Options Following the Match
This page will be updated later this summer for the 2026 National College Match.
If you are a National College Match Finalist who did not match, there continue to be options for your college journey through QuestBridge, and you still have more opportunities to be admitted to our college partners, who meet 100% of demonstrated financial need. Attending a QuestBridge college partner allows you to connect with a lifelong network of Scholars and Alumni during college and beyond.
We strongly encourage you to review potential early admission opportunities and next steps from the schools you ranked listed on your decision letter, and through the list below. Remember that you have not been denied admission from the colleges you ranked.
Options and next steps will vary by school, and you can view examples of the options that may be available through the links below. If the school will consider your application in an early review cycle, instructions on how to apply will also be included.
- Amherst College
- Barnard College
- Bates College
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Bowdoin College
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- Carleton College
- Case Western Reserve University
- Claremont McKenna College
- Colby College
- Colgate University
- College of the Holy Cross
- Colorado College
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Davidson College
- Denison University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Grinnell College
- Hamilton College
- Harvard College
- Haverford College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Macalester College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Middlebury College
- Northwestern University
- Oberlin College
- Pomona College
- Princeton University
- Rice University
- Scripps College
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- Stanford University
- Swarthmore College
- Tufts University
- University of Chicago
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Richmond
- University of Southern California
- University of Virginia
- Vanderbilt University
- Vassar College
- Washington and Lee University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wellesley College
- Wesleyan University
- Williams College
- Yale University