Daughters chance at Vanderbilt ED

<p>Hello All, sorry this is long, I'm a rookie.</p>

<p>With three weeks left till ED deadline it's all getting so real (or surreal)</p>

<p>Daughter took her first ACT last month (very sick, though non contagious, when she took it) will take it again this month. Thinks she can bring it up.</p>

<p>So here are the stats.</p>

<p>Large Non Ranking competitive school in California
Has always been on the Academic Excellence list which is for the kids with the highest GPA
Guessing she's at least in the top 10%,probably higher, won't know for a couple weeks.</p>

<p>ACT
Reading 35
Writing 30
English 31
Science 27
Math 26
Composite 30</p>

<p>GPA Weighted 10-12th grade 4.39
Unweighted 3.88</p>

<p>Has taken almost all Honors, IB or AP classes since Sophomore year</p>

<p>Scores</p>

<p>AP lit 5
Ap World History 4
IB Bio 5</p>

<p>Senior Year</p>

<p>AP Physics
AP Gov
IB HL Lit
IB HL Film
Honors Trig/Pre-Calc</p>

<p>Ec's</p>

<p>started a Fair Trade club Sophomore year
Admitted to NHS Sophomore year
4 years Mock Trial-President Senior year
Ted-X Speaker Sophomore year for environmental work
Junior Mentor Program
Student of the Semester Freshman year-Math
Student of the Semester Sophomore year-Honors English
Nominated for Student of the Year AP Lit Junior year
Chosen for City's Mayors Youth Council Senior Year
Youth and Government Senior Year
JSA Senior Year</p>

<p>Sport
Long distance competitive paddling</p>

<p>First generation </p>

<p>I'm sure I've left out something, but this is the bulk of it.</p>

<p>Vanderbilt is her first choice.</p>

<p>Will apply RD to</p>

<p>Stanford
Georgetown
Tufts
Haverford
Boston College
Duke
Northwestern
Occidental
USC
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UCSB
UC Santa Cruz</p>

<p>Thank you for reading!</p>

<p>Most of those schools are reaches due to her ACT score</p>

<p>I guess its really more about letters of recomendation and essays for her to be admitted. They are the most imp part of the app according to every prestigious university</p>

<p>Thank you for the feed back. Wish my Daughter had written the post as she is the smart one. Thankfully she is filling out the applications not me :)</p>