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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vandy looks for kids who are smart, social, service-minded, collaborative, polished, pre-professional.

Vandy is not looking for kids who are edgy (Columbia, Brown, Chicago).

Vandy looks for kids who are more leadership-forward (Penn, Duke, WashU, Georgetown).  [b]StuCo president, club founder,[/b] researcher, [b]varsity captain.[/b]

Vandy is not looking for pure intellectualism (Chicago, Williams).

Vandy looks for well rounded kids.  [/quote]

Those ECs are so unimpressive. [/quote]

That really depends. If you are attending a giant high performing public school with 2000-3000 students, things like class president, editor of the paper, president of a big student organization like DECA, captain of a varsity sport - those things are impressive given all the competition. Much less so at at a small private school where everyone gets a prize. Plus in the good school districts, these students will have good internships and so on. There's a big difference between having leadership positions and excelling at sports at big public schools like Whitman, Langley, and so on compared to the small private schools in the area - GDS, Sidwell and so forth. School leadership positions are unimpressive for private school parents because they are so easy to get in their school milieu. The private school families are relying on name and wealth and forgo real competition for anything. But for public school students, class president, editor of the paper, captain of the team are very significant because the competition is so fierce. And colleges recognize that. And so what's unimpressive for the small private school parent - because it's so easy - is very impressive for everyone else. [/quote]

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