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QuestBridge . . . has quietly become one of the biggest players in elite-college admissions. Almost 300 undergraduates at Stanford this year, or 4 percent of the student body, came through QuestBridge. The share at Amherst is 11 percent, and it’s 9 percent at Pomona. At Yale, the admissions office has changed its application to make it more like QuestBridge’s.
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<p>I can see what QuestBridge’s initial focus had to be on getting kids in. Now that Questbridge is having success at getting kids admitted it seems like time they focus some attention on keeping them in and successful. The article below showed that once admitted at least some some QuestBridge kids feel left without a helping hand and many of them struggle.</p>
<p>Fixing this should be a joint effort between the college seeking a more diverse class but also some of that burden should be on QuestBridge itself. What is the point in getting high potential kids in if you do not help them realize that potential? Many of these QuestBridge kids, or the mandatory U-Texas admits from every public Texas school, will be in the bottom 50% of the admitted class by stats and by overall preparedness. Why not have some coaching and mentoring and tutoring to help them? This is what UTexas is now starting to do to help lift up the statistical bottom of the class. With additional mentoring and handholding the UTexas kids seem to thrive. It appears the QuestBridge winner in this article did not fully grasp they were in the bottom of the class and got some serious whiplash when reality hit. How could QuestBridge give a scholarship and then not have them prepared for the reality of the challenge ahead?</p>
<p>The student in the article points out some colleges do better that others. She believes Stanford does a better job than UChicago. But QuestBridge itself should focus on this service-after-the-sale too. Especially if their market share is so high at elite schools.</p>
<p>Finally, this is why it is so important for all of those applying to think about fit and not focus so exclusively on getting in but on what it takes to thrive once there… Learning to seek help is important for all kids, but especially for those at the statistical bottom of a class, and every school has a statistical bottom of each class.</p>
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