27 students from IDEA’s Class of 2025 have been selected as finalists for the QuestBridge National College Match Program. IDEA students are among 2,627 high school seniors nationwide selected this year from over 25,500 applications

This year, QuestBridge’s 52 college partners matched with 2,627 Finalists, who are recognized as Match Scholarship Recipients. This is the highest number of Match Scholarship Recipients to-date for QuestBridge. 

Students were selected based on their academic achievement, financial qualifications, and personal character. The majority of this year’s Match Scholarship Recipients (83%) are among the first generation in their families to attend a four-year college in the United States. 

Congratulations to this year’s QuestBridge National College Match scholarship recipients! The IDEA Team & Family is so proud of you. Keep reading to see the full list of IDEA Seniors selected as Match Scholarship Recipients this year.  

Rio Grande Valley  

• Christina Ramirez, IDEA Alamo College Prep – College of the Holy Cross 

• Danyarezi Cinta, IDEA Alamo College Prep – Denison University 

• Nathalia Ramirez, IDEA Alamo College Prep – Hamilton College 

• Maria Jose Ortuno Urban, IDEA Edinburg College Prep – Brown University 

• Diego Campos, IDEA Frontier College Prep – Colgate University 

• Raul Hinojosa, IDEA McAllen College Prep – Columbia University 

• Steven Oliver, IDEA Mission College Prep – Dartmouth College 

• Samara Lopez, IDEA Mission College Prep – University of Notre Dame 

• Yasmin Fernandez, IDEA Owassa College Prep – College of the Holy Cross 

• Brianna Gonzalez, IDEA Quest College Prep – University of Chicago 

• Diego Cavazos, IDEA Riverview College Prep – Northwestern University 

• Sao Perez, IDEA Riverview College Prep – California Institute of Technology 

• Alyssa Garza, IDEA San Benito College Prep – Skidmore College 

• Marcus Sifuentes, IDEA Weslaco Pike College Prep – Boston University 

• Leonardo Roque, IDEA Weslaco Pike College Prep – Tufts University 

San Antonio  

• Valerie Guerrero – IDEA Brackenridge College Prep – Amherst College 

• Ashley Patino, IDEA Brackenridge College Prep – Hamilton College 

• Santyago Zapata, IDEA Brackenridge College Prep – Dartmouth College 

• Valentina Zarate, IDEA Ewing Halsell College Prep – College of the Holy Cross 

• Josiah Chatmon, IDEA Judson College Prep – Yale University 

• Sebashtian Luafutu, IDEA Mays College Prep – Princeton University 

• Carmelo Pantoja – IDEA Monterrey Park College Prep – Grinell College 

• Wyatt Guzman Sanchez, IDEA Monterrey Park College Prep – College of the Holy Cross 

• Saul Rivera Velez, IDEA South Flores College Prep – College of the Holy Cross 

• Frida Cortez, IDEA South Flores College Prep – University of Pennsylvania 

Austin  

• Jose Dominguez, IDEA Rundberg College Prep – Dartmouth College 

• Karla Gaitan, IDEA Rundberg College Prep – Vassar College 

About QuestBridge National College Match Program
QuestBridge is a national nonprofit that connects the nation’s most exceptional, low-income youth with leading institutions of higher education and further life opportunities. By recruiting, developing, and motivating these students — beginning in high school through college to their early career — QuestBridge aims to help talented, low-income students attend the nation’s best colleges and to support them to achieve success in their respective careers and communities.