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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're matched by Questbridge it's 100% full ride free or 100% tuition free or it depends on your income level?

Can someone clarify how the list work? Do the colleges get to see your list or is that a secret? Say you have #1 Stanford and #2 Penn and they both accept you -- do they notify Questbridge first, then Questbridge just tells you you got into Stanford (and keeps other acceptances a secret, aside from telling Penn, etc. that it's not a match)?[/quote]

It's a full ride (room, board, tuition, books at minimum) with no packaged loans. Colleges like Stanford and Penn don't offer merit aid, so they only give the scholarships to those who would normally get a full ride anyway (0 EFC). However, the Match scholarships also tend to be more generous- they might have lower work study expectations, summer work expectations, cover health insurance, etc. For instance, Pomona College requires a $1900 summer work contribution for all students ordinarily, but not for Matched students. UVA covers everything with aid- no work study or student contribution required. Many of the schools which would usually include loans would not do so for a Matched student.

You can apply to up to 12 schools through Match. Colleges do not know the specifics of the list (order or where you applied) besides the fact that you applied to them. They go through the applicants and send QuestBridge a list of the students they'd like to admit. It can range from 5 students at some partner colleges to close to a 100 at others- schools have individual jurisdiction to decide. QuestBridge couples all of the admit lists together and establishes where students are "matched". If you are familiar with the process of residency in medical school (Match Day), that's what the process was inspired by. In your situation, the student will get an email that Stanford matched them, but they will not know that UPenn also matched them. QuestBridge will send a list of the established matches to the schools for that years and also where the others they were interested in but couldn't get (due to higher ordering) matriculated to.

Match is generally binding unless you are matched to Stanford, Yale, Princeton, or MIT. They can continue applying in RD, and often they get into the others, Harvard, and the like. Schools don't really try to "woo" the non-binding Match scholars because they know they generally can't out-compete them for enrollment purposes.[/quote]

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