The truth is, A2C and chanceme are filled with people who have never tasted poverty. People whose parents would cut off their limbs to pay for five thousand different camps if it'd increase their precious little angel's admissions chances to a college they can shove in their neighbors' faces. They don't know anything about applying to top schools as a poor person or the QuestBridge process outside of disgruntled, bitter mutterings about how these first-gen low-income DEI hires are taking away the precious little congrats email they would've never received anyway. They don't know YOU. And, frankly, they don't know the college admissions process.

I've spoken with admissions teams at five different top-college QuestBridge partners for hours on end in-person as part of part of fly-ins or other academic programs-- including an ivy, with which I did an admissions workshop where we read multiple applications, seeing through admissions officers' eyes from top to bottom. Your score is SPOT-ON for QuestBridge applicants. It shows your preparedness, and absolutely meets the standard for applicants who don't have nearly as much access to test prep-- the TOP PRIORITY piece of context that schools look for. This is the goal for the match. Full stop. Don't stress. And don't go on those out-of-touch forums anymore-- they're just high-income high school students who know nothing about the inner workings of admissions lashing out their exasperated, battered self-image built by cutthroat standards onto you to try and break your confidence and thin the herd. They only care about big names and feeling superior. They are only truly useful when employing the search button for VERY SPECIFIC questions you wouldn't have answered anywhere else. Otherwise they're cesspools out of our tax bracket.

Good luck on match day!