<p>If you are deferred or accepted and you are going to reject the offer, please do so as soon as possible.
If you are waiting on an ivy and hear back and decide to go their, deny Vandy so those of us on the wait list who Vandy is their first choice can recieve acceptance :)</p>
<p>I didn’t think it worked that way does it?
meaning one person declines and one person gets in off the waitlist.</p>
<p>^Correct. Were this the case (one declines, one gets accepted), Vandy would only accept 1600 students, which is roughly the number of available beds in the Commons…and they certainly accept many more than 1600.</p>
<p>they under-accept in order not to over-accept
but yes, every student that denies acceptance does get replaced
they fill exactly 1600 beds by july
hopefully sooner :)</p>
<p>redbluetwo, that’s simply wrong. vandy accepted about 3600 students to fill 1600 spots. most students that deny acceptance do not have a replacement, as vandy takes rejections into account. a lot of people will have to turn down the admission offer before they start taking off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Have you not looked into Vanderbilt admissions at all? They accept well over the number of the actual incoming class…</p>
<p>Vanderbilt provides full information for the Common Data Set. The newest available information is for the 2010 - 2011 year. In section C2, we have the answers to these questions. Vandy is one of the colleges that shares this information right on its own website (<a href=“https://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/CDSC.aspx?year=2010[/url]”>https://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/CDSC.aspx?year=2010</a>).</p>
<p>For 2010 - 2011, there were: 21,811 applications; 3,914 acceptances; and 1,600 enrolled. This means that no one was taken off the waitlist until 1.314 students declined their acceptances.</p>
<p>we are on vacation and my neighbor said vanderbilt arrived in a small envelope. Does that mean I am not in?</p>
<p>^unfortunately yes it does.</p>
<p>Yield notwithstanding, it is nevertheless true that the quicker rejections get back in, the quicker they would hit the waitlist.</p>
<p>redbluetwo,
It won’t matter how quickly accepted students reply that they aren’t attending. Vandy isn’t going to start pulling from the waitlist until they have looked at the picture of those who are coming in early May. Then they’ll be looking to fill the class based on some specific criteria.</p>