<p>i’m so anxious! When do you think i’ll receive the letter in NY?</p>
<p>@LetsG0Mets First off, love the Mets ahahahah. I’m in NY as well (Westchester County) and I’m expecting to get mine between Thursday-Saturday.</p>
<p>Yeah- I’m in NJ. I’m thinking Thursday at the earliest and Friday at the latest. </p>
<p>Literally can’t think of anything else.</p>
<p>I’m on Long Island. I was thinking 3 days from the mailing day, so hopefully Thurs/Fri. All we can hope for is that R.A. pitches every day and throws 162 no hitters. Otherwise we’ll have another 4th place finish.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m pretty sure some areas will hear back tomorrow but us on the Northeast will have to wait a bit. I was just up in Suffolk county the other day lol. We can only for the best with this upcoming season! (Trying to think positively despite the past)</p>
<p>I hope so. If we are truly the most academically qualified applicant pool, i don’t know if i’m going to be able to open that letter</p>
<p>Ugh I know, the anxiety is killing me and reading that didn’t help ease the nerves. 
It’s out of our hands now and all we can do is expect the worse but hope for the best</p>
<p>I literally can’t breathe waiting for this. I made a CC account just because. Honestly, I have everything I need other than the grades. I have a 1490/2250 sat and a 31 (33 superscored) act. my interview went great, she spoke the words- “you’re pretty much perfect. i’ll do everything in my power to make this possible for you. i want you to go to vanderbilt.” i have over 300 hours of UNIQUE community service hours (volunteering in an art therapy studio, self created community service/leadership programs) and i’m an elected SGA officer and student head of the visual art department at my (extremely rigorous) private high school. I’ve been communicating with my admissions counselor like crazy (we also have tons of inside jokes, hahahaha. like how did that happen?) and my essay was pretty good/deep/really personal. really philosophical, so i hope they like that. I’m also a national achievement semi-finalist. but my grades. are. terrible. sophomore year i got a 3.1 unweighted (with circumstances that i think my college counselors probably communicated but that i refuse to report as a part of my application because i don’t like excuses.) so far i’ve started senior year with a 3.74 weighted, but that still sucks. cumulative it’s like a 3.57. will low grades kill my chances of admission or will me being an under represented minority/national achievement semifinalist/in admissions contact maybe possibly help me out? literally dying about receiving a response. i haven’t slept in 3 days and i passed out from stress last week. this is so bad. good luck everyone!</p>
<p>i’ve heard that Vanderbilt is very score sensitive. you need the scores, but they are also big on the holistic approach. So the rest of your application may make up for your GPA</p>
<p>When I was at Vandy both times they said they only look at the SAT on the 1600 scale. Is that true?</p>
<p>I’m sure it is the most academically qualified, but then again they can’t really say anything else honestly. They wouldn’t advertise “the quality of applicants went down considerably, so everyone is lucky” hahaha</p>
<p>vandyyjp you are fine! you worry too much! Vandy is very score sensitive apparently so you will be fine. They look for an upward trend also, which you have. I have a below average GPA as well but my interview definitely did not go as well as yours and I haven’t had as good of contact with my admissions officer as you.</p>
<p>oh, and i’m applying to peabody/hod. and my lowest scores are in math, so i don’t think low math scores will hurt me. oh, and i explained during my interview but my school does scheduling weird and in order to stay in my AP Advanced Studio art class and in order to take AP Psych I couldn’t take AP stats or AP english because they didn’t fit in my schedule, so I had to take regulars. would they be mad at me for not dropping my art class even though my entire high school life has been built around my passion for visual arts? like will they appreciate the fact that my whole application reflects my interest in the arts so it would be foolish of me to drop it or would they have rather me taken more AP classes. i’m also in an honors history class (highest offered that fits in my schedule, AGAIN). my school really needs to fix scheduling.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s true. They only look at the CR+M score, so if your writing score is your worst (like me), you’re lucky.</p>
<p>I thought this was really nice and how they worded it made me feel loads better if I didn’t get in:</p>
<p>“Most applicants to Vanderbilt could successfully handle the rigor required of our student body (hence why the selection process is so difficult), but our policy of bringing approximately 1,600 first-year students to The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons each fall necessitates that we turn down fully capable individuals in the process. If this is you, we hope you wont see our decision as a rejection, but rather as an opportunity to thrive elsewhere. Everything we read and debated over in this cycles applications indicates that no one in this pool should do anything less than amazing work no matter where they attend.”</p>
<p>Thanks Vandy officers hahaha!! There’s always other schools that would be lucky to have all of us! And everything happens for a reason so maybe Vanderbilt wasn’t the right choice for us and the universe is just saving us the trouble of transferring! Horrible but I’m trying to convince myself not to stress out too much!!!</p>
<p>CLBI143 - last year it was 2 days – I’m guessing they’ll arrive Friday.</p>
<p>if you can’t already tell i’m a complete wreck right now. i can’t even type complete sentences.</p>
<p>How are you arranging the interviews? DS has attended all of the local Vandy events, but no information on interviews.</p>
<p>vandyyyjp, I hope things swing your way in Nashville but you will have multiple options in the spring if for some reason you are not in ED. Your scores alone put you in a great position and your references will back you up. Seriously! Be proud of yourself! Btw, for what it is worth, I think your focus on the arts sounds amazing and I think obsessing on the glories of taking all APs is boring. Not a put down for those who knocked out APs…our sons did the best they could with that as well in their limited high school. I hear some public school kids have to go to community college just to get enough weighted credits to be in the top 10% of high schools where everyone is doing well…now that is Nuts…but reality for some districts.</p>
<p>Just like another Faux Worry: holding elected offices. Not exactly a predictor in my opinion, and nothing to dwell on for applicants. Not as important as being intense and real in whatever you have been able to do so far. All of you guys will be trying on new hats and focuses in the coming years. High school is over-rated. My senior at Vandy asked me to please treat him the exact opposite of how his fall senior year in high school went down (stock market crashed and burned, parents everywhere looking at plummeting home values and shaky jobs, seniors even more pressured) and so we are giving him a wide berth as he finishes at Vandy as an honors grad with an unclear next act.</p>
<p>Give the committee credit. They get that there are obstacles in all high schools that put students in binds. </p>
<p>If you are not in Vandy, it is only because you are going to get other open doors in April. For those of you who dread the extra essays, I Heart You re applications over winter break but you can do it! Our sons were still polishing essays up to the midnight deadlines at every college and they had a great outcome without any teachers to look over their final essays. If you don’t get in ED, REST, focus on your family, let your essays take shape over winter break and knock em out the days after December 25. it is dooable.<br>
Everyone get some sleep, go see a movie as soon as school is out. You have done beautiful jobs and borne up under ridiculous expectations. Cheers to each of you. You are blessed because you will be in a fine college in August. I have seen the ED rejects who enrolled at Vandy and Duke and UVA and GA Tech…and they never think about the day in December when they knew they had to do the RD round of applications and go to Game Plan B. I have also been around long enough to see a lot of state college honors grads doing fabulously well in the work place, even though they turned down more expensive private admissions in some cases. Be especially nice to your guidance counselors…I feel sorry for them more than for you wonderful young people. I hope your parents appreciate each of you! Can you imagine the randomness of the ED and RD rounds with 28 thousand plus applications! Have faith in yourselves. New vistas await you. Nashville is a very nice college town but it ain’t the whole ball game. There are other academic communities out there and no university has it all.</p>
<p>@McMomma if your DS applied then they would have received an email regarding alumni interview and how to schedule one.</p>
<p>“Vanderbilt’s most academically qualified and diverse EDI class yet.”</p>
<p>I’m not sure how I stand academically (3.76 UW, 3.99 W, 9/144, upward trend) in comparison to the rest of the ED pool, but the “diverse” part gives me hope.</p>