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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

“a certain generation of managing directors.”

lol
I work in finance, perhaps part of precisely the same cohort, and this makes you sound like such a tool. Who talks like this?

Vandy is a good school but unfortunately does not register on any radar I have ever come across in 25 years on Wall Street.
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