in shock. didn’t check the link for a good hour because for some reason i was sure i was going to be rejected but i got accepted!!! so grateful!!!
Rejected with SAT 1580 GPA 4.0 (97% avg) and great ECs and essays
Feeling crushed and I don’t even want to look at tomorrow’s Ivy decisions
Waitlisted. 1550 SAT, 4.5 GPA, leadership roles, 11 APs, unique political extracurriculars. Third waitlist of the week 
Not really sure what more colleges want from me. I’m DREADING tomorrow
Just notified that I also got into the Clark Scholars Program! Has anyone else received any information on it? Sounds quite interesting
Waitlisted
Computer Science
SAT: 1540
3.96UW, 4.406W
Four 5s, one 4, and one 3 on AP tests
Hispanic
EC: pres of Republican club, pres of CyberPatriot (cybersecurity competition) Club, Director of Competitions for Vex Robotics club, mediocre piano player, been programming since 5th grade and have published 8 apps, 3D modeling since middle school
Accepted:Cornell University, Colgate, Rice, Swarthmore, Washington & Lee, Williams
Rejected: Stanford, MIT, USC
Accepted!! 33 ACT, 4.57 GPA, varsity baseball and football captain. I think good essays. Honestly really surprised I’m looking on here at students who are so much more accomplished than I am and I realize that the admissions process makes no sense.
@nb000791 nice to see that acceptance with the sports! Can I ask if you are legacy or 1st generation or URM? Congrats!!!
https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■/15376808/ Post decision here
Waitlisted… pretty bummed but two cause from my school got in earlier for scholarships and MOSAIC, so I expected not an acceptance. Congrats to all
Can somebody post their rejection letter? I actually took a minute to read mine and this is the nicest rejection letter I’ve gotten thus far. I just want to know if it’s personal or not.
@uncreativename Congratulations. Were you accepted into the Engineering school? The Clarks scholars program is a fairly new, prestigious program that is primarily for engineers , but I guess can also be for other stem majors. I believe this upcoming year will be the 2nd year that this program is being offered at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt has a nice video with more details. Only 10 students per class are in the program. This program is currently being offered at about 9 universities. My daughter is being considered for this program at another university.
@CU1986 Thanks, congratulations to your daughter as well! Yes, I was accepted into the School of Engineering. I didn’t know there was a video, I’ll have to find it and check it out.
DD Accepted
35 ACT (perfect score on STEM portion) - one sitting
Environmental Science
4.0 UW, 8 APs
NMF
Year-round softball, four years in drama, four years Project Magic
Congratulations to everyone that was accepted!
Accepted - Arts & Sciences, Economics
34 ACT
800 SAT II Math
White, Pacific Islander, Hispanic
4.21 (W) not sure unweighted
7 APs
Varsity Tennis Captain
DECA, Debate, Model Congress, JSA, Weather Club, Soccer ref coordinator, Stock Market Club, Lifeguard, Day camp volunteer
Waitlisted
D18
4.2 W
1540 SAT
9 APS
Music
Research at a top university
Leadership
Now—How to get off of the waitlist!!!
Waitlisted
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): Composite: 35 Writing 36 Reading 34 Math 34 Science 36 Writing 7/12<-I only took the ACT once and I was extremely sick by the end of the Science section.
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99 unweighted 4.53 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/264 4.5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chemistry 4 AP US History 4 AP Statistics 5
IB (place score in parenthesis): We don’t get scores until post year two so idk.
Senior Year Course Load: AP BC Calculus/IB SL Math, HL Spanish, HL Biology, HL Literature, HL History, SL Music, Chorus
Seems to me like a LOT of people got waitlisted…including myself lol.
35 ACT
3.99 UW
4.34 W
6 AP’s (couldn’t take them as underclassman, school policy)
Rank N/A but Valedictorian
National Merit Scholarship Winner
President Student Council (3 Years)
Created 5K Fundraiser
President Science Olympiad
Varsity Soccer (3 Years)
300 Volunteer Hours
President/Founder Chess Club
President Photography Club
Don’t really know what else I could’ve done 
Congrats to everyone accepted!
Another waitlist.
“According to the 2017-18 common data set, Vandy took 178 students off the wait list. But they don’t list how many were offered or accepted a spot. But I think that’s actually a pretty large number.”
It varies from year to year, but as compared to many other schools, Vandy uses its wait list a lot. Last four cycles, Vandy admitted 210, 188, 71 and 178 kids off the wait list. Since the frosh class is about 1,600 seats, those are pretty big numbers. Vandy puts a lot of kids on the wait list, but then works it pretty hard to track which kids are moving on (as many do) and which remain interested in Vandy.
FYI, using the wait list like this (similar to ED) is a great way for the school to keep its reported yield high and its admit rate low.