@SongStress2024 It may be a scholarship for the friend of your girl. My niece has a friend who learned Thursday, in VA that she was accepted to the Blair School of Music. My guess is that she got a scholarship. Everyone should know in a few days.
Hey everyone! I am a current Junior at Vanderbilt who transferred two years ago. I know a lot of you are stressed about college decisions but just know wherever you end up is okay because you can always transfer. I would never have been accepted to Vanderbilt as a freshman, so I went to a top 50-60 private university and transferred sophomore fall. I had a 1340 SAT and 4.0 GPA (from the fall semester when I applied). If you do well at your university you can transfer to Vanderbilt. Hope this makes some of you feel better. There are many pathways leading you to where you want to be. Don’t lose hope.
Where did you go freshman year?
Was ur plan always to transfer to vanderbilt? @user_586659
Tbh vandy transfer acceptance rate really high and a lot of students come to vandy through transfer with 3.8+ gpa. There are people from GW, Mcphs, bu, and etc
I took the ACT with writing and got a 31 (pretty decent in my book) because I took the SAT and only got a 1280 (1310 superscored). I also took the SAT subject tests because some of my schools required them or strongly recommended them, but I didn’t do too well (540 on lit and 600 on math). I sent them to the schools who required them obviously, but I also sent them to every school I applied to because I figured it would look good that I took them at all even if I didn’t get a highish score. Was that a mistake? At the time of applying I thought that showing the schools that I took the tests at all would be better but now I’m having second thoughts. Obviously I can’t do anything at this point but I just wanted to know what you guys thought about it.
Unfortunately, they would not be considered legacies for admission purposes. Good luck!
Why are there so many transfers? I am surprised given that Vandy is an elite college. Do a lot of freshman drop out at Vandy?
@redwag
Hmmm I dont think Vandy is an elite school. People rnt really smart. Anyway I think it is because maximum capacity for freshman is kinda low because dorm option is limited.
@sassycassie5896
Idk if it helps but for us(international) we do not recommend submitting any score lower than 750
@harry133 how can you say a school with an acceptance rate of ten isn’t elite?
@harry133 respectfully disagree with you for so many reasons. Trust me - they are an elite university. The retention rate at Vandy for freshman is 97%, they are a Top 15 school (I know many don’t like rankings), and the accolades go further. They are exceptionally hard to get into and many kids with perfect or near-perfect scores are denied every year. Their acceptance rate last year was 8%. And lastly, dorm options are not limited. All freshmen live on Commons and they actually - up until this year - wanted all students to live ON CAMPUS - all 4 years. Because they knocked down a few older buildings and are building new residential living, they have encouraged those that want to live off-campus for senior year to do so. It is still a formal request. Trust me - they have enough housing.
What I meant by limited is that they number of freshman they can hold is less than that of other grades. Since there are more housing for sophomor, junior, and senior, that is probably why they take so many transfer. Also, trust me, I do not care what people say about vandy because they dont go to Vandy. Many students who go to vandy dont think vandy is an elite school.
Because stats and reality are different.
Is New Jersey considered “geographic diversity” in Vandy admissions?
College confidential banner says Vandy is coming out on Ivy Day. Is that confirmed anywhere?
Vandy comes out Ivy Day… coz it is an elite school 
Stats (particularly acceptance rate and yield) can be “manipulated” via using ED and Wait List
Colleges have an inherent issue of having a limited number of freshman core courses everyone takes and then as sophomores, juniors and seniors the student body spreads out into their specific courses for their majors and minors. By the time students hit their senior year electives, sometimes class sizes dwindle so much courses sometimes hit the borderline of worth offering or not.
Two things work in Vanderbilt’s favor. First, Vanderbilt’s freshman retention rate is very high relative to the average university. Therefore, Vanderbilt doesn’t have to build in extra capacity for freshman core courses for students that won’t even attend as sophomores. Avoid a lot of TA taught frosh courses in giant classrooms to house students who will drop out after the first year.
Secondly, Vanderbilt wants to offer as many upper level courses as possible given its medium size. In order to do this, Vanderbilt builds in a healthy number of sophomore transfers. This allows for more upper level courses than would otherwise be offered if it was only the freshman class spread out amongst all the upper level courses in their 3rd and 4th year. Sometimes the difference in offering a course can be 6 students instead of 4 or 10 students instead of 8.
Besides the common app email I never received a confirmation email from Vanderbilt or an invitation to the applicant portal. I just noticed what do I do?
On the common app it says that the application was downloaded by the college though
@shehzmani go to myappvu dot vanderbilt dot edu/account/login (sorry, you can hopefully understand the website but I can’t link it for whatever reason) and click “forgot password”. I had to do this for one of my other portals too. Basically, they created a portal for you but forgot to send you an email (or it went to your spam idk). Good luck!
@harry133 is looking at it from a global perspective. As an international applicant admitted to one of America’s top 20 universities he is no doubt an academic superstar with supreme preparation that few Americans can match.
Yes, Vandy is an elite American university by any reasonable measure (top 15 USNWR, low acceptance rates, high average test scores), but at the same time, it’s tied for #200 in the QS World University Ranking with places none of us ever heard about, and most of its students have test scores that are below average for MIT and Caltech, though they are on par with Princeton, and Harvard, - all schools that do not rely on ED to manage their yield and admissions rates.
So, it’s all relative, and, of course, also, somewhat subjective.