Vanderbilt ED1 Class of 2019 Discussion Thread

<p>23 days!! and this week we have Thanksgiving break so we can just relax (not really) and then only like 2 weeks maximum until we hear back!!! Praying that we all get in and be the first members of the class of 2019!!! You guys all seem great, and i hope we all get to meet each other!!</p>

<p>I applied to Vanderbilt ED1 back in August. I had fallen in love with Vanderbilt after touring it over spring break, and knew that it was my dream school. I am wanting to take a pre-business track (applied to Peabody), and the HOD major sounded like a great major that would prepare me for business leadership, while also giving me a broad liberal arts background.</p>

<p>Recently, however, I have really been starting to consider the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. I have been accepted to UT (still waiting to hear from Business Honors), and feel like UT may have more to offer in terms of a pre-business track. UT seems to have more internship opportunities, students in McCombs are receiving post-graduation job offers during their sophomore and junior years, and Austin is such a booming city.</p>

<p>I am seriously beginning to think that I am leaning toward McCombs at UT, and am considering switching my Vanderbilt app from ED1 to RD. This would allow me to keep my options open should Vanderbilt accept me.</p>

<p>Does anyone think that switching my app from ED1 to RD would just get my Vanderbilt app thrown out of the pool and automatically rejected? Thoughts, comments, advice?</p>

<p>I figure I might as well so 22 days until the fate of the world is announced!! </p>

<p>@earthling504‌ It will not hurt you. Applications could be switched from ED to RD for a variety of reasons (financial, wanting to keep one’s options open, etc.). Do what you think is right. </p>

<p>earthling, the factors to weigh now are finanical. If admitted to Vandy ED, you are admitted to a top university in the USA with a national student body and smallish classrooms. However you and your parents should be looking at the pricetag. It is very likely you will be paying your FAFSA and CSS Profile computed estimated cost of attendance. It is always wise to actually do these online with parents before you neglect to realize some assets will be counted etc on the CSS Profile that are not accounted for on the FAFSA. The ECA is the figure you should be staring at.
If the pricetag is of “no never mind” then you move on to weighing the education at College X vs Vanderbilt. </p>

<p>If Vanderbilt costs your parents 50 grand a year vs 20 grand in Texas and you are feeling strong positives about your Texas educational option, then you should consider the $$. Our two sons who were educated at Duke and Vanderbilt instead of UVA (which has an excellent undergraduate program in business) are now applying to graduate schools. Duke son worked 5 years in business and is now in his MBA at night program while working a full time job (not easy). Why? because the full time MBA program costs almost twice as much as the night program.<br>
Take the Long View. Do you want a graduate degree? MBA programs want you to be employed for a while first. Have you priced out the cost of an MBA from a top 20 or 30 program? Many instate options are more expensive at the graduate level than at the undergraduate level. In other words, it can behoove you to save your bucks for a top level graduate school of medicine, law or business where stipends are not so common.<br>
Example: Vandy son will discover that UVA Law school costs over 60 plus grand a year. So perhaps the time to have gone to UVA to preserve the Long Run Game was in undergrad when it was only 20ish for an instate student. Vandy son got a merit offer that brought UVA undergrad and Vandy undergrad into similar territory, so he got his private school four years undergrad at Vandy without crippling his long term educational resources.</p>

<p>Different majors, different issues regarding graduate school pricetags.<br>
play the long game in this tough economy unless you are blessed with deep resources and these are not concerns</p>

<p>best of luck</p>

<p>Well, after reading this, all of you seem like absolutely amazing people!! I hope that each and every one of you get in and I wish you the best of luck. Can’t wait till we all find out!!</p>

<p>When we all get in (cause thats positively going to happen) we should all meet up at the beginning of our school year and talk about how awesome it is that we are finally at Vandy! Though i’m not sure I want to ever relive the stress i’m going through right now!</p>

<p>@Faline2‌ Thanks so much for your feedback. Thankfully, financial aid isn’t something I’m having to worry about. It is more a matter of keeping my options open and going to the school I am most passionate about (and I’m starting to think I’m leaning toward UT). Vanderbilt is an excellent school, but I think UT just might be the better option for me, as mentioned in my previous post (lower cost of attendance is an added benefit, especially since Texas Tomorrow Fund will pay for my first two years). What you mention about MBA / grad costs is also helpful. Thanks again!</p>

<p>GUYS I completely spaced and mixed up the merit scholarship deadline with the CSS profile so I haven’t submitted my css profile even though I applied ED I. AM I DOOMED</p>

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<p>I would be down for a meet up!</p>

<p>@tonycandbeyond‌ I called the financial aid office the day after the CSS was due and they told me to turn it in ASAP. I was told that the only thing that would happen because of me turning it In late was that I possibly wouldn’t get my financial aid award amount until a day or two later. Call the financial aid office and ask them what you need to do!</p>

<p>@tonycandbeyond Worst case scenario: you don’t get your FA package until RA admits do.</p>

<p>I figured we should keep this up soooo… 21 days! Exactly 3 weeks!!!</p>

<p>And since this week will (hopefully) go by quickly due to Thanksgiving, it’ll be 2 weeks before we know it!!</p>

<p>my officer is out today so i was told to call tomorrow. fingers crossed!!! thanks for the help!</p>

<p>I hope everyone has a stress free break!! I know it will be hard with the whole countdown and all, but this thursday and friday you should have no stress related headaches on your plate! I emailed my rep today about adding my volunteer work to my resume, I just starting at an animal rehab center for only like five hours every saturday. it’s not much, but hey: I GOT TO HOLD A BABY SQUIRREL AND POSSUM! </p>

<p>20 days!! Woo, it’s getting close! I am hoping that they will send out our responses like super early!! Like next week early!! </p>

<p>It’s so close now gahhhh. I just want to know already</p>

<p>Does anyone know how Vanderbilt looks at ACT subsections (if at all)?</p>