<p>Has anyone received any info from Vandy after acceptance notification? Daughter accepted ED1 but nothing since acceptance. Noticed that housing sign up is April 1 - wondering about that process too. Can you select a certain dorm or is assignment random? </p>
<p>All assignments are random. Your son or daughter can make some attempts to choose a roommate but our son was perfectly happy with his random assignment roommate, and didn’t see the point of working the roommate system via the internet. (meetups on accepted student days or on accepted Vandy class FB page etc). You have really won the lottery with freshman housing at Vandy compared to many other fine universities re housing. Nothing to worry about, all more than acceptable…a marvelous freshman experience on The Commons. Nice closets, wonderful air quality, updated everything on this green Commons. (In contrast, Duke Trinity freshman campus rooms are largely non air-conditioned). There are two contrasts really…the new buildings like Stambaugh, and the close by renovated freshman houses that were once part of the Peabody campus, all facing the lovely green designed by Stanford White. The former Peabody houses are closer to the convenient Peabody library and are closer to walking over to the main campus, but don’t have all the “newness” amenities of the recent build dorms that face the Commons. </p>
<p>Thank you Faline2 for the info! Very helpful! </p>
<p>Haven’t received any info on admitted student day or any other info from Vandy since acceptance. Has anyone received anything or have any additional info on what is next for admitted students? </p>
<p>dad3456 - My son was an ED1 admit last year. Once admitted things went quiet last year. You’ll start to get information when all the RDs get theirs. </p>
<p>Son did the random roommate assignment and it has worked out well. He’s in one of the older houses in commons and loves it. VU has done a nice job with 1st year housing.</p>
<p>Thank you! My daughter mentioned a Vanderbilt and You program that Vanderbilt hosts in various cities across the country. Nothing has been posted yet with cities and dates but wondering if anyone attended one of these and the past. Should we plan to attend if there is one nearby?</p>
<p>Also, what is the process for signing up for classes? Since there is no orientation, is their a counselor that she will get to talk to before having to sign up? I really appreciate all the help!!</p>
<p>Yes, an academic adviser is assigned, and I believe the student actually is required to contact to contact their adviser before enrolling online. </p>
<p>I would expect Vanderbilt & You to be in April. Definitely attend-- great place to meet local accepted students and alums.</p>
<p>If you student is in the school of engineering, you will not need to talk to an advisor before enrolling in classes. They send out information on the classes you should enroll in. If you have questions, you can contact them. </p>
<p>We did not attend Vanderbilt and You, but did a return trip to VU during Spring Break. We made appointments with the school of engineering and another department to have some of our questions answered and to make arrangements specific to our student. During the visit, our son did Dore for a Day. It was a great opportunity to make him more comfortable moving across country to attend college.</p>
<p>I remember feeling anxious at this point in time because we had not heard much. I’m a planner so I like to have everything thought out. Take a deep breath. It will all come together. I had to remind myself that the University does this every year, they are well organized and it will all work out. Having never gone through it before, I was unsure.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the feedback It is helpful to know a little more about the process.</p>
<p>Your student’s advisor will have to approve their first schedule, and this is all arranged in a very coherent way altho our student did this four years ago so more current students will have certainty in filling you in. Your student will be assigned a “window” for class selection online next summer, a time slot that will be fairly rotated each semester re which is the most advantageous “earlier window”. Waitlists are offered for “filled” timeslots. Waitlists can often result in entry, particularly if you have an airtight reason for needing a closed class in a particular semester that is communicated to your advisor and/or the professor. In general, access to classes during your preferred semester/year at Vandy is superior to the more limited flexibility at for instance our wonderful flagship colleges in VA. Part of the joy of attending a mid sized university that does provide some, but not all the cozier benefits of a liberal arts education, is the ability to create a very satisfactory schedule for yourself. This does take planning and foresight but most students who get into Vandy are not short on logistical planning skills. One of my parental mistakes was the occasional time we ordered textbooks after class enrollment the “least expensive way” online and found that the books didn’t arrive in a timely fashion. Search for books that have definite delivery times, folks. And sometimes keeping it simple by buying right on campus is better than the risk of a later book arrival. Not that we didn’t wear out our Amazon Prime 2-day shipping privilege. There is an Amazon student prime with a fee that will be less than parents pay. If you don’t use this, take a gander at it. The annual fee for parents goes up to 99 dollars a year starting in December 2014. However, it is one easy way to provide your son or daughter with supplies, books, and clothing quickly.</p>
<p>Dad3456, your daughter will get a book like this later in the process, but it is really helpful in explaining all the next steps if you want to get a jump start. <a href=“Vanderbilt University”>Vanderbilt University;
<p>Thank you, @MommyDearest13!</p>
<p>This is another on the answers a lot of questions about orientation… <a href=“Vanderbilt University”>Vanderbilt University;
<p>These documents are very helpful - I really appreciate everyone taking the time to post!</p>
<p>I think it should be mentioned that Vandy does take into account a handful of answers your student provides re what time they get up daily and when they like to turn the lights out…and perhaps if they need quiet for study or listen to music etc. I dunno. These things change so quickly…does it matter if you listen to music anymore with headphones? It is not like in our day when your roommate had a plastic turntable and was playing the Allman Bros full blast. Our son’s first roommie at Duke turned the light out at midnight every night and slept exactly till 8am. Pretty sweet considering the temptations now to stay up till the wee hours on social media. He was incredibly physically fit and a leader on campus re rugged outdoors sports. Not every roommate is a “nightmare” or pain in the neck. 
Both our sons asked for and received the rather expensive holiday gift of Bose headphones for silence…which were seen quite a lot in the men’s dorms. </p>
<p>I’ll agree that the few questions asked about lights out and music change very quickly. My student said that he’d be going to bed by 1200. At this point it would be great if he went to sleep by 2AM. I keep thinking that sooner or later he’ll figure out that vampires do not rule the world.</p>
<p>Headphones are an excellent purchase. Son appears to wear them all the time when he is studying. And when he’s skyping with us. Guess he doesn’t want his friends to hear his goofy parents. The Bose headphones are excellent, but there are now a lot of less expensive ones that do the job. </p>
<p>yeah, the Bose headphones are one of the most expensive things we have ever given our sons. Justified it because they found they could study in their rooms and not have to tromp out to the library as much which is mighty nice in the winter months particularly. Our eldest, like most freshman at Duke, had a rigorous high school life where he was in school at 7:15 daily, so obviously he went to bed on some routine. Totally blew it freshman semester at Duke. Even mono didn’t curb his need to socialize so he had a relapse. Then he wised up. His new rule was never to miss breakfast which meant bedtime not long after midnight. I was rather shocked with how many kids never show for their excellent breakfasts and I do blame the internet. Staying up past midnight was boring in the 70s on school nights. Exciting? Going to your mailbox to see if you “got a letter” from someone from home. Now that is really quaint. But totally agree that the sleep hygiene discussion is a crucial one. Not that it will change your new college student necessarily from skyping with tons of friends etc and studying to make up for being on FB etc. But for our kid, recognizing that he would make Cs and Ds if he didn’t go to sleep did the trick. He is very smart but not a savant…and there are those around at Vandy and at Duke who don’t have to grind it out. Our kids have to study to perform. Important to figure out that class participation, attendance etc means nothing anymore. It is all about test performance for many many classes. So you have to step it up and treat college like a 9-5 job.</p>
<p>How does the first year at Vanderbilt work (academically)? Do they have specific courses they need to take? Is there a freshman seminar? How do they choose classes? And does anyone know what the 2014/2015 fees are for tution, etc. I cannot locate it on the website!</p>
<p>There are a number of first-year writing seminars, and all A&S students must take one in their first year. Otherwise, classes are totally up to the student. More info will be coming soon, but you just take a look at the requirements of your major, pick some, and then throw in random other courses to start satisfying AXLE requirements (the liberal arts core).</p>
<p>Even if the student changes majors, the classes they take will likely count towards AXLE or perhaps even their new major.</p>
<p>It’s a little different for students in other schools. Engineering is more structured, with specific class recommendations each semester and electives thrown in here and there.</p>
<p>Engineering isn’t as structured as it might look. For one, students with AP credit will skip a number of the “recommended” curriculum. For another, when you actually look at the requirements, there’s a lot of flexibility – which can be good or bad. It’s really important (in my view) to take a look at the requirements for the intended major, and have a plan that can adjust to classes being full or not being available or schedule conflicts.</p>
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