MOSAIC

<p>Has anyone heard anything about this year's MOSAIC? Letters were received around this time last year. I also noticed on the Facebook page that the training for the volunteers started today. Hoping my S gets an invitation (even though he won't be able to attend- just want the early acceptance!)</p>

<p>I hope your S gets an invite as well as an early admission is a great feeling indeed. Our son was a host each year. But please don’t feel too discouraged if for some reason he does not get an invite as he may still be admitted without the recruitment MOSAIC experience. Vandy got over 30 thousand applicants last year, and the diversity outreach experiences offered at Vandy (and its peer national universities and liberal arts colleges) simply can’t be made available to all students who will receive an offer of admission. With the advent of the Common App and the huge uptick in Vandy applicants-- things have changed. (our eldest son applied in 2005 and was admitted out of a pool of 11 thousand applicants!) We had weird things happen in 09 with Vandy son (He didn’t get his Echols invite email from UVA but got a letter two weeks later? Another national university with an early merit app deadline, “lost” his entire packet and failed to review him at all for merit, another flagship college had him shortlisted for a handful of free rides but he didn’t ever get the invite email that included a required new essay submission…so just hang loose and model a positive outlook to your sons and daughters re their match colleges no matter what. They look to you for perspective and for the big picture outlook on life.</p>

<p>Do a cross-section of students get MOSAIC invites, or is it reserved solely for minority students?</p>

<p>I just got a MOSAIC acceptance letter today. Granted, I’m from Nashville, so it might have reached me a little bit faster than others. The package says USPS priority mail, and the letter is dated February 10th. </p>

<p>USPS Priority mail S got the MOSAIC invite in AZ and acceptance to Vanderbilt! so so happy!!</p>

<p>I go a MOSAIC acceptance letter this afternoon here in Texas. I…I’m free. I can finally stop working this hard. I’m going to take a nap.</p>

<p>MOSAIC and Chancellor’s !! SWEET</p>

<p>My kid received MOSAIC letter but cannot join the event in March.</p>

<p>To all of you who have received a MOSAIC invitation: When did you send your application in? I’m a hispanic regular decision applicant in Florida. I submitted my application on December 30th and my account showed that all of my materials were in a few days later, but I received an email on February 4th stating that my application was complete and ready for review. </p>

<p>My S just got the MOSAIC invitation in Florida!!!</p>

<p>Congratulations @JRMAMA! So happy for you both!</p>

<p>Thank you @Belle315! Hopefully we will receive an amazing financial aid package as you did, or even better a CV Scholarship!</p>

<p>Just received an invite in HI. I saw the package and just started trembling. I actually though that MOSAIC wasn’t even happening anymore. And even if it was, I wouldn’t expect it because I’m white-Asian. (Yes, I’m from an underrepresented area and I know Vandy doesn’t get Asians like the Ivies do, but I have a tendency to look for reasons things won’t go n my favor.) I won’t be attending (unless anyone wants to sponsor a $950 plane trip), but I hope everyone who goes has a great time!</p>

<p>@JRMAMA, Fingers crossed for you!
Congratulations to all of you well-deserving MOSAIC invitees!</p>

<p>I just received my MOSAIC and Vanderbilt official letter of acceptance via mail!! So excited and happy!!! Congrats to everyone else that received it! </p>

<p>Congratulations @matrixsurgeon!</p>

<p>@jrmama496
Thanks! Now just the wait until April to receive the official packet and official financial aid package! I am hoping on a great financial aid package because the Vanderbilt NPC calculator on college-board is showing a great estimate and I hope the real award is close to that!</p>

<p>FWIW, @matrixsurgeon, our current award (DD was accepter EDII) was even better than the NPC. Before she applied, I spoke with Financial Aid, and they stand by the NPC. So it sounds like you will get that great package. Congratulations!</p>

<p>Are all the Mosaic packets shipped already? Will there be a chance of getting one this week?</p>

<p>@thingschange, there’s a high chance that the mail is slow. They were all postmarked February 10, but I got mine on the 14th and I live in the northeast. So west coast probably took longer!</p>