<p>Thanks for the update on the stats, FiveThousand, and congrats on getting in EDI. Hope to see you in Nashville next year!</p>
<p>I applied regular but I’m really regretting it and I want to switch to ED II, is it too late?</p>
<p>lovemesomexc,
I believe I already posted this on your other thread…
Here’s my advice, call them up and ask to be switched to EDII and fax them the ED Agreement. In my experience with them, they have been more than understanding and hopefully, they will switch you over without any hassle.
BUT, I am not experienced with this and do not know their admissions policies. I really hope that they allow you to switch pools, but considering that EDII is much smaller than RD, I do not know for sure if they will allow you to or not. Best of luck to you! Let me know how it turns out!</p>
<p>what SAT scores do you think they’ll be looking for in ED2 applicants?</p>
<p>The middle 50% or better. :/</p>
<p>ahh and what’s the middle 50% again?</p>
<p>hi everyone! I am also applying to Vanderbilt as an early decision II applicant. I really love Vandy and am really hoping to get in. I am, however, a little nervous about my ACT score. I got a 32 and I noticed that many people applying had much higher scores. I know it is a holistic review, but I just really want to be a competitive applicant!</p>
<p>If you’re in the range, test scores don’t really matter too much. 32 will be fine to get you over that hump.</p>
<p>what exactly do you guys mean by ‘competitive’ applicant? like qualified?</p>
<p>also, why is it that it’s so much easier to get into vandy (and other southern ivies) when you’re actually from the south? judging from other threads, it seems like people from tennessee and georgia and alabama get in very frequently over kids from the northeast (where im from)</p>
<p>Oh, I haven’t noticed that pattern. Can you give any corroboration?</p>
<p>just in general southern schools like vandy duke and rice are known to accept a lot more applicants from the south. if you look in the ED1 accepted threads, so many of the kids that got accepted are from southern states. also, if you look at vanderbilt’s class of 2016 study body distribution by state, a HUGE number of them are from tennessee…something like nearly 900 students</p>
<p>Oh, that’s just because a higher proportion of students from the South apply there. Vanderbilt is much more prestigious down here than everywhere else. Duke had that problem, too, before it somehow scaled it.</p>
<p>Both Vandy and Duke have about 15% of students from their base state and 33% from the south. Coincidence??? Both want to be top dog at home and both want students from the NE. NY is the second most represented state at Vandy. NJ, CT, MA are in the top ten as well.<br>
The NE has more students with Vandy academic profiles, so it’s more competitive.</p>
<p>Duke has a charter requirement to give a small advantage to North or South Carolinians which is a nice small boost for their applicants. I am too lazy to look up the %. Even so, admitted students meet top standards statistically. UNC has a very strict state mandated standard for saving seats for NC top students–I think it is either 15 or 18% limit on OOS seats in each class. We Virginians love the diversity at UVA but there are many tears from A students in Virginia who cannot get a seat at UVA because they allow 40% of seats to go to OOS students. That is a fact that cuts both ways.</p>
<p>I believe that Duke is required to admit at least 15% from North Carolina</p>
<p>Faline^ the state of NC mandates that no more than 18% of students at a state school can be from out-of-state, although there have been some rumblings from the state legislature lately about raising that limit. (The only other school in NC that comes close to having the max % allowed is UNC Wilmington.) And you and Kellybkk are correct that Duke, even though a private school, does give slight preferential treatment in admissions to students from NC or SC. I am not aware that Vanderbilt has anything similar in it’s charter that favors residents from TN. </p>
<p>Vandy just has a lot of kids from it’s home state because they are all aware of the school’s outstanding reputation which, for some reason, is still not as wide spread nationally as it should be. Vanderbilt has sort of been like a hidden gem but I think, I hope, the word is getting out as the rise in the number and quality of applicants has shown.<br>
Interestingly, at schools which I consider peers of Vanderbilt, Rice has over 50% of students from Texas, Emory has 28% of students from GA, Duke has 14% of students from NC and Wash U has 8% of students from Missouri. (Stats from collegeboard.org)</p>
<p>Your stats do put things in perspective, LHSCary!</p>
<p>Hello, everyone! 
I applied to the Peabody College under Vanderbilt’s Early Decision II Deadline. If accepted, I will be completing their 5 year MSN program and starting out getting a Bachelor’s in Child Development. I have lived in Tennessee for the past two years, and Vanderbilt is definitely my DREAM school. I am getting SO nervous, and am just ready for the decision letters to come out, so that I will know either way, even if I am rejected. I moved here from Germany, where I was living because my dad is in the military. Anyway, here are my Stats:</p>
<p>ACT: 33
National Merit Commended
GPA: 4.0 (highest you can get at my school)
Rank: 5/76 at a magnet school</p>
<p>ECs/other:
Girl Scouts (12 years, Gold Award [comparable to the Eagle Scout], president of troop in 2009, treasurer in 2010)
National Honor Society (Secretary)
Student Council (Sophomore Secretary and currently on Executive Board)
German Club (Treasurer)
Cross Country (4 years, varsity letter, ran in state meet, Senior Award)
Track (3 years, varsity letter, Best Distance Girl Award)
Junior Volunteer at local hospital over summer 2012 (80 hours)
Currently writing a senior thesis on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and working with a college nursing professor </p>
<p>Can’t believe that we still have to wait about three weeks for the decisions to come out… I don’t even know how I am going to be open the letter, I will be so nervous. Best of luck to everyone! Trying to keep the mentality that if I do not get in, there is a college out there somewhere that is for me! Can’t wait to hear about all the stories once the letters start rolling in!!! :)</p>
<p>@katie2013vandy Greetings from MS! I feel the exact same way! Nice stats, btw. If accepted, I hope to major in Medicine, Health, and Society and go pre-med. Three weeks has never seemed like such a long wait!!</p>
<p>@Wallacea Thanks! Definitely going to be a long three weeks though… All I know is that if I do get accepted, I am going to be so incredibly happy!</p>