Anonymous wrote:Why is there this idea that its more difficult to get into than peer schools?
I've seen students get in ED/ED2 with 93+/3.7+ with no test scores, including no AP scores, not top 10%, regular ECs, etc.

sample size of 1. My own kid. Valedictorian (public school), perfect GPA, 1560 SAT, varsity sports, decent ECs. Got into multiple T10s and WL at Vanderbilt.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

My point is that Emory is a significantly easier admit from the private my kids attend than Vandy or GT. That does not prove your point.

Maybe reread, One I don't beileve you, either way I'm saying Vandy admissions isn't different than Emory admissions so Emory is easier at your school but harder at mine and vise versa. Gatech isn't elite so who cares really, no one was talking about it. GT knows private school students don't want a public school so they yeild protect.

GT is Georgetown not GATech.

Outside of the DC area, GT is Georgia Tech, and Georgetown is GU.

Well this is DC urban moms, ma’am.

Ok Gulf of America.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

My point is that Emory is a significantly easier admit from the private my kids attend than Vandy or GT. That does not prove your point.

Maybe reread, One I don't beileve you, either way I'm saying Vandy admissions isn't different than Emory admissions so Emory is easier at your school but harder at mine and vise versa. Gatech isn't elite so who cares really, no one was talking about it. GT knows private school students don't want a public school so they yeild protect.

GT is Georgetown not GATech.

Outside of the DC area, GT is Georgia Tech, and Georgetown is GU.

Well this is DC urban moms, ma’am.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

My point is that Emory is a significantly easier admit from the private my kids attend than Vandy or GT. That does not prove your point.

Maybe reread, One I don't beileve you, either way I'm saying Vandy admissions isn't different than Emory admissions so Emory is easier at your school but harder at mine and vise versa. Gatech isn't elite so who cares really, no one was talking about it. GT knows private school students don't want a public school so they yeild protect.

GT is Georgetown not GATech.

Outside of the DC area, GT is Georgia Tech, and Georgetown is GU.

It depends on the major too....of course.

Anonymous wrote:I know I’m going to get heat for this but I’ve read others say same, my stellar across the board got into a few ivies and waitlisted there, noticed they took lower stats but still very strong kids. I do wonder if they have some sort of model, not saying yield protect, that forecasts likeliness to attend whether it be stats, location, high school record, and so on.

Vanderbilt uses WL for many val/sal in RD and takes lower kids with ED and even in RD. They yield protect. Lots do this, UChicago and even some lower ivies who have not yielded well from that private in previous yrs (Dartmouth, brown). Vanderbilt goes deeper in the class for ED acceptances than those ivies do but it is on par with Uchicago ED: no need to be top10% for those two.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

My point is that Emory is a significantly easier admit from the private my kids attend than Vandy or GT. That does not prove your point.

Maybe reread, One I don't beileve you, either way I'm saying Vandy admissions isn't different than Emory admissions so Emory is easier at your school but harder at mine and vise versa. Gatech isn't elite so who cares really, no one was talking about it. GT knows private school students don't want a public school so they yeild protect.

GT is Georgetown not GATech.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

My point is that Emory is a significantly easier admit from the private my kids attend than Vandy or GT. That does not prove your point.

Maybe reread, One I don't beileve you, either way I'm saying Vandy admissions isn't different than Emory admissions so Emory is easier at your school but harder at mine and vise versa. Gatech isn't elite so who cares really, no one was talking about it. GT knows private school students don't want a public school so they yeild protect.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

My point is that Emory is a significantly easier admit from the private my kids attend than Vandy or GT. That does not prove your point.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

Can say the same about Vandy, so you're proving my point. Also Gatech yeild protects heavily (see test scores) And they play the differ game moreso than other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt also has an education school which lots of DMV kids do for a much easier shot. Our college counselor recommended this.

80k a year to be a fricking k12 teacher?

No. You get in for education and switch majors.

my kid decided against this but this is the advice of college counselors.

Vandy parent. This isn't the hack that you think it is. It's not an easier admit, but they may accept with lower stats. What's more, the most sought-after degree at Vanderbilt the HOD, which is done within the Peabody (education) school anyway. There's a lot of competition to apply directly to Peabody, because people -want- HOD, and people want HOD because they imagine it gives them an advantage for a consulting offer upon graduation. There is no biz school, fwiw, so HOD or econ are what's done instead.

The planned admit to education hack definitely won't work for engineering or pre-med or adjacent.

If I were a parent of a junior trying to find a disingenuous workaround, I'd rely instead on the kid's musical prowess. Get admitted into Blair (by tryout and portfolio), then take a bunch of econ or bio or whatever classes in another college and get a dual degree.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think so. I have no connection to Vanderbilt and know no alumni personally but I think it's a great school. If you look at test scores, acceptance rates, percent of students taking out loans, and endowment/per capita, Vanderbilt performs just as well (and better in certain categories) than WashU, Brown, Chicago, Emory, Northwestern, JHU, Columbia, Cornell, and a few others. I do not think it's on par with Rice.

Same poster but I'll also add Duke, Dartmouth, and Notre Dame to the just above Vanderbilt category.

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Anonymous wrote:People have said it is in the same tier as BC. Take that for what you will

Let's not lie, but it's the same as Emory,Notre Dame, Georgetown etc. Actually Georgetown and Emory are likely harder to get into, at least from our private. Georgetown is test required, and Emory accepts less test optional students. Emory also doesn't look at Freshman grads so some students GPA drops woth Emory if they did poorly sophomore year.

Emory is really easy from our private. Like top 30 to 40 percent of class if you ED. Vandy and GT legit hard admits. My kid isn’t at any of these schools.

I don't think so. I have no connection to Vanderbilt and know no alumni personally but I think it's a great school. If you look at test scores, acceptance rates, percent of students taking out loans, and endowment/per capita, Vanderbilt performs just as well (and better in certain categories) than WashU, Brown, Chicago, Emory, Northwestern, JHU, Columbia, Cornell, and a few others. I do not think it's on par with Rice.

I think people who are trying to hype up Vanderbilt are private school family types who are upset their kids didn't get into Duke or Rice and hyping up Vandy like they are equivalent.