Vanderbilt 2023 RD Discussion Thread

I got the same thing with my waitlist page…

someone should call them ASAP - could it be that you are in and not waitlisted?

Yea- DD rejected from Northwestern, Rice and now Vandy . . . Tough pill to swallow. . . Lots of reflection on the “what if’s” . . . DD attends a Governors School for STEM and it’s hard when other students receive acceptance to these same schools. Hard not to compare yourself to others.

I got waitlisted and even accepted my spot on the waitlist… but right under it they included the text: “You’re in! Share the news with your friends, (Student) ! Be sure to include #VU2023 in your posts so @VanderbiltU can congratulate you!”

Did this happen to anyone else?

Accepted.

3.91 uGPA
4.4 wGPA
11 APs (7 taken, 4 in progress)
1560
Extracurriculars solid
California

It happened to everyone waitlisted I believe

they got rid of it

Blair applicant - waitlisted.

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There is a letter - on the “application” page by application status there is a little pdf symbol on my portal with a letter about being waitlisted

@homerdog If you go to the “Application” section of the Portal, it should say “Waitlisted” on the right hand side of the screen next to “Status:”. From there, you can view a pdf of the decision letter.

@agfoes Thank you. He sees it now.

ACCEPTED! My mom and I are now hoarse from screaming for the past half hour. I had a 1550 SAT, 34 ACT, 4.7ish GPA, 9 APs (7 5s and 2 4s)- I’m taking 6 APs this year plus a senior thesis class and honors physics.

So, so, so happy to be part of Vanderbilt 2023!

LokiThor5, love the name btw, my daughter in same boat, rejected NW and Rice but did get waitlisted at Vandy – kind of a small victory after a series of tough “nos.” We have the extra stress of not having yet received final aid packages from two she got accepted to - keep getting assured they are coming soon, but it is stressful for sure.

And, like your D’s school, my daughter’s school is competitive and the kids in her grade happens to be extremely competitive and brilliant - she’s like, how can I compare and compete? But I am just trying to keep the faith and trust all the pieces will come together how they are “supposed” to.

sorry to be stupid but what is the CDS?

Rejected

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): None
ACT (breakdown): Composite 32 (superscore) , Eng 35, Math 35 Read 25 Sci 34
SAT II: Bio M 760, Math1 780
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Weighted GPA: None
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/84
AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (4), Eng Lang (3), Phys 1(5), Chem (5), French (5), Env sci (5), Spanish Lang (5).
IB (place score in parenthesis): none
Senior Year Course Load: Linear Algebra, Chem 3, AP COMP SCI Principles, AP Phys 2, AP Calc BC, Latinamerican Studies (obligatory), English (obligatory), Spanish (obligatory).
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Honor Roll U. Waterloo Pascal contest and school champion for all (pascal, cayley and fermat). National finalist in UAN Math Olympiad (in colombia), AP Scholar with Distinction, AP International Diploma.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Teaching English to underprivileged youth (leader, curriculum developer, teacher, everything); TEDX talk “Nanobiomaterials: Forgotten Physics” (speaker and researcher); French and Chinese mandarin classes; Math club (leader and curriculum planner).
Job/Work Experience: Internship at Univesity of texas rio grande (microbiology)
Volunteer/Community service: Teaching English and volunteer club at school
Summer Activities: The internship, Stanford SPCS on biosciences. YYGS Beijing in 9th Grade

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Recs: 8/10
Counselor Rec 8/10

Additional rec 10/10

Other

Intended Major: Natural Sciences
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Colombia
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Latino
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): International, Latino

Reflection

Strengths: I thought my subjective stuff was great
Weaknesses: Test scores and GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: IDK
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Jacobs (accepted), Stanford (rejected), MIT(Rejected), Yale-NUS(Accepted), Rice(Accepted), Vanderbilt(rejected), U.Miami (waitlisted)

waitlisted, but already in at Northwestern and UCLA so it’s fine
ACT: 35, UW GPA: 4.0
white female, California

CDS is common data set. Just google the name of the school and “common data set”

@homerdog Vandy doesn’t list amount who were offered position on waitlist on CDS, nor the amount who accept a position.

Rejected. Knew this was coming, even though I had pretty decent stats (my stats are in results page). My heart is already set on Notre Dame anyways so this result barely affected me.