Chance me Vanderbilt?

Because Vanderbilt is so selective, it’s essentially a crapshoot. Alabama basically has guaranteed acceptance once you fall into a certain area. Check out the Vanderbilt results threads and sees how many high stats students got rejected especially seeing that you have gotten your fair share of B’s. Elite colleges reject applicants with perfect scores all the time. It goes beyond that. Look at @Dividerofzero and then come back and talk about how certain you are about admissions at any elite school.

He had a 4.0 with a 36 on the ACT and 2400 on the SAT.

His results:

MIT Early Action: deferred, then rejected
Caltech Early Action: deferred, then rejected
Stanford: rejected
Harvard: rejected
Princeton: rejected
Yale: rejected
Columbia: rejected
UPenn: waitlsited
UC Berkeley: waitlisted EECS
Johns Hopkins: waitlisted BME
Cornell: waitlisted CS
Carnegie Mellon: accepted ECE (FA covered 90-95% of need)