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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is doubting that Vanderbilt is a great school. However, many people (even highly educated people) are not aware of how good it is.  
My kids just visited and I've talked about it with about a dozen DC friends over the past week or two.  All of them were shocked at how hard it is to get into Vanderbilt in 2024.  No one had ANY idea that it has a 6% acceptance rate.  These are all highly educated DC professionals who are hiring managers for good jobs at top companies--not people who are off the turnip truck in middle America.

I'm telling you, if you don't have a senior or you're not in academia you very likely think of Vanderbilt as being a very good but not elite school.

Remember, the Vanderbilt acceptance rate even in the early 90s was 65%!  I'm 49 and I graduated from high school in 1992. [b]So people who are now in their late 40s likely viewed Vanderbilt as a pretty sure bet when they applied to college. Not an elite school.[/b]  Unless you've had a kid apply to college since there, you likely don't know (or have given any thought) to much things have changed with Vanderbilt admissions. And MANY hiring managers are in their late 40s.  So I'm sure many will not be as bowled over by a Vanderbilt degree like they would by say a Yale degree (although Vanderbilt is now just as difficult to get into as Yale.)[/quote]

Just to be clear, in 1990, UChicago and UPenn had acceptance rates near 50%, yet they were - and still are - great schools. Admissions for ALL schools used to be much more regional than they are today, though schools even today pull most strongly from their region. But, within their region, Vanderbilt and UChicago were always considered top schools. [/quote]

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