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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vandy is trying to mimic UChicago's love of ED - why don't they get bashed also? What makes UChicago so detestable to DCUM? Vandy and UChicago ED take a similar profile of private school kids, except UChicago has a harsh test score cutoff line at 1500.[/quote]

I agree. 
Vandy has started taking private school kids with mediocre stats but BIG donations.  They did it last year around here and they're doing it again this year. 
It's like Chicago but even more offensive IMO. [/quote]

PP here; I'm not bashing Vandy or UChicago with my previous comment, just pointing out how it's interesting that Vandy seems to have a shield protecting it from any keyboard warrior moms with a vendetta against certain schools.

And if what you said is true, that would be really disappointing for Vandy.[/quote]

I think the Chicago ED situation has been going on for enough admissions seasons that anyone who has an upper schooler in at top DMV private knows about it. It's known as the default ED1 or ED2 (when you don't get into your ED1 school) college 
Vanderbilt taking a lot ED is relatively knew. So the numbers of posters on here aware of it and/or posting about it is going to be small.

Also, the Vandy money thing is real.  It's the chatter at our high school and I've read about it multiple times on here with multiple posters contributing (and none were me). It's kind of obvious when a low performer who is super wealthy gets in.  It's almost impossible to be under the radar at small private schools. The kids know their classmates' relative grades and their classmates' wealth. [/quote]

Agree with all of this.[/quote]

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