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QuestBridge Simplified

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 "QuestBridge is a non-profit program that links students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some U.S. colleges and universities. QuestBridge provides a College Prep Scholarship for high school juniors and a National College Match program for high school seniors." — QuestBridge QuestBridge has two tracks, College Prep Scholars (for high school juniors) and the National College Match (for high school seniors). Both programs must be separately applied to, and only what are deemed as "high-achieving, low-income" students will be chosen. The income ceiling is usually $65,000 annually for a family of four with typical assets. The organization has 40 college partners which are all competitive schools with good financial aid policies. See all 40 college partners here . What is "College Prep Scholars" and who should apply? College Prep Scholars (CPS) is purportedly easier to be accepted into (with a roughly 30% acceptance rate), and applicants must
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Active Recall Note-Taking

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Active Recall Note-Taking (ARNT) is a note-taking tactic that compresses information, enhances memory of the notes, reduces time taken to physically write, pushes the writer to heavily process the info, and makes readers recall the meaning behind the words while reviewing. In my sophomore year of high school, I took my first college-level course, AP Biology. To help myself learn the material well while balancing other responsibilities and hobbies, I re-evaluated my work habits and, as a result, formed a new style of note-taking that helped me immensely. Active Recall Note-Taking (ARNT) is a note-taking tactic that compresses the information through a heavy use of abbreviations and omitting unnecessary words. This allows the user to quickly scan through large amounts of information. The shortened words and sentence structure force readers to recall what abbreviations stand for and decipher the phrase’s meaning (which is typically no longer explicit since grammar is swapped out for conci
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The Gates Scholarship Summer Institute — My 2019 Experience

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 The Gates Scholarship Summer Institute (TGSSI) is a four-day-long program run by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Bringing together all three-hundred annually selected Gates Scholars, it not only teaches attendees about the scholarship, college, and career-building but also provides opportunities to network and make friends. It is only one of the many benefits provided by The Gates Scholarship (TGS), a prestigious last-dollar undergraduate college scholarship for low-income minorities in the United States. Learn more about the scholarship here . Wednesday Night I hastily finish packing my bags and head to the airport for the first leg of a series of red-eye flights. After navigating through the hectic no-man's-land that is LAX, I finally make it into the terminal, past TSA, and to my gate. For some reason (probably to save money), the program staff placed a group of scholars and I (all from Los Angeles) on an unconventional triangle flight itine
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