<p>What kind of students do actually get in Vassar. I hope not all will have banged national honors in academics or near perfect scores in tests. Do simpler students also get thier chances with modest ED and good enuf transcripts to work with.You need not be a school football team captain or a Regional Ballet dancing champion to get in vassar, do you? How often do internationals get to be a part of Vassar, especially from Asia?</p>
<p>Since top LACs are so competitive you have to be great at something. Princeton Review and <a href="https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/563/Vassar_College/Vassar_College1.html%5B/url%5D">https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/563/Vassar_College/Vassar_College1.html</a> are pretty straight forward on the stats part.</p>
<p>My sister went to Vassar and two of the commonalities were a good HS (prep, boarding, Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech or Bronx Science) and money. It has a large hippy and gay community and there's hardly an overwhelming jock population. The students overall seem pretty well-rounded, "unique," arrogant and smart, so I guess it would do good to be some of those things.</p>
<p>Well, I'm certainly arrogant. In fact, there is no one in the whole wide world more arrogant than me. I am a shoo-in :)</p>
<p>My two cents to offer a different view from abstractstatic's... My D is a sophomore and I've been struck by how down-to-earth her Vassar friends are, not arrogant in the least--or wealthy, for that matter. They are bright, lively, and active, with a wide range of interests including volunteering, music, theater, and their sports, and they don't seem to take themselves too seriously. In short, they are wonderful individuals, not off-the-charts resumes.</p>
<p>Abstractstatic has it right, I think, to suggest that Vassar is a tolerant and accepting community, more artsy in its orientation than rah-rah athletic, and with a higher percentage of students on financial aid than I at least would have guessed initially, and a student body truly that is diverse in many ways. So, although applicants probably do want to be within the general ranges of prior applicants, from my admittedly limited vantage point, I'd say that Vassar really does look beyond the scores and the GPA to ask what the person might contribute to the school.</p>
<p>artsy, smart, opinionated (in a good way), generally friendly, often interested in volunteerism and environmentalism, listens to obscure indie music, lol. there are lots of rich kids but a greater percentage relies on financial aid. </p>
<p>personally, i haven't come across people who are arrogant. not yet, at least.</p>
<p>what about the 'stats' they possess??? i mean not all might have been SAT perfect scores</p>
<p>no, definitely not. i can tell you that in general, CR and WR scores are higher than their Math scores. vassar appreciates good writing which is why its application allows you to demonstrate that in so many ways. from my classes, i can see everyone's very well-read and most can write pretty well.</p>
<p>oh ok.....good coz i had submitted one extra essay as well to demonstrate my writing skills...i hope it counts...</p>
<p>the only thing i see to my disadvantage right now is the CR score of 600....i hope it doesn't cost me...</p>
<p>Woah, I could not disagree more with abstractstatic.
I'm a freshman at Vassar, and everyone I've met is amazingly down-to-earth, and often not wealthy. Everyone is friendly in the most sincere way, interesting, and intelligent. Out of ten freshmen in my Student Fellow group (the south half of the floor), four are varsity athletes, me included. Though there's not much school spirit in the way of sports, the teams are very tightly-knit.
I don't know too much about their stats... I know that I have the highest SAT score of my friends and that another kid on my floor had a 4.0 uw... But there are people with low scores or stats (my friend failed junior year twice), you just have to have something to offer.</p>
<p>i am delighted to hear that...btw kayrlis..do u know rahul?</p>
<p>no, can't say I do. we do have a friend in common on facebook though...</p>