Vanderbilt Thriving In Trump Era With Apolitical Atmosphere: Bloomberg

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand most of these articles. Nearly every top 100 school has seen a big jump in applications over the last 5 years.

You could write the exact same article about every top 20 school and just find and replace a couple of location-specific comments.

The one hard truth is that test required always results in fewer applications. Brown applications were through the roof through 2023 and then dropped 15% when test required. MIT applications dropped 25% when back to test required.

You will see similar drops with the other schools re instituting test required.

You clearly aren’t in the same finance/PE circle I’m in. Or private school circles. And yes many in this circle are centrist Dems too.

This article was in Bloomberg. Not somewhere else. The school is actively cultivating Wall Street (NY and Palm Beach campuses?) along with donors.

No one in my circles is talking about any other college right now for their kids - ED - other than this. People are looking for private counselors who specialize in Vanderbilt. In some ways I think it’s like the Dartmouth of the 1990s. A little insulated bubble that’s fun and studious.

There’s a weird frenzy about Vanderbilt in the top .1%. My kids private school this senior class - 10% are ED to Vanderbilt. Including class president with 3.95uw and 35.

Note: my kid doesn’t attend Vanderbilt but did get in and turned it down for a T10. Still wondering if made the right decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand most of these articles. Nearly every top 100 school has seen a big jump in applications over the last 5 years.

You could write the exact same article about every top 20 school and just find and replace a couple of location-specific comments.

The one hard truth is that test required always results in fewer applications. Brown applications were through the roof through 2023 and then dropped 15% when test required. MIT applications dropped 25% when back to test required.

You will see similar drops with the other schools re instituting test required.

You clearly aren’t in the same finance/PE circle I’m in. Or private school circles. And yes many in this circle are centrist Dems too.

This article was in Bloomberg. Not somewhere else. The school is actively cultivating Wall Street (NY and Palm Beach campuses?) along with donors.

No one in my circles is talking about any other college right now for their kids - ED - other than this. People are looking for private counselors who specialize in Vanderbilt. In some ways I think it’s like the Dartmouth of the 1990s. A little insulated bubble that’s fun and studious.

There’s a weird frenzy about Vanderbilt in the top .1%. My kids private school this senior class - 10% are ED to Vanderbilt. Including class president with 3.95uw and 35.

Note: my kid doesn’t attend Vanderbilt but did get in and turned it down for a T10. Still wondering if made the right decision.

You're very self-impressed, Ms. Humblebrag. Why don't you focus on enjoying your yacht rather than blessing us average, ignorant folk with your wisdom?

This is such an exaggeration. There is some minimal basis in truth, but not much. Ironically, it actually sounds more like Duke to me, though even Duke is not this extreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand most of these articles. Nearly every top 100 school has seen a big jump in applications over the last 5 years.

You could write the exact same article about every top 20 school and just find and replace a couple of location-specific comments.

The one hard truth is that test required always results in fewer applications. Brown applications were through the roof through 2023 and then dropped 15% when test required. MIT applications dropped 25% when back to test required.

You will see similar drops with the other schools re instituting test required.

You clearly aren’t in the same finance/PE circle I’m in. Or private school circles. And yes many in this circle are centrist Dems too.

This article was in Bloomberg. Not somewhere else. The school is actively cultivating Wall Street (NY and Palm Beach campuses?) along with donors.

No one in my circles is talking about any other college right now for their kids - ED - other than this. People are looking for private counselors who specialize in Vanderbilt. In some ways I think it’s like the Dartmouth of the 1990s. A little insulated bubble that’s fun and studious.

There’s a weird frenzy about Vanderbilt in the top .1%. My kids private school this senior class - 10% are ED to Vanderbilt. Including class president with 3.95uw and 35.

Note: my kid doesn’t attend Vanderbilt but did get in and turned it down for a T10. Still wondering if made the right decision.

I am…and your comment makes no sense.

UPenn received 40% more applications than Vanderbilt (and other record year and up nearly 100% over the last 5 years) and is still wildly popular among the NYC finance/PE crowd. As are the other Ivy schools as well.

It’s as though you choose to just ignore that every top school saw a massive increase in applications…until they went test required.

Vanderbilt is TO and accepts a massive %age of the class TO (close to 50%). Guess what…that’s what makes it popular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great. It one of the most selective colleges in the country. 5% acceptance rate.

It'll be in demand regardless of the U.S. political dynamics.

lol Early Decision school

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None of those schools have sports though. This particular school is actively looking for a different kind of kid. From our non-DMV private it’s not the kids who are competitive for Harvard or Stanford or Princeton who are getting in.

It’s kids who would otherwise go to Duke or Northwestern or Notre Dame or Columbia or Brown. One kid was struggling between Dartmouth and Vanderbilt. Very different, right? But not really for vibe in their mind. Think sports culture won.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand most of these articles. Nearly every top 100 school has seen a big jump in applications over the last 5 years.

You could write the exact same article about every top 20 school and just find and replace a couple of location-specific comments.

The one hard truth is that test required always results in fewer applications. Brown applications were through the roof through 2023 and then dropped 15% when test required. MIT applications dropped 25% when back to test required.

You will see similar drops with the other schools re instituting test required.

You clearly aren’t in the same finance/PE circle I’m in. Or private school circles. And yes many in this circle are centrist Dems too.

This article was in Bloomberg. Not somewhere else. The school is actively cultivating Wall Street (NY and Palm Beach campuses?) along with donors.

No one in my circles is talking about any other college right now for their kids - ED - other than this. People are looking for private counselors who specialize in Vanderbilt. In some ways I think it’s like the Dartmouth of the 1990s. A little insulated bubble that’s fun and studious.

There’s a weird frenzy about Vanderbilt in the top .1%. My kids private school this senior class - 10% are ED to Vanderbilt. Including class president with 3.95uw and 35.

Note: my kid doesn’t attend Vanderbilt but did get in and turned it down for a T10. Still wondering if made the right decision.

You're very self-impressed, Ms. Humblebrag. Why don't you focus on enjoying your yacht rather than blessing us average, ignorant folk with your wisdom?

This is such an exaggeration. There is some minimal basis in truth, but not much. Ironically, it actually sounds more like Duke to me, though even Duke is not this extreme.

Not a Ms.
Just because you don’t see it doesn’t make it false. This is my reality. It might not be yours.

You’d be surprised if you asked around what the Vanderbilt feedback is amongst a certain generation of managing directors. It has changed remarkably since our time.

[Anonymous]

Georgia Tech has figured it out. Just do important things that Corporations want to invest a lot of money in.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/georgia-tech-is-teaching-other-universities-a-fundraising-lesson-365ce55a?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt has a very distinctive vibe. Especially for girls. Just beware and do your research. The $400 weekend fancy dinners get old very quickly.

This. My Penn26 kid did not even apply due to who goes to Vanderbilt from our area: rich spoiled slightly shallow though bright girls. The intellectual girls choose ivies or UChicago ED if they know ivies will be just out of reach. For guys it does not seem to matter as much.

[Anonymous]

See if you can find out who attended the recent private meeting with the Chancellor to build the new Wall Street campus? There will be names you recognize. I’m sure that’ll hit Bloomberg only at the end of the year apps are in.

Interesting to compare Vanderbilt’s new fundraising advances to Princeton. Their donor base is growing while Princeton, according to that other link, is shrinking?

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt is a pretty place, but I don't understand the hype. None of their departments are ranked top 10 nationally. The school gamed the USNWR metrics to ascend the rankings and now they're taking advantage of the political environment to gain an edge on peers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt has a very distinctive vibe. Especially for girls. Just beware and do your research. The $400 weekend fancy dinners get old very quickly.

This. My Penn26 kid did not even apply due to who goes to Vanderbilt from our area: rich spoiled slightly shallow though bright girls. The intellectual girls choose ivies or UChicago ED if they know ivies will be just out of reach. For guys it does not seem to matter as much.

Agree. Boys seems normal and smart. Not the girls.

[Anonymous]

Vandy and Duke appeal to the cool popular academic crowd. Not destinations for the MSNBC folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vandy and Duke appeal to the cool popular academic crowd. Not destinations for the MSNBC folks.

Not Duke anymore. That’s changing.

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One could fit the number of centrist Democrtats in former Senator Joe Manchin’s sports car.

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Anonymous wrote:So why does Harvard receive more applications…and Penn receives 40% more applications…and when given the choice, kids pick every other top 20 school against Vanderbilt except Cornell.

Remember, nobody should trust parchment data.

Why not? It’s the only data out there that provides this information. They are even up-front if they don’t have statistically significant data for certain comparisons.

Because …. it’s bad data? 📊

Because some rando on DCUM says so? Prove it’s bad data.

Parchment itself is fairly transparent about its anemic data sets and significant gaps. “Bad” is a subjective word I use. Data scientists would concur