<p>If it's a normal distrubution curve, then 50% of the applicants did not have 1400-1560. It's more like 70-80%.</p>
<p>OK....thanks for clarifying. I guess I could've applied my AP Stats knowledge there. Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>@hilsa,
I’m not exactly sure I’m interpreting your post correctly (forgive me if I’m not), but the 50% does refer to 50% of the applicants. The two numbers indicate the 25 and the 75 percentiles. Thus, regardless of whether the distribution is normal or not, 50% of the total population lies between the 25 and 75 percentiles. 50% of the population submitted a score between 1400 and 1560.</p>
<p>[Percentile</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile]Percentile”>Percentile - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I believe knat is correct. The thing we don’t know is how low the lowest quartile goes - so those of you who are certain you didn’t get in - 25% have lower stats, folks. Hang in there!!!</p>
<p>Ah, I’m probably wrong. I didn’t take AP Stat anyway. =P</p>
<p>I would assume the 25 percentile would be taken up by EDers, though. I don’t know.</p>
<p>I’m expecting the worst, hoping for the best.</p>
<p>Might be worth noting that the numbers the OP provided for the different race groups are for # of applications received, not the number of admitted students.</p>
<p>oh *** ansley that sucks… i thought they admitted 38% more international students this year…</p>
<p>there goes my bubble</p>
<p>“I notice an astonishing progression of upward statistics for Vandy! If you look at USNews’ statistics in their most recent college report (Fall 2007 Acceptances), Vanderbilt has gone from a 33% acceptance rate to the present 19%! Additionally, and far more telling is their SAT numbers (25-75%) went from 1300-1480 in 2007 to 1400-1560 this year. Those are essentially Ivy League caliber numbers (Harvard in 2007 was 1400-1590, Princeton was 1390-1580, Duke was 1340-1540 etc…)”</p>
<p>Those comparisons are not really valid (yet). The 1300-1480 and the stats quoted for other schools were for kids that accepted the admissions offer and enrolled in the fall. By contrast, the figures quoted at the top of this thread are for those offered admission. Most schools outside of the top 10 see a decline from admission to entrance as many in the top quartile (see all of the Vandy vs. xxxx threads) choose the Ivy/M/S route. However, it will be interesting to see what happens this year as I suspect a higher percentage of the kids getting merit $$ from Vanderbilt may take the economically safer choice, particularly when they see all the momentum the university has generated in recent years.</p>
<p>But will Vandy give out as much merit money as in the past? I doubt it. They’d rather save it for the people that need it with low EFCs.</p>
<p>average is top 3.8% ???</p>
<p>omg…i’m…so…this is very depressing…</p>
<p>Bear in mind that these are the stats for accepted students, not for the Class of 2013. With so many top students in ranger similar to HYPSM et al, many of those cross-admits will choose the other school, and the Vandy Class of 2013 stats should be somewhat lower, reflecting more from the lower half of the accepted-student range.</p>
<p>But you have to still be in that accepted range to, you know, get accepted. ;)</p>
<p>holy cow. this is crazy. Do we know when they mailed out the letters and if anybody has received them yet?</p>
<p>Yeah, and I think something else that people do not realize is that it’s a bit harder to get in if you’re female vs. a male (well, at least the last couple years this has been true).</p>
<p>For example, I’ll use last year’s data.
Overall Admit Rate: 25%
[The</a> Vandy Admissions Blog Blog Archive Tenth Day Enrollment Update](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/vandybloggers/2008/09/tenth-day-enrollment-update/]The”>Tenth Day Enrollment Update | The Vandy Admissions Blog | Vanderbilt University)</p>
<p>Then from the CDS:
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied 7,813
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted 2,169 </p>
<p>That’s about about a 27% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Then for the girls…</p>
<p>Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied 9,131
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted 2,123
[CDS</a> C](<a href=“http://virg.vanderbilt.edu/VIRGWEB/CDSC.aspx?year=2008]CDS”>http://virg.vanderbilt.edu/VIRGWEB/CDSC.aspx?year=2008)
That’s about about a 23% acceptance rate. </p>
<p>So then there is about a four percent difference between the men and women acceptance rate. So if this year’s overall acceptance rate is around 19%, then I will venture and say the guys could be around 21% and the girls around 17%, that is assuming that the trend stays the same.</p>
<p>Hey there folks, </p>
<p>For the accuracy of the record, Vanderbilt does not factor in someone’s gender as a variable in our admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Thanks,
Thom from Vanderbilt OUA</p>
<p>Thom, thank you so much for updating us on the blog!! It was really nice.</p>
<p>Thom,
I believe that Vanderbilt does not directly use gender as a criteria for admissions. However, can you explain how then the accepted students have more of parity in numbers of female vs. male than the applied? I looked at the past year’s data too, and no matter if there was an imbalance or balance of guy:girl ratio of applicants, there was always a pretty good balance of the guys:girls accepted. Thanks. I’m not trying to attack how you guys operate in the addmisions office, I am just curious.</p>
<p>The admissions rate for girls is lower simply because there are more girls applying. And I’m sure there is a statistical reason why the number of girls admitted is similar to the number of guys. Or maybe it’s just coincidence.</p>
<p>But it doesn’t matter, since, as Thom said, gender isn’t factored.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if additional merit scholarship notifications are included in the acceptance mailings? These are the “other” merit scholarships that do not include the CV or Ingram awards.</p>
<p>Local folks got the big envelope today.
D was accepted to CAS.
No merit aid announced yet as Vandy has to get the NMF information and the TN Hope Lottery scholarship letter from me. The finaid person for merit scholarships (Top Tenn) was curiously unavailable today so will have to wait until Monday.
D is 90%+ planning on going to Vandy</p>