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Ana Rowena Mallari

Co-founder & CEO, QuestBridge. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Ana Rowena Mallari is the co-founder, CEO, and Board Chair of QuestBridge. She launched the organization to connect high-achieving, low-income students with leading higher education institutions and full scholarships.

What they said7 Shows1

Everything Ana Rowena Mallari said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MASTERS OF SCALE Insight

Mallari: Low-income students missed elite colleges primarily from lack of information

“What we realized was there was talent sort of all over the country. That was just not accessing these amazing opportunities for lack of information and not even, I mean, they were extremely hardworking. They were very compelling humans.”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 3:39 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Insight

Mallari: Scaling requires sacrificing high-touch individual attention to serve more people

“He was able to convince us in a very compelling way that actually we could do much more if we just stepped back a little bit and allowed our energies to go towards a larger number of students at one time. Because at any given moment you can pour your, you know…”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 15:17 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Partly supported

Mallari: Elite colleges use the QuestBridge application instead of their own

“And so over the course of time, what happened was the colleges realized they're getting more information through the application to QuestBridge, and the students are spending so much time Putting together these things that they actually didn't need additional …”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 9:21 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Supported

Mallari: QuestBridge has connected and supported about 30,000 students

“We've, Connected and supported these, you know, 30,000 or so individuals.”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 16:39 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Supported

Mallari: QuestBridge began as a 20-student Stanford summer program

“It was a very small residential summer program on the Stanford campus. Our very first program, I was, I find this delightful, the very first program was housed in a dorm, which is currently named Narnia. We had 20 students from all over the country. They were …”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 2:21 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Not checkable as stated

Mallari: QuestBridge received 3,000 applicants for just 20 summer spots

“And at this time we had something like 3000 applicants for 20 spots.”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 5:21 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Supported

Mallari: QuestBridge ran its summer program 10 years before launching Match

“We had our summer program for 10 years before launching the mass, you know, Questbridge National College match program”

Ana Rowena Mallari May 30, 2024 ▶ 10:52 Scaling a summer program into a national org (QuestBridge's Ana Rowena Mallari) | Masters of Scale

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ana's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, QuestBridge	1	7	75% 3/4	full record on Masters of Scale →