<p>I am looking into transfering to Vandy for the '08 school year and was wondering if anyone here has transfered, or knows anything about it. The Vanderbilt website is pretty vague about the requirements for transfer students. Any info?</p>
<p>I can try to help! I'm going to be an incoming fall transfer student and have been talking regularly to several other new transfers. The one overwhelming thing that's been shocking to me is that 6 of the 7 girls I've talked to were all rejected/waitlisted during senior year. So...if you fall into that category (as I did), it might be an advantage for you.</p>
<p>Here is basically what an admissions counselor told me last summer when I decided that I wanted to try and transfer:
1) Make sure your course work is well rounded. Take a look at Vandy's requirements (The "AXLE" program specifically for A&S) and try to match up courses during this school year that coordinate with ones that Vandy offers. Make sure to take a foreign language and a math, specifically.
2) Retake your ACT/SAT if they're lower than you think you can score now or if they're lower than Vandy's average.
3) Get in contact with your admissions rep (divided by state, I think) and make sure they know who you are
4) When writing your essays, demonstrate that you have grown and learned something from your time in college. If you applied previously, they will pull your old file and read it and they want your essays to show how you've been shaped in the last year (or two) since you wrote your first essays.
5) DO NOT SUBMIT THE SAME APP and essays that you did in high school!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Those were the tips I got, hopefully that will be somewhat helpful. Feel free to PM me if you have more questions!
Mal :)</p>
<p>What's average ACT/SAT score for Vanderbilt?</p>
<p>I got a 29.</p>
<p>According to collegeboard.com, (<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=4045&profileId=6%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=4045&profileId=6</a>) the middle 50% of all freshman students scored 28-32 on the ACT.</p>
<p>So the 50% of the 50% is a 30. I guess a 29 would still suffice.</p>
<p>Yeah. It also says the average GPA is a 4.0...</p>
<p>Not only is that high school GPA, but it factors in weighted GPA's.</p>
<p>I think a 3.5+ (3.2+ for engineering) college GPA would be in the middle to upper 50%</p>