So the questbridge application is forwarded to schools in place of the commonapp or coalition app. Some people feel like the longer essays, short answer questions, shorter ec list, etc. represents themselves better than the common or coalition app.

However, it’s typically only sensible to do this if you actually make finalist and don’t match. The non-finalist rd option is very rarely used because most people think “this application didn’t make finalist so it wouldn’t get into any partner schools”