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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Demand by the high stat applicants are the real ranking.[/b]

That's a combination of Acceptance Rate + Yield Rate + Student Quality + additionally Retention Rate & Graduation rate[/quote]

YES. I totally agree.

Can someone please help us understand Vanderbilt through this lens? We’ve always viewed it as a “target” for super high-stat kids compared to the reach/“lottery” of Duke, Stanford, and Northwestern. Comparable to Wash U and Emory, assuming the kid visits and shows DI? But maybe not these days?

(Our school doesn’t show Naviance data for Vanderbilt. It’s a strong public school in New England. Plenty of data for the other schools I mentioned, but because so few kids apply to Vandy, there’s nothing up on Naviance.)[/quote]
It depends how you define target, and high stats? Is target a 50% chance or 20% chance? Is High stats 1450, 1500, or 1550? If you haven't won any state level awards then no, I don't think Vandy, Emory, or WashU. Also I don't think Vandy is as difficult to get into as meets the eye. Vanderbilt has a Northeastern-ness about it where students throw applications at despite not being close to qualified unlike Emory, WashU, or even Duke. I think Emory and Vandy get similar amounts of higher stat applicants because their acceptances and rejects overlap a lot from what I can see year to year. [/quote]
No one has mentioned Emory as being harder to get into than perceived yet. But yes Emory. I remember not too long ago, maybe 2016 where a 1450 at Emory meant you had a chance at the smaller scholarships. Now a 1550 doesn't even  guarantee a waitlist. [/quote]

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