<p>Gender: M
Location: Israel
Age:21
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 89% (we don't have your type of 1-4 GPA scale)
GPA - Weighted: 101%
Class Rank: top 10% (it's not official. again, we don't have this kind of rank)
Class Size: 210</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 750
SAT I Critical Reading: 530
SAT I Writing: 600
TOEFL: 102 out of 120. (Vanderbilt asks for 85+)
again, my mother tongue is not English, but i'm pretty fluent.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: *Israeli scouts youth movement, had been a counselor, head of counselor and a scouting specialist.
*Basketball varsity in HS and basketball, soccer and volleyball varsities in middle school.
*Took a year gap between HS and the army (in Israel there is a mandatory army service for everyone) and lived and volunteered in Jerusalem for year. I was volunteering at a tough HS in there and also in the new media center in the Israeli Holocaust museum "Yad Va'Shem" in Jerusalem. During that year i was living with young ppl like me from all around the world that came to Israel to do the same thing.
*3 years military service (to be ended this coming June) in the Israeli SF and later being a head of the new robots section in my battalion. </p>
<p>I got very good recommendations from teachers and commanders. a little bit worried about the CR score, but got pretty strong Extracurriculars, very well rounded.</p>
<p>Let me know what you think, cause in here we have very little knowledge about this whole "application to school" process.</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid? If you do, your chances are much less (assuming Vandy is not one of the few unis that are need-blind to internationals).</p>
<p>You shouldn't worry about admission. If you really want to go to an American university, Vanderbilt is a wonderful one. Do you want to study engineering? Would you like to meet my daughter?</p>
<p>you seem to be a very strong candidate--think the ec's would be important and agree the toefl score is high. my d's friend just got accepted to Vanderbilt. maybe she could email you with some info.</p>
<p>Vandy is supposedly need-blind, so that shouldn't be a concern. And belevitt, doctors and lawyers and bankers can get boring after a while! We Jewish girls would sometimes like a bit of a change. =)</p>
<p>I think your EC's + gap year + military experience will set you apart from most of the Vanderbilt applicant pool. Your SAT scores are pretty low for this school, but your exotic origins and post-high-school experience might be very attractive; I don't <em>think</em> Vandy gets a lot of Israeli h.s. graduates applying. Which leads me to wonder: how did you happen to decide to apply there?</p>
<p>I believe I read somewhere - possibly on CC - that Vanderbilt is looking to increase the number of Jewish students. Or maybe I read that the number had increased from something like 3% to over 10%. So if there's anything to that I'm guessing that they'd love to have a former SF guy.</p>
<p>And good luck with those robots! Sounds like a great thing to be involved in.</p>
<p>Sorry, Vanderbilt is NOT need-blind for internationals (assuming you're not a US citizen). If you don't apply for aid however, you're pretty much considered equal to domestic students during the admissions process.</p>
<p>Btw, i am an international applying for aid, so you're not alone if you decide to apply for aid because you need it.</p>
<p>I was thinking about this and I have one question: Could you promise the Dean of Admissions that you will bring some of your robots to Nashville? And let him play with them whenever he wants?</p>
<p>I'm trying to think about this from his point of view. Who do I choose, another math geek with 2400 SATs, some gal who spent the last four years ladling out soup for homeless people, or an ex-commando who's gonna let me play with his terrorist killer toys? Sounds like a no-brainer to me.</p>
<p>Interesting point about the percentage of Jewish students. I had my graduate interview weekend over the last few days and I brought up this concern. I had heard of Nashville being contained within the bible belt, noticed that many of the colleges in the city are christian and the churches have an imposing presence. I was concerned that this would translate into exclusion at best and intolerance at worst. I was immediately introduced to all of the Jewish faculty in the department who commented positively on the vibrancy of the Vanderbilt Hillel and the Jewish community presence.</p>