Im also an Asian female and wrote my essay on connecting multicultural students with each other through an ESL tutoring club is mosaic worth the cost if i have already visited Vanderbilt?
I’m a current student who went to mosaic and I’m also a Chancellor’s scholar, and I’m involved in planning the weekend so maybe I can clarify some things? Basically, all recipients of the CS will receive an invite to MOSAIC, which may be why some ED people are VERY rarely invited, this weekend is intended for RD. Last year, CV was invited too however the schedule changed this year, so there is no direct overlap like there is with CS, and there always is with CS. MOSAIC is above all a recruitment strategy for the best of the best multicultural students after reading through a great majority of the apps, but if you didn’t get an invite I wouldn’t automatically assume you didn’t get in because they haven’t read all of the apps yet you may have slipped through the cracks. MOSAIC is 100% the reason I came to Vandy, a school I wasn’t considering at all until I got accepted and I chose it over UChicago and WashU. If you can attend I highly recommend it! All of my friends who came here and also went to MOSAIC always say that weekend is the reason why they’re here now.
@downanchor I have already visited Vanderbilt last summer for PreVu for seniors and was wondering if it’s worth the time and money to visit again for mosaic. I have tests and ib Spanish testing that week also I don’t think I’m gonna get much financial aid from Vanderbilt (family makes over 180k) so I would only go if I get the CV scholarship which doesn’t come out until March after registration is due for mosaic. I don’t think it’s worth paying double the price for Vanderbilt than my state school university of Michigan which only costs 27k total and I have a feeling Vanderbilt will be more expensive especially since I plan on studying premed.
@Eeeee127 Honestly, if you are pretty confident that medicine is for you, I would recommend going to umich over vandy easily because (though I don’t know if this is actually true) there is a general consensus among premed friends here, who compare classes with their high school friends that went to other schools, that the premed requirement courses here are much more difficult than those at a state school. It’s really all about the gpa and if you can save money in undergrad than do it, and of course umich is a great school that would provide just as many opportunities. There’s really no reason to go to Vandy if you can go to umich for a fraction of the cost. As far as MOSAIC, though I would love for you to experience it, if you have so much going on and have already visited the school it’s not necessary. For me and literally all of my friends from MOSAIC, none of us had been on campus before, so it was a different situation for sure.
ok thanks for your insight! I like vanderbilt’s medicine, society, and health major but would not go there if i have to pay double the cost of umich @downanchor i heard premed courses at umich are also brutal but at least its cheaper. I do love vandy’s campus, but at the end it will come down to costs since im premed
I was invited to MOSAIC last year (white ORM) and later received CV scholarship notification (early March). MOSAIC invite to a not diverse kid is probably a good sign anyway (and it means you were accepted!)
Does anyone know if CV applicants who are invited to Mosaic actually have better odds of being awarded CV? From what I have read, it seems that a mosaic invite is somewhat of a recruiting tool.