<p>Marine4Life,
I’m in Asheville. I also thought it would arrive today! How nerve-racking.</p>
<p>I GOT IN! But I live like 13 minutes from Vandy. I’m sure y’all will get them tomorrow!</p>
<p>Post your stats on the other thread, if you’re comfortable sharing them.</p>
<p>Yes, please share your stats!</p>
<p>which thread? and has anyone else gotten in?</p>
<p>“OFFICIAL Vandy ED thread!!”</p>
<p>not my emphasis, btw</p>
<p>So your real issue is time of notification, not method. It would be easier to solve this by pushing deadlines ahead of schedule. No need to revamp a system that can be easily fixed by mailing the decisions a week earlier.</p>
<p>i think i may cry if the letter doesn’t arrive tomorrow… the stress is killing me! like most kids, i am going through exam week right now–it’s impossible to concentrate with this on my mind! all my friends have heard back from their ED/EA schools–i have never been so anxious! i’m really hoping i get in so i don’t have to apply to other schools with my midterms (1/3 of final grade) factored into my overall grade… there’s no way i performed as well as i would had i known vanderbilt’s decision. hopefully vanderbilt will realize they are actually affecting our well-being by holding out on us like this… and change their notification process in the future!</p>
<p>This reminds me of when the College Board starts allowing you to call in to see what grades you received, or waiting 1-2 more weeks for the mail to come. If one wants to know then, they pay the $8 and find out sooner than the friends who insist on waiting for the mail. It’s no different of a system, and every year it enrages students, yet CB has yet to (and probably will not) change it, because it’s their prerogative to do so. I understand the previous posts about an online acceptance system, but honestly, as a college student who went through the process (believe you me, waiting for Vandy RD was one of the hardest things to do), the letters were much more valuable to me than an internet screen. It was tangible proof that not only was I good enough, but that they wanted me enough to send me this letter. Personally, a computer screen just feels formulaic, unresponsive, and cold. On the other hand, letters at least give the feel of being personal; whether they were personally written or fill-in-the blank is another matter.</p>
<p>As for the internationals, international mail takes much much longer than intranational. Can you imagine being in the position that you’re in now, but waiting even a week longer, maybe even two or more, especially once you start seeing the American kids’ acceptances roll in? It’s heartbreaking to check the mail day after day for something when you have no timeline of when it’ll arrive… American mail takes, at most, 2 days. Thus, the e-mail is sent out to them. And it’s not like they’re taking anyone’s spot just because they’re notified a day or two earlier–the decisions are already made final long before they’re distributed. </p>
<p>If nothing else, take this as a lesson in patience being a virtue. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Hello all, Thom again. A couple of updates:</p>
<p>-While our publications say 12/15 as a mailing date for EDI, we routinely mail earlier then that. We had intended to do so again this year, but an unforeseen delay pushed us to Tuesday. Since we had already put it out there that Thursday was the day to call for decisions, we wanted to avoid confusion out there and kept it.</p>
<p>-Last year, and for many years prior to that, we didn’t release decisions over the phone until at least a week after mailing day. We shortened that this year to provide the option for students who really wanted to know to call without having to wait that long.</p>
<p>-Damabrliomo, and all posting your feedback, it is truly appreciated. Please know that we will always listen to your ideas to help make the admissions process better.</p>
<p>Blog update: Apparently a huge influx of traffic in a very short period of time yesterday afternoon overloaded the blog. The result is that our admissions website will now have its own dedicated server, and thus a new URL address starting sometime very soon; admissions.vanderbilt.edu will be the new address. All your old bookmarks will still work though as redirects should seamlessly take you to the new address. So congrats to you all I guess, your interest in Vandy killed our old URL. The full blog should be up soon as the great folks at Vanderbilt IT (and David our web developer extraordinaire) are working overtime to get it fixed.</p>
<p>I’m calling them right now…I’ve been on hold for 15 minutes…the scariest 15 minutes of my life, I might add! Haha good luck everyone!</p>
<p>OMG…after waiting on hold for that whole time, I got connected to my admissions counselor, and it went to his VOICEMAIL! I was too scared to leave a voicemail haha…I guess I’m calling back later!</p>
<p>I just called and found out that I was accepted!!! I’ve never been so happy in my life, I’m absolutely ecstatic.</p>
<p>Yes, I was initially patched through to a voicemail after about 15 minutes of holding, but eventually I got a call back from my Admissions Counselor and I’ve been admitted to VUSE!</p>
<p>What really surprised me was that they let me in with my GPA… about a 3.56W, far under the usual bar. My ACT score (32) or my recs, essay, and EC’s might have done it, but I still can’t believe this!</p>
<p>The phone system is working, with some, but not extraordinary, delays. Kudos to Vandy for making it work in excessive traffic–and having the ADMISSION COUNSELORS handling the responses, at least in part. Nice.</p>
<p>Again, I wish all you apps the best, whether you get a ‘yes’ or not. The response here was positive for my kid, so it’s time for me to close down operations here.</p>
<p>GL to all you new 'Dores!</p>
<p>Same experience! They called back and I got in! Surprised- my GPA not so great but ACT 32. I believe they look at the whole package!</p>
<p>I got in too!!! School of a&s!!! I can’t wait until next year!!!</p>
<p>Is there a facebook group for us accepted students? If not, someone should make one. I’d like to meet people who are going to be there with me for four years. College of Engineering by the way…</p>
<p>Yes, there are at least two groups; search “Vanderbilt 2014”</p>
<p>
actually fall 2009 admit rates were
A&S-18%
Blair-31%
Engineering-25%
Peabody-29%
stats are from the school admissions pamphlet</p>
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<p>Their pools are much smaller, so the percentages are higher. That doesn’t mean that anyone that can pick up an instrument can get into Blair–it just means that the people applying to it know that they’re really good, and no one else bothers to because of the difficult requirements. The same, to a lesser extent, is true for Engineering, since the SAT scores of those applying to VUSE tend to be higher on average than the rest of the class and those applying usually know that. (The median SAT for the Fall 09 freshman was around 1420, while for the Engineering school, it was a 1453.)</p>
<p>So for A&S it’s a little lower standards but a larger pool, Engineering is higher standards but a smaller pool; and Blair is an outlier that can’t really be compared.</p>