<p>Is it considered a great school? Is it somewhere you can get into a great law school from, (Harvard, Yale, Columbia Law)???</p>
<p>It is considered excellent. It is ranked #18 in national universities on U.S. News and World Report, slightly below the ivies. You can get into a great law school from anywhere.</p>
<p>thats good, i was wondering, because they have like a 48% Early Admission acceptance rate, where other top schools are like 20% Early admissions rates</p>
<p>It has early decision, which tends to have a higher admission rate than any flavor of early action. Princeton, for example, has early decision as well, with an early admit rate of ~30%.</p>
<p>yeah, true, so you think it is considered among the top top schools, like Berkeley, the ivies, and other great schools</p>
<p>I do. It is ranked higher than Berkeley. Not that rankings are everything, but they do make sense in wide swathes.</p>
<p>yes, but i dont think it has the same rep that Berkeley has, but idk</p>
<p>You're from California. Of course it doesn't have the same rep in your worldview. I'm from Tennessee, and the average schmoe thinks highly of Vanderbilt but is fairly clueless about Berkeley.</p>
<p>That's true... it's really where your from. You hear about the prestigious schools in your area, apart from the well-known ivies. Vanderbilt is an excellent school, and although I do not know the exact acceptance rate to law schools such as Harvard etc, I know that if you put forth the effort, Vandy is just as good a place as any to get in from.</p>
<p>Ya, it also has a good social life for an academic school, unlike many ivies and other top schools</p>
<p>what do you need to get in?</p>
<p>like GPA/SAT wise?</p>
<p>Its hard to tell anymore. The standards have been much more competitive in recent years.</p>
<p>yeah, why is the Early admission like 48%, is it strong applicants?</p>
<p>I'm not sure what year that is. But for the Class of '10 there was a 31% acceptance rate (and 27% for those applying to Arts and Science). But its not really the declining rates that make it hard to judge, the quality of apps are much stronger than those applying even five years ago.</p>
<p>well, i think the median sat was just below 1400 last year. the admission rate is 48% because they fill about 1/3 of the class through early decision, so the acceptance rate through ED will always depend on the # of applicants. secondly, you could get into harvard law from crapstate U, it just depends on what you do when you get to college. </p>
<p>vandy had 11 Fulbright Scholars this year, seems fairly decent to me</p>
<p>yeah, they do seem like a great university</p>
<p>how hard is it to get a fullbright scholarship? and all those other scholarships, like fellowships, oxford scholarship, etc.?</p>
<p>i dont know what those are...</p>