<p>On Vandy's application, they have a space for Alternate Choice School. Does anybody know how often Vandy will defer applicants to an alternate choice school? It seems like Vandy would defer applicants who applied for a specific school like the Blair School, Peabody, or Engineering into Arts and Sciences if they didn't think they had the background for a particular school. Is this right, or does Vandy really not defer.</p>
<p>I honestly don't know. It seems that for all the grief one school would give another there isn't a real difference between the type of student who could get admitted to A&S and the student would get admitted to Peabody and vice-versa. If you get rejected from one school, chances are you'll be rejected from the other. There is only one Adcom afterall.</p>
<p>You seem to know a lot about Vandy. What is your opinion on Peabody vs. Arts and Sciences? I realize Peabody has a higher acceptance rate than Arts and Sciences, but is that due to the low number of applicants or are the standards less rigorous? I realize applying to Peabody means you should have a background with children, but how much background are they looking for? I've come to the conclusion that if I got into Vandy, I want to take classes in both the Peabody School and in Arts and Sciences. However, I need to get in first.<br>
I know you are acquainted somewhat with stuff in the admissions office. If I spoke to the admissions counselor for my area, would I be able to get more statistical information on applying early decision? I'd really like to see the early decision statistics in the same format that the website gives regular decision statistics.<br>
I know Vandy is my first choice school. But a lot of people apply to Vanderbilt as a backup for their Ivies. Does the Adcom realize this, and do they admit (or would they consider admitting) more students so that they can get the targeted class size of 1600?</p>
<p>Around here Peabody is thought to be much easier to get into than A&S. I don't have the stats to back it up, but at my son's school the borderline students applied to Peabody for that reason. I've also heard that HOD at the Peabody school is one of the easier majors.</p>
<p>That's what I hear too.</p>
<p>Looking at the fall 2004 freshmen (<a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/freshman%20profile.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/freshman%20profile.htm</a>) profile it shows (yield is the accepted students whom enroll):
College of Arts and Science - 32.9% accepted, 35.0% yield
Blair School of Music - 40.% accepted, 44.1% yield
School of Engineering - 58.0% accepted, 33.8% yield
Peabody College - 52.1% accepted, 59.2% yield</p>
<p>Personally, I think the idea of applying to a school you're definitely not interested in is ridiculous. The reason that Arts and Sciences <em>looks</em> harder to get into is that it had 8446 applications, compared to 2702 for the other three schools/colleges combined!</p>
<p>My advice: Be honest and play to your strenghts and you won't go wrong.</p>
<p>I definately want to major in some field of medicine and I want whatever job I do to be mostly to extremely involved with children. Even if for some reason I can't have a job with children, I'd still want to do some sort of teaching. So based on that, I don't see what's wrong with starting out in Peabody. I am still going to take classes in Arts & Sciences provided that my GPA is good the first year. I don't see what the problem is with wanting to do both. I understand it will be difficult, but I still don't see anything wrong with it.</p>
<p>here's a excellent site that shows <em>EVERYTHING</em> about each school. click on the thumbnails at left for other schools.</p>
<p>or rather skip intro and browse at left under student profile.</p>
<p>OMG, what an absolute wonderful site! What do they mean by matriculated and matriculated % of accepted? By the way, thanks so much for the site, this is like exactly what i was looking for.<br>
-Sonia (Son)</p>
<p>good info-- what is strongest engineering field</p>
<p>Obviously, you'll want to apply to Peabody as you want to work in a career field dealing with children and people, which is what GPC is all about it.</p>
<p>That you'll be taking A&S classes goes without saying. The colleges aren't totally insulated from each other. Not all Vandy students are in A&S, but ALL Vandy students take A&S classes as all 4 colleges have core requirements that are fulfilled with A&S classes. </p>
<p>I second MatthewsM04's advice: be true to yourself and play to your strengths, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>I would assume Vanderbilt's strongest engineering field is biomedical, it seems to be the one that gets the most attention of Vandy's School of Engineering nationally.</p>