Accepted!!!
rejected 2280, double 800 Math II and Chem, 44/45 IB
Accepted I’m happy but not too too surprised: people have told me that Vandy views scores as a big part in admissions and I have a perfect score on the SAT and a 800 and 730 on 2 SAT2s. However I don’t think that I deserve this more than anyone else on this thread. I have been wait listed at 2 of my favorite schools. We just need to accept that some schools value somethings more than other school does. Well that went on longer than I expected 
good luck to everyone for the rest of the decision! I’m sure we will all end up in where we want to be
Accepted (SAT 2060, from Kazakhstan, grant 62k a year)
@ Alundari
Oh fuck off with that. I have college educated parents and barely got a 29 ACT. There are variety of things that go into this.
@IvyLeagueIsMine what is your background? There are always exceptions but vanderbilt is open about seeking numbers and minorities. Many white students come off the wait list as indicated on this board by percentages and evidenced in the student body. Your user name indicates your preference is elsewhere – for example.
i disagree w the vandy only wants scores and hooks-i’m asian (albeit yes a very preppy jcrew illy pulitzer asian) with good scores and relatively ivy-level EC’s. all the other apps from my school were asians with pretty good scores. i was waitlisted, they were all rejected
@teenagecrime I just wanted to say that they might not exclusively want those things, but I gotta say, they help a lot more at Vandy than anywhere else-
I have garbage grades, an even worse mid year report, and pretty much non existent ECs. I’ve been rejected by WashU, Bowdoin, Pomona, CMC, Northwestern, Middlebury, and Chicago, Vandy was the first acceptance I got-
And i’m sure it was because of my legacy and my test scores.
My D has stellar grades and scores (straight As in APs, 2300 SAT 35 ACT), captain of varsity sports, president of clubs, National Merit Finalist. Waitlisted. She’s sad, and I’m sad for her.
@aacvj103 We have a friend exactly like that. Your D may well come off the waitlist but I hope she will look elsewhere too bc that is just NOT right. Scores and minority status > EC’s and service at Vandy these days. That does not mean that many qualified minorities (who have great ECs and are service oriented) are not deserving of their admission. It does mean that many qualified applicants with the same stats are being denied or waitlisted because they are not minorities or have a story. Vanderbilt is on a stated mission & the posts on this website are a good microcosm of the whole picture.
@DjangoIRL i was waitlisted by washu and chicago 
didnt apply for the other schools, but i’m feeling like i’ll be receiving many WL this season
@2400sONLY2400s Try to beat my 2500! You’ll get rejected because you CANT!!! That’s right dummy.
This is the pattern. Focus is on scores, minorities and hooks RD … Waitlist the others. Then many go elsewhere and WL will move. I think it’s a terrible approach personally and should be color-blind.
@aacvj103 @str8up Another example here: 35 ACT (36M + all 35s) one sitting, 4.6 GPA. State DECA officer, two-time varsity tennis captain (3X state qualifier, natl. ranked), MUN officer, Lots of awards, NMSF, NHS, Teen Court foreman, hundreds of hours service. But no arts.
Waitlisted. White. Upper middle-class. Something never felt right about Vanderbilt anyway.
Just to be clear, would Asians count as a ‘minority’ at Vandy? So one can assume its the one school we’d have a higher (relative) chance of admission?
@DjangoIRL Asians are actually slightly higher than the general population rate at Vandy. So no, they are not overrepresented. Blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented by about 1/2-2/3 the normal population percentages so they count. I can see why 20% Asian Ivy Leagues would make someone think that a 7% Asian population is underrepresented but that’s not the case when about 5.6% of the US population is Asian.
How does Vanderbilt consider mixed race kids? The “two or more races” category seems to be nebulous and considered differently at different schools.
Accepted! 4.3 GPA, 33 ACT, 2120 SAT, 10 APs
Blacks and Hispanics are not underrepresented because of their skin color. They are underrepresented because they, as a group, tend to underperform in school. Why do they underperform? A lot of reasons. Poverty. Lack of opportunity in their neighborhoods. Lack of guidance at home. Bad peer influences, and high drug use. Culture that values other things (such as sports). But all these things can plague whites as well.
Instead of making it racial, how about we give a little extra leeway (grades and scorewise) to anyone who is SOCIALLY disadvantaged? They already do it with need-blind. Let’s make admissions need-aware. Not race-aware. As it is now, even affluent minorities are advantaged. And they can game the system because of it.
But, really, elite colleges are more concerned with the APPEARANCE of equality than real equal opportunity. And a poor person is harder to identify on sight than black or white skin.
Rant over.
Of course, Asians are DISadvantaged because so many of them are high academic achievers. So they are effectively penalized in admissions. But that’s another rant of its own.
Rejected 3.65 UW GPA and 2070 SAT 11 AP’s