With the RD deadline of 1/1 approaching it would be good to get a thread going… Where is everyone from? What made you want to be a Commodore? Are you applying RD or ED?
You can also post stats if you want to, but please use this format:
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to:
Major:
Unweighted GPA:
Weighted GPA (capped):
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SAT II:
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AP Scores:
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Courses you are taking senior year:
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Extracurriculars:
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Ethnicity:
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Country (if international):
Income Bracket:
Are you applying for financial aid?:
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy):
I guess I’ll start
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to: College of Arts & Science
Major: Medicine, Health and Society and Pre- med
Unweighted GPA: 3.96?
Weighted GPA (capped):4.5? idk too lazy to check
SAT I (breakdown): too low
ACT (breakdown): single sitting- 36 R 36 E 32 M 33 S
SAT II: 770 Math II
Rank: 5/85
AP Scores: APUSH-5, 3’s on 4 other ones
IB Scores:
Courses you are taking senior year:
Awards: nothing much tbh
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Volunteering:
Work Experience:
Essays:
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Male
State (if domestic): Texas
Country (if international):
Income Bracket:
Are you applying for financial aid?:
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy):
Reasons why I want to go to Vanderbilt: When I visited I loved the campus and I loved the city Nashville! Also one of the few schools that has really good sports and academics. Also they have a really good med school were students can intern or volunteer, and they have a preschool on campus that students can teach at which I think is really cool!
I’m really grateful you made this I’ve been looking for one of these I’m applying Regular Decision but Vanderbilt is definitely my number 1
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to: College of Arts and Sciences
Major: Political Science (pre-law)
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (capped): 4.147
SAT I (breakdown): 730 M 780 CR
ACT (breakdown): 36 R 35 E 34 S 31 M (I took it again last Saturday so we’ll see if anything changes)
SAT II:N/A
Rank: my school doesn’t rank
AP Scores: APUSH (5) AP Lang (5) AP Gov (5) took APES but didn’t take the exam
IB Scores: N/A
Courses you are taking senior year:
AP Calc B/C, AP Lit, AP world history, Spanish 4, yearbook, and two random electives
Awards: National Merit semifinalist, AP scholar
Extracurriculars: Varsity lacrosse three years captain my senior year, editor in chief for yearbook senior year, president of a school specific club one year Vice President two years, National Honor Society, a couple other little things
Volunteering: Nothing special
Work Experience: I work at a store whose goal is to employ adults with developmental disabilities and I help them
Essays: I feel really good about my common app essay I was very proud of it and had multiple different English teachers read it and my Vanderbilt essay was about my job which has really affected me and I think it was pretty good
Ethnicity: White
Gender:Female
State (if domestic): Michigan
Country (if international):
Income Bracket: <50,000
Are you applying for financial aid?:Yes
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy):
Reasons why I want to go to Vanderbilt: I love the balance at Vanderbilt between amazing academics but then also from what I’ve heard a great social atmosphere where a lot of people get involved and also having SEC sports doesn’t hurt either. It’s like a mix between a big and a small school which is exactly what I want.
For those of you applying for scholarships, if we already had an additional rec letter on our Common App, will that count (although, to be honest, my additional rec is not related to Ingram or Chancellor’s)? It’s too late for me to ask other people for rec letters now. I need to know whether to put effort into writing the essays for Ingram and Chancellor’s. (Cornelius Vanderbilt needs no rec letter, right?)
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to: School of Engineering
Major: Undecided
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (capped): 4.65
SAT I (breakdown): 1530 superscore - 780 math & 750 english (1510 regular composite with 760 M 750 E)
ACT (breakdown): 33.25 composite - 35E 34M 34R 30S (probably won’t submit)
SAT II: 800 Math II and 800 Chemistry
Rank: 1st out of 326
AP Scores: 5 Calc, 5 Chem, 5 Eng Lang, 5 Psych, 4 APUSH, 3 Spanish
IB Scores: School only offers AP
Courses you are taking senior year: AP Physics 1, AP Stat, AP Lit, AP Gov and Macroecon (each are 1 semester), AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science A, Differential Equations (Dual Enrollment)
Awards: nothing too impressive
Extracurriculars: nothing too impressive
Volunteering: wanna say around 150 hours, volunteered at free clinic
Work Experience: worked at family business
Essays:
wrote about my religious beliefs. I really enjoyed it but it was a risky essay - all it takes is one person to get offended by it and I’m getting rejected
for extracurricular elaboration - i wrote about my job
(sorry, don’t want to give too much away)
for everything above, please see my other posts. I was deferred from MIT and I answered these in depth.
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
State (if domestic): FL
Country (if international):
Income Bracket: No idea, probably >100k
Are you applying for financial aid?: yaaaaaasssss
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy): Nah
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to: School of Engineering
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (capped): school does not weight
SAT I (breakdown): 780E 790M
ACT (breakdown): 36E 36M 36R 36S
SAT II: 770 (math 2) 720 (physics)
Rank: school does not rank
AP Scores: 5 Calc BC, 5 Comp Gov, 4 Environmental Science, 4 Human Geo, 4 Macro, 5 Physics 1, 4 Physics C: Mechanics, 5 US Gov, 5 Stats, 5 APUSH
IB Scores: none
Courses you are taking senior year: Multivariable Calculus, Law and Order, Middle East: Crisis and Conflict, Religions of the World, Honors Chemistry, Honors English 12, Psychology
Awards: National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar, National AP Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist
Extracurriculars: Juggling (10 years, captain for 2), Young Republicans, National Honor Society, DECA
Volunteering: Sunday School leader every week since 6th grade
Work Experience: Caddied at Country Club since 8th grade and worked in the locker room this past summer, internship at local business for one summer
Essays: Wrote about something really personal to me and how it has changed the way I view the world, EC essay was about Dude’s Dance Team (fun tradition at my school)
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: M
State (if domestic): MN
Country (if international): USA
Income Bracket: 100k - 120k
Are you applying for financial aid?: yes
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy): minority
Hey, does anyone know when the RD decision is supposed to come out? I know it’s before April 1st, but any speculated date according to the previous pattern?
Question: I think I read that the Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship awards come out in early March? Is this true—and if so, does that mean that you would know that you got in if you receive this letter BEFORE decisions come out April 1?
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to: School of Engineering
Major:Biomedical Engineering
Unweighted GPA: 4.26
Weighted GPA (capped): school doesn’t offer true AP courses, does weird GPA thing
SAT I (breakdown): haven’t taken
ACT (breakdown): E35 M35 R34 S34
SAT II: haven’t taken
Rank: 1/141
AP Scores: School does weird AP stuff, doesn’t take tests
IB Scores:
Courses you are taking senior year: AP Lit&Comp (Will Test), AP Bio (will test), Spanish II (school only offers two), Gov and Econ
Awards: Highest Class Average awards every year, top 10% in state for Mathematics, STAR Student of MS
Extracurriculars: Competitive Dance, Quizbowl, National Honor Society (President), Math and Science Team (Captain), French Horn
Volunteering: Vice President of Social Service Club, earned 150+ hours working for different organizations around the community, Peer Tutoring
Work Experience: Sales Associate at Boutique, Website manager at Boutique, left previous job of Sales Associate at Bridal Salon because of better opportunity elsewhere
Essays: Wrote a spin of the Road Not Taken, but one road was comfortable and the other was painful. However the painful one led to greatness and represented going to college out of state, changing everything I’ve known, etc.
Ethnicity:
Gender: F
State (if domestic): MS
Country (if international): USA
Income Bracket: $140,000-$150,000
Are you applying for financial aid?: yes
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy): i wish
Name of Vanderbilt college you are applying to: Blair/Peabody
Major: Music Education (MA5)
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (capped): 4.116
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 34C (35E 35M 33R 31S)
SAT II: N/A
Rank: 2/169 (Salutatorian)
AP Scores: Bio (3) Lit (4)
IB Scores: N/A
Courses you are taking senior year: CIS Spanish 5, Teacher Aide, AP Physics 1, AP Calc BC, Chamber Choir, AP Lang & Comp
Awards: Dartmouth Book Award
Extracurriculars: Chamber Choir, NHS, Connection Crew, Theatre
Volunteering: 200 hours
Work Experience: camp counselor and nanny/babysitter
Essays: eh, I think pretty good.
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
State (if domestic): MN
Country (if international): USA
Income Bracket: $100,00 ish?
Are you applying for financial aid?: yes
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy): none
I’m nervous nervous though after reading the results thread on here :-S