Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship

<p>I would guess so, too. At this point I feel like the winners have been notified. Oh well, I wasn’t expecting a miracle tonight.</p>

<p>A heavy congrats again to the winners!</p>

<p>Oh my god - I just got the email that I got the Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship!!! Full tuition! </p>

<p>The title of the email should be, “Please Sit Down” because I nearly fainted… I had no idea the notifications were going out today. My mom just burst out crying. I can’t believe it!</p>

<p>So very, very cool! A big congrats to all of you! If anyone is willing to share stats so future CC’ers have an idea - that would be most helpful!</p>

<p>^I don’t think anybody from Engineering has posted an CV scholarship yet. Am I wrong?</p>

<p>@SimpleLife, I think you’re right. Did you apply to engineering? I did. So maybe they’re going out a bit later (I heard that happened previous years). Keeping fingers crossed for now.</p>

<p>That’s the feeling I’m getting as well…</p>

<p>My stats are below for future applicants:</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* ACT: 35

  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Valedictorian
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:
* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): World ranked equestrian
* Job/Work Experience: Over a year at an equestrian facility
* Volunteer/Community service: Special needs school volunteering because my brother is special needs
* Summer Activities: Competing on the US Equestrian team
* Essays: Good, hard to evaluate one’s own writing
* Teacher Recommendation: Fantastic, read them both
* Counselor Rec: Did not read but I assume to be fantastic
* Interview: An absolutely fantastic interview with an alum!
Other
* Intended Major: International Relations
* State (if domestic applicant): Texas
* School Type: Competitive public ranked in the top 50 Newsweek
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Female
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): World ranked equestrian…?</p>

<p>@kate225 also an engineering applicant, and yea haven’t heard anything either way</p>

<p>jaimeleschevaux you are soooo humble!!! world ranked equestrian AND valedictorian at a highly ranked high school??? congrats!! i wouldn’t be surprised if you swept every school you applied to!</p>

<p>Haven’t heard anything either way here yet for Arts and Science.</p>

<p>Congrats to all who made it!</p>

<p>@kate225: Well, I’m actually the parent of an engineering applicant! :)</p>

<p>Congrats to all that have received great news tonight, btw! How very exciting and rewarding for all of you!</p>

<p>Hey I am CAS and haven’t heard yet…doubt I’ll be getting it since my SAT scores aren’t quite high enough. I’m qualified in every other sense though. Has anyone heard of someone getting the scholarship without the 1500 SAT Math and Reading or close to it?</p>

<p>1480 m+cr … CAS and haven’t heard. but it’s okay, im not losing hope yet! :)</p>

<p>Also CAS and haven’t heard yet. Maybe we’ll have to wait until tomorrow…I doubt they’d still be sending out emails this late.</p>

<p>whens this latest time any of your notification emails were sent at? debating if its time to hop off CC and hit the books for midterms haha.</p>

<p>@minniemouse: Thanks so much :slight_smile: I guess I’ll find out March 30th about the others, but the full tuition scholarship will be hard to pass up!</p>

<p>@GoldOwl and thesaam: I’m CAS and mine was sent out at 6:49 pm Eastern time. I do hope that the emails are still going out for ya’ll!!! I’m sure there are all sorts of system backups and server delays and whatnot.</p>

<p>@jaimeleschevaux: Thanks for the info. Also, Congrats on your CV scholarship!!! Based on your stats, you totally deserve it:)</p>

<p>Ahhh well at least I have some other scholarship possibilities (finalist for full tuition at another school)! And some nice offers of admission. I was just waiting for CV because it’s been a long time since my last college decision.</p>