lobster with food stamps, or the person who got divorced to scam the financial aid process, but they are just rumors.

There are multiple points at which a scammer could be "caught" during the QB process, not to mention the college admissions process. These include not just very intrusive financial checks but also potentially interviews with the applicant. Your UMC kid is not going to present like a QB scholar, which is not a ding on either QB scholars or your UMC kid. They are different experiences, and that comes out in a lot of different ways.

You were doing great until the end. Those are just stereotypes. Most qb kids are from cities, grew up poor, but act just like any other student. Many went to top boarding and private schools and have lived, while not at home, very upper middle class lifestyles while on scholarship. Being a QB kid who goes to Groton is very different from being one who goes to Stuyvesant is very different from being one who goes to a rural high school. There are more qb matches that are the former than the latter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get annoyed at the assumption that because you are third or fourth generation here you have it made or something. My parents were children of immigrants who grew up quite poor. Plus, my grandfather and father were drafted. Why are we being lumped in with the families who have been here forever and have passed down wealth and property forever.

In the college application process, the term “first generation” refers to being the first generation to go to college. It has nothing to do with immigrant status. If you’re parents went to college, you are not “first generation” in terms of college- even if your parents are immigrants who don’t speak English.

My parent did not go to college. I did not realize until many years after I had graduated from college how much I didn’t know when I was applying to college that other kids did know simply because their parents had a college education. And not just the about the application process, but also the guidance other kids got all through their school years- their parents knew the right questions to ask and helped them to be involved in activities. Helping my own kids through school has really opened my eyes to how little I knew compared to kids whose parents had gone to college.

If you haven’t had the experience of being the first generation to go to college, you just have no idea of what a difference it makes. I applaud any program that tries to help kids in this situation. It still can’t totally make up the difference, but it can make *a* difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll post.

Decisions are not eveb out yet for most schools.

+1000 Yes this forum is overrun by trolls who for some inexplicable reason seem to enjoy the milquetoast outrage responses. I don't get it. Don't feed them, stop and think about the post first.

It is not a troll if OP means Duke AND is inc Pell Grant and first gen kids.