<p>Thanks for reading. I'd apply to the school of engineering.
17 years old. White male from a town that no one has ever heard of in MA. I'm currently at Vanderbilt's PAVE summer program but am taking it easy. Could that actually count against me?</p>
<p>SAT(780 math, 760 writing, 750 CR)
SAT II(710 chem, 760 math 2c, and 660 physics(ouch, I will retake and do better).</p>
<p>My school just gives a percent ranging from 1 to 99, so the + and - isn't precise
Junior year:
AP Calc: A(5 on the exam)
AP US: A(5 on the exam)
Spanish 3 honors:B+
Physics honors:B+
English 3: A/A-</p>
<p>Sophmore year:
B+ in pretty much all my classes</p>
<p>Freshmen year:
Bs and B+s in all of my classes. Doubled up in Geometry Honors and ALGII honors.</p>
<p>All right, I admit it. I'm just waiting for someone to reply and am checking periodically and posting on other threads in this sub forum, a little too much.</p>
<p>only in the rarefied atmospher of cc would a physics score of 660 be regarded as an ouch. get real.</p>
<p>your scores are excellent but what about you as a person. vandy's admits are more holistic than just grades and scores done over a four hour period.</p>
<p>your essays have to be interesting. you have to be unique. you have to contribute something back to the vanderbilt community. if you're not able to catch their eye and be unique, you won't get in. despite your great grades etc.</p>
<p>overall you have a great chance, but you'll need to really develop what makes you special.</p>
<p>i've already got one there and working on number two. good luck. it is a great place to go to school.</p>
<p>also--don't forget your recs. make sure and get the teacher to commit to write something interesting and unique about you. if they can't assure you, get another. don't just give them the form. give them an opportunity to meet with you, tell them what you have done in hs, what makes you tick. good luck.</p>
<p>first of all, a 2290/1530 is incredible! Great job! as long as everything is decent (grades seem to be alright, could we get some more information on ECs though??), you should be able to get in. Good luck!</p>
<p>ECs. Well I volunteered at a camp/farm for kids with various handicaps. I tutored at the local elementary school. I played JV football for 2 years and will played Varsity my junior and will play my senior year. I am not a prospective college player because I am a 160-180 pound lineman. </p>
<p>I've also wrestled for three years and played baseball for two and ran track for one.</p>
<p>It seems as though everyone who posts asking about chances of admission has stats that exceed the published stats for the incoming class. How about less spetacular kids -- for example, my daughter:
-SAT- 700 verbal, 650 math
-4's on 4 APs and 5's on 2 APs
-3.7 GPA unweighted, difficult course load (some Cs)
-Average ECs, i.e. hasn't won any statewide or national competitions, just a good kid.
-Positive recommendations, but she is shy and teachers don't really know her.
-No alumni in family.
-Extremely competitive public high school in Maryland that has a handful of Vandy applications each year but very few kids accept offers of admission.
-Decent writer, but not absolutely amazing.
-Desperate desire to attend Vandy, but no original idea for the Why Vandy essay.
-Jewish, but not at all observant.
So what are her chances?</p>
<p>Hey! You can post these questions in an original thread.</p>
<p>We post here because we want insights from people that know things beyond the numbers. Life isn't an SAT score and neither are college acceptances. Then again, life isn't where you go to college. Anyways, it is not that obvious to us.</p>
<p>Anyways, your daughter is probably very qualified and could very well get in. I can tell that she is just as capable as anyone who has won a national competition. I'm sure she is a good all around kid and if she didn't get into Vandy, she could get into another school and do just as well and have just as good a time because she obviously has a strong work ethic with those APs.</p>
<p>I don't have any original ideas for an essay. Hell, I'm at the summer PAVE program right now, albeit coasting and I really want to go here. So, she is in the same boat with the rest of us. </p>
<p>There are a lot of kids at Vandy's PAVE program that are from Maryland for some reason.</p>
<p>Ethnicity shouldn't matter. Well, it shouldn't.</p>
<p>My daughter and her friends think this site is for parents and kids who just want to brag about extraordinary scores, and that reading it just fuels the craziness that makes perfectly good students feel inadequate for any college they may wish to attend. They don't want to have to apply to 20 schools in order to find one that will take them, and they don't want to feel inferior.
By the way, what high schools in Maryland to the PAVE participants attend?</p>
<p>Well, that is not that true. To prove it, I began reading, or perhaps posting here when I was a mediocre student, worse than your daughter. I had a 66-60-55 PSAT Sophmore year and I think a C in Biology. I don't post here often considering I joined the board in April or March 2005. </p>
<p>A couple attend public schools that were slanted towards science and math in Baltimore. I'll find out for you.</p>