Yale and QuestBridge

87 students matched to Yale on QuestBridge, more than any other school: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/12/05/questbridge-matches-up/. This means that about 6% of next year’s first-year class will come through QuestBridge, which is remarkable. All get Yale’s most generous fin aid package, which is nearly a full ride.

Thinking about it, this is very good for Yale, for several reasons. The university gets great press for being QuestBridge’s most important partner, demonstrating meaningful efforts to recruit and enroll (usually) first-gen (definitely) low-income applicants. Students who apply through QuestBridge are some of the most talented and motivated applicants, and once they match, they’re required to withdraw all their other applications. So Yale gets to fill a large chunk of its FGLI bucket with cherry-picked top-quality kids who are virtually guaranteed to enroll, thus providing yield protection.

I’m unsurprised to note that UChicago is also a QuestBridge partner…given the yield protection / ED-type aspect of this, my guess is Nondorf will challenge Yale for top partner…

Quest bridge has been an amazing resource for some of the young adults I know personally. One is at Yale and it was actually a full ride. One will be attending Brown.

I am so happy to see more and more universities using the program to match with students who might have thought prestigious schools were otherwise out of reach.