<p>For those of us applying EDI to Vassar, the application deadline has passed. Now we wait.
Please post what and when you heard, so we can track the results and share our anxiety!</p>
<p>super anxious! haven’t even gotten an application confirmation email :(</p>
<p>Finally got an email from the vassal college for confirmation! Extremely nervous now. I have a comparatively low SAT but good SCs and other academic achievement overall. But still love Vassar so much!!!</p>
<p>Didn’t get my email yet… super worried 
good luck everyone! </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you. My daughter has applied ED, so our family is waiting along with you.</p>
<p>What worried me about being a female applying to Vassar is the huge difference in admit rates between men and women. It is 34% overall (early and regular decision) for men, and 20% for women according to the most recent Common Data Set. Why is it that every LAC has problems recruiting men? Or are there just fewer men who attend college?</p>
<p>Men on average tend to go the non-liberal arts route. Just as an example, at Purdue University, the ratio is 57% men to 43% women. In some ways it’s a bit funny, because if you want to be a doctor, you can still go to a liberal arts college and have a Pre-Med track.</p>
<p>Our D applied ED as well. She loves Vassar. High GPA, but at the low end of the 50th percentile ACT scores. Hoping for an early Christmas present.</p>
<p>I was hoping someone else would make this thread so that I didn’t have to 
All of my materials have been received and I’m anxiously awaiting December 15th ish! I am on a gap year and applied to college last year, so I just want to know where I’m going to end up…</p>
<p>Not to place any pressure on you if you don’t know, but what did you all list for your prospective major(s)?</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in education and English with a minor in either German or theatre… I’m all over the place ^.^ EDIT: Well… correlate in German or theatre - but you get the point. :P</p>
<p>Lastly BEST OF LUCK TO ALL ED I APPLICANTS!</p>
<p>@LAMuniv - To answer your question, my daughter is also planing to major in English with a path toward Secondary Education Certification so that she can teach high school English. But, sometimes college courses change a person’s mind…get inspired by something or find you’re not as excited about something else. That’s why they let you wait until you are a sophomore to declare!</p>
<p>@stepay Sounds like your daughter and I have the same career plans! And I completely agree with the second part of your comment - I was convinced I wanted to study engineering and science until I took AP lit my senior year and fell in love - at that point, I had already applied to engineering and research universities, so I took a gap year to apply to LACs (and am spending part of that year teaching at my high school). It taught me a lesson about making up my mind too soon and too stubbornly - though I may have a plan now, it will most likely change drastically by the time I declare :)</p>
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<p>Fewer men do attend college, but most of the top LACs don’t have a problem recruiting men. Although more women than men apply to Middlebury,Williams, Amherst, Colby, Bowdoin, Bates, Hamilton, et al., men only have ~1-6% higher admission rate. More women than men apply to many of the top universities as well. E.g., Brown, Yale, Cornell, Tufts, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke. Similar to the aforementioned LACs, the admission rate between men and women isn’t vastly different.
Vassar is somewhat of an outlier in that the disparity between the number of male and female applicants and admission rate is significant.</p>
<p>One contributing factor to the disparity is that Vassar doesn’t have a football or hockey team. It has been hypothesized that if Vassar fielded a football and hockey team in addition to more men applying as recruited athletes, there would be significant increase in the number male applicants in the aggregate resulting in an equalizing of the admission rate.</p>
<p>And if you assume that the inclusion of a football and hockey team (140+ male students) is at the expense of 140+ fewer female students, the enrollment becomes 51% female and 49% male, similar to comparable LACs</p>
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<p>The ratio is skewed because 28% graduated with an engineering degree. In order for 28% to have received an engineering degree, due to the high attrition rate, far more than 28% of freshman/sophomores are enrolled in engineering, a historically male dominated major. Business and marketing, another male dominated major, accounts for another 15% of the degrees conferred. Ditto a higher percentage of freshman and sophomores.</p>
<p>Curious. The site still says that they have my SATs, and only one SAT II. I wonder why College Board doesn’t send everything at once. </p>
<p>how many of you are having an interview? i’m a white girl, in-state, 4.0/4.0 uw gpa, 2300 sat, 800 and 740 sat2… never been more nervous in my life! good luck to all!</p>
<p>@nervoustudent - Assuming you took some AP classes and you have some extracurriculars, you seem like a very strong candidate. You are in the top 25% with the SAT score, and your subject matter tests are strong, plus you have the 4.0 unweighted GPA. I’m sure all students are nervous, and there are always stories of students like you getting denied from top schools, but you should be confident in knowing that you did just about all you could. I think they’d have to be looking for a reason NOT to admit you…you are a very strong candidate.</p>
<p>The last couple years, Early Decisions (for EDI) were announced on the 9th and 10th of December (both Mondays). This year the Mondays include the 8th and the 15th. Anyone have any inside information about what exact day the decisions will go out this year?</p>
<p>@ stepay :The 15th. reading posts from the last few years shows that that date isn’t rock solid. It could very well be a few days later. </p>
<p>@nervoustudent -I’m in-state also, and opted not to interview. Having been through few interviews with colleges that give evaluative interviews, I believe that Vassar’s are non-evaluative as they say. As long as you’ve made the contact in other ways, as your expressed interest is taken into consideration during the admission review. But you could argue that the ED application should be enough to prove interest!</p>
<p>@nervoustudent- A number of years ago, I was told the percentage of students who interviewed. IIRC,
the statistic included applicants from all 50 states but not internationals. I was surprised that fewer applicants interviewed than I would have expected. WaitingED made an excellent point that your ED application should prove enough interest. My daughter assumed as much and didn’t interview even though Vassar is within easy driving distance. She was admitted with no ‘hook’.</p>