We will strive to become the universal and most valuable source for bright, high achieving, low-income students seeking opportunities, and for institutions seeking applicants from that unique demographic group.
What We Know:
- Only six percent of students attending America’s top colleges come from families where neither parent attended college.
- Approximately one third of bright low-income students do not even take the SAT.
- In one study, only 3% of the students attending the nation’s top 146 colleges and universities were drawn from families in the lowest economic quartile.
What We Believe:
- Intelligence, talent, motivation, nobility and grit, are distributed across the entire economic spectrum of America’s youth.
- Many elite colleges and universities, Fortune 500 corporations, and top graduate schools sincerely strive to embrace the county’s most talented, determined, and self-motivated students. But they often lack the reach to attract appropriate candidates from low-income populations.
- America has an undiscovered population of talented low-income youth, some of America's brightest young minds, well-suited to opportunities, but unconnected for simple lack of information, mentorship, and other surmountable barriers.
- In an increasingly global marketplace, America will not continue to prosper unless we make best use of the latent talent brimming within our borders.
Our Vision:
- QuestBridge envisions a world where America's leadership encompasses thoughtful and broad-minded decision makers drawn from every economic segment of society.
- QuestBridge will revolutionize the way leading colleges and universities recruit talented low-income students, and the way these students approach their once-in-a-lifetime educations and futures.
Our Mission:
- QuestBridge aims to create a singular place where exceptionally talented low-income students can navigate educational and life opportunities
- QuestBridge recruits, develops, and supports motivated low-income students – beginning in high school through college to their first job – to be successful at America’s best colleges, graduate schools, and companies.
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