<p>I've gotten a lot of mixed messages from my parents and from teachers - I really don't know if I should get excited or expect disappointment. Not knowing how to expect the results is actually the worst feeling.</p>
<p>Anyway, if the ethnicity/income helps (pretty sure Vandy is need-blind but), I'm Hispanic and the fam makes about 25K a year. </p>
<p>My unweighted cum. GPA is 3.48 and my weighted cum. GPA is 4.42.
I'm a senior in the IB program.
I've taken two AP tests:
Euro History: 4
Psychology: 5</p>
<p>SAT: 2070 (Crit. 740, Math: 660, Writing: 670)
ACT: 30 (if it's even possible to take again, I will [I forgot my calculator!!])(Reading: 36, English: 35, Science: 27, Maths: 24, Writing: 8)</p>
<p>I'm a three year member and two year president of my school's environmental club.
I'm a co-founder and two year public relations director for my school's FIRST team.
I'm a two year member and one year historian and equipment manager for my school's high school band (for which I play marimba, trombone, and all aux. instruments)
Treasurer for my school's art club.
A two year XC and Track team member.
4 year French club member.
1 year member for my school's GSA.
Volunteer for three years at a non profit thrift store (200+ hours)
Public library volunteer and committee president of the Library League club to plan library events.</p>
<p>If it's of any value, I'm a fantastic writer (sorry, tooting my own horn) and have written some pretty good essays for the common app and for the Cornelius scholarship.</p>
<p>Please help? I don't think my nails can take all this biting.</p>
<p>Your SAt score is competetive and your GPA is good enough, Ofcourse, you are a competetive candidate at Vanderbilt and I think you might get good Financial AID too.</p>
<p>Your SAT score is strong. I find your GPA to be EXTREMELY low. However, you are a URM and you have pretty strong ECs. So I would be cautiously confident. Remember you are getting mixed responses because no one is an admissions officer so no one can accurately predict anything. I think you could get in, but really these chances are useless other than giving you some sort of comfort.</p>
<p>I did check the website for average SAT/ACT and GPA numbers and I seem to be right in the middle, excepting my math score. I’m very definitely an English and Arts student and my math scores are eh. I am taking IB Calculus though, so I hope my decision to take a harder math was appreciated.</p>
<p>Sorry to deliver bad news but I REALLY don’t think you could get in…I applied ED and was rejected with a 2200 an a 3.7 and copious leadership in unique ECs. ED also has a 10% higher acceptance rate than RD being 14% to 24%. I would apply to other schools and don’t get your hopes too high because I know what it feels like to be let down by Vandy :(</p>
<p>@puzzler45 were you a URM? And you can’t judge based on your rejection. I’m surprised you got rejected outright and not deferred in ED though. I can’t help but think something went wrong there. The GPA will hurt OP’s chances, but it’s not going to kill him considering URM status.</p>
<p>Actually, you’re right. I didn’t see that he was a URM which will definitely help but may not bump him all the way over. Vandy doesn’t defer ED but I’m a white female from NJ which is definitely OVER-REPRESENTED there.</p>