<p>Thanks for updating me. I don’t know if this has changed, or if I was just wrong all along! I tried to find out by looking at the merit award FAQ, but didn’t think to look at the admissions blog. Again, I appreciate having the correct info.</p>
<p>As for engineering, my son is a senior, a CS major with a second major in math. We like the engineering school a lot. There are some differences between CAS and engineering; for one, they are a lot more generous with AP credit than CAS, if that matters to you. If you attend the Accepted Student Day, you can get more information about typical freshman courses for engineering students, and determine how your schedule will compare with that of a CAS science/math student.</p>
<p>And yes, college is a time to explore. Vanderbilt and Nashville are great places to do the exploring.</p>
<p>Congratulations on the scholarship. It is quite a deal.</p>
<p>After a flurry of activity on Monday, there was almost nothing yesterday, and my D (CA&S) is still waiting to hear. Anyone know what is happening? Blog indicated M-W notifications (with Blair perhaps later), so I expected we would hear by now. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>I received a scholarship for the Peabody school, which I haven’t encountered in any of these threads or even the internet in general. It was for four years of tuition. This was not financial aid, as I did not apply, nor did I apply for it. Any know of it or receive it, Dean’s Achievement Award, or something along those lines.</p>
<p>wow, congrats to you AUVorTUBS. Peabody is a wonderful place with many highly ranked educational paths inside. Read the admissions blog at vanderbilt.edu and you will see that the staff states they are deliberating on a few other merit scholarships (outside of the CV, Chancellors,Ingram) this coming week or two. You won one of them! There will also be merit money in other envelopes on RD decision mail-out day as well as very good need packages with grants instead of loans for those who qualify.
good luck with your decision making. Hope you come to an accepted student day at Vandy in April!</p>
<p>I didn’t apply for the CV scholarship, but those of you who got the scholarship and applied RD, have you been accepted already through mosaic? Bc it would be weird if you got the scholarship and didn’t get in right? It doesn’t make sense that they tell whether you get the scholarship or not before they say if you were accepted.</p>
<p>@Thesli012: No, I am not eligible for MOSAIC. They tell you in the CV letter that you got in, and then that you got the scholarship. I actually started screaming and jumping up and down when I read the first line that I got in - it wasn’t until like a minute later that I read the rest of the email and realized I got the full scholarship.</p>
<p>It is very disappointing that the students work so hard and actually get the information requested to the universities early and are not shown the respect of notification. Vanderbilt is not the first university we have had this happen with. It actually has become more the norm.</p>
<p>I don’t blame you for being disappointed on behalf of your student. Did you see that comment section on the official Vandy admission blog? An adcom advised someone at the bottom of the comment section in this position yesterday on where to place a phone call.<br>
We also had this happen at another college for our son…and they finally admitted that although he had been nominated for their merit award, they had “forgotten” his folder, never taken it to committee and never considered him. This particular other college does not have regional adcoms and no one therefore takes any ownership in problems like this. I have come to look at this mess up as fate although their system’s weaknesses I think contribute to their lagging admission issues (poor yield being tops).</p>
<p>Place the phone call and stay open hearted. Consider having your student drop a word to their regional advisor and state his or her ongoing interest in Vandy. You still do not know what options you will have in April at Vanderbilt or your other choices.</p>
<p>When my D applied for transfer a few years ago, her friend - who applied after she did - received an admissions decision & D did not. She stressed so much I made her call the admissions office. She called late in the afternoon on a Thursday. As luck would have it, a higher-up manager answered her call. He looked for her file and immediately told her the high school transcript she had sent didn’t make it into her file — but if she could get it faxed the next day, the decision would be sent out that day. True to his word, her acceptance was sent as soon as her school faxed another transcript.</p>
<p>The adcom never let her know she was missing anything, and there was no online system to check to see if admissions requirements were met. The manager apologized to her profusely.</p>
<p>For those Blair applicants out there, I applied to Blair and I was notified that I was offered the CV on tuesday, so I am sure that the professors and admissions officers have finalized or are soon to finalize their decisions, so hopefully those of you who have not yet heard will hear soon! </p>
<p>For those of you still waiting to hear your decision on the CV and other scholarships, I have also read from some other universities that when the university sends out a mass email, ie admissions decisions or scholarship decisions, several emails can get stuck “out there” and will either arrive late, or perhaps never reach their destination. Letters have or will be mailed out soon though, so don’t fret and best of luck to you all!</p>
<p>@midmo
No problem, and thanks for you information/congratulations as well. I actually live in the Nashville area, so I have a feel for the city.</p>
<p>So, with this scholarship program being relatively new (2007), is it a pretty well-established community, or mostly just a monetary award?</p>
<p>I noticed there are “events” designed for us, but it’s sort of vague past that. There are also no websites (other than vandy’s) on the program, or facebook groups… With Emory Scholars for instance, it’s really close-knit and there are all kinds of enrichment experiences, you get first choice housing/classes, all kinds of good stuff…</p>
<p>Current CV’ers/ parents of? Just wondering if/how being part of the program changes life at vandy.</p>
<p>Still no word - my daughter is away on a band trip, but I will probably give them a call on Monday. I didn’t think she really had a chance at the CV, but it would have been nice to have received the same “sorry” email as others received. Also, I had sent an email to our area admissions person a couple weeks ago to make sure they had received the test results from her Feb ACT (she improved), but he never wrote back. When my son applied to Tulane, every email to Admissions about test scores, etc., was acknowledged and acted upon. I think Vanderbilt is a wonderful school, but perhaps some fall through the cracks in this process.</p>
<p>^I agree with you Moonmaid. That has been our experience as well. My son sent an update some time ago. Had to hunt down a confirmation that it was received. It took numerous phone calls, a handful of emails, and several weeks to get a response from his generally non-responsive admissions rep. We weren’t sure if it was our rep that was so uncommunicative, or if it was the way things are set up at Vandy admissions in general. It can’t be easy for them to communicate with the masses, what with 3 different admissions sessions each year – ED I, ED II, and RD. Maybe it would behoove them to drop an ED session? It’s got to be brutal to be an admissions officer there!</p>
<p>Well, Tulane also has early admissions and a competitive full-tuition scholarship that they award (along with several other merit award programs - my son ended up with a $23K scholarship there), and our admissions rep and the other admissions folks were never anything less than responsive. In fact they even upped his scholarship after he resubmitted his improved ACT scores (he went from 31 to 34) and a newer writing sample. I am not criticizing Vanderbilt, every school is different, but they might want to look at ways of making sure all communications are responded to, and that all who submit scholarship applications get a timely Yay or Nay response. Her CV submission was acknowledged right away, so I know they got it.</p>
<p>Been accepted as a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar into the College of Arts and Sciences. I’m an Indian national applying from Singapore. Asked for an Economics major with a Physics minor.</p>
<p>My stats:</p>
<p>b]Objective:**</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2250 (CR-780, M- 740, WR- 730)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Unavailable
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5 %
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
RES Young Economist 2010 Finalist, Singapore Airlines Youth Scholarship 2009.
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Writing Society ( President), Economics Society (Founder and President), Cricket ( Secretary), Guitar Ensemble, National Student Council ( Public Relations Head).
Essay: Decent. Focused on intellectual curiosity.
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): N/A
School Type: Highly competitive
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): International?
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