<p>@ohioA15: Your objective stats are fine, as long as you have taken the hardest classes offered for all four years of high school. Don’t worry about AP scores–they are rarely, if ever, a factor in admissions.</p>
<p>Besides that, your extracurriculars are wide-ranging and can be vaguely sorted into three groups: (1) Spanish activities, (2) helping people, and (3) random stuff. Now, the trick is to convince Vanderbilt that your extensive volunteer work was driven by altruism and not a desire to look good on college applications; for this, you need to take advantage of your essays and letters of recommendation. I would suggest writing at least one essay about your motivations for volunteering, or at least how it has affected you.</p>
<p>If you do that, I’d say your chances are mid-to-high for Vanderbilt ED.</p>
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