DC wants ED1 to Vandy next year (FCPS). How is the school like, I know it is apparently great for Quality of Life, but how does it compare to an Ivy League school? I want them to go to an Ivy like Cornell or Brown I believe that they are more well known and esteemed, and because I feel like Vandy is like a Wake Forest or Tulane. It feels very overrated, it feels like a southern NEU. Am I wrong? I feel like they can get into an Ivy, I think it would be a waste to go there over an Ivy. |
Quality of life is a pretty important factor. If that is important to your kid, and it needs to be, then that trumps the shiny ivy “prestige”. |
Every day we are seeing the kind of putzes that are matriculating at some of our esteemed universities. Go with Vanderbilt. |
The worst team in the SEC. Thy would dominate in the shitty Ivy conference though. |
Use the search function. There was just a 10 plus page thread on this very topic. |
I agree with you. Life is too short to not go to the ivy. The ivy name will stick with you for the rest of your life. |
There is no choice now. It is a desire. |
Your kid is more likely to get into none of these schools, let them apply widely. |
It’s been hyped up a lot lately because of celeb kids. I think it’s more a southern rich kid place. |
It feels like you are actually a teenager in a Fairfax public school, having envy because your friend got into Vandy and you have to go to JMU. Take that back. You sound like you're 14. |
Dumb comment |
Vanderbilt has been a top 20 college for decades now. Its overall acceptance rate is around 5 percent. It doesn't have the Ivy brand, but it's obviously very well regarded, particularly in the South. I think there are a lot of students these days who prefer it over Brown or Cornell. When it comes to applying ED, everyone is trying to strategize where to throw that card. I suspect there's a lot of overlap in interest with students applying to Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Chicago, and Duke. |
Well regarded in the south, probably more so than Ivies (cue the posters who will say that southerners are dumb).
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Good luck! Vanderbilt accepted about 22% ED1 this year. Most likely situation is your kid doesn’t get into Vanderbilt so you worrying it’s not good enough is pretty presumptuous of you.
Of course its a great school. It’s been ranked in the top 20 universities in the US for 15+ years now. |
On a scale from malescent to splendatious, I'd say Vandy is cromulent. |