Vanderbilt’s new San Francisco campus

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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.

….in high schools. Ok?

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Anonymous wrote:Tech

AI

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Tech.

Did I mention internships? For a subset of students, this is smart. It is a small expansion that students who want tech interniships can tap into at the right time.

Santa Clara U punches WAY above its weight for a reason. That reason is location.

We are not interested in Vandy. But if we were, I’d endorse this.

I guess I get this but Vanderbilt is much better in life sciences and healthcare.

Perhaps they have a growth mindset and the wherewithal to do something about it? This is a stab and growing in relevance, not just popularity. I imagine the talent pool of professors will be rich.

I don’t ow how it will be implemented, but the move is wise.

Acceptance rates are checkers. Future departments/majors and a need to stay ahead in education is chess. At least they are taking solid action.

It doesn't seem to have worked at well for Northeastern, they were far more popular before the expansion. Now off the map at our private.

Where did Northeastern expand to?

Bay Area and London, bought out two failing schools

They bought a building in Seattle too! Northeastern ... coming to a theater near you!

That's for specific graduate programs.

For domestic undergrad, Oakland and NYC.

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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

The cohort here is 18-21 year olds. You know, college students. There are few cities more fun for a college student.

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Anonymous wrote:The West Palm campus is to be grad only, I believe. About 1000 undergrads in San Francisco. NYC campus looks gorgeous and teeny tiny.

Also, one of the big financiers of the West palm campus is Miami dolphins and Hard Rock stadium principal owner Stephen Ross.

You know — the guy with a biz school in the upper Midwest named after him

What's the purpose of these campuses? Just seems like a waste of money.

Vanderbilt is executing a tiered expansion model:

NYC = Brand/recruitment investment with minimal capital risk
SF = Strategic academic acquisition at moderate capital investment (relatively speaking)
West Palm = High-investment revenue engine targeting wealthy graduate market

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So many schools have satellite campuses in DC, middle east and Europe.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Our kid is a history major at Vandy. You’re not wrong, that aspect of the university has been phenomenal.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Both Emory campuses are test optional, as is Vandy.

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Anonymous wrote:The West Palm campus is to be grad only, I believe. About 1000 undergrads in San Francisco. NYC campus looks gorgeous and teeny tiny.

Also, one of the big financiers of the West palm campus is Miami dolphins and Hard Rock stadium principal owner Stephen Ross.

You know — the guy with a biz school in the upper Midwest named after him

What's the purpose of these campuses? Just seems like a waste of money.

Vanderbilt is executing a tiered expansion model:

NYC = Brand/recruitment investment with minimal capital risk
SF = Strategic academic acquisition at moderate capital investment (relatively speaking)
West Palm = High-investment revenue engine targeting wealthy graduate market

Seems more like brand dilution. Their current leadership doesn’t inspire confidence.

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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

How strange. Most kids go abroad junior year. Far preferable than a semester on NYC.

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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.

https://provost.emory.edu/planning-administration/data/factbook/admissions.html

35% below a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. 23% submitted class rank.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+100000
agree on history.

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Anonymous wrote:So many schools have satellite campuses in DC, middle east and Europe.

The Middle East and Europe are targeting full internationals.

This is what a desperate college does...brand dilution. Not a good luck.
But maybe they can double the incoming class size?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it weird for a top 20 private school to have so many domestic satellite campuses?

“recent expansions in New York City and West Palm Beach.”

Tell me that you don't live in DC without telling me. Every other block.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it weird for a top 20 private school to have so many domestic satellite campuses?

“recent expansions in New York City and West Palm Beach.”

It is embarrassing, very Northeastern-vibes to be spreading to satellites.