SAT range

Colleges and Universities A-Z Vanderbilt University
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<p>What is a competitive SAT range for Vanderbilt? Does your writing score count? Thanks..</p>

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<p>The answers can be found in here:</p>

<p>Vanderbilt Common Data Set. Many schools submit the same data. Just google Common Data Set and the name of the school.</p>

<p><a href=“https://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/CDSC.aspx?year=2010[/url]”>https://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/CDSC.aspx?year=2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for that link. I see now from reading the stats that my daughter’s composite ACT test scores were at the upper end, so her admit to Blair/Vandy is a little less surprising. Her math scores were on the low end, but maybe her audition and a rigorous curriculum made up for that. I am really shocked to see that her GPA is higher than the average! After reading all these CC “chance me” threads I was beginning to think that only 4.0+ students were admitted!</p>

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<p>There’s a difference between being competitive for Vanderbilt admission and being competitive as a student. Those are statistics for those that attend, here are the ones for the people who were admitted last year (via their blog):</p>

<p>"Some highlights of the admitted class include:</p>

<p>Middle 50% SAT (CR+M): 1440 – 1540
Middle 50% ACT: 31 – 34
% in Top Ten % of Graduating Class<em>: 92%
Average Rank in Class (% from top)</em>: 3.8%
Overall Admit Rate (as of mailing day): 16.3%"</p>

<p>Regardless, congrats to you and your daughter! I’m sure she’ll do wonderfully at Vandy if she chooses to attend</p>

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<p>wanderers has brought up an important point. When you are investigating the score spreads reported by schools, pay careful attention to whether the data refers to students who were admitted (but have not yet decided whether or not to attend) vs. those who have actually showed up for the start of the fall semester. Common Data Set information is for those who showed up.</p>

<p>Some schools (e.g. Johns Hopkins) do not publicly report the CDS data. Their web sites report the score spread, et al, for accepted students only. (Unless this has changed over the last couple of years.)</p>

<p>For schools like Vanderbilt (and JHU), which share many of the same applicants with other very selective universities, the accepted student scores are generally higher, as some of the most competitive accepted students choose other schools.</p>

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<p>OP here… thanks for all the responses…</p>