<p>did you get the FA you were looking for?</p>
<p>Someone my D knows applied ED2 and did get what they needed.</p>
<p>regardless, they meet 100% need with grants, and generally is one of the better schools when it comes to FA. how does ED/RD factor into that?</p>
<p>Do not…I repeat…do not apply ED if you are unsure about finances, or are counting on receiving merit aid. Our student applied ED, was NMF,valedictorian, Pres Scholar candidate, near perfect SAT.ACT etc yet received zero Vanderbilt merit aid except for NMF money ($5K/year). Unless your family has true financial need, or can pay for your education without need-based aid, you should not apply ED as it is binding.</p>
<p>Hey I applied ED last year and I got great aid. I only have to pay $7,000 for this whole year at vandy. All the rest is grants except I got $2000 in work study that will go towards my personal expenses. Of course, there was really no doubt that my family would get financial aid it was just a question of how much. My parents did not want me to do ED but the financial aid office helped my mom determine what our aid would be before I applied ED so after my parents looked at that they were ok with letting me do it. If you really want to go to Vandy but you feel like you’re borderline, ED can be a big help in getting you in so I would recommend talking to the financial aid office about estimating your aid beforehand. Basically, they will tell you a specific online EFC calculator to use and then everything besides the EFC will be grants except $2000 in work study if you qualify.</p>
<p>yes im worried i wont get the money i need, but vandy is known to be very generous…wow dr7291 thats eally great they estaimted your FA before you applied! so did you just call them?</p>
<p>oh and does anyone know the accepetance rate for ED2?</p>
<p>The publicly disclosed acceptance rate for ED is always the combined rate for ED1 and ED2 which is given after the ED2 letters are mailed. The admissions office will disclose this in the blog now and it used to be disclosed in articles in The Hustler when S was still undergrad. I’ve been following what the acceptance rates are for both ED and RD since S was a hs senior (2002) and I’ve never seen it broken out between ED1 and ED2. You might be able to get your regional counselor to give you an approximate idea. It certainly couldn’t hurt to ask.</p>
<p>It’s not official, but you can figure it out based on info given through the blog.
When they released ED1 it said that the admit rate was around 45%, and when ED2 was released they said the overall ED admit rate was 37.9%, they had also mentioned that this year they wanted 40% of the class to be ED. I forget all the numbers I used, but when I got in ED2 I did some math using the total class size and the percentages to figure out it was somewhere around 30% for ED2. But I can’t think of what exactly I did because that was when it, uhhh, wasn’t summer and I was still frequently using my brain haha…</p>
<p>yep just call financial aid and they’ll help you out with estimating. they won’t actually estimate it for you (I don’t think) but they’ll tell you a specific EFC calculator to use that uses a similar methodology that they use and then tell you how to determine what your financial aid package will be like based on the EFC that it said. And the estimate I got that way was really close to what I actually got.</p>
<p>yes i think i will call the fa office, thanks i didnt knew they did that! ive heard ed2 has only a marginal advantage over rd…hmm</p>
<p>Well why would any University offer any merit aid to someone who applied ED? I mean, if you’re bound to come, then they really don’t have an incentive to do so…</p>
<p>That’d actually be an interesting statistic - Merit financial aid for people who apply RD vs ED at Vandy. Of course, it’ll be skewed by the fact that the “best” applicants probably don’t have Vandy as their first choice; they’re looking at HYPSM, etc., and are probably more likely to receive a Vandy merit scholarship and are also more likely to apply RD to Vandy…</p>