Hey everyone! I’m a senior interested in psychology and vocal performance and applying to a bunch of colleges, one of which is Vanderbilt. This is my dream school and I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea of how likely I am to get in. I’ve used college calculators but they aren’t very reassuring and take only my scores into account. I’m taking 3 AP Classes this year, and I am in Speech and Debate, Peer Tutoring Club, and National Honor Society. I hold a leadership position in Speech and Debate and my tutoring club. I am a National Hispanic Scholar and an AP Scholar with Distinction. I have several singing awards and have been taking private voice lessons for 4 years, and I have been doing debate for 2 years and have won awards for Public Forum debate.
Here’s my scores:
GPA: 3.927 (Unweighted), 4.727 (Weighted)
Class Rank: 10 of 235
Test Scores
ADVANCED PLACEMENT
English Language & Composition (5)
Calculus AB (3)
Psychology (5)
Chemistry (3)
Human Geography (5)
SAT (1510) - 2017
ACT (31) - 2017
For those of you looking at this for comparison, so far I have been accepted and rejected from the following colleges.
ACCEPTED:
ASU (psychology)
Bellarmine (psychology)
University of the Pacific (psychology)
University of Michigan (psychology)
Indiana University (music)
you have such a smart choice of reaches and matches in your college application list…good job. You have run a good race in high school. Conservatories of music like Rice are very competitive. As Vandy’s Blair can be. I really love that you are in at Indiana which also has a robust music life for students and a terrific campus. Your task now is to think long term regarding budget with your parents after you get your offers in. If you are a Hispanic Scholar and you didn’t write an essay for the Vandy Chancellor’s Scholarship, I would wonder why not. Always good to throw in your hat. Vandy is a great place and has very good financial aid. Vandy is a reach for you and for students with near perfect test scores…for all. Admissions are pretty hard to predict so all you can do is put yourself out there.
@seniorclass2018
Reach, maybe low reach depending on the quality of Essays and LOR’s.
I think you are fortunate to get into UMichigan, its a great school
If Vanderbilt is your top school, I’m wondering why you didn’t apply ED1 or ED2 since this would have increased your chances quite a bit. Since you’re applying RD I’d say it’s a reach, just as it is for practically every student that applies.
UPDATE:
ACCEPTED
Belmont University
Kenyon College
Occidental College
University of San Diego
REJECTED
Northwestern University
Rice University (Music)
Vanderbilt University (Music)
Chapman University (wasn’t one of my top schools, probably because I didn’t demonstrate interest)
Tulane University (^ see above)
WAITLISTED
Rhodes College (because I didn’t demonstrate interest)
PENDING (most of my big name schools)
Brown University
Rice University
Carnegie Mellon University
Oberlin College
Stanford University
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University (ahhh really hoping x.x)
Yale University
I’ll continue to update this thread as I get all my letters*. This year has been absolute hell - I wish you all the luck in your senior year applications! Hope this helps a lot, I had a hard time finding someone similar to me that I could compare myself to, so hopefully this helps somebody out there. Take care.
*rejections lul
Also: applied to all three Vandy scholarships, didn’t get accepted. Oh well :[
