Can i get into Vanderbilt ??

Colleges and Universities A-Z Vanderbilt University
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I really need help. I’m early decisioning I to vanderbilt. it is my absolute top choice and any possible secondary college falls way behind. Here’s a brief preface of my stats/achievements
Male; middle eastern (boy do they love diversity)
ACT: 32 composite 33 Superscore (ik they don’t superscore but ill put it anyway)
3.8 unweighted; 4.5 Weighted (i will taken 12 APs by the time i graduate; all 4s and 5s on tests i have taken)
Accomplishments:
Fluent in english arabic and french
Varsity Soccer all 4 years and captain
Varsity football for 1 year (senior)
President and Founder of a county wide coding club in which i teach kids and students county wide different aspects of STEM (nominated for the student innovation of the year); through this club i invented a database that school uses to expedite early dismissals
Shadowed a vanderbilt surgeon and conducted research for 2 summers
volunteered at the same hospital for 2 summers (fetching wheelchairs and hospitality and whatnot)
Division II fifa player
Organized a christmas drive in which students can donate presents that will sent to the salvation army
National Honors Society- vice president
Science National honors society
Mu alpha theta (math honors society)
French honors society
math competition club
Youth in government and Model UN for 3 years
– i have also done some small community service projects and small clubs scattered throughout my high school career—

Recs:
The surgeon i shadowed works at vandy and will write me a rec
the teacher that sponsored the coding club will also wrote one
decent relationship with counselor but not as close as i want it to be

Essay:
wrote about an experience i had in the middle east.

and i’m done. i know it may seem like a lot but i heard vandy is very stats focused and i fall in the 25th percentile for ACT. i am taking it in october however and maybe that’ll bring it up.
If anyone can give me advice or let me know how my chances are it would be much appreciated. thanks everyone and good luck with your admission process

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pardon typos, it’s late and i typed fast.

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Your states (GPA, ACT, and AP classes taken), ECs, and honor societies, and tri-lingual are very similar to my kid’s. Your mindset on Vandy as your top choice and want to apply ED1 is almost identical to my kid who applied last year. My kid is now at Vandy, so I think your chance is as good as my kid’s. Also if you have something can distinguishing you from others, you might want to send to the admission officer assigned to your region (my kid did in the summer while the admission office wasn’t busy). If you have admission questions, again, you should send them to the admission officer. You might get some impression by doing this. Also definitely write the supplemental essay (the 450 words) for one of your other activity or interest, besides the application essay, and make the effort as good as doing the main essay. Request an alumni interview if you can. I think it helped. Good luck!

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If Vandy is your top choice, applying ED 1 maximizes your chances of admission.

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I’d say you have a reasonable chance for EDI. Test scores fine, grades fine (as long as you have a reasonable class rank), ECs look good. Just make sure the subjective parts of your app (recs, essays) are good, and it all depends on the subjective interpretation by the adcoms.