I know college admissions are a crap shoot, but I really find it odd that so far my daughter has been accepted to every non-Quest Bridge school she applied to and not a single one through QB. Some were long shots, but she was a solid match for Grinnell, Oberlin, and Colby and was outright rejected from the first two and waitlisted at the last. She was accepted (with large scholarships) to both Brandeis and Macalester who seem to be on the same playing field as those three QB schools.
My opinion now is the Quest Bridge application labelled her as low-income and since she is not an URM and her stats are good but not superman level (IB diploma, 4.0 UW GPA, Valdictorian, 2100 SAT) she was pretty much discounted as a contender. Plenty of others with those stats who can pay.
Sorry for venting, but it is so hard seeing all these rejections coming in from schools where she seemed to have a really good chance. And if we had not been under the impression that being a QB Finalist would actually help her chances (i.e. these schools want high-achieving low income students) we would not have gone that way.
So if anyone is interested the final results were:
Accepted (all non-QB): Beloit, College of Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan, University of DE, Brandeis, Macalester, and Cornell (to be fair she did have a legacy hook here).
Waitlisted (non-QB): UNC Chapel Hill, Skidmore. (QB): Colby, Haverford, and Wesleyan.
Rejected (all QB): UChicago, Bowdoin, Grinnell, Carleton, Swartmore, Oberlin, Tufts, and Penn.
Anyway, at least she did not put all of her eggs in the Quest Bridge basket and does have some good choices, including about as close to a free ride as one can get at Cornell.
I dunno. The QB schools did match QB applicants, they just chose some kids other than your daughter. Many of those schools in the Rejection list do meet full need or are need blind. They did admit poor applicants. They are all extremely hard to get into regardless. They choose the strongest for whatever criteria they need. Congrats on Cornell.
Eh, I was rejected through the match by Tufts and still ended up being accepted through QB RD, as well as getting into Brown and Wellesley through QB RD. Acceptance at high-ranking schools can be like a lottery, and I know several non-URM people who were also accepted through QB.