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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it popular? Gorgeous campus, top 20 university, test optional, in a fun city (Nashville), not as geeked out as many other top 20 schools. How is this even a question? [/quote]

A school as selective as Vanderbilt should not be TO. [/quote]

Agreed. But the question is “Why is Vanderbilt so hot?” Test optional and ranked in the top 20 (really important to many families) is the main reason. The entire debate about whether a test optional school should be in the top 20 is another thread. [/quote]

I don’t think so. Most of the T20 were still test optional this cycle. And pre-covid, Vanderbilt had among the highest test scores in the country.

Whatever surge happened this year was more likely due to viral videos of Vandy students taking the goalposts down Broadway after their football team beat Alabama. Don’t underestimate the appeal of that among 18 year olds. There are very, very few T20 schools where it looks like students are having a good time. I’m sure Michigan, Duke, and Notre Dame experience surges in apps whenever their teams do well. Because it looks like a fun experience for students, which is something this generation of students really yearns for.[/quote]

Dp, but there was a clear trend this  year in f test optional schools receiving increased apps and the opposite of those going back to test required.  Vandy is an outlier for how many they accept test optional compares to schools ranked similarly.[/quote]

When the common data sets come out we will know how test optional affects apps.[/quote]

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