QuestBridge: Scaling College Access with Ana Rowena Mallari

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Imagine all the highly motivated, high-achieving students who can excel at the most challenging colleges but lack the financial resources to attend. Matching this type of talent with full funding from top-tier schools is the mission of QuestBridge. CEO Ana Rowena Mallari recounts the organization’s 30-year scale journey, during which the program has fostered $5 billion in scholarships and helped 100,000 students. Co-founded by Mallari and Michael McCullough as a summer program at Stanford, QuestBridge now partners with more than 50 schools, transforming how colleges across the U.S. evaluate and admit their incoming classes.

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1:19.0	So I was in my grandmother's house in South Jersey.
1:26.0	It was my senior year of high school. I got this letter in the mail about Questbridge. This program that would help students from low-income backgrounds go to the top and the most elite universities in the world on a full ride.
1:40.0	I almost thought that it was spam initially. I read it like three times to make sure that it actually
1:46.1	said what I thought it said. That's entrepreneur Cody Coleman taking us back about 15 years to a moment that changed everything.
1:56.5	That letter, the one inviting him to be a Questbridge scholar with all his college expenses
2:01.0	paid, he still doesn't know why it arrived.
2:05.0	Like, why me? I'm just like some kid from South Jersey going to poor public high school.
2:11.5	I wondered if it was my trigonometry teacher Mrs.
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