@11countrymusic11 It’s unbelievable that you were not accepted. You were 10x more qualified to be accepted at Vandy than I am.
Ya i got denied with a 34 act and 3.8 gpa and good extraccuriculars and very good essay about moving continents sophomore year…
@sgallagher23 16 writing. I fell asleep during the writing and woke up with 3 minutes to spare and wrote the crappiest paragraph of my life
@somewheresmiling but you still got into Vanderbilt. Did your writing score show up on your student portal. My writing score is missing under the ACT section.
has anyone gotten their VU net ID? my info hasn’t come in and I submitted the matriculation fee awhile ago.
@dolphindancer37 the portal says we won’t get that til April 1st.
yes it did show up on the portal.
Idk if anyone is checking this page but im applying ed2 and the decisions havent released yet but under financial i have heard of two different things and was wondering if any of you had either and what they mean?
One said undegraduate 2016-2017
Other said stuff about IDOC
What do these mean?
Thanks a lot!
Does anyone know how good the financial aid is at Vandy?
@Mysonsdad Phenomenal, but sometimes people in the middle class do not receive as fitting of a package as someone in the lower or upper classes. I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles.
@SoBobolicious thank you. Do you happen to know how accurate Vandy’s net price calculator is? I am finding most schools are way off and not in a good way
@Mysonsdad We found it to be pretty accurate.
Hi @Mysonsdad- Sorry to hear you are having NPC issues. It has been accurate for us as well. Vanderbilt aid is about as good as it gets. They are very generous. For us, we had one college come back noticeably better (one of those rare exceptions) but it varies from family to family per your circumstances. Is there something throwing your numbers off, do you think? Some CSS Profile schools take into account home equity…some retirement accounts, some ask about automobiles. Do you have a lot of other assets? Folks who own their own businesses seem to have a difficult time getting an accurate aid assessment. The FAFSA is not the best indicator of what to expect at Profile schools-different methodology.
It’s probably one of the best in the top 15 universities
I can tell one of the students I know got in with class rank of over 40 and good SAT 2370, a National Merit etc. May be essays could be good.
When are decisions out?
@aewryh : I’m still trying to figure out why top 15 is now some magical tier much different from top 20 or even 30. Others at other schools usually don’t state it like that (they would just say top 20 if they aren’t it top 10 as 15 isn’t a magical threshold of success suddenly making you less comparable to the 5 or so schools below for which Vanderbilt does generally have better financial aid. Now many top 10s…not so much. However, since top 10s aren’t desperate for high scoring applicants and many are Ivies that do not give merit scholarships, yes need based aid is relatively strong at Vanderbilt, but so s it at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc. The schools that do give merit up in that range don’t readily give it to just those with extremely high numbers that they seek to yield. They give it to some people for excellent reasons and to some for who knows what reasons having less to do with stats).
@rksugarland : They had a very high SAT and National Merit. Vanderbilt flat out creates a separate line and a long description of why they care about SAT’s on the admissions site which is unlike most schools. Essays are less important there as supplements do not really exist and/or are comparatively generic compared to most other privates (ranked higher or lower). 2370 is pretty close to 2400 and they come in with a scholarship. I am willing to bet some other more score sensitive schools will admit that person while some schools with harder essays or something may deny or waitlist (especially some top 10 schools). Also, that rank vs. that SAT suggests a rigorous enough curriculum.
Would love to hear who was a legacy here (admitted or rejected)