Vanderbilt’s new San Francisco campus

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Vandy for example has 3% of students under a 3.5 GPA even with DI recruited athletes vs Emory's 35% under a 3.5 GPA with D3 athletes.

This despite oxford stats gaming by emory (lolz) to try and make your students look better at the main campus.

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Vanderbilt NYC campus is primarily one semester for juniors. Clearly targeting the internships available summer after junior year. Frankly, that’s smart.

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/nyc/apply/application-process/

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Anonymous wrote:Nashville sucks, so good idea.

Nashville doesn't suck at all. For college cities, it's a good one.

It’s a fine city to drink in and not much else. You’d have a lot more fun in NY, LA, SF, Boston, Austin, Chicago… it really is a one dimensional place.

I have a niece who is in grad school there and came from a major city in the developing world and she finds it very boring as a city - says there is nothing to do but drink and line dance which gets old when one is 21 +

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Anonymous wrote:Vandy for example has 3% of students under a 3.5 GPA even with DI recruited athletes vs Emory's 35% under a 3.5 GPA with D3 athletes.

This despite oxford stats gaming by emory (lolz) to try and make your students look better at the main campus.

So grade inflation.

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Anonymous wrote:Nashville sucks, so good idea.

Nashville doesn't suck at all. For college cities, it's a good one.

It’s a fine city to drink in and not much else. You’d have a lot more fun in NY, LA, SF, Boston, Austin, Chicago… it really is a one dimensional place.

I have a niece who is in grad school there and came from a major city in the developing world and she finds it very boring as a city - says there is nothing to do but drink and line dance which gets old when one is 21 +

Because there’s nothing to do. Nashville is ideal for a few days to get blasted out of your mind and hear some live music. If you drive hours out and enjoy the nature, Tennessee is a great state, but the people are…well they are from Tennessee

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Anonymous wrote:Vandy for example has 3% of students under a 3.5 GPA even with DI recruited athletes vs Emory's 35% under a 3.5 GPA with D3 athletes.

This despite oxford stats gaming by emory (lolz) to try and make your students look better at the main campus.

https://provost.emory.edu/planning-administration/_includes/documents/sections/institutional-data/emory-common-data-set-2024-2025.pdf

Emory has a very weird resident hater. Emory cds says only 2.97% have less than a 3.5. So I dont know why you are lying? It also says the avg is a 3.84 and that 96% submitted gpa. It says 80% are in the top 10%, but is a meaningless stat as ONLY 5% submitted a class rank. Seems you care about things the industry doesn't care about. Lastly more students submit test scores at Emory than Vanderbilt.

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Emory seemingly ranks higher for alumni in career leadership as well.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1309300.page

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Looking at solely at departments in which I have graduate work (History, Economics and Political Science), I was stunned by how much better Vandy has become over the 30 last years, and it would easily be my top choice in History for undergrad over any department in the country other than Yale and Cal Berkeley (assuming one does not already have a very specific historical focus in mind). They have upgraded their faculty significantly, acquired depth and breadth w/r/t region and specialty, and appear to have avoided a lot of the hiring fadsthat will will make these some of the formerly top departments look ridiculous in retrospect (I am referring solely to intellectual focus of faculty).

I know a lot of these items can be driven by departmental choices, so I do not know if this is or has become true for other departments at Vanderbilt.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are copying the Northeastern model.

Yikes
Not something to emulate

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:So weird how Emory gets insulted and mocked for its Oxford campus. Saying its a back door and that its easy to get into despite the 13% acceptance rate. For some reason I feel Vandys new 3?, 4? Campuses wont get the same treatment when the acceptance rate is near 100% the first few years.

oxford is a “backdoor” i guess to an already undesirable school with very very shoddy freshman stats (gpa is around and class rank is abysmal). main emory campus is only 37% yield. no one wants to use the front either

If this makes you feel better. Only one poster on this forum gives a crap about yield and its you. And a 3.84UW, with a 1510/34 test median is shoddy? You're trying too hard. What we do know is that Emory Oxfrod will be much more selective than Vandy’s B campuses.

76% in top 10% of class. So what is that 3.84 due to? soft classes? 35% at Emory have above a 3.75 GPA - it's 88% at Vandy and a lot higher at top privates. Meanwhile Emory has 35% under a 3.5 where as good schools have close to 0% in this category. VCongrats on your median 1510 with test optional. The fact is Emory always has and always will enroll second tier students.

Everybody who hires knows the student is not the school and the school is not the student. This kind of jibberjabber is for amateurs. Real competition and work do not begin until you're in graduate school. Stay calm until your kids move to the next level.

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MR T SAYS: QUIT YO JIBBER JABBER

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Oxford is Emory’s original campus. 13% acceptance rate. Average SAT over 1500. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and preferences but you can’t get around the facts. There are enough people applying ED to Emory (and Oxford) so there has to be something that attracts those applicants. Emory is not my kind of college but I would never bash it or any other college. I’m guessing this forum is mostly UC and UMC educated liberals who emphasis “open mindedness” so bring that to this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird how Emory gets insulted and mocked for its Oxford campus. Saying its a back door and that its easy to get into despite the 13% acceptance rate. For some reason I feel Vandys new 3?, 4? Campuses wont get the same treatment when the acceptance rate is near 100% the first few years.

oxford is a “backdoor” i guess to an already undesirable school with very very shoddy freshman stats (gpa is around and class rank is abysmal). main emory campus is only 37% yield. no one wants to use the front either

If this makes you feel better. Only one poster on this forum gives a crap about yield and its you. And a 3.84UW, with a 1510/34 test median is shoddy? You're trying too hard. What we do know is that Emory Oxfrod will be much more selective than Vandy’s B campuses.

76% in top 10% of class. So what is that 3.84 due to? soft classes? 35% at Emory have above a 3.75 GPA - it's 88% at Vandy and a lot higher at top privates. Meanwhile Emory has 35% under a 3.5 where as good schools have close to 0% in this category. VCongrats on your median 1510 with test optional. The fact is Emory always has and always will enroll second tier students.

Everybody who hires knows the student is not the school and the school is not the student. This kind of jibberjabber is for amateurs. Real competition and work do not begin until you're in graduate school. Stay calm until your kids move to the next level.

Its jibberjabber because its lies.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt NYC campus is primarily one semester for juniors. Clearly targeting the internships available summer after junior year. Frankly, that’s smart.

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/nyc/apply/application-process/

This had made Vandy even more of a dream school for my RD Vandy applicant. She's swoooooning

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Anonymous wrote:Any thoughts?

I don’t know why it’s necessary? And that poor art school where the current students knew nothing about it and just our above to begin their next semester.

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/01/13/vanderbilt-university-to-establish-full-time-academic-campus-in-san-francisco/

Vanderbilt seems to have a gazillion dollars these days. And they are certainly bringing it when it comes to the major sports. Football, basketball, baseball and so on.

Interesting times. This is all very new for anyone that went to Vandy over the past ten years or so. Vandy basketball is top ten presently. Vandy football is the same. Same with women's basketball. Vandy is a major sports school in 2026.

It's all very weird.

They don’t have a gazillion dollars though. Not even in the T20 for largest endowments. Perhaps that’s why it’s relatively easy to “donate”one”s kid in.

This is wrong. They’re #18

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/universities-with-the-biggest-endowments

outdated with latest here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

It’s in the top 20 for endowments, yes