Ed to Vanderbilt - anyone have a kid who applied?

[Anonymous]

My kid is waiting on Vandy ED. We thought it might be Friday, then Saturday, then today and nothing. And no email yet as far as I’m aware.

[Anonymous]

Any Vandy news? Hopefully today

[Anonymous]

Should be today. Anchor Down!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should be today. Anchor Down!

Says who?

[Anonymous]

Hearing Wednesday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way 10 kids from one private applied ED to the same school.

Hahahaha 19 kids from our graduating class of 200 applied early to Brown.

You are probably my kid's school. They did well with Brown last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way 10 kids from one private applied ED to the same school.

Happens every year to multiple schools. We have 6-7 ED Northwestern, 4-6 ED Duke, 9-10 ED Vanderbilt. Not hard to believe from a private school where over half the class EDs somewhere. The counselors will tell you how many candidates are in each bucket (no names) and where you fall within that bucket, so you can plan accordingly. For example, my son applied ED to a school with 6-7 other kids planning to ED. He was told he was at the top of that bucket and would compare favorably, so went for it. He knew of stronger kids and legacy kids doing ED to another school, and he took that into consideration when making his ED analysis. This is a class of 150 kids and a very strong college counseling staff that is incredibly hands-on in the process.

DP. I thought The CCO you describe only existed in my dreams. Ours does nothing to help students (at least not my student) and reveals no information about others applying to help them figure out their chances. They really just submit the required documents.

I know private parents who get pissed off by this. When CCOs steer their kids away from certain schools in favor of others because they know the application pool and everyone thinks their kid should land at the same top schools because they go to a BigX and have worked so hard.

I’m not sure which approach is better.

[Anonymous]

5pm CT today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way 10 kids from one private applied ED to the same school.

Happens every year to multiple schools. We have 6-7 ED Northwestern, 4-6 ED Duke, 9-10 ED Vanderbilt. Not hard to believe from a private school where over half the class EDs somewhere. The counselors will tell you how many candidates are in each bucket (no names) and where you fall within that bucket, so you can plan accordingly. For example, my son applied ED to a school with 6-7 other kids planning to ED. He was told he was at the top of that bucket and would compare favorably, so went for it. He knew of stronger kids and legacy kids doing ED to another school, and he took that into consideration when making his ED analysis. This is a class of 150 kids and a very strong college counseling staff that is incredibly hands-on in the process.

DP. I thought The CCO you describe only existed in my dreams. Ours does nothing to help students (at least not my student) and reveals no information about others applying to help them figure out their chances. They really just submit the required documents.

I know private parents who get pissed off by this. When CCOs steer their kids away from certain schools in favor of others because they know the application pool and everyone thinks their kid should land at the same top schools because they go to a BigX and have worked so hard.

I’m not sure which approach is better.

I don't think any parent would be angry at getting more info from CCO on how many applicants there are for each university. I have yet to meet a parent who would not desire this and I've been in the Big3 community for years with 3 kids. Parents are free to do what they want with this information (and yes, some will disregard it) but everyone is desperate to get it.

[Anonymous]

Has there been an official statement from Vanderbilt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has there been an official statement from Vanderbilt?

No. Everybody at this point is just guessing.

My DC is pretty certain that at one point their website said "by December 15" but it changed to "mid-December" in the past three weeks.

Who know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5pm CT today?

I have heard both the 18 and 19th. Nothing about today. But it’s all rumors anyway, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Anonymous]

I have a kid at Vandy. Heard ED release is today at 5pm CST.
Good luck to all! Mine is having an incredible education and experience there. But if Vanderbilt was a no, they would have had the same at the many other excellent schools out there. No one school is a dream school, I really feel that.

[Anonymous]

our CCO said there will be an email near 5pm CT today that says there's an update in your portal.

[Anonymous]

Email just came out at 5pm central today that decisions will be out at 5pm central tomorrow.