im looking at vandy because my brother went to vanderbilt and just graduated. i want to go because i am interested in buisness and that is what he is doing. i wanted to know if vanderbilt would accept me if i was failing a class but it is not a class that vanderbilt offers, so would it have any relevance in the application
I want you to think about this. This is a top 20 school. They have the pick of the cream of the crop students across the entire country. Why would they take someone who is failing a class when they have 20,000 other applicants who aren’t failing a class?
Integrity is the most important aspect of an application. Own whatever the issue is with this class and don’t make excuses. No one is fully formed and complete at your age. Lots of Vandy applicants have stumbled somewhere or have a grade or test score that is not excellent.
That said, Vandy has a huge application pool. It is a reach college even if you are in the top quartile in stats. There are many ways to prepare well for a business career. Vandy would expect you to be shrewd and make sure you apply to at least a couple of schools where you will definitely be admitted. Everyone has to do this. So do you. Financial Safety is a Must for all. Admission-realistic Match college is a Must for all. No exceptions for anyone, even those who have near perfect test scores and grades.
Attach to your match colleges. Respect your match colleges. This is the key to mental health as a senior in high school. Not only that, these “match” colleges deserve respect and usually have a great faculty. Reach colleges do NOT admit all their fully qualified most competitive applicants but at some level…success is really up to you in life and attending a match college is not going to get in your way at all.
I don’t understand why not find a place with an actual solid quality UG business program or economics program which fits the bill for many match schools that may actually have better or at least more defined programs for those than other top 20 (or 25) schools. You can go anywhere and do business…the question is whether you want to be entrepreneurial or not in which cases you should see if any match schools you are interested in have or are developing an entrepreneurial spirit. This is an area where, once again, may be bigger at those places than at some “top” schools. Adding “smart” people does not necessarily result in the same climate or quality of academics on every campus. In addition, a sibling going to a school and doing “x” should not be enough to garner interest. Legacy effects are strong, but you should really see if the school is even a fit and if it really excels at that area (because many students choose it as more or less a default track or path regardless of how good it is…even at schools with so called “great” UG business programs may have a “this is a default path” thing going on).
You should be able to tell that I support Faline in terms of learning to respect match schools…hell some match schools for many people applying to places like Vandy are basically in the same or a very similar league as Vandy. They aren’t these ridiculous academically inferior places with nothing to offer.