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2006 Awardee Overview

In 2006, 103 students received College Match scholarships. An additional 500 QuestBridge applicants received admission and generous financial aid packages from our partner colleges. Below you will find a breakdown of various demographics and statistics for our applicants, scholarship awardees, and partner colleges. You can also view our scholarship recipients' individual profiles. To view selection and eligibility criteria, click here.

Scroll down to view statistics of our applicants and partner colleges from past years.




2006 Award Recipient Demographics

79% of students will be the first in their family to attend a four year college.

SAT Scores


1500+ 10%
1400+ 34%
1300+ 60%
1200+ 89%
Average score: 1311

Class Rank


1st in class 22%
top 5% 69%
top 10% 88%
top 20% 100%

 


Ethnicity/Heritage

African American 25%
Native American/Alaskan 16%
Caucasian 15%
Mexican American, Chicano 15%
Hispanic, Latino 11%
Asian American 9%
Asian, incl. Indian Subcontinent 4%
Puerto Rican 3%
Other 2%

 


Geographic Distribution

West 30%
Mid-West 19%
Southwest 18%
Mid-Atlantic 15%
South 13%
Northeast 3%
Hawaii 1%
International 1%

 


Household Income

Last year's scholarship recipients come from households earning from 0 to $62,000 annually. If you come from a household earning more than this amount but still feel that you have faced economic hardship, there is a section on the application for you to explain your situation.

under $20,000 40%
under $40,000 86%
under $62,000 100%
 

 
 

QuestBridge Application Statistics


QuestBridge's partner colleges are not obligated to accept any specific number of QuestBridge applicants.

One way to evaluate your chances of acceptance by one of our partner colleges through the National College Match program is by looking at the results from last year.

National College Match Program Statistics

  2006 2005
Number of completed applications 3345 2200
Number of finalists (see 2006 finalist profile - PDF) 1594 913
Number of finalists who received full four-year scholarship packages through the National College Match Process (see 2006 match profile) 103 46
Percentage of finalists offered acceptance and generous financial aid package through the Regular Admissions process (see 2005 regular admit profile) 539 299



General Acceptance Rates of Our Partner Colleges

Institution 2005-2006 Acceptance Rate Acceptances/Applications*
Amherst College 18.7% (1,175/6,273)
Bowdoin College 24.5% (1,232/5,026)
University of Chicago 40.2% (3,628/9,011)
Claremont McKenna College 21.0% (786/3,734)
Columbia University 12.8% (2,318/18,119)
Emory University 36.6% (4,395/12,011)
University of Notre Dame 31.6% (3,582/11,317)
Oberlin College 33.9% (2,235/6,587)
Pomona College 18.8% (951/5,050)
Princeton University 10.9% (1,807/16,510)
Rice University 25.0% (1,970/7,890)
Scripps College 46.1% (847/1,836)
Stanford University 12.0% (2,426/20,195)
Swarthmore College 22.4% (917/4,085)
Trinity College 39.4% (2,265/5,744)
Vassar College 17.2% (1,083/6,314)
Wellesley College 33.6% (1,463/4,347)
Wheaton College 50.7% (1,097/2,163)
Williams College 18.8% (1,095/5,822)
Yale University 9.9% (1,958/19,682)