<p>^I tried applying for housing after setting up my VUnet ID but I was unsuccessful. I’m not sure when we’re able to apply.</p>
<p>How do you set up the VUnet ID?</p>
<p>accepted!!</p>
<p>@sarah - Go to vanderbilt.edu/resed, click apply for housing and it should present you with the option of creating a VUnet ID.</p>
<p>@chicagobears Thank you!</p>
<p>Just received my acceptance letter in the mail!!! I am literally shocked right now!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in! I just got my letter and I was wait listed. Any advice? What should I do?</p>
<p>For anyone who has created a VUnet ID and password, have you been able to receive emails on your Vanderbilt.edu email address? I’m having trouble here.</p>
<p>Has anyone sent in their deposits yet? How long after did u get anything back from them? I’m wondering if there’s anything I should be doing haha</p>
<p>i’m waiting for my finaid package to arrive before i send in my deposit. they said it should arrive in about a week after you receive your decision</p>
<p>^I made my deposit before receiving my finaid package. They needed more documents from me so I’ve yet to receive my finaid package. I was accepted 2 weeks ago.</p>
<p>Wait listed today, more waiting :(</p>
<p>same thing happened to me aburch</p>
<p>Hey everyone - here’s a copy of a thread I just made in the Vanderbilt forum. Congrats to all of you on your acceptances (sorry to those who were rejected) and I hope this tidbit of advice from my experience helps you make a decision one way or another. Here’s a copy:</p>
<p>I am making this thread to warn potential Vanderbilt transfers about the experience I’ve had at Vanderbilt as a transfer student. I hope this helps those of you on the fence between Vanderbilt and other schools in making your decision. I don’t want anyone to go through what I have for the past two years.</p>
<p>First, many students seem to resent you. Transfer students are seen as lower caliber students who found a back door to get into the school. Anytime the fact that I’m a transfer comes up, the attitude of the person I’m talking to changes completely. If it doesn’t come up, and they assume I’m a freshman admit, eventually it comes up talking about other students. (Yeah, he made a 60 on the test…what do you expect, he’s a transfer!). I honestly feel like I’m second rate all the time - and I’m not the type to let thinks bother me. It just really hurts.</p>
<p>Second, it seems even professors play into the stereotype. I was in a class once that divided us up into teams for a group project. In the criteria for making the teams, she wanted to make sure “no team was made up of all transfer students, so as not to disadvantage one team compared to the others.” I couldn’t believe when she said that…some in the class snickered, and she split us into groups based on information from a card we filled out at the beginning of the year, one of the questions being “Are you a transfer student?”</p>
<p>Finally, I’ve had a hard time making friends. Vanderbilt seems to be very clique-ish, and they seem to form freshman year. As such, it took me a long time to find a good group of friends. I have a few close friends now, but I still sometimes feel like I’m in high school with the cliques, and I regret not being a freshman admit. I just feel like a second class citizen as a transfer.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is a great school, and I will be proud when I graduate next year with my degree, but I just want everyone to hear my experience. Please don’t bash me for this post - it will just prove my point even more. One of my best friends here at Vandy is a transfer, and her experience has been the same as mine. I turned down a number of good schools to come here, and I really do regret it. Just some advice to transfers out there who haven’t made a decision. Either way, I wish you luck. If you do come here, make sure you have a tough skin - you’ll need it.</p>
<p>-Amber</p>
<p>@horsedoc,
Thanks for letting everyone know.</p>
<p>Also, a tidbit for transfers in general. I transferred once already, and what she said is true of my school as well. The President’s wife asked me if I was having “a hard time academically”. I was a bit offended to say the least. So, I’m pretty much expecting the worst, but hoping for the best.</p>
<p>@HorseDoc: This is making me extremely concerned. One of the main reasons I was set on transferring was because I had a hard time making friends at such a large public university. Have you spoken to enough transfers to establish the fact that this is the way most transfers feel?</p>
<p>Wait listed today. Does Vanderbilt consider additional extra curricular’s for wait listed students, for example summer internships?</p>
<p>In response to horsesoc and others:</p>
<p>Ive already transferred once this is the second time I’m transferring unfortunately and I have to agree it was freaking hard. I transferred from a small liberal arts college(where I had probably the best year ever, but the school majorly sucked and I knew if I ever wanted to go to grad school I should really transfer to a legit school cuz this place was a joke, just really fun) to a huge school in a big city. Everyone seemed to look down on transfers for some reason and it was definitely hurtful I don’t care how much you think you wouldn’t care, once you notice that everyone thinks less of you because your a transfer it’s gonna hurt your feelings wether you show it or not. </p>
<p>There was a small number of transfers and transfer orientation is so short an hectic I didn’t meet ANYONE(just the like completely superficial conversations and then everyone just left). It was very hard to make friends my first semester because everyone already had their own groups or was a freshman in which case they lived in freshman housing, had a 3 day orientation and were constantly doing first year things and were making lots of friends there. </p>
<p>Eventually I did make some friends and it got better but what I’m trying to say is this is just a fact with transferring it’s not just a Vanderbilt thing. I’m sure there’s a lucky few who had an amazing experience but I think mine is more typical. I’m hoping it’s not as bad the second time around.</p>
<p>So anyway don’t let this scare you from transferring if you really want to go to Vanderbilt as I know I do, and let’s face it you’re clearly either unhappy at your current school or looking to go to a better one. Just be prepared for it to be a lot harder than when you were coming into a school as a freshman.</p>
<p>Wow I hope this wasn’t too long!</p>
<p>@manic,
You’re a (double) transfer too? I’m not alone!</p>
<p>And everyone, if you do not fit into the stereotypical, under-achieving transfer, then I think people forget. I came to this school and I did better than I did at my old school, so people just stopped talking overall. And, yeah being a transfer will be difficult, but at least there are 200+ of us.</p>
<p>I disagree that people forget - they may not apply it to you anymore, but they still see you as a transfer. And I believe there are many other schools where transfers don’t feel this way. Cornell, for example - everyone I know that transferred there loves it. Cornell goes out of their way to make transfers feel welcome, and the students have too much to keep track of with all the different possible colleges, that adding the “transfer” layer is too much, lol. I just wish Vanderbilt were more accepting.</p>