Official Vanderbilt Class of 2020 Results Thread

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**Decision: Accepted/b

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):N/A
ACT (breakdown): 34 (35M, 35S, 33R, 32E)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.952
Weighted GPA: 4.752 (Weird weighting scale)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/270
AP (place score in parentheses): Calc AB:5, Microeconomics:5, Macroeconomics:4, Physics C Mechanics:3
IB (place score in parentheses):N/A
Senior Year Course Load:AP Physics C E and M, Music Appreciation(Needed the art credit), AP Biology, Business Management Advanced Studies, Ap Literature and Composition, Student Council, AP U.S. Government, Student Aide, Ap Stats
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
DECA State Champion SEM
DECA State Finalist SEM 2x
Business Student of the Year (My school)
Best Treasurer in my Region (BBYO)

Vanderbilt Merit Scholarship: Applied, but did not receive

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Intern for an Israeli Advocacy group
DECA (Procurement Manager, then Treasurer)
FBLA
JSU (Treasurer, Secretary)
BBYO ( City VP, treasurer, secretary, newsletter writer/editor, Regional Newsletter Writer/editor)
NCSY( City Vice President)
Lacrosse 1 year jv
Lacrosse 2 years varsity
National Honors Society
Varsity Quiz
Ambassadors (Assistant Director of Finance)
Boys State Honors City Mayor
Job/Work Experience: Internship at a Small Investment Banking Firm
Volunteer/Community service:NHS, Ambassadors, Youth Groups
Summer Activities: Internship
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9/10
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: 9/10
Teacher Rec #2: 9/10
Counselor Rec: 10/10
Additional Rec: 9/10
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Economics
State (if domestic applicant): NV
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public Magnet
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 200,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

Reflection

Strengths: I am a pretty well rounded student
Weaknesses: I am only a well rounded student and not nationally ranked in something
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I am an advocate for israel and that got me in the door and ultimately accepted through Mosaic even though i am white.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted:Indiana-Bloomington, Tulane, Arizona State University, San Diego State University, Northeastern
Waitlisted: Wash U
Waiting: Yale, Penn, Cornell, Brown

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Rejected

Objective:

[ul]
[] SAT I: 2240
[] ACT:
[] SAT II: 770 us, 720 m2, 710 m1, 730 chinese
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 25/650
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 3s and 4s
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP, DE, Honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul] National Merit[/li]
Subjective:

[ul]
[] Extracurriculars: mu vp, german treasurer, swimming, some honor societies
[] Job/Work Experience: lifeguard
[] Volunteer/Community service: 133 hours
[] Essays: decent
[] Teacher Recommendations: no idea
[] Counselor Rec: decent
[] Additional Rec:
[] Interview:[/ul] eh. It was a bit awkward. didn’t flow as well as some of the other interviews

Other

[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: 250k +
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul] none that I can think of[/li]
Reflection

[ul]
[] Strengths: scores kinda
[] Weaknesses: grades maybe. lack of interest shown?
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: weaknesses. 2 people from my school got in
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/ul]
accepted: Rice, USC, UVa, UNC Chapel Hill, UF, UCF
waitlisted: JHU, Notre Dame
rejected: Duke, Vandy, Dartmouth ED

General Comments:
I am not surprised or offended at all. I was actually kind of expecting this. Fortunately I was admitted to Rice which was one of my reach schools. Hopefully I get some good news on Ivy Day.

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[asize=4][acolor=#FFA500]Decision: Weightlisted[/color][/size]

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 34
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.52
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish Language 4, Chemisty 5, Human Geo 4, US History 4, English Comp 5, Stats 5
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
NSDA Academic All American
Vanderbilt Merit Scholarship: No

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Cross Country(Captain), Debate Team(Captain), Track and Field, School Ambassador, NHS, Rho Kappa, Spanish Honor Society, Honor Council
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: 6 weeks of mission work in Honduras over summer, 30hrs per year at local homeless shelter, 60hrs of Church missions
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App 8/10; talked about learning to be a leader on the debate team with the failure prompt.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
English Teacher 10/10
Spanish Teacher 8/10; talked about my passion for Spanish and how I’ve used it in my Honduran mission work
Counselor Rec: 8/10
Additional Rec:
Interview: none

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): AL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 120,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths: Test score and leadership roles
Weaknesses: I’m a southern white guy
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Another white guy at my school was accepted ED2 and they didn’t need another person from my school/demographic
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Don’t know yet
General Comments:
Was really disappointed. Out of all the schools I applied I thought my best chance of acceptance was Vandy.

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2170 (CR 720 M 680 W 770) 2150 single sitting
ACT (breakdown): didn’t take
SAT II: didn’t send
Weighted GPA: 4.09
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language and Composition (5), Music Theory (5)
Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs (Bio, Stat, French, Literature, HG) and 2 music ensembles
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Princeton Book Award, several music composition and music awards etc.

Vanderbilt Merit Scholarship: N/A

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Music: Violin (concertmaster of several orchestras up to All State), Composition (works premiered by major orchestras), Vocal performance (Top tenor in the state),
Honors: French Honor Society (President), National Honor Society, International Thespian Society
Job/Work Experience: Freelance writing and editing business
Volunteer/Community service: Several trips, worked at hospital for several summers, trips to homeless shelters
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App: 9/10 - thought this was solid
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: AP Lang Teacher - 8/10 - didn’t read, assume it was good
Teacher Rec #2: Anatomy Teacher - 8.5/10 - didn’t read, assume it was good
Counselor Rec: 7.5/10 - sure it was fine, but you never know, counselors are often not amazing writers so :confused:
Additional Rec: Two supplemental letters - Capstone project mentor (9/10) and letter from composition professor (8.5/10)
Interview: Went to campus for Blair interview, 10/10, couldn’t have been better

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Music Composition and Biological Sciences (and Japanese?)
State (if domestic applicant): Northeast, foreign citizenship
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Irrelevant
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): International person, trilingual

Reflection

Strengths: Composition Portfolio, Essays, Interview, Grades, meeting faculty in person, letters of rec
Weaknesses: Test scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I clicked with the people I met and I worked hard on my applications
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Vanderbilt, BU (Honors $50k merit), Grinnell ($15k merit), UConn (Honors $7k merit)
Waitlisted: Williams, Tufts, UChicago
Rejected: Northwestern, Harvard, Yale (deferred SCEA), Dartmouth

General Comments: I am incredibly happy to be going to Vanderbilt next year. Congratulations to fellow admitted students, hang in their those on the waitlist (honestly such a stupid move on the college’s part, hate the waitlist), and to those rejected, please accept a virtual hug from me, and go on and be happy elsewhere beautiful people :slight_smile:

GO 'DORES!

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send
ACT (breakdown): 35 E/33 M/35 R/36 S, 35 Comp.
SAT II: 770 Math II, 790 M. Bio
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: n/a
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (4) Bio (5) Lang (5) Psych (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load:
Math 234 @ Univ of Wi. Madison, AP Lit, APUSH, AP Physics II, Econ, Biotech, World Religions, International Relations, Issues in Global D
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nope lmao

Vanderbilt Merit Scholarship: didn’t apply

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Girls Learn Intl - 2 yrs (Founder & President)
Varsity Mock Trial - 2 yrs (prosecuting attorney, defense lead witness, team captain)
AMIGOS - 2yrs volunteer in PY, (chapter trainer)
SciOly - 3 yrs
Student Voice Union - 2 yrs
JV soccer - 4 yrs

Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service:
Youth Science Exploration (2 yrs) Founded, designed, and ran an after school program for elementary STEM education
UW Health volunteer (2 years)

Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
uh idek wrote about founding the YSE after school thing, it was alright; i liked it.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: idk didn’t read, she was my Mock Trial coach and club adviosr
Teacher Rec #2: idk didn’t read, my calc teacher
Counselor Rec: idk didn’t read
Additional Rec: idk didn’t read, president of elem. school that i run an after school program for
Interview: didn’t do

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: nope
Intended Major: …molecular biology i think, tbh i don’t remember lol
State (if domestic applicant): Wisconsin
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 250,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): don’t think so

Reflection

Strengths: GPA, test scores…idk
Weaknesses: not very school involved ? no student gov, no music, lmao idek
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no idea
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Vandy, UCLA, Berkeley, UW Madison
WL’d: Northwestern, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Brown
Rejected: Harvard, Duke
General Comments:

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Decision: Accepted Mosaic

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2360 - 800 CR, 770 M, 790 W
ACT: n/a
SAT II: 800 USH, 740 Chem, 720 Lit
Unweighted GPA (4.0 scale): 4.00
Weighted GPA (4.0 scale): 5.68
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5% of 378
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography, World History, US History, Chemistry, Comparative Government (all 5’s)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Gov, AP Econ, AP Statistics, AP Physics 1, Spanish IV H, Juvenile Law H/Homicide H,
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, NHRP, AP Scholar with Distinction

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Four year Varsity and Club soccer (1 year as captain) - top nationally ranked teams, Spanish Honor Society (President), Pre Law Society (electives every semester and internship), NHS (Treasurer), Rho Kappa
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: Sailing Instuctor every summer (~400 hours)
Summer Activities: sailing, soccer. Did an 8 day program on IR at GU.
Essays: Common App about teaching sailing
Teacher Recommendation: great
Counselor Rec: 10/10 great relationship

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major: Political Science
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: top ranked private school
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Spain, Mexico)
Gender: M
Income Bracket: high
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM

Reflection
Strengths: test scores, grades, URM
Weaknesses: course load could have been more challenging. Never took AP Calc, AP Lang, AP Physics C, or a few of the other more difficult courses at my school.
Where accepted: Yale, Penn, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, BC, UVa, WUSTL, USC
Waitlisted: Brown
Rejected: Harvard

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Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (CR=720, Writing= 750, Math= 800)
ACT (breakdown): didn’t take
SAT II: Physics=740, Math 2C= 800
TOEFL: 119 (Not included in the formula, but thought might help for internationals, so)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7, but 3.8 excluding freshman
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/30
AP (place score in parenthesis): calculus=5, statistics=4, micro and macro= 4, english= 4, physics b=5
IB (place score in parenthesis): no
Senior Year Course Load: APUSH, AP Chem
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

  • International Social Science for Youth finalist
  • Global Enterprise Challenge 2nd place
    *Global Enterprise Challenge individual Award
  • Seould National University Essay Competition 1st place (international)
  • GO game (it’s the game that alphago played) - I became a professional
    P.S: dunno if these awards count, as they’re not that recognized except GEC

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Business Club (president/founder), Math Club (council member), A Secondhandshop (more like volunteer, but was assistant manager in the shop), , Forensics Club (president), Varsity Cross Country, Church Orchestra (lead cellist), Peace Club, GO game club
Job/Work Experience: Korea Economic Development Cooperative Intern, Direct FX Trading intern, CJ (a Korean firm) intern in the marketing section
Volunteer/Community service: North Korea Human Rights Group intern, library assistant,
Summer Activities: ummmm… I guess none? Wow, what did I do now I come to think about it?
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I think around 9.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: 10. She knows me well, and we got along very well.
Teacher Rec #2: Ummmm… 6, I think he just copy pasted the rec letter for every student lol, but wrote beneficially at least.
Counselor Rec: 10, she also knows me well.
Additional Rec: No
Interview: No

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Economics
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): South Korea
School Type: Freaking small, like 30 kids
Ethnicity: Korean
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Parents don’t tell me, so don’t ask me.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
First Generation college

Reflection

Strengths: Awards? Extracurricular activities
Weaknesses: AP scores, low SAT compared to other asians, mayber should have taken one more subject test, freaking bad freshman grades, universities don’t know my high school
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: honestly, it’s Harvard. I did it just in case. Doesn’t make me sad at all
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: UCLA, Vanderbilt, the other UCs except Berkeley, Emory, UVA, BC, colgate,
Waitlisted: Notre Dame, NYU stern, chicago, washu, stanford
rejected: harvard, yale, johns hopkins, northwestern, brown, cornell (ED- defer, then reject), georgetown, berkeley, michigan, oh i can’t even remember the rest. too much to write all.

General Comments :
I don’t even know how many colleges I applied to. 25? 30? All I know is, I don’t regret it. There are lots of cases in which a student has to go to his/her safety school. I didn’t want that. So applied a lot. (freakishly exhausting, I know) There are lots of people that tell you to apply to few that you really want to. The truth is, the competition is so fierce nowadays that the old way isn’t really going to work anymore. I was actually depressed that I didn’t get into any ivy league. But after getting accepted to Vanderbilt from the waitlist, where I’m going, I’m pretty satisfied. I feel that I got accepted pretty well compared to other international asians with my score, and I’m grateful for that. I looked through college confidential a lot, and I do admit that it helped a bit. but i think it would be better for future kids to do other stuff instead of cc. try to raise your SAT score as much as possible, and also GPA. it is holistic, I know, but the higher your score is, the greater your chance of acceptance. Unless your SAT is 2350+, then RAISE YOUR SCORE as much as you can. Colleges do look into your personality and other things, especially for HYPS, but the score, I think, is the basis, especially for asians who have such high scores. Feel free to message me. I’ll try to help, if I can.