How good is Vanderbilt?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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”.

[Anonymous]

Every day we are seeing the kind of putzes that are matriculating at some of our esteemed universities. Go with Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

The worst team in the SEC. Thy would dominate in the shitty Ivy conference though.

[Anonymous]

Use the search function. There was just a 10 plus page thread on this very topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Your kid is more likely to get into none of these schools, let them apply widely.

[Anonymous]

It’s been hyped up a lot lately because of celeb kids. I think it’s more a southern rich kid place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Dumb comment

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Well regarded in the south, probably more so than Ivies (cue the posters who will say that southerners are dumb).

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

On a scale from malescent to splendatious, I'd say Vandy is cromulent.