Hello everyone. I want some input on my chances of being accepted to Vanderbilt.
I plan to apply ED1.
ACT: 33
SAT2 U.S History: 770
AP U.S and Language and Composition: 5s
GPA: 4.1 out of 4.3 (nonweighted)
-Taking 6 APS this year
-Visited campus
-Home state NY
-Editor-in-Chief of student magazine, president of SADD, board member of social action club, sports council member, Friendship circle volunteer, varsity tennis since grade 7 and mvp since grade 8
*i attend a small religious private school
if anybody has further questions please lmk
Scores/grades/ECs all sound solid, as long as your class rank is reasonable as well. I’d say you have a good shot, you fit in with the EDI profile. Just make sure the subjective stuff is good (recs/essays).
you have done a beautiful job in high school where you were planted. Go for it. However, everyone who applies to schools like Vandy where the waitlist and denial list looks like the mirror equivalent of the admitted list-- needs to have a strong reality base and to have your RD plan in place ready to activate, including specific essays already shaping up for other colleges and all their idiosyncratic application differences. Organize your RD plan now. Use your smarts to be clever and shrewd and be ready to spread the love to other colleges. Most people who apply to Vandy are fully qualified just like you.