VANDY CLASS OF 2014 accepted students!!

<p>Vandy bound!</p>

<p>so excited :)</p>

<p>Decision: </p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT:
SAT IIs:
GPA (w/uw):
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %:
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score):
Course load:
Other stats:
Subjective:
Essays:
Teacher Recs:
Counselor Rec:
Interview:
Major EC’s:
Work experience:
Hook (if any):
Notable weaknesses (if any):
Location/Person:
State or Country:
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Financial aid?:
Intended Major:
Other schools in mind:
Other Factors:</p>

<p>General Comments:</p>

<p>Get to know each other, everyone just copy and paste this and fill it in!! </p>

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<p>Decision: accepted, ED1</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT: 33
SAT IIs:
GPA (w/uw): 4.0/4.4
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %: 1-2/350ish
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): taken 3(3, 4, 4) currently taking 2
Course load: two APs, and two fun classes, and other normal ones
Other stats:
Subjective:
Essays: about GSP
Teacher Recs: 2
Counselor Rec: 1
Interview: no
Major EC’s: TENNIS
Work experience: giving tennis lessons, helping at church, nothing big
Hook (if any): I really don’t know haha just thankful they liked me
Notable weaknesses (if any): small high school, not tough academically, not very diverse
Location/Person:<br>
State or Country: Kentucky, central around Lexington
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: girl
Income Bracket: mid
Financial aid?: hope so!!!
Intended Major: MHS, political science
Other schools in mind: none, definitely going to Vandy
Other Factors:</p>

<p>General Comments:<br>
very excited!!!</p>

<p>Decision: accepted, ED1</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT: 2180 SAT and 31 ACT
SAT IIs: 700 biology, 730 english literature, 720 us history
GPA (w/uw): 3.9/4.2
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %: no ranking!
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): taken 5 (4,5,5,5,5) and now taking 5
Course load: currently taking 5 aps and 1 honors class
Other stats: 14 time debate finalist, class president, debate captain, 4 honor societies…
Subjective:
Essays: about my dad and I’s relationship. I thought it was good.<br>
Teacher Recs: 2 and 1 from vandy professor
Counselor Rec: 1
Interview: yes and it went well
Major EC’s: debate and leadership
Work experience: campaigned for a lawyer running for the house of reps
Hook (if any): not really sure I have one
Notable weaknesses (if any): maybe lower test scores? idk
Location/Person: orlando!
State or Country: florida
School Type: private prep school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: girl
Income Bracket: higher
Financial aid?: not going to happen.
Intended Major: MHS or poly sci
Other schools in mind: none, definitely going to Vandy
Other Factors:</p>

<p>Decision: accepted EDII</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT: 29 ACT
GPA (w/uw): 4.42/3.72
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %: in top 5%
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): APUSH: 3; AP Lang: 4
Course load: three APs, one IB and JROTC
Essays: universal essay about a reading problem that kept me from reading well and comprehending things, and how I became motivated and dedicated to my work because of it.
Teacher Recs: 2, I took special care in choosing the teachers.
Counselor Rec: very generic but got the job done.
Interview: N/A
Major EC’s: JROTC, Cross Country, Track, Pentathlon Team
Work experience: Little Caesar’s 12-15 hours/week
Hook (if any): probably not
Notable weaknesses (if any): test score, for sure. I probably should have studied. :]
State or Country: Putnam County, TN
School Type: large public
Ethnicity: caucasian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: lower range
Financial aid?: not an issue
Intended Major: civil engineering
Other schools in mind: University of Colorado
Other Factors: I received an NROTC scholarship to Vanderbilt about a month ago.</p>

<p>General Comments: Super excited. Many kids from my school apply to Vanderbilt, so it was a big surprise when I got accepted.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted EDII!! to 2nd choice school (A&S) over Blair</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT: 2230, 1540 w/o writing
SAT IIs: 790 Lit, 640 Math II
GPA (w/uw): 4.7, 3.54
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %: 78/710, 11%
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): Taken 4 AP-4,5,4 IB-5
Course load: All IB classes except Chorus
Other stats: Chorus President, Nat’l Merit Finalist
Subjective:
Essays: Very Good, I excel at writing, talked about my choral experience (because I wanted to go to Blair)
Teacher Recs: Phenomenal
Counselor Rec: I go to a huge school, so it was probably generic
Interview: My interviewer was very impressed
Major EC’s: Chorus (President, All-State Festivals, Solos in major works, etc.)
Work experience:
Hook (if any): Nat’l Merit Finalist, My love of music
Notable weaknesses (if any): My GPA is low
Location/Person:
State or Country: Florida
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Lower Middle Class
Financial aid?: A lot. Let’s just say I won’t be sad if I don’t get the Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship.
Intended Major: English, Vocal performance (if I can transfer next year to Blair)
Other schools in mind: Doesn’t matter.
Other Factors:</p>

<p>General Comments: I was very disappointed not to get into Blair, but it was expected, considering their vocal auditions are so early in the morning. The flaw of auditions is that they try to capture a musician’s ability in 10 minutes of listening. Anyways, I’m going to go out for all the choruses, get private lessons, take as many music theory classes as I can, and reaudition as a transfer student. Blair is so competitive, I’m really not going to let it get me down, when I know I still have a chance of entering. Congrats on all those that made it to any of the schools. I’ll see you there!</p>

<p>Congrats everyone, and welcome to Vandy!</p>

<p>I found out this weekend at the Ingram Scholarship interviews that I am admitted even though I applied regular decision.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted ED1</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT: 2130 (M:680, CR:680, W:770) 31 ACT
SAT IIs: Chem:750, Math II: 660
GPA (w/uw): 4.1/3.45
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %: 42/240 (not reported to colleges-thank god)
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): Chem:3, Bio:4, US:4, French, Calc AB
Course load: 2 APs, 2 honors and then easy electives and crap, junior year was much harder
Other stats: NHS, French NHS, Outstanding Achievement Award (French), National Merit Commended Student
Essays: Pretty good about my interest in science and engineering
Teacher Recs: great-French teacher I’ve had all four years and my AP Bio teacher who I knew really well
Counselor Rec: good
Interview: stupid, the guy was an ******* who talked to me for like 10 minutes after scheduling an interview with another student at the same time as my interview, but he was from my town, so he might have helped me get it
Major EC’s: tennis, cross country, basketball, science league,
Work experience: lifeguard 3 years at local ymca, basketball ref
Hook (if any): summer program at Vandy maybe
Notable weaknesses (if any): GPA/class rank and crappy SATs
State or Country: NJ
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: high
Financial aid?: yeah right
Intended Major: engineering (maybe chemical)
Other schools in mind: ED1 to Vandy, but I liked UVA, Rice</p>

<p>Can’t wait to get to Nashville next fall :)</p>

<p>I literally just found out I was accepted, and I applied RD. I’m invited to the MOSAIC Multicultural Student Recruitment Weekend.</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>Snoopy, were you informed about MOSAIC via regular mail?</p>

<p>Yeah. I live really close to Vandy, though, so I’m guessing they only mailed it yesterday or Monday or so.</p>

<p>I don’t believe in chance threads, but I know they calm some people down, so here ya go:</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT/ACT: 2200 - 730 cr/740 m/730 w / 32 comp
SAT IIs: I only sent them my 780 in US hist and 740 Latin
GPA (w/uw): 4.00/99.something.
Rank/Percentile (# out of #) or %: 2/224
Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): Hum geo - 4, APUSH - 5, chem - 3, Latin - 3, calc AB - 4
Course load: 3 APs, last math available, 4th yr of Latin
Other stats: erm…National Merit Finalist? It won’t really do much, since I put my safety as 1st choice just in case</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Nice, if I do say so myself
Teacher Recs: Good, I hope
Counselor Rec: Good, I hope
Interview: Completely forgot to schedule one
Major EC’s: NHS co-pres, volunteering at the library every summer, random quiz bowl things from last year and this, I did JCL for three years
Work experience: Waitress/1 yr
Hook (if any): First generation? I didn’t really emphasize this in any of apps, though
Notable weaknesses (if any): I’M AWESOME</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: TN
School Type: Public, 1-2 from my school have gone to Vandy in the past couple years; Vandy’s considered the school the uber smart kids apply to
Ethnicity: half Korean/half white
Gender: F
Income Bracket: Middle class, with a ridic EFC
Financial aid?: idk yet.
Intended Major: idk yet.
Other schools in mind: Northwestern, UChic, Pomona, Columbia (HAH!), etc
Other Factors: hmm…</p>

<p>General Comments: I didn’t expect to be accepted so early, that’s for sure. Vanderbilt is literally half an hour away, though, way too close to home. I guess I’m undecided until April.</p>

<p>Still, :)</p>

<p>does Vandy reimburse you for MOSAIC travel?</p>

<p>it says not unless you really need the money, and the max is $100</p>

<p>I found out I was accepted via the MOSAIC invite, although I applied RD.</p>

<p>Accepted via MOSAIC invite, applied RD.</p>

<p>When is the MOSAIC weekend? Do you have to send in applications for all scholarships or will you be considered for scholarships? Do they do acceptances before April 1st.</p>

<p>Copied from Stanford Decision (Rejected):</p>

<p>ACCEPTED
SAT I (breakdown): 2390
ACT: 36
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 Bio
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1%
AP (place score in parentheses): 5 tests, all 5s. Taking 10 more this year.
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: 8 APs, self study for 2.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
USAMO, USABO, Intel, Siemens, National Merit</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Mu Alpha Theta (President), Beta Chi Pi (President), National Honor Society (President), Student Council (President), Speech and Debate (President), Class President, 1000 hours of community service, significant research
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: 1000 hours at a nursing home/hospital, raised money to build homes in Louisiana.
Summer Activities:
Research, Leadership Camp, Counselor for camp of children with mental disabilities</p>