<p>I'm doing awful this semester, and am expecting somewhere around a 3.0 unweighted. I am taking 4 APs, but my grades have extremely regressed.</p>
<p>Are my chances of getting in RD pretty much dead?</p>
<p>3.5 GPA unweighted (going into senior year)
1470/1600 SAT
Decent ECs (nothing special)
Excellent essays
Pretty solid recs
Most rigorous courseload</p>
<p>If you can provide additional information about yourself it would help other posters in evaluating your chances.
D has also applied to Vandy, and has had a very tough quarter since she got pneumonia( to the point of coughing ub blood!) before Thanksgiving and unless she pulls out very high Bs or lowAs on almost all of her finals, she is looking at a really bad mid year transcript compared to what she has done. Until now, she has been #1 in her class and has had her first Bs ever this quarter taking 5 AP classes. Her SAT superscore is just a tad below yours, she has some solid in depth EC with leadership positions,NMSF, has had the highest academic average in all subjects 2 years in a row, and her college counselor is concerned that this sudden drop off in her grades may affect her admission! It is a very competitive and scary year for everyone this year. Her counselor is planning on sending an addendum with her mid year grades explaining that the apparent "slide" was not due to lack of effort but medical illness so she hopes this will be enough for admissions officers to see beyond this.
She may be adding a few lower tier schools to her application list over the holidays as a hedge!</p>
<p>your done. sorry to be blunt.</p>
<p>It depends really on where you fall relative to the rest of the class. A 3.5 is not the same at every high school. But your 1470 is definitely higher than average at Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>However, I'd say Vanderbilt would probably be quite a reach for you. I would definitely apply, but realize that it has gotten quite difficult in the past few years to get accepted. Just an FYI, the average class rank for accepted freshman to arts and sciences last year was around a 3.6, so it really is competitive. Find a few safeties also that you really love that you would be willing to attend in the event that you are rejected from Vanderbilt. Also you may want to consider Peabody, which is quite a bit easier to get accepted into, but only if you are sincerely interested in what they have to offer.</p>
<p>Nice, nice. I appreciate the honesty. I'm already in the University of Michigan, but Vanderbilt's nice, too.</p>
<p>your not done. i dont know what that person is saying. I was accepted to vandy ED with below a 3.5 gpa and lower sat scores than yours. so you do still have a chance.</p>