<p>Greetings!</p>
<p>Even though it's only January at the moment, time is dwindling down as the Fall 2014 transfer application deadline approaches for Vanderbilt University. Let us use this thread to come together as transfer applicants & share in what will hopefully be a successful college application process. Let the discussions commence!</p>
<p>I remember the thread from last year. How everyone was chipping in what they could. Glad to see someone made one this year. It’s finally our turn to apply and see if we can make the jump!</p>
<p>Hopefully, it will be a good admissions process.</p>
<p>What’s up guys? Anybody turned in their app yet?</p>
<p>Haven’t wrapped up the application, but getting close. Where are you guys trying to transfer from? I’m coming from Claremont McKenna College. </p>
<p>Hey guys!
I’m Thomas and I’m applying as a sophomore transfer student from the University of Missouri - Columbia (Mizzou).</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>HS GPA: Unweighted - 3.91; Weighted - 4.02
Class rank: 2/70
ACT: 31; Superscore: 32
Highest Scores
E - 34
M - 33
R - 31
S - 31
EC’s - Captain of Academic Team for 4 years (all-conference and all-district all four years), Key Club (President for 1 year), FBLA (Went to Nationals in 2013), Foreign Culture Club VP, Students Against Destructive Decisions VP, National Honor Society Committee Leader, Tutor for Algebra II, and also took 4 college course and an AP course while in high school. Received mainly A’s in these courses, and only got a 2 on my AP test (slept through part of it). Worked a part time job since the beginning of sophomore year until my 18th birthday, then got a full time job at local telemarketing company to save money for college. </p>
<p>College GPA: FS - 3.94 in the Honors College Program
EC’s: Circle K International and the Missouri Student Foundation Ambassador. I also volunteer at a local low-income tutoring facility near Mizzou.</p>
<p>My course load has been mainly sophomore level classes as a freshmen, two of which have been honors. I’m applying to Peabody as a Secondary Education/English major.
First generation college student, also
All I have left of my application is two recommendations from professors, both of which should be completed by this weekend.</p>
<p>Sorry for the eyeful, lol. I’ve just been so nervous about being accepted and I am really excited to be able to talk to other people who are applying!</p>
<p>Yay! A Vandy transfer thread! I’ve been looking all over for you. </p>
<p>Is anyone else only seeing 11th and 12th grade (for highschool) on the activities page of their common app?</p>
<p>And Thomas, I’m EXTREMELY NERVOUS too, and your stats far exceed mine.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m spamming now… Does anyone else know where to put personal recommendations (non academic)? I don’t really see a slot for that kind of thing. Also, are they still doing the Vanderbilt supplement plus the common app or did they stop that this year?</p>
<p>Yeah, they focus mainly on 11th and 12th grade of high school because those are seen as “more important”. Those are when students take harder courses and get jobs for the most part, and they probably just want to see how involved we were as our course loads and schedules became more difficult.</p>
<p>@zerocool69, what are your stats?</p>
<p>So I had a really good GPA first semester (3.94/4.0) so do you think it would be necessary to turn in a midterm report? Someone told me it wasn’t necessary unless it was going to make a huge difference. I play on having a 4.0 this semester, but that’s not that much of a difference is it?</p>
<p>@CaptT Shannan</p>
<p>It doesn’t sound to me like the midterm report will make much difference in your case because you have a stable trend of good grades. For me, the mid term report should help because it will raise my grade point average to a 3.9,</p>
<p>As far as my stats… I am wanting to go pre-nurse and, I’m honestly feeling legitimately nervous…</p>
<p>I was a nontraditional homeschool student in Highschool (meaning I have no GPA), but I had a sound academic philosophy that was based on research and showing proficiency through writing rather than tests and grades. I had a few EC’s but mostly church related stuff. My highest SAT superscore was 1790. (I have really bad test anxiety, but I have registered to take it again, and should do much better now.)</p>
<p>I am now a full time student at a 4 year community college that’s ranked 7th in the nation for academics (they are the transfer school for University of Florida), but I haven’t taken anything above 2,000 level courses (it’s just way the college is structured, you have to take prereques unless you already have CLEP.)</p>
<p>EC’s include work as a Unit Secretary in the ICU mainly, followed by volunteer experience in med/surg Oncology and Critical Care, local promotion of Cancer Prevention Study 3, ROCK camp (one time local event for cancer children) sponsored by ACS, Sewing For Sudan (local girl scout project of sewing 200 washable feminine care kits for girls in South Sudan - I help sew, manage donations, as well as teach the girls how to sew), and Open Cadaver Dissection which is a supervised dissection of a human cadaver by a few eligible students at my college.</p>
<p>My weakness, I feel, is really lack of on campus/academic activities, and the fact that my courses and grades are not very competitive is going to probably cost me everything, but you have to try, right?</p>
<p>Right, yeah! My biggest thing that I’m worried about is my recommendations. I have four of them, but two are from college professors who don’t know me that well, one is from my Key Club advisor, and one is from my high school English teacher. I’m just not sure how they will view my recs compared to all of the other stellar people who are applying. But I don’t know. I feel like I’m at least good enough to have a fair shot.</p>
<p>I explained in my essay that the reason I wanted to transfer was that I always wanted to go to Vanderbilt, but I went to Mizzou my first year because Mizzou had given me a full ride scholarship and both of my parents had just lost their jobs. So, it just made sense to go to a college for free and then see what my options are. I didn’t bash Mizzou at all in the essay; I explained how it’s a great school, but my major is Secondary Education and I’ve always wanted to attend Peabody because it’s the best education school in the country!</p>
<p>Hopefully all works out. I’m waiting on one letter of recommendation now, and after that my application will be complete!</p>
<p>How many recommendations is everyone having sent? Is anyone filling the available 10 recommender spots?</p>
<p>I’m doing four. A friend told me it that between 3-5 is perfect because you want them to have a good idea of the person you are, but you don’t want to overkill it.</p>
<p>So, is there not a place for personal (non academic) recommendations on the common app?</p>
<p>I think they just submit an offline recommendation letter. I’m not exactly sure.</p>
<p>@zerocool69</p>
<p>Do you by chance go to Miami Dade?</p>
<p>I had my personal recommendations (supervisors, etc) sent by mail and my academic ones done on the Common App. I have 3 letters, I’ve been told even 2 is fine but one isn’t enough. Is anyone else a bit older, or no of anyone at Vandy who is? I left Claremont McKenna after my parents lost their jobs and went into the workforce for the last 2.5 years. I had good grades and test scores before I left and I have been working as a firefighter for a local department and a rescue ranger for the National Park Service, which tie into my career goals of emergency medicine. Hopefully the forced break wont hurt my application too much. </p>