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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid is current Vanderbilt student and reports that they are surrounded by not-that-smart students for some reason. Kid is not in engineering or pre-med.

So, a good strategy might be to apply TO with an inflated 4.5w and a bunch of ECs that are available for purchase. This seems to be a winning formula for the time being.  Don't submit that score because the school is looking for super high scores from the low percent who do submit scores. Doesn't mean they won't admit you, as kid's current experience demonstrates.[/quote]

Could not disagree more with this[/quote]

Because you’re a student there also experiencing the same class contributions, writing and interactions with fellow students as my kid? Do tell.

Kid is clearly not picking the right classes, dorms and clubs. Most of their peers aren’t as bright or interesting as their high school cohort. Big letdown tbh[/quote]

Bc my kid is having a vastly different experience than yours.  Two students do not a study make. Mine is an upperclassman who tells us their peers are extremely bright, hard working students.  Fantastic academic environment.  Raves about professors.  Opportunities abound. Socially found a variety of interests and sports. Brand new residential colleges are transforming the campus.  [/quote]

The only thing you are disagreeing with the PP about is the relative brightness of other students encountered by your child. And the PP even said the problem was that their kid wasn’t picking the right classes, dorms, and clubs.

This is what happens at any school where half of students are admitted TO. The high-scoring kids cluster together in certain majors/clubs/dorms, leaving other groups with quite low average scores. The result is an uneven experience: some bright kids find their peer group, and others don’t. [/quote]

"leaving other groups with quite low average scores"....do you get that kids are being told to not submit scores under 1500 or sometimes 1550?  So you have kids who score in the 98th or 99th percentile--not exactly "low scores" who are applying TO.  It's an absurd system that has been created.  I'm guessing that the average score for schools like Wash U and Vandy is in the low 1400s...sure, lower than the kids with the reported scores but these kids undoubtedly have something else going for them that made them stand out in the application pool.
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