<p>boy I’m nervous…everyone seems to have near perfect gpa’s (something i don’t have)</p>
<p>No letter again today in the Jersey Shore!! This is pure torture!</p>
<p>@Momthreeboys: you’re kidding me!</p>
<p>My daughter received her acceptance yesterday in Jackson, MS! 33 ACT (didn’t take SAT)…3.96 weighted gpa…essay about her old 1996 Volvo carrying her places and her siblings(2nd oldest out of 5)…senior class president…cross country awards…one AP and 3 honors classes junior year…4APs this year…two service trips to China last two summers… Elected Tribal leader at her summer camp, Kanakuk…4th generation to attend Vanderbilt…Won award 25 Students Who Will Change The World… Passionate about diet and helping undeserved prevent cancer. Her dad had cancer 12 years ago.</p>
<p>GeauxVU2017: Wow congratulations to you and your daughter! Along with everyone else that has been accepted! Anxiously awaiting here in MD</p>
<p>letter came today in central/northern new jersey! mom is bringing it to school so i can open it!!</p>
<p>Thank you! We were told last year that only 1 AP & 3 honors might not be enough for Vanderbilt but we chose sanity over a complete grind. She also had a good number of speech and debate awards. She didn’t start speech & debate until Sophomore year and I know the debate coach wrote a great rec. She has a lot of grit. I went to Vanderbilt which helps a little. I have had plenty of friends kids not get in.</p>
<p>@vandygirl330 - where are you?</p>
<p>AGAIN no letter in Atlanta suburb. :(</p>
<p>Spieluhr- I wish I was kidding! I even drove to the post office and made them look though everything they had there, thinking maybe they didn’t get around to sorting everything, but nothing. My son is officially freaking out with me now. He has been texting from school to find out what’s going on and couldn’t believe he didn’t get it today either. Hopefully, tomorrow!!!</p>
<p>rejected 
ill be applying to all my other schools over Christmas break…well see what happens I guess!! Just a very disappointing day for me…here are my stats</p>
<p>ECs
Freshman Class VP, Sophomore and Junior President, Senior Student Body VP
Mock Trial Team 9-12 lawyer
competitive irish dancer since age 4 got 6th at world championships
chorale and jazz choir 9-12, member of brundibar opera
member of math league and club for kids with cancer 9-12
head of talent show 11-12
euro challenge sophomore year
service trip to VA summer before senior year
lifeguard in summer before senior year
Captain of Cross Country senior year, member of track team and xc team all 4 years lots of county and conference awards</p>
<p>GPA: around 4.04 weighted but that’s without first quarter senior grades
around 3:65-3.7 weighted
Junior Classes: AP US, AP LANG, AP PSYCH, PRE CALC HONORS, BIO HONORS LATIN HONORS
Senior Classes: AP BIO, AP EURO, AP ECON, AP LIT, LATIN HONORS, CALC HONORS</p>
<p>SATS: 710 cr 690 math 780 writing 2190 overall, 710 us history subject test
ACTS: 32 composite (superscore 33) highest scores= 36 english 34 reading 32 math 30 science
AP Scores: 4 APUSH 5 APLang 4 APPsych</p>
<p>National Merit Commended, tons of random school awards
White girl , Catholic NJ school</p>
<p>I was rejected as well, my stats are posted earlier in the thread. Congrats to the class of 2017 and good luck to all who are still waiting to here back!!!</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about disappointing news. I teach high school and one of my most endearing students didn’t get into Vanderbilt but was accepted into Northwestern’s medical school as a high school senior so I knew how hard Vandy is to get in. You will be successful and I know of two students who didn’t get in at first and transferred in as sophomores. In acceptance lies peace. It might take awhile but believe something better is out there. Best wishes your way! After Vanderbilt we were looking at UVA, Wake, Furman(I love Furman and Greenville is great), SMU, Tulane and Dartmouth</p>
<p>Accepted - got letter yesterday in Michigan
I didn’t have much time to put stats yesterday so for those still waiting:</p>
<p>ACT: 35
GPA: 4.0 unweighted. School doesn’t weight or rank but counselor told us top three in her class
Took 3 AP’s last year with a 5, 4 and 4 in AP Chem, AP Gov and AP Stats
Taking 4 AP’s this year
AP Scholar
Swim team all four years. Went to State competition all four years and made all state this year.
JV Tennis - one year
Rowing - one year
President - Adventure Club
Student Leader - Youth Group
Volunteer at Kids Food Basket - two years
Exceptional rec’s from both teachers and counselor.
Wrote essay on a quote from John Green about nerds: “Nerds are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff…Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself-love it. When people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.” </p>
<p>From what I have seen on the board, she is stronger in the academics but I thought maybe light in the EC’s. </p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>Accepted!!! Undoubtedly the greatest day of my life!!
3.93 UW 9 APs 31 ACT
I was a weird applicant so look at my past posts if you want to get a better picture
Anchor down!!!</p>
<p>No letter in NY today…</p>
<p>Mail won’t be here til late & if it’s not here today, we may all need some sleep aid!
Congrats to those accepted & my heart goes out to those who were not. But with what has happened in Conn today, this isn’t the worst thing that will ever happen. I don’t know if DS will get in, but if he doesn’t it isn’t the end of the world. He will still go to a great college & I will be able to hug & squeeze him as long as he’ll let me. Prayers to the parents of those sweet babies & to the families of all involved.</p>
<p>JUST GOT MY LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
3.5 UW GPA
5 ap’s, almost all honors otherwise
1540 cr+m on sat</p>
<p>The letter just arrived her in Eastern NC! My daughter was ACCEPTED!!! Leaving work soon to drive to Durham to surprise her at her residential school.</p>
<p>Some STATs -</p>
<p>NC School of Science & Mathematics (Public) Durham, NC (11th /12th)
354 students in graduating class unranked</p>
<h1>1 in my class 9th and 10th grade at public school in Eastern NC 300 Students ?</h1>
<p>SATs M/CR/W: 740/680/600
GPA 9th/10th UW: 3.828
GPA 9th/10th W: 4.891
GPA 11th W: 4.789
GPA 12th W: 5.250
GPA NCSSM Cumulative W: 4.870 (NCSSM only calculates GPA as Weighted)</p>
<p>Classes taking this year include: Physics w/Advanced Topics, Intermediate Japanese, AP Biology I & III, Modeling/Differential Equations, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, Combinatorics and Game Theory, Asia II, Organic Chemistry, Immunology and Chorale</p>
<p>ECs: President of my class 9th & 10th grade, participated in and then organized & directed own Kicking4Hunger Camp 12th summer , Unis Fighting Hunger -11th/12th, Varsity Tennis 9th/10th/11th, Senior Dance Company, Dance Ensemble -4yrs, Choreographed/danced and sang in multiple theater productions 4 years, founded a Support the Soldiers Club at NCSSM- 12th, violin-4yrs, Student Ambassador -10th, went to Japan as part of the Kankei Exchange Program - 12th summer (Visited Tokyo, Nagoya and Sapporo, lived with host families and experienced two Japanese high schools and was accepted to be a part of 2 week study abroad Mini-Term in Paris for culture/architecture.</p>
<p>Applied to: Arts & Science</p>
<p>Academic Interests: Pre-medicine/Foreign Language (Japanese)</p>
<p>11 AP classes did not take any AP exams</p>
<p>Missed SAT subject tests because she was sick, so no subject test scores</p>
<p>Ethnicity (Mixed)White/Thai (female)</p>
<p>does put things in perspective doesn’t it. my prayers go out to the connecticut victims</p>