<p>I'm from Boston but I gotta get out of the cold, Tufts was kind of an afterthought to be honest...I would pick any of those schools over it. </p>
<p>And for my Tufts interview, the guy was cool and everything went great...until he mentioned that nobody he interviewed has ever gotten in. I'm not holding my breath.</p>
<p>Penn is like my dream school but I didn't apply because I didn't think I had a shot.</p>
<p>What didn't you like about Vanderbilt? I haven't been there before so I feel like I don't know that much about it.</p>
<p>vandy is very preppy. to the extreme. imagine the stereotypical USC student (lol) times a thousand.</p>
<p>every person i met there was wearing the same exact thing. plus, my tour guide was hung over lol....but that didn't bother me. she was just the most obnoxious person i'd ever met. honestly everywhere we went around campus, we ran into her friends and i swear they were identical twins!</p>
<p>campus is beautiful, programs are excellent (but they didn't have my major) and I liked their housing system (required to live on campus all 4 years!) but i didn't like the dropout rate. not that this matters since i'm a guy but they have a high dropout rate for freshman girls because they don't get into the 'right' sorority.... that kind of turned me off. </p>
<p>the people there just didn't match me at ALL--- not to mention ITS IN TENNESSEE! i've been to like 8 other southern schools and this one was the only one where i felt like inbreeding was a definite possibility lol. nashville itself was actually surprisingly nice though. </p>
<p>the other thing that bothered me about vandy is the lack of diversity. meaning the only diversity you see is those who are studying. my friend got accepted (and they wanted her to attend MOSAIC = minority weekend) but as far as i know asian people aren't a minority! There are only like 2.5 billion of them on the planet, i wouldn't call that a minority lol. actually now that i think about it, every asian person there (which seemed to be about 1%) was Indian. it was very segregated based on race -- almost too perfectly segregated. tables of blacks, tables of whites, tables of asians. weird.</p>
<p>nave: Your NJ high school's numbers applying to Vandy are insane...How many were accepted ED? This now convinces me that the 4,000 extra applications they received this year were all from NJ!!
In my d's hs, they had about 20 applicants...NOONE had ever applied to Vandy before; there is no way any of them are getting in RD....One multicultural though....</p>
<p>exactly, rodney. in EDI.... 3 were accepted and EDII -- only 1. meaning 4 out of about 12...lower than their stated acceptance rate especially for early decision.</p>
<p>for some reason, i know all these dumb people from long island that got in which leads me to believe that they dont understand that metro NYC includes northern NJ as well as long island...even though they clearly want people from the "north". </p>
<p>we'll see how regular decison goes for my HS... just checked my HS site (college site) and 10 people applied in 04/05/06/07 put together. now 30 this year.</p>
<p>I don't want to get too specific, but I have a feeling we personally know some of the "dumb LI people" you are referring to.....and their acceptances shocked us as well.....</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, nave...that is kind of how I pictured it. Although I would've been enthusiastic about that kind of scene (minus the lack of diversity and self-segregation, of course) a couple years ago, I've been at prep schools all my life and I could use some time away from pastel pants and topsiders...a more relaxed West Coast environment sounds perfect. </p>
<p>One thing I do know about Vanderbilt is that they are one of the few schools who, as you discovered, give Asian applicants a leg up in the admissions process because they have a disproportionately low number of Asian applicants, which probably is due in part to it's very WASP-y, Southern, Christian image. </p>
<p>And jeez, that's a huge increase in applicants! It got pretty popular at my school too, but not nearly as much as the perennial favorites- the Ivy League and ACs like the NESCAC schools.</p>
<p>me: i really dont mind not getting into LA
me: even if they offered
me: i wouldve declined
him: really?
me: hell yea
me: trojan cardinal red and gold all the way</p>
<p>honestly i thought i was going to get in (even though i had no intention of enrolling) since i have connections..</p>
<p>well so much for those connections. a good family friend is on the board of directors and donates tons of money every year + includes a list of "well qualified applicants" every year with her donation.. eh oh well.</p>
<p>Bruins...pshhhhhh...Don't let the rejections scare you! I know someone who was accepted ED to Stanford that got rejected. It's a lottery I tell you! Don't bruin your life indeed. CARDINAL AND GOLD ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Sorry, arbitrary wave of Trojan spirit. Those seem to sneak up on me more and more these days.</p>
<p>yeah i agree. going somewhere with no school spirit kinda seems like it will suck. AHHHHH USC where are you? every day I go home and attack my mail man for you! </p>
<p>I already feel attached to USC even though i'm not enrolled (or accepted) yet. on a positive side, my mother who has been previously totally opposed to me going to school in California (too far for her) seems to be hinting that she doesn't mind the idea anymore...</p>
<p>ok now you've got both my parents blessings so you MAY ask me to 'marry' you now USC!</p>