<p>I feel like a major tool for posting this but I guess I am rather intrigued. I'm a rising senior at a highly competitive all-boys Jesuit school in Kansas City. Thanks if you can answer</p>
<p>ACADEMIC ACHIEVMENTS
3.97 GPA
First Honors: 9,10
Ignatian Honors: 11
SAT- 2100
National Honors Society- 11,12
ATHLETICS
Football: 9,10
Rugby: 11,12
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Student Success Center: 11,12
Freshman Retreat Cleanup Crew: 10
Freshmen Retreat Core Team(10 guys who organize and plan a retreat for the whole frosh class): 11
Co-Chair of Freshman Retreat (This job is way more important than it sounds haha. Huge time commitment):12
Sophomore Retreat Coordinator: 11
Model United Nations: 10,11
Pastoral Department: 10,11
Academic Worldquest:11
SGA Freshman Coordinator:12
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Belize Mission Trip (Weeklong): 11
100 hours combined service through Junior Year (Not including trips and retreats)
TIE weeklong service retreat in the inner city
Site coordinator for Upper Room( A tutoring program for inner city kids)
WORK/SUMMER EXPERIENCE
Grocery sacker: 9,10
Landscaper: 10
Lawn Mowing company( Mow for 17 homes and 7 apartment complexes): 11
Toured Peru, Panama: 10</p>
<p>AWARDS
R award winner( Given to a select few students who demonstrate leadership and Christian qualties) : 10,11</p>
<p>Hooks- Mom is from Ireland haha...and my dad is an alumnus</p>
<p>Vandy does not look at the writing part of the SAT so the higher above 1400 on the Math and Reasoning you can get, the better.
Take the ACT just to see how you do.
Try to obtain some leadership positions in some of your ECs.
I am not sure it’s a good idea to list that your father went to Vanderbilt. Perhaps the legacy issue seems to be the kiss of death for students here in Nashville the last couple of years,even for those whose families had multiple legacies,gave serious fundraising parties,etc.</p>
<p>haha what? yeah everyone says that vandy prefers minorities to legacies (assuming they don’t intersect) (didn’t they try removing legacy status as a factor at all a few years ago until donations dropped off the charts and they reinstated it?)…listing a legacy can’t possibly be a bad thing, especially if it’s a parent.</p>
<p>ps, take the ACT, you will do better, that’s the score range where it often helps.</p>
<p>Legacy admits in the Nashville and TN area are definitely down,whoistebow and I referenced that in a prior post. A local student had to submit a second page of family alums on the application, had an uncle who had been among the founders of a school at Vandy and the family had donated a lot. This student was rejected and had decent academics. Another student was a double parental legacy and got her waitlist letter the day her parents were hosting a major fundraiser for Vandy in their home, one of many events they have hosted over the years.This student was very competitive academically. It can hurt you at Vandy to be a legacy.</p>
<p>i think your chances are fine as long as you get good teacher recs and write interesting essays. like others have said, there are tons of legacys and kids with just as good and better test scores, but if you write personal essays that tell a story only you can tell you will stick out from others. thats the main goal, giving them a reason to pick not the other thousands of applicants</p>