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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current Vandy parent here - I didn’t read everything but baseline you need a prestigious national award and basically like 4.0UW. TO only for hooked these days it seems. 1530+ if submitting.

We usually get 3-4 admits annually from our private and last year we had 0 (my younger rejected) with like a bunch of ED1 and ED2s. All rejected, no waitlists, high stats kids not unlike prior years. Vandy does seem to be a crapshoot these days, I don’t see how ED1 even makes sense because anyone getting in could get into a top/better school. May as well shoot your shot at a higher ranked school. [/quote]

I read some of these posts and the cynic in my thinks they are parents trying to dissuade others from applying so their child has a better chance.[/quote]

PP is speaking the truth. It is a really, really hard admit from my DC’s DMV private. There is occasionally an athletic recruit (lacrosse). Other than that, it is one admit a year, usually a high stats student who applies ED2 after a deferral in ED1 from Duke or another similar school. It is always a top student with a BIG leadership position (student body president, yearbook editor, founder of a non-profit that makes the news, etc.) and I don’t know if legacy is involved. [/quote]

yes, i don't think it's a conspiracy of College Counseling trying to funnel certain kids there (at all!).  At our "Big3" the top kids have tried in recent years but they dont get in.  They will even sail into HYP but not Vandy.  It's just weird.  I've seen the Naviance.    
I have a very strong kid this year and CC is completely supportive of him/her trying but it's hard to justify if you see the data vs the data for amost 15 other top schools.  [/quote]

The challenge for me is that so many people are responding that it is near impossible to get in, harder even than Ivies, but the reality is that people ARE getting in and people who are not accepted to "higher ranked schools."  At my DMV public, the Naviance shows that about 25% of those that apply are accepted, and they aren't at the tippy-top of GPA or test scores.

Makes me think that this is a private school issue.  Could be that Vandy is actively trying to diversify the pool across schools/locales, or just that the proportion of people applying from privates is much higher making it statistically less likely.  Helpful to remember that AOs are comparing to applicants in the same school or school cohort, and the majority of applicants aren't coming from privates.  So individual experience/perspective is not all that useful in the general sense.[/quote]

I don’t think this is what everyone is saying.  At our private, Vandy prefers kids with hooks to those with the highest stats—predominantly legacy (parent or sibling) and urm.  Sibling legacy is big.  This makes it less predictable than some other schools where generally top stats kids are aren’t passed over.  [b]Not sure who makes up the half to of the class getting in test optional[/b]. But again, it isn’t the highest stat kids making the process unpredictable.

Said this earlier, but will say again, outcomes from Vandy lag behind the other T20, maybe a function of it moving too far or too fast up the rankings over the past decade.  [/quote]

Athletes and children of massive donors (finance). Both categories are apparently huge. Plus famous people’s kids. (Curious who else that includes, other than Gwenyth Paltrow’s kid and the Stephenopolis girls …. )[/quote]

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