<p>Well, I’m in the Midwest, but all my friends at school who applied to vanderbilt all received their notifications at the same time @ around 7 P.M. on Friday, which is why I’m worried. It’s good to know that I’m not alone in the wait though! Good luck to everyone who hasn’t received their notification yet, as I don’t think I stand much of a chance anyways :)</p>
<p>I’m from the Midwest as well and have not heard back about the scholarship. I might contact the admissions department in a few days if I still don’t hear back.</p>
<p>I was one of the people who didn’t get an email on friday in terms of whether or not I received the scholarship. I’ll post about my experience once I get my admissions decision but my advice to you all is to call them!</p>
<p>unodosytracy, please do post your experience because I am confused for my daughter who has also received no word either way. I think she must not have submitted it properly…</p>
<p>As Faline2 mentioned, files get lost or overlooked. This happened with another school’s scholarship program and was rectified after an inquiry was made. </p>
<p>If you have not received a response and you submitted a scholarship application, email your admissions counselor.</p>
<p>I emailed my admissions rep today so hopefully I will figure out what happened to my application.</p>
<p>So, I am a senior this year at a large public school with a good local reputation. In freshman year, I went to a public school, and took all honors classes and even two math classes simultaneously (Geometry and Algebra II) and I got literally all A’s one semester, and all B’s <em>and and C!!!</em> the next semester. The “C” was in a computer class in which I forgot to turn in my assignments on the day they were due and the teacher failed me for the quarter. In sophmore year, I switched to a private school, and got 10 A’s (counting both A’s and A-'s) and 2 B+'s. The B+'s were in math and science. The thing is in this private school, the actual percentage grades are shown. In junior year, I did kind of poorly in the semester, in that I got B+'s in chemistry, physics, English, and Spanish. However, next semester, I shaped up and got all A’s, with 93+% grades in all my classes (2 AP’s, the rest all honors classes). I transferred to a public school so that I could get senior status this year. Now, in Senior year I have finished my first semester, again with straight A’s, all above 98%+. I am in 7 AP classes this year. Let me quickly go through my other stuff:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.5 (9th Grade), 3.87 un-weighted, 4.1 weighted (9th-12th grade) (Top 10% of Graduating Class)</p>
<p>SAT: 2390 (790 CR), SAT Math II: 800, SAT Chemistry: 800, SAT US History: 750</p>
<p>AP Exam Scores (all 5’s): AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, AP US History, AP World History, AP English Language, AP Computer Science A</p>
<p>In the following AP Classes in 12th Grade: AP English Literature, AP European History, AP Biology, AP US Government, AP Comparative Politics, AP Psychology, and AP Macroeconomics</p>
<p>EC’s: Math Club (9, 12) President (12), Chem Club (12) - President and Founder, Vice President of Young Democrats (10-12), Mathcounts Coach (12), Speech and Debate Team (10-12), Mock Trial Lawyer (11), Sports-Varsity Cross Country (12), Instrument-Played the Piano (9, 11-12), Volunteered for 200 hours in my sophmore and junior summers at the science center and at hospitals, and I did unofficial research with a local chemistry professor my senior year and I wrote a paper under him, National Honor Society (10, 11, 12), and Mu Alpha Theta (10, 11, 12), Student Newspaper (11, 12) (Editor in 12th Grade)</p>
<p>Major Awards/Positions: State Runner-Up For Speech and Debate (10), Piano Gold Star (9, 11), 2nd Place Lawyer in Mock Trial District (11), USA Chemistry Olympiad Top 50 in the Nation (High Honors), State Math Competition Winner (12) (placed high in 9-11), National Merit Commended Scholar, National AP Scholar, Researched in a Summer Program at Boston University in chemistry, Intel STS Semi-Finalist in Chemistry</p>
<p>Volunteering/Employment: I did 40 hours as a volunteer at a local science center in 10th grade. I did 100 hours in Pakistan (where both my parents are from) building schools and giving food to homeless people in 11th grade summer. I started up a Mathcounts club at a local middle school and coached it in 12th grade. I worked at a movie theater every day after school my senior year. </p>
<p>Reccomendations: I got very good reccomendations from my AP English Literature teacher, my AP Biology teacher, a chemistry professor, and my college counselor. They said I was a creative, intelligent, and mature student who set an example for students in their class. I was one of their best students they have had.</p>
<p>Income Bracket/Parent Education: My dad is a medical doctor, and my mom has a master’s degree in entemology but does not work. My family generates an income of about 180K/year, and I have two younger brothers.</p>
<p>Essays: I wrote an essay about the importance of family, which I learned from my parent’s sacrifice of living two hours apart so I could go to an excellent private school. I wrote another one about being a Pakistani Muslim Democrat in America, and how I learned to accept my heritage and my responsibility as an American citizen.</p>
<p>First and foremost, should I get into Vanderbilt without too much trouble. If I can, what are my chances of being a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar?</p>
<p>hi, Can you please tell me
Is there any application needed for this scholarship?</p>
<p>Yes, you should look at merit scholarship pages on the websites of all your final college application decisions. some require essays and extra recommendations and some colleges will still simply choose finalists themselves sans extra applications and some colleges will use extra applications and still reserve the right to nominate any one they choose anyhow who may or may not have done the extra essays etc.</p>
<p>May I give you one sincere and not snarky piece of advice. Sign out, and come up with a new screen name. If you want to talk to people on Brown’s peer college boards where I am sure you may also have interests or on the boards of good liberal arts colleges or for that matter ANY college, you should have a neutral screen name. Not BlueDevil4ever or GoGreen or anything like that. Sure there are a few thousand people a year who want Brown PLME. And anyone qualified to be considered has in multiple applications. Anyone at Brown understands that you have to apply elsewhere of course…so did they!</p>
<p>Develop a strong and healthy respect for reach colleges like Brown but also for your match colleges and you will be a more informed applicant in conversations with alum and currrent students.</p>
<p>Screen names like this one can be a hindrance. Open up your mind and heart to the many pathways to med school that work. Read the premed boards here and soak in.</p>
<p>This is really late, but I’m a junior in high school this year and looking at vanderbilt. What types of things did your son do in high school that helped him to get this scholarship? What set him apart? And congratulations!</p>
<p>*what did everyone here who received the scholarship do during there high school years that helped? What did your academic, ec, etc records look like?</p>
<p>Hey @Cshaffer17! Vandy offers 3 full tuition scholarships so make sure you research all of them and see which one would be best to apply for. I was always more into academics than ECs , even though I did pursue a few of them passionately. The CV scholarship is usually given to someone who stands out in standardized tests( I had 2380) and is ranked in the top 1% of his or her class. Apart from that, you must display passion in whichever ECs you pursue and should have made significant contributions outside of class as well. There is also a pretty long essay that you have to write. My essay was about Econ and how it can make a difference to the lives of under-privileged kids. So, if you’re good academically, have good ECs and an engaging and well thought-out essay, you should apply for the CV scholarship. You can also see if the Ingram or Chancellor’s Scholarship may be better options or not. </p>