<p>WAITLISTED
SAT - 1520 SAT Subject Tests MATH II - 740, CHEM - 760
ACT - 33 (Math-36, English - 34, took a hit on Science -?32 and reading - 29? - I’ll update when I ask him those scores, but it’s close)
GPA - unweighted 4.0
PSEO - Ohio State Univ. 4.0 gpa - Hon.Bio, Neuroscience (Junior level class), Comparative Studies
Senior course load - 4 A.P. classes and PSEO - semester gpa - 4.68 (weighted)
A.P. - Latin (5), Chem. (5), Psychology (5), English (4), Physics (5)
Cross Country, Robotics - Lead programmer x2yrs, FIRST FRC World Competition x2yrs, Model UN, Engineering Team, Material Science Engineering - OSU Research x 2yrs, Internship - OSU Director of Neurology (studied Parkinson’s Disease) Latin and Chemistry Tutor, Hospital volunteer, Cardinals for Life, HOBY leadership school representative - Regional and National, Latin scholar…
Rejections so far - Univ. of Chicago, MIT, Northwestern
Waitlisted - Boston College
Waiting - JHU, Harvard, Univ. of Rochester
Accepted - Boston University, Rose-Hulman, Univ. of Pitt (full tuition), Saint Louis Univ. (1/2 tuiition - didn’t apply for awards), OSU (maximus award)
*Since he sent in his original information, he has just won a Regional FIRST FRC competition and been given a slot at the World FRC competition in April (he is the CDT Lead for programming). Should he offer this information to the school? Since he transferred schools last year, he actually founded a Robotics team at two separate high schools (Junior and Senior years) and won Rookie All-Star two years in a row. Will it make a difference for admission? Also, he did not send his official AP scores to the school. Will sending those scores affect his chances?</p>
<p>Its always good to send extra info/awards if you are on the waitlist</p>
<p>Accepted!!! I was pleasantly surprised after the duke rejection. I thought I didn’t get in because priority mail to my area had a 2 day commitment, but I got the packet today</p>
<p>I agree with vandy08grad regarding respect for a time-honored tradition. I know many would prefer that all colleges have a unified method of communicating decisions to students, but the letter my son received from Vanderbilt seemed more personal than the emails from other schools. It also seemed fitting coming from a place where relationships and community are so highly valued.</p>
<p>Waitlisted, 2nd waitlist in 12 hours and 3rd of the application process. Pretty frustrated but I know things will end alright.</p>
<p>NOT as highly valued as you might think. My triple legacy daughter was denied today, ACT 34. They have turned there backs on alumni to try to improve their national image. Remember that, as I will, when they come soliciting alumni donations. I expect that 80% of my class would not get in today.</p>
<p>their not there, sorry. See what I mean!:)</p>
<p>Has anyone in Missouri / St. Louis gotten an accept yet?</p>
<p>u rochester notified by email ands then sent a very nice personalized letter referencing specific achievements of the applicant.</p>
<p>^mysonsmom and ^vandy08grad To clarify yet again as has been necessary a few pages back - you should read more carefully before you reply to posts - the issue is NOT that they are mailed! The issue is that they are mailing acceptances priority mail and rejects/waitlists by regular mail. The fact that several Vandy grads/students reply improperly for the sake of promoting their school, without fully reading what is going on to understand the comments first, doesn’t impress. We know how much you love Vandy, you went there…</p>
<p>^compnerd, I partially agree. But in 2013, it’s possible to make the process fair and at the same time effective. For instance, emailing internationals, and mailing US students, is silly. Mailing to everyone in the US, even Hawaii & Alaska, is equally silly, because they don’t all get there in time. Why not email and then follow up, as other schools do?</p>
<p>But we’re just grumping, we can’t really get them to change anything. They’ll either come around to it, or not. Given that some Vandy grads seem to think it’s a great tradition (!), perhaps never.</p>
<p>Folks, don’t get me wrong, I think highly of Vandy, have friends who went there, a family member who’s heading there. And it remains an option for my son, at least for the next few hours, until we hear from all the schools!</p>
<p>Vanderbilt >>>>>>Duke
Nashville>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Durham</p>
<p>Nothing in NJ again today… Taking this as a very, very bad sign. But even a rejection should have reached me by now!</p>
<p>No notification as of yet for my son in NH but I’m not expecting he’ll be admitted. That’s fine as he was accepted into his first choice so we’re really happy about that.</p>
<p>In hindsight, had we known how competitive Vandy was, I don’t think he would have applied. Vandy was the one school that we joked were spammers - we honestly received 4-6 mailings monthly encouraging him to apply, how great the financial aid package is, blah, blah, blah. My son called Vandy his “stalker school”. We even checked Naviance at his school to be sure his stats and grades were in range as compared to other students from his school and they were. Not to sound like sour grapes because I truly don’t feel that way but it feels now like a total hustle. And now knowing that letters for rejected/waitlisted students are coming in a different fashion vs. accepted letters is very offputting. And I would feel that way even if my son is accepted.</p>
<p>The whole experience has left us feeling negatively towards Vandy unfortunately.</p>
<p>accepted!!
3.9 gpa, 2340 SAT (2400 superscored), decent ECs
back to back duke and vandy 
had a crappy last week-waitlisted to rice and wutsl</p>
<p>^ Vanderbilt is a great place to go to school. I went when it was really easy to get in and 2 of our kids graduated from there. I honestly, really believe that there are a couple of things that have contributed to Vanderbilt’s appeal. First of all, the Common Application. I think that one thing has increased EVERY institution’s applications. Vanderbilt also is the only TOP school I can think of that doesn’t require an additional essay. Did that appeal to my engineering sons? You bet! I think it’s one way that they get people to just throw out another application for the heck of it when they’re feeling overwhelmed. Think about it…</p>
<p>Boston College just instituted an additional essay this year and saw a 9000 decrease in applications. I do think the Common App has made it so much easier to apply to a bunch of schools. It’s amazed me that every school we’ve visited for accepted student days says “there was a 30% increase in applications”. I think more kids are applying to more and more colleges. I’m really interested to see BC’s yield this year since presumably the folks who did apply really want to go there since they took the time to write the essay.</p>
<p>O no!!! That is their loss. What a shame! Not right.</p>
<p>My experience with Priority Mail (which was used for acceptances) is that it does not arrive any faster than first class mail (which was used for denials and waitlists). It just arrives in an envelope that looks like overnight mail. I quit paying extra for this service after I found it to be slower than first class mail several times!!</p>
<p>Stanford required the main essay and I think 3 additional mini-essays. I thought they were good prompts, and intended to reveal the person behind the app, and my son enjoyed writing them.</p>
<p>Cornell required an additional “major interest” essay, if I’m remembering correctly. Also useful and relevant, I thought. Even for engineers … :-)</p>
<p>So personally I think it’s not a bad thing for a competitive school to require additional essays, although I can see (and sympathize with the idea) that many applicants might see them as “yet more to do”.</p>