I got in! Probably going to attend 
3.9 UW GPA
4.11 W GPA
1530 SAT
730 lit, 750 math 2 (subject tests)
3 AP’s junior year, 3 AP’s senior year, two fives (psych and lit) one three (chem)
ECs: 3x undefeated at debate, 12 years of piano, 5 piano exams (scored first-class honors levels 6-10), captain of my high school mountain bike team, 5 years of orchestra, piano accompanist for orchestra as well, violin tutor, math and french tutor
Awards: President’s List, NCS Scholar-Athlete, NorCal league award winner (for biking), Le Grand Concourse (french competition)
Essays were good, letters of rec also good
Didn’t interview or tour
Other acceptances: UCSC, UCSD, UCSB, UCD
Waitlisted: Johns Hopkins
Rejected: Northwestern (initially deferred after ED), UCLA
Haven’t heard from: Berkeley, Brown, Cornell
Hope my stats are helpful to someone!
Accepted International Student!!!
Accepted Asian american male, low-income, 35 act, 3.8 UW gpa, 800 on sat2 sciences,12 APs. Sorry to everyone that got rejected keep your heads up!!
accepted & probably attending !!! :))
female hispanic
intended major: political science, philosophy
sat: 1370 (730 M, 680 R)
uw gpa: 3.93
w gpa: 4.94
ap classes: 15
9th grade: ap human (4)
10th grade: ap world (4), ap chem (2)
11th grade: ap environmental science (4), ap seminar (3), apush (3), ap eng lang (3), ap calc ab (3)
12th grade: ap macro, ap gov, ap research, ap calc bc, ap psych, ap eng lit, ap euro
ECs/accomplishments: secretary of model un, stage manager for 5 theatre productions, attended free global affairs summer program at LIU brooklyn, worked 1 job in jr yr, 2 jobs over the summer, 1 job in sr yr, nhs
personal statement: 9/10
vc supplement: 7/10
i think i submitted two recommendations i dont remember how many were required
did interview !! went super well !! she was also a stage manager and we talked a lot about my ECs and my research on latino immigrant assimilation trajectories in orlando
did not submit anything for vassar space
waitlisted from the fly in
accepted: university of florida and florida state, george washington u
rejected: wesleyan, upenn
waitlisted: colby and hamilton
waiting on: brown, lehigh
congrats to everyone who got in and to those who did not - you’re going to accomplish great things i’m sure of it !!!
Your SAT scores add to 1410, @arianasch? Nice job on your acceptance though!
My D was rejected, sadly. She loved the school when she attended a sports camp there but we knew it was a reach because of her test scores. She had good stats with the exception of her scores (3.98 UW, 4.7 W with very challenging curriculum, three-sport varsity athlete, other ECs.). The website says “Vassar requires all applicants to submit standardized test results from either the ACT or the SAT.” I’m surprised to see people say test scores were optional! How did anyone get out of submitting them?
Congratulations to all who got the news they wanted!
I’m sorry about your D. I hope she has other good options.
I think the person who talked about test optional made a mistake. Vassar is NOT test optional. Also Vassar does not have a women’s leadership program. She got into George Washington U. and they are test optional and has a women’s leadership program. I think she copied her info from there and failed to change some details.
@HiToWaMom Ahh, ok, thanks! That makes me feel better. Yes, my daughter has four great options and is narrowing them down now. Vassar was a total reach, as Princeton was for my older daughter. They just applied to see if lightning would strike. It didn’t, unsurprisingly.
@ccoolleeggeess Ugh I’m sorry. I got waitlisted for Vassar but rejected from all my dream schools so far haha. But omggg those are such amazing schools especially Bates!! I hope everything works out for you!
To everybody out there who has been waitlisted: I’m currently a first year at Vassar and I was originally placed on the waitlist for the Class of 2022. Although I don’t know the acceptance stats, and I don’t want to give anyone false hope, just know that it is possible to get off the waitlist!! I deposited at another school by May 1, and told myself that I was going to go there and be happy, and I think I would have been, but I also worked hard to pursue Vassar. I emailed my admissions rep and told her that Vassar was my first choice, I took a second tour of campus, my college counselor called the Dean of Admissions (a friend of his) and talked to him about me, and I also sent an update of my grades and extracurriculars. Though I’m not advising everyone to go to such lengthy measures, and I’m not guaranteeing that you will get off the waitlist, I can say that everything works out the way it is supposed to. I had a rough college process that included numerous rejections and two waitlists, but now I’m at Vassar and I couldn’t be happier. No matter what the result, stay positive!! You are not any less worthy of a student or person for being placed on the waitlist or flat out rejected. College admissions are literally the worst and it sucks that we, as hard-working and college-aspiring students have to go through them, but know that you will get through it. This is not the end of the world. I hope that everyone ends up at a school where they can be happy, because honestly it’s all about taking advantage of opportunities and making the most of your situation, even if it wasn’t originally what you had in mind. Good luck guys!!
RD ADMITTED!
female Asian (international)
intended major: creative writing / Asian studies
sat: 1500 (790 M, 710 R, superscored)
toefl: 114/120
IB predicted: 41/42; IB midyear: 37/42 (the huge difference between my predicted and midyr was really bad for my application, so if ur reading this in senior year yes please do study hard)
activities:
- personal podcast on East Asian cultures
- student union (4 yrs)
- club president (design + produce school spirit products)
- bilingual creative writing + ancient Chinese poetry translation
- school magazine chief editor
- personal Chinese wedding gown brand development
- summer marketing intern
personal statement: 8.5/10 (maybe i just got tired of it idk)
supplement: 9/10 (did research in DEPTH)
did not do interview lol
accepted: ucsb, ucsd, unc chapel hill
rejected: A LOT cornell(ed), uchicago(ed2), wustl, emory, jhu, usc, pomona, northwestern, vanderbilt
waitlisted: uchicago(ea), ucla
waiting on: columbia, ucb, nyu, brown, dartmouth
I got in and was really excited, but just found out Vassar isn’t going to give me any aid at all. My family flat-out can’t pay even half of the sticker price, but somehow the financial services people determined that we don’t qualify for aid. I had heard good things about financial aid there, so was shocked that the price tag is ultimately what is preventing me from matriculating.There’s no way I can afford to attend, so will have to go to school in my state, but I am devastated that this is the case since I was very excited about Vassar. Is anyone else in this situation?
@mishafreya I’m so sorry!! I’ve heard that Vassar and schools like it can be snakes about financial aid, though I haven’t experienced it personally with Vassar since I was waitlisted
Open question: is it worth it to stay on waitlist? What are the chances?
rejected, but probably should have seen that coming. Here’s a general overview of my application:
Intended major: Computer science (really computer science/English double major with journalism as the career goal)
who am I: white girl from upper middle class coastal Connecticut.
SAT: 1550
ACT: 34
UW GPA: 3.5 W GPA: 4.2
AP Classes: APUSH, Physics 1, Physics C, French, English Lit, Comp Sci, Calc AB, Macro (I would have taken more but you can only really do AP classes junior year at my school)
Extracurriculars: Editor of the newspaper, founder/leader of gun violence group that organized the walkout at my school, founder/president of creative writing club, member of school’s GSA, co-president of Young Democrats, member/webmaster for women in STEM club, member of coding club, member of the varsity math team, did the fall play and spring musical at my school every year, varsity soccer player, varsity fencer/captain of the fencing team, co-founder of app design club, volunteered teaching soccer to differently abled children, volunteered with a local political campaign (also kind of my town’s Democratic committee), ran a personal blog since the seventh grade, National Honors Society Member
(there’s some other smaller stuff that I didn’t include in this list but put on a digital resume that I sent to them)
Essay: 8/10 (I’m a writer but I didn’t write about anything tragic. I think that’s what gets the ad coms. I also considered but didn’t really explain how my grades were influenced by some mental health and family stuff but ya know,)
Rec 1: 9/10 (probably. Done by my junior year Honors Intro to Comp Sci teacher who was also my fencing coach, fencing being my main sport and computer science obviously being my major. Super cool, funny, and nice guy who greatly impacted my life.)
Rec 2: 7.5/10 (again probably. Done by my freshman year English teacher who was also my newspaper advisor. She reignited my love for English and basically appointed me to my position as editor. I trust that she wrote a great rec, but I’m sure colleges just saw it as a freshman teacher and thus a negative.)
Acceptances: Reed, UConn, UVM
Waitlists: Lafayette, American, NYU
Rejections: UNC Chapel Hill, UChicago, Vassar (obviously), Georgetown, Brown, Yale (don’t laugh at the fact I applied to Ivy Leagues–I was sort of pressured into it)
Please disregard my inconsistent grammar/capitalization. I didn’t want to spend too much time on this, but I figured it may be helpful for someone applying next year.
@mishafreya I’m in the same position :////
@gracemcmc Girl how did you not get in?? You definitely deserved to. Also dww about writing about tragic things like I did for UNC and the school didn’t care evidently since I was rejected. You deserve to go to an amazing school though wow
@highkeystressed3 wow thank you so much! it wasn’t really what I was hoping for but I’m trying to keep an open mind. and yeah like no one from my school has gotten into UNC in the past five years so that was sort of a pipe dream
I suppose I will reluctantly post my stats since it might help someone in the future(and also maybe someone could chance me for waitlist?):
who am I: white girl who speaks Spanish and english
Intended major: Spanish
SAT: 1450
weighted GPA: roughly 4.3 or 4.4+(my estimate)
Essay: 8.5/10
IB Diploma program student
Took 2 APs sophomore year: AP Euro, AP Language
Extracurriculars: started/maintained an interdisciplinary garden at my school that could be used by faculty to teach students about the environment and how it connects to curriculum; president of Environmental Club(senior year and junior year); Spanish Honors Society(sophomore-senior year); Debate Club(junior-senior year); Varsity Bowling two years in a row; editor of Literary Magazine(since freshman year); Honor Council(since sophomore year)
Recommendations: 10/10 from my history and biology teachers.
Acceptances: CU Boulder, Syracuse, UPitt, FSU, UF
Waitlists: Vassar, Davidson
Rejections: UNC Chapel Hill, Bowdoin, Tufts, Columbia
wow, now that I look at my application, it all makes sense.
Decision: Accepted
ACT: 32
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.5
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Environmental, AP Research, AP Lit, German IV, Calculus Honors, Medical Interventions
Major Awards : Questbridge Finalist, Community Service Merit Scholarship, State science league finalist
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Community service with church, mission trips to haiti (3x), co-head of state environmental organization, founder of local environmental organization (working with city council to pass a resolution for carbon neutrality),
Job/Work Experience: Math tutor
Summer Activities: Sustainability research with Amherst College Professor
Essays (rating 1-10): 8
Recommendations (rating 1-10): 8-9
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Environmental Studies
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian Female
Income Bracket: Lower, 0 EFC
Strengths: GPA, Definitely essays and extracurriculars
Weaknesses: Testing (No subject tests submitted)
I truly believe Vassar practices the holistic view of the admissions processes. Its harder as it is for girls to get in, but being asian on top of that made me very unconfident esp because me test scores were not that top notch. But I showed my passion and involvement through my essays and supplements, and I truly believe that was why I was admitted. Hopefully the financial aid will be good. Vassar 23!!