<p>Hi. If accepted, Vandy is my D's first choice. As such, we are going to think positively and we are scheduling a visit for 4/3 which we can cancel if not accepted. </p>
<p>My question is, should we request an appointment with the admissions counselor and/or financial aid office for same day? We can cancel if not accepted; but any value in a meeting with them if we are accepted?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>If your daughter is accepted she will be invited to 2-3 days in April devoted to accepted students where you will have access to lectures from actual professors on premed, prelaw, and other professional pathways at Vanderbilt, you will hear from a student panel, and you will be likely to have a big meeting with one of the Deans of the university if not the Chancellor himself. Vandy and all colleges offer a handful of such days so people can attend more than one if they are on the fence. Our Vandy son completely altered his decision after attending one of these days, and after much thought holed up in a Nashville hotel, he called two other colleges where he was expected for honors weekends and let them know he wasn’t coming and we cancelled our hotels in other towns in April. Our Duke son made final visits to two of his accepted colleges and then sent in a deposit to Duke.<br>
It would be more productive to put those dates on your calendar which will appear in the acceptance packet. There would be no reason to see the admissions staff. Our son has still never met his regional rep from Vanderbilt. Didn’t they have 27 thousand applicants this round? Quite a change since 2005 when eldest son applied in pool of 11 thousand.</p>
<p>All financial aid information will be in your acceptance package. You are free to review it and take up any questions with the financial aid officers and I can’t comment on circumstances that would warrant a face to face meeting but perhaps other accepted students have requested them.</p>
<p>thanks very helpful. </p>
<p>Duke and Vandy you are doing something right!</p>
<p>I wonder when the accepted student events are - getting them 4/1 does not leave much time. Given April is already likely to be tough due to schedules (and she’ll be in Atlanta for Coca-Cola Scholar weekend); trying to book this during Easter week. Plus, she misses 40% of school now for state SGA activities. </p>
<p>I understand your point - competitive! Hard to believe we are sweating it out given her accomplishments. Gosh, I hope she gets in. </p>
<p>thanks again. </p>
<p>does anyone know the dates for accepted student events at vandy?</p>
<p>Those dates will be posted when decisions go out. If you have a real need to know now (lots of seniors are indeed deeply committed to final spring competitions to say nothing of final AP exams), you could email the admissions staff with that request as they probably already know the dates.</p>
<p>You can look here <a href=“http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/[/url]”>http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/</a></p>
<p>and also go back to last March and April on the Vanderbilt admissions blog and also the College Confidential vandy pages a year ago and sometimes get a feel for last round’s dates etc. </p>
<p>Vanderbilt has ample hotel offerings near Vandy. Try kayak dot com and put in Vanderbilt in the side option to narrow things down. We stay in Brentwood if Vandy hotels are spiked up in price as they will be on homecoming, parents weekends, gradution and move in weekends annually to say nothing of other conventions in Nashville all the time. I would hate for her to miss the happy opportunity of milling around with her peers on admitted students days. Not all of them will matriculate of course to Vanderbilt. Examples I recall were Georgia Honors admittees who were not winners of merit money and were sad to have to turn down Vandy due to their Estimated Cost of Attendance being high vs the deal at Georgia. This is true for so many Vanderbilt admits who have multiple options and honors flagship college admissions, but those who need financial need aid are usually ecstatic because Vandy has a no loans policy…I recall some students traveling there solo by plane and car , and many with parents milling about making last ditch calculations and measuring final fit. My sons did not attend their initial dream colleges but became avid devotees of their alma maters. </p>
<p>Congrats on Coca-Cola Scholar weekend! I hope all your daughter’s dreams come true and know that there will be open doors just around the corner.</p>