<p>Hello I'm a rising senior and i was hoping if you could chance me for Vanderbilt RD</p>
<p>Gender: Male</p>
<p>Class Rank: Top 1%</p>
<p>Testing:
SAT: Math-790 Verbal-720 writing-760 (2270 total)
SatIIs: Bio M: 800 MathII:790
AP exams: Bio-5 World-5 Calc AB-5 Stats-5 US History-5 Eng. Lang-4 Physics B-4</p>
<p>Awards:
Science:
-1st place in cell and molecular bio at ISEF from the Air Force (2012)
-Best in Fair Grand award at Florida State science fair (2012)
-1st place-biochemistry at states science fair (2012)
-2nd place at Florida Junior academy of science state competition
-Paper being reviewed for Cell
-USABO semifinalist (open score :35)
-2nd place at district brain bee</p>
<p>Math:
5th place in Statisitics at State convention
Various Mu Alpha theta district awards
AIME finalist (Score:5)</p>
<p>EC:
President and founder of Chinese CLub and Chinese Honor Society
President of Science research club
Marching band- saxophone section leader
-Doing research in Molecular developmental neuroscience during the summer and neuronal regeneration during the school year</p>
<p>Community service:
~800 hours in 3 years
Raised over $1000 for an elderly home in rural Colombia, volunteered at the home, and helped provide medical aid for the homeless senior citizens.</p>
<p>any tips/advice would be appreciated...thanks!</p>
<p>Race: Hispanic
Intended Major: Neuroscience/ Molecular bio</p>
<p>Do you actually want to go to Vanderbilt?</p>
<p>Why do you always ask that Pancaked -_-… I don’t understand.</p>
<p>How are you judging from these few lines of text whether this potential applicant actually has a desire to go to Vanderbilt?</p>
<p>The OP accidentally created the thread ‘Chance me for Johns Hopkins’ on the Vanderbilt page (Which I might add he seems like he has a pretty good shot at both).</p>
<p>Yes, he did. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to go to Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>And, I only posted my first post because he said the same thing about me. Claiming that he could tell from my stats that Vanderbilt wasn’t a place I wanted to go to.</p>
<p>I think your in, mainly due to your test scores, rank, and race (Vanderbilt has very little diversity as far as race goes).</p>
<p>i’d say you’re pretty much guaranteed haha. coming from a kid whose dad works at vanderbilt and who knows professors and some admissions officers</p>
<p>in, for sure. are you applying anywhere ED?</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you about the differences between a possible admission to Hopkins (wonderful place) and Vandy (wonderful place). The focus is going to be on the price of your four year education since you will obviously get into whatever state honors college programs exist.<br>
Are your parents able to pay their EFC to any school that offers you admission? If you have a low EFC, the world is indeed your oyster because you should be applying only to colleges like Vanderbilt that have a No Loans Financial Aid guarantee. Davidson was one of the first liberal arts colleges to pull this off. The Ivies are all incredibly generous and more generous to the upper middle class than other colleges (compare the cutoffs at say Emory and Princeton for instance for receiving discounted tuition)
If you are going to be able to go to any college on your EFC, then you should be using your ED on your favorite school. </p>
<p>If however, you fall into the morass of families who have high EFCs but cannot really afford to pay them (didn’t save enough, breadwinner’s job is shaky in this economy, the value of your home has dropped, you have other people to spend money on, retirement looms etc)…then you should be focusing on two things: entrance into a financial safety school in your home state and entrance into a college that will select you for merit money.
Merit money is very very hard to come by but when you get something like full tuition at a school the caliber of Vandy, and you have a high EFC, many students will decline admissions to colleges that will end up costing them over 100 grand more over four years time.<br>
Vanderbilt gives out a great deal more in merit money than Hopkins and more than many of its peer institutions. Rice gives out a very good discount to its top recruits that is merit based. Rice is a wonderful wonderful institution on a gorgeous campus in an interesting city plus Rice seems to be well connected to landing J-O-Bs. If you can win merit money from Emory (they demand a LOT from applicants…early completion of paperwork and if you make the final cuts you have to give them a full weekend during your busy senior spring for final decisions) you are in a great position. If you can win merit money at Davidson, you are going to get a bang up education. If you win the rare opportunity for merit money at Duke/UNC-CH…ditto.<br>
Focus on merit money. Focus on being a person that shines through above and beyond a couple of glory moments in science fairs and high stats. Make sure you as a person and as a part of a family and culture comes across. Make your essays and your references shine.<br>
good luck and happy outcomes in April</p>