<p>Alright, I am not familiar with Vanderbilt, I did not even apply, but I have a question for a friend of mine. If you are African American and did not receive the MOSAIC invitation, does that mean you won't get in??? </p>
<p>Thanks a ton guys, I know you guys know way more about this than me.</p>
<p>No, it just means you weren't part of the select few that got invited.</p>
<p>It seems that the people who got invited would have gotten in anyway, even if they weren't URMs. My friends who got invited had 33 and 34 ACT scores, and I think the people on this forum who got accepted to MOSAIC had the same scores (and maybe a bit higher).</p>
<p>It definitely does not mean your friend will be denied. My daughter, who is bi-racial, would definitely be toward the upper end of the Mosaic credentials I've seen posted, but she wasn't selected. It was a bit of a surprise and I wondered whether she wasn't going to make the cut for some reason. Shortly thereafter, she got a likely letter announcing that she was a CVS winner. That's a pretty good trade-off in my book.</p>
<p>oh ok. she was loosing all hope...but I will tell her otherwise tomorrow</p>
<p>I wouldn't call it "select few"... 350 minorities were invited to MOSIAC. You can do the math to see how many minority acceptances are left.</p>
<p>Interesting point, so I decided to look up the data. Since Asians are apparently included in VU's URM programs, last year's freshman class had at least 332 identifiable URMs. Assuming they have the same 37% yield as the overall class, that means slightly over 900 acceptances. So more than 60% of the eventual URM admits were not invited to MOSAIC. The OP's friend shouldn't be any more optimistic/pessimistic than any other student waiting for the notification date.</p>