<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>