<p>really...i can afford it but i would get extra money like for a wedding if i went somewhere else, ex tulane, UNC, or south carolina. opinions? what makes it worth the heavy price tag?</p>
<p>location, location, location…</p>
<p>It really is the only Southern school worth it because it combines the SEC experience with the academic elitism that you find at schools in the North without compromising its own qualities like Tulane Duke and Emory have done. By the way, I love you.</p>
<p>lol why do you love me?</p>
<p>Technically it depends on what you want to go into, but for most things I don’t see a good reason to spend significantly more money on Vanderbilt when you could be going to UNC.</p>
<p>i just like the SEC atmosphere…and i have to get in first lol. but i have a 34 ACT and good EC’s so my chances are decent.</p>
<p>Weddings are awesome, especially big weddings, and especially big weddings in the South, so I love you, I think. Haha, but seriously, if you’re like me and most of your friends will probably be in the SEC but you want a top notch education, I don’t really see anywhere else you’d want to end up.</p>
<p>Wait to see if you get a scholarship or financial aid and then compare. I got a large chunk of money to go to Vanderbilt with a 35 ACT, good ECs, and a 3.6-7ish GPA. (I went to Randolph, in Huntsville, if you’ve heard of it. Nice to see someone else from my home state, hehe.)
For the academics, I prefer UNC. Tulane gives a lot of money, so you might want to look into that. I’ve heard getting a full scholarship is a negotiable thing. I’m not criticizing SC, but have you looked into other schools in the SEC possibly above it in caliber, in particular Georgia, or maybe staying in-state at Alabama/Auburn?</p>
<p>As for a side note about weddings, I always wanted to have a big wedding in the South, but then I went to the University of Michigan, not for an escape, but based on academics I really couldn’t get near home and wanting to be somewhere entirely different after going to a small southern private school for 13 years. Now, I want a big southern-style wedding while it’s snowing Michigan-style snow outside complete with a “Hail to the Victors” wedding march and a dinner of sweet tea and fried okra.</p>
<p>haha thats true palmettotree. we can get married and have a huge city-wide blowout. however, with the remainder of my money, i need to pay for college…and i wont qualify for FA (trust me), but i cant just pull 55,000$ out of my pocket either. christine- i want to get OUT of alabama. O-U-T. i am soooo tired of it. i want to look @ tulane, but i am worried about it being 2.5 hours away from my home (too close?). UGH. and i am really gonna try to get the cornelius vanderbilt scholarship, but my chances are slim…</p>
<p>I understand wanting out. Hehe, I’m the one who went all the way to Michigan. Have you looked at UT-Austin or any of the easier-to-get-a-scholarship-from private schools like Sewanee or Furman? Also, are you looking to stay in the South?</p>
<p>Sewanee is wayy to small and “remote” for me, and I visited Furman. i want a bit more of a party school (the people there were absolute sweethearts but a little <em>tame</em> for my tastes). i just dont know if vandy is worth it!?!?</p>
<p>Take my word for it, Nashville isn’t that great.</p>
<p>I would not go to Vandy at a premium over Tulane or UNC unless the school just feels so much like home to you that you know that it’s the place to be. Or if there is some other outstanding reason.</p>
<p>lulu, the issue of money especially talking about it over the Internet is a little weird to me, but basically, where I’m coming from and assuming we have similar backgrounds, Vanderbilt would absolutely be worth it. I don’t have aid and only some scholarship money they gave. From my perspective: You have some of the Southern schools that are “peers” to an extent like W&L, H-SC, (for me), Duke, Sewanee, UVa to an extent, UNC (kind of), and then the schools that have a similar social culture (the rest of the SEC East minus Jortville, USA), but none of them have the balance of being an academic school with SEC culture and a location that anyone can appreciate no matter where they’re from. It all comes down to balance and Vandy has it. The school definitely has some people especially nowadays that I won’t hang out with (just adds more balance though), but the social circle you’ll have at Vandy will probably be very similar to the one you have now but more geographically diverse.</p>
<p>NOLA is a solid city but I wouldn’t go near Tulane if they offered me a full ride plus pension. Same goes for Emory.</p>
<p>Most importantly, don’t take your acceptance for granted. One of my good friends that is a girl was a trip legacy and her family donates, a lot, and she got passed over ED and then RD for some AA admit. Be careful and keep working hard but playing harder ;).</p>
<p>well…im in the same thing..my family doesnt qualify for aid however i got a pretty good scholarship when i bargained w/ my offers from other school. idk if you’ve tried that but maybe a good idea. out of all the schools i’ve looked at, wash u, emory, boston college, i liked the vanderbilt atmosphere the most.
i would not go to tulane</p>
<p>That is very interesting about the legacy being passed over for an AA admit. Did the admissions office call the parents to tell them who was admitted instead of their daughter, or was it the development office?</p>
<p>I highly doubt the university said “We’re not talking your daughter, we’re taking this URM instead.” I would assume the person in question and the URM go to the same secondary school though, which is why it’s being assumed one was taken directly over the other. The truth of the matter is that it’s just a big applicant pool and they take the best candidates. It’s not some one-vs-one type of thing between two people applying from the same school.</p>
<p>palmettotree: Your friend could have been denied acceptance for any number of reasons.</p>
<p>How can you be against AA but for the advantage of legacy status? Both of them depend on factors that the applicant can’t control, but with one of them, privilege breeds privilege.</p>
<p>haha, actually for both of them, privilege breeds privilege</p>
<p>if you are acquainted with palmettotree’s posts, he is staunchly against AA. I guess it’s understandable</p>