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April 11th, 2008
I still do not understand why and how you do not rank your waiting list. It defies logic and keeps students on the tenterhook.
Enjoy Chicago while those waitlisted cringe and hope for a miracle. I know that you are wishing for a zero accpetance rate. That would trally boost your ego.
April 11th, 2008
Excuse my typo.
April 11th, 2008
Personally, I think Vandy has done an excellent job in explaining just how they canNOT rank the wait list.
Waitlisted students are those that are just as academically strong as any of the initially admitted students. Somewhere – there is a discriminator – strength of essay, ECs, geography, ethnicity, etc. Hey, I’m the Dad of a great waitlisted daughter – and am hoping that Vandy sees the light and is able to get the chance to admit her – but know going in that there is no “rank”..if she is offered a shot at The Commons, it will truly be a combination of her outstanding prep career (both academically and athletically) along with pure blind luck when someone with many of her same characteristics makes the choice to attend college somewhere else. We are pleased that our daughter has been found academically worthy at a Vandy campus that merely ran out of room…for now. We are PROUD to know that our daughter will succeed wherever she goes…if that’s not Vandy – that’s Vandy’s loss….waiting….out.
April 15th, 2008
I doubt the admissions office gets any thrill or ego boost from denying students.
April 15th, 2008
Based upon comments I have seen on the College Confidential website as well as personal knowledge of a few accepted students struggling with the dilemma of choice, I think those on the waitlist can be reasonably optimistic that a number (?) of students will be offered a spot. The interesting thing in all of this is that I have spoken to parents whose children have also been accepted at Ivies and both the parents and their kids are truly conflicted and are having a very difficlt decision. Vandy has clearly “arrived.”
April 15th, 2008
I strongly recommend that the 1st and 2nd posts/comments be deleted by the administrator.
April 26th, 2008
My neice was on the waitlist for 2007 and was told late summer by her Vanderbilt counselor than NO ONE was taken from the waitlist in 2007, so it is curious to see that “last year was on the low end of the scale” if in actuality the number was zero.