<p>I think it is... I just got waitlisted from northwestern (didn't like it much anyways) and accepted into WashU. I've really liked vandy from when I visited last year though. w00t!</p>
<p>if anything washU is a really good school i don't really like my back-ups too much</p>
<p>hookem168, I'll have to admit it, I agree with you about Duke.
Still, Vanderbilt's fin aid package was amazing...$40K in grants, as opposed to Duke's $25K. Not to say Duke's fin aid is bad...$25K was already unexpected, having gotten only $11K in grants from UChicago.</p>
<p>^ wow - that is a huge difference - too bad schools don’t give out their fin aid formulas before you apply. Nothing worse than getting accepted and not being able to go becausse of $$. And do all three guarantee to meet 100% of need? So where are you going knat? Nice choices!</p>
<p>Stanford was my top choice, but then it rejected me. :/</p>
<p>So Vandy’s my top choice now! At least I’ll have a little more fun for undergrad. ;D</p>
<p>Out of all the schools that I managed to get in, I like it most because: the academics are fair, it’s not Catholic, they’re giving me a ton of money (enough so that I won’t have to pay/work off any more than 2k a year, meaning that I’ll have tons of money for summer and gap year [before grad school… maybe 2 gap years] travel), Nashville seems to me an interesting place (and very arboreal, as opposed to the desert that another one of my schools is in), with nice weather to boot, and the dorms are reasonably nice.</p>
<p>I’m in love with the school…</p>
<p>I’m just upset that their ED rich kids get in and us poor RD kids get screwed when the same stats would have gotten in.</p>
<p>But yeah the school is everything I want in a college, down to the colors of the school (research, pre-medicine, open campus to take classes at different schools, prestige, no winter, faculty, music, proximity to a city, etc.)</p>
<p>Anyone have a problem with that ED advantage?</p>
<p>no, stop complaning</p>
<p>Not to start an issue BUT, my S was admitted ED1 and his “stats” are certainly comparable to those admitted RD. I understand the frustration of those unable to apply ED but it isn’t accurate to suggest the ED admits are any less qualified. The admission standards (gps, test scores, ECs) are still the same.</p>
<p>Well, regardless, there still ends up being a smaller pool of possible spots for RD.</p>
<p>And you can’t say that people who have the privilege of having their applications reviewed before everyone else don’t have an advantage.</p>
<p>That’s just simply untrue.</p>
<p>“And you can’t say that people who have the privilege of having their applications reviewed before everyone else don’t have an advantage.”</p>
<p>I completely disagree.</p>
<p>O.k., true. I can’t argue. I realize my kids are at a greater advantage because they don’t have to worry about the financial aspect of their education. I was only reacting to the assumption that the ED applicants are “less qualified”.</p>