I called admissions today. They said, and I quote “Decisions will be released the week of February 15th”.
Let the hype train begin again.
At this point I’m hoping for Monday or Wednesday I don’t want Tuesday because I have a Calc test that day and I will for sure fail if it comes out on Tuesday
Hope it comes out on Monday!!
Ill be a standard for a low GPA
Hispanic Male at a very comp. private school in South Florida
SAT: 2070
GPA UW: 3.33 W: 4.4 (Senior Year GPA is a 5.2 though)
AP’s: 10 by the end of senior year so far (5 on AP Comp Pol, 5 on AP Lang, 4 AP US History, 3 AP US Gov)
Founder of my own sports news site
summer intern for Hillary for America
volunteer for Tim Kaine Fundraiser
Sports Editor for School Newspaper
Top Earner in JDRF and DRI Walk
Organized an event for Type One Diabetics in Third World Countries
Stanford Model UN Conference
Several Summer Programs: Washington Journalism Media Conference, GW Pre College Program, UNC Sports Journalism Camp
Honors:
AP Scholar
National Honor Society
Journalism Honor Society
2nd Place in Miami Dade County Youth Fair Short Story Comp.
Several Journalism Awards at CSPA
Personal Essays are pretty good and so are my recs had an interview which went really well
Just wondering, @tylerperez12 how does your GPA scale work?
How does one get a 5.2 on a 4 point scale? This gets so complicated-no wonder schools use unweighted GPA and then add back for rigor in their own way.
+1 for Honors Classes, +2 for AP Classes @dragonmom3
Haha to be honest I don’t understand how you all can analyze this so much and not get even more stressed out. I’m also an ED2 applicant and I’m super anxious, but reading this whole thread may give me a heart attack! I’ve already sweat through like 10 shirts. But seriously, good luck everybody! Kinda feel like a small fish in a big pond with so many impressive people.
@svithy you’re not alone mate. Best we can do now is to just hope we were able to portray the best version of ourselves on the application.
@tylerperez12 Insane EC’s and Work Experience. (+10 for interning with Hillary and not … the other guy…) Vandy likes to diversify so maybe that could help you (?)
ACT: (33 Composite)- 36 reading, 35 English, 33 science, 29 math (not my best), 33 essay portion
Sat; 1420- 730 reading, 690 math
Sat 2: 800 W history, 770 Us history, 670 literature
Unweighted GPA- 3.5 (did really poor freshman year and improved so this sucks)
Weighted 4.7 on 6.0
Rank- Top 10%
AP- 10 all 4 years
Dual enrollment- 2 classes at local college
Senior Course Load- AP Gov, AP BIO, AP Research, AP LIT, Stats Honors, double block ROTC
Major Awards- Tons of academic ones primarily through ROTC, multiple placed competitions in trivia, etc., awarded tons of leadership stuff form major organizations of veterans and soldiers
Extracurriculars:
NJROTC for for years including myiple states wins and placements (Chief Rank)
Cross Country
Track and Field (Captain)
Wresting for a year
Job Experience:
Worked at a pediatric office for an entire summer full time job
Volunteer:
Tons of ROTC stuff primarily
100 hours about
Essays: 8.5-9/10
The essay was all about ROTC and boot camp and he principles it instilled, spent forever on it though
Teacher rec: 9/10
Both teachers were my favs and they did great I know it but I don’t give anything 10/10
Counselor rec: 9.5/10
She’s great and she def did amazing one I know her really well
Other:
State- Florida
School- Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income- Middle Class (one parent disabled)
Hooks- Dad is alumni and sole donor to History department for most part and has connects
Reflections:
Strengths: essays, test scores extracurriculars
Weaknesses: grades could be better as they improved throughout
Where else:
UMinnesota and CU Boulder (Accepted)
UVA EA and Bowdoin College ED 1 (Rejected)
Waiting for tons: Claremont, USC, Carleton, Tufts, and tons more
Pray that I get in. Really hope my dads position will sway as so many qualified students just don’t get in
You can’t stress over things like whether or not a Vandy account followed you or how many people are in that facebook page. Remember that we are ED2 applicants, making us a very valuable group of people to the admissions committee. We will have the fairest and truest shot at an acceptance but you won’t know if you got in for a few days so take a breath!!
@jkgreen27 did you send in your SAT scores to Vandy too?
Asking since I reported my SAT scores to Vandy on my CommonApp (But didn’t send them in) even though my ACT was much better. Will this negatively affect me or will Vandy just look at the greater of the two scores?
@harveyspectator I sent them through the collegeboard system and it comes up as checked off on the app check list. If yours is checked on myappvu then there’s nothing to worry about
@harveyspectator and the reason I sent them was because comparatively my math is better on my sat as a percentile and it wasn’t horrible so it’s ok I think
Does anyone’s sat subject tests show up on the portal?
@harveyspectator Thank You! I am really hoping Vanderbilt turns out to be as holistic as they say, I am not expecting to get in however. Good Luck to you!
Hey guys! I got in ED1 a couple of months ago. I hope I see all of you at Vandy this fall! One small tip : When 5:30 rolls around on the decision day, log into your account a couple of seconds after they come out. If you’re already logged in and you try to refresh it, the decision doesn’t turn up, at least in my experience.
Looking at all these ED2 schools getting released and we just waiting here like tik tok tik tok
if i don’t get in i’m gonna tell vandy to cash me ousside how bow dah?
@student2021 thanks! Hopefully all of us will be able to greet each other as commodores in a few days
On a side note, everyday I try to take a nap around this time so that I don’t have to anxiously wait for an email. It works pretty well!
@stressedsenior99 The SAT Subject tests are not compulsory for an application so they aren’t going to be reflected in MyAppVU.