Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship Results!!

<p>Did any other Cornelius hopefuls apply to Blair? I haven't received an email or notification of any sort about scholarship status...</p>

<p>Churchill1990: I also applied to Blair, RD, and applied for CV scholarship. I haven't received notification either, but they haven't sent me an acceptance yet. I auditioned on the 21st, so I'm not expecting to hear for a while.</p>

<p>Yeah, I got in Blair ED and also applied for the CV and haven't gotten an email yet. My theory is that they're sending the emails by school, so we should probably get it soon enough because it seems from this thread that CAS and Engineering have already got them.<br>
My stats definitely aren't perfect, but I read that Blair is based a lot on the audition, so should be interesting to see what happens. Haha don't want to get my hopes too high though....</p>

<p>Does anyone know typically how many students get this?</p>

<p>Congratulations!<br>
At this very moment, you must be on the top of the world? And rightly so. After all, you are moving to the South!
Remember, though, to maintain this prestigious scholarship, you must maintain a 3.0 GPA, and Vanderbilt is renowed to DEFLATE grades. </p>

<p>Please, do not antagonized your safety school.</p>

<p>I applied to CAS and still haven't heard back from Vanderbilt. I know that they received my application for the Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship because I received a confirmation postcard from them. I don't have much hope because someone at my school already received word that they had received the scholarship. Oh well- cannot attend Vanderbilt without this scholarship, so it definitely makes selection a little easier.</p>

<p>Check your spam folder. I found my DD's e-mail in the spam folder. almost delete it without looking.</p>

<p>I thought all applicants should receive email notifications whether positive or negative! S applied to CAS and have not received anything in regards to Cornelius.</p>

<p>Got it yesterday too. I am amazed and humbled greatly. There doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to all of this. I have been turned down by some lesser schools for their top scholarship, but I am blessed to receive this one??</p>

<p>2350 SAT (actually had 800 on all 3 components b/t 2 tests)
35 ACT (36, 36, 33, 36)
1 of 203, 4.16 GPA (5 A.P. courses, 2 College Credit Courses)
Candidate for Presidential Scholar
N.M. Finalist
Varsity Golf Team Captain
President of FCA
President's Gold Award For Volunteer Service (4 years running)
Varsity BB Statistician
Student Council
Governor's School, Student Ambassador to Japan, Boys State, US Air Force Summer Sem.
Many church activities</p>

<p>I wish everyone the best. I realize that all students considered seriously for this award are awesome students.</p>

<p>I didn't get it :(:(:(:(</p>

<p>Nah, I don't think I'm getting the scholarship from Vandy if I didn't get it already.</p>

<p>I actually got it! which is surprising looking at some of these stats cuz for me it's</p>

<p>SAT:2290
ACT:34
WGPA:4.25, about 3.9 unweighted
and I'm ranked 3rd out of about 500
I am a national merit finalist though. But still there's a lot of smarter people that didn't get it so I'm surprised</p>

<p>Didn't get it.</p>

<p>ACT 33
SAT 2290
GPA 3.9 UW
No rank
Presidential Scholar Candidate
Check my stats profile for all else.</p>

<p>I got it : ) And I'm very interested in talking to some of the other scholarship winners, if anyone wants to PM me!</p>

<p>Does anyone know if you are a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar and a NM finalist, if you receive an additional $2000 scholarship/year?</p>

<p>^^^When last I checked, that was still the case. My son continues to get the 2K per year along with full tuition and engineering fees. There should be some information about this on the VU web site if the policy has changed.</p>

<p>I emailed them, and they said yes, you do.</p>

<p>Accepted!! yea!! - didn't get Cornelius Vanderbilt though :(:(- 1580/2330, 1/500, NMF, Presidential Scholar candidate,</p>

I know this is an old thread, but I thought I’d provide some info. I received the full scholarship from in the 1990s and I also was one of the interviewers for this scholarship my senior year at Vandy. All of you are comparing stats but that is the wrong way to look at it. Everyone invited to interview has the stats to qualify for the full or partial scholarship and no one really looked at those in the final decision steps. It’s really the interview that makes it or breaks it. So many students our team interviewed completely bombed it. It was like pulling teeth! You’d ask a question about some community service project they worked on or some trip they wrote about in their essay and you’d get a 1 sentence answer and then silence. Vandy is looking for students who are articulate and full of ideas, who can hold an interesting conversation, who can show that they learned from their past experiences and are inspired by them in terms of what they want to study and what they want to do with their lives. Out of 15 students my team interviewed, only 2 of them were truly great. The two professors on my interviewing team (I was the student interviewer on the team) told me that this was pretty much par for the course every year and that is why they spend so much money flying everyone down to interview. On paper, many students “seemed” to be great but only a very few could hold their own in the interview setting – and Vanderbilt is looking for articulate students to represent the university as Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholars.

I could be wrong but actually I don’t think there’s an interview process for the CV scholarship. There is for the Ingram scholarship though.