The EDII decision date is February 18 this year. Goodluck!!
Hey I’m applying ED2!
And no, @lex608 it says results will be February 15!
Good luck to everyoneeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I’m so nervous for results! Vandy is my dream school and I’ve totally been stressing so badly. 34 days until results!
I applied RD but I’m planning on switching over to ED2 after interviewing and realizing vandy is my top choice. Will Vandy still accept my financial aid app if i submitted my CSS profile after the January 2nd deadline for ED2?
@burghdad What the studies show is that your if your daughter is accepted to a school like Vanderbilt or Brown, they will be no less successful in their careers if they end up attending a less selective school like Clemson or Deleware. For students and families that will have to take loans to meet the extra cost, the ROI for the elite schools is just not there. If it were, you would see them showcasing ROI in their brochures and they don’t.
@EDHDAD I agree with you and hope my daughter understands what you have stated as well. There is peer pressure among her friends in her HS for the elite schools but I am hopeful she sees the light that if she works hard at a major state school such as Clemson or udel she can do anything she wants to do i her professional career
@burghdad Clemson is great and would be hard to go wrong there.
If she gets into Clemson honors college with the 15K merit money they offered it will be hard to refuse even if she gets into Vandy.
@burghdad We are in the exact same boat as you. With the merit scholarships he has received, my son can go to Clemson, CWRU, or Tulane for what I have to assume is a lot less than Vanderbilt(his dream school) would charge if he is accepted. But his friends are going to elite schools like Cornell, Stanford, etc so the pressure is there.
Personally I disagree with those of you saying that going to a school that isn’t elite won’t change anything. First of all, the people will be very different. At Vanderbilt, everyone has good GPA’s, ACT’s, activities, volunteering, work experience. Basically these are kids who are inspired, passionate, and they work hard. You’ll be surrounded by much smarter kids.
I also think it depends if your child will go to grad school or not. For example, going to Vanderbilt or any elite school would look much better on a competitive med school application than say, Clemson or Tulane. However, even if he won’t go to grad school, then you have to remember that better employers will be more impressed with someone who decided to challenge themselves at Vanderbilt.
Why is it your son’s dream school? Maybe you should listen to him as well. Maybe he’ll be willing to take out his own loans and pay it back himself to be able to go there. Your son should have a voice too. Also, since Vanderbilt pays 100% of demonstrated need, and you can also negotiate the money you’re getting, it should be manageable?
@wannagotovandy You make very good points and obviously if it were a clear cut decision there would not be so many parents and students mulling things over on CC. It all boils down to making a very personal decision based on the choices that are offered. Choosing a higher ranking school can be a very bad mistake if it means that you are going to be borrowing a bunch of money that you otherwise would not have to borrow. Assuming that going to an expensive university will lead to a high paying job is a big part of our country’s student loan problem(coupled with majoring in degree programs that don’t lead to gainful employment). It’s usually parents who did not attend college that make the incorrect assumption that fancy colleges lead to fancy jobs, but having spent the last 25 years working at big corporations, I have not seen that stereotype to be true. As far as getting into graduate school programs goes, attending elite schools for undergrad can sometimes actually serve to hold some students back because the competition can be so severe their grades do not end up measuring up to students from less competitive schools. That is why you see such low medical school admit rate percentages for schools like UC Berkeley or UCLA. Those are a few reasons of the reasons why it doesn’t always make sense to jump at the most expensive or elite university. As you mentioned, there are a ton of great reasons to attend Vanderbilt.
" It’s usually parents who did not attend college that make the incorrect assumption that fancy colleges lead to fancy jobs, but having spent the last 25 years working at big corporations, I have not seen that stereotype to be true."
I suppose different experiences yield different results, as from my family and surroundings I have formed a very different opinion. But if you find something that works for you and your son, that’s all that matters. I just wouldn’t completely cross off Vanderbilt, that’s all. Remember yourself what it’s like to have a dream school 
“That is why you see such low medical school admit rate percentages for schools like UC Berkeley or UCLA”. 50% is not a low admit rate for med school. That’s a pretty normal rate.
@wannagotovandy We haven’t crossed Vanderbilt off the list. Don’t know what gave you that idea. And 50% pre med success rate is horrible given the caliber of students that attend UCB and UCLA.
At UCB, the average GPA for Biology major is 2.8. Other science majors are also around 3 only. That could be one of the reasons
@bsms2018 Absolutey it is a big reason. UCB, like the other UC’s is overcrowded and underfunded. Lower division science classes are taught by grad students and have 1,000 or more kids per class. Students are cut throat with one another because grades are handed out on a curve with the intention of “weeding out” most of them. 95% can earn you a “B”. Since med schools do not seem to care at all that your undergrad was done at an “elite” institution, those with B averages don’t gain admittance while those who earn mostly A’s at lesser selective schools get in easily. I’m sure most parents who send their kid to Cal to get a biology degree think it will guarantee med school acceptance. My whole point in the posts above is just that people should really take a good look at what they are paying for because there are no guarantees of success just because you attend an “elite” school. Show me the ROI data that suggests otherwise.
Does anyone know if ED2 is lower acceptance rate than ED1 for Vandy? Also, I had my interview a few days ago, but was wondering if interviews really have an affect on my application.
Vanderbilt does not publish ED1 vs ED2 figures or rates, so we can only speculate. It sure would make sense if ED2 were more difficult, though. The interviews hardly impact the application.
Maybe a slightly lower ED2 rate just because less spots are available to be filled? But then again, we need to consider the competitiveness of the ED2 pool. Any ideas on the whether ED 2 pool is less/more competitive than ED 1 pool?
Does Vanderbilt ask if you visited their campus on their application? Most top schools do, but I can’t find the spot where it asked.
No, I don’t think they track interest.
Applied & ready to have a heart attack on the 15th. Let’s go.