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Vanderbilt Merit Awards

Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 in Scholarships and Financial Aid.

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  • 2015hopeful!

    August 14th, 2010

    Thanks for the helpful response!

    Would you mind sharing the number of students who applied for the CV Scholarship last year, versus how many actually received it?

    Thanks!

  • Kylie

    August 18th, 2010

    A total of 3,431 students applied for the Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship last year (entering Class of 2014). We awarded 151 Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarships in that same year. Be aware, not all of those offered the award chose to enroll at Vanderbilt. Also, the number of awards offered will fluctuate from year to year because of funding availability.

  • Kim

    August 20th, 2010

    Of the awards offered to prospective students who did not enroll, was any of the award money awarded to students who did enroll and perhaps were not offered a scholarship before?

  • Kylie

    August 21st, 2010

    Kim, We make the awards with the knowledge that some of the students will not enroll. Therefore, there is only one round of scholarship offers.

  • Joe

    October 11th, 2010

    How many people from the class of 2014 applied for the Chancellor’s Scholarship and how many actually received it?

    Thanks!

  • Kylie

    October 11th, 2010

    I’m looking into that for you. I’ll get you the answer as soon as I can.

  • Kylie

    October 12th, 2010

    Joe- We do not publish the number of individuals who applied for the Chancellor’s scholarship, but we can tell you that we offered the scholarship to 40 students for the entering class this fall.

  • Madison

    October 2nd, 2013

    How many prospective students applied for the Ingram Scholarship last year (High
    School class of 2013), versus how many actually received it?

  • Jay Watson

    October 2nd, 2013

    Hi Madison. While I don’t have the specific info you are looking for, you should take a look at this post by Brent Tener, Director of Undergraduate Scholarships. It will give you a good overview of the number of applications versus the number of awards. Thanks for your interest.

  • chris

    December 16th, 2016

    Hi! It was mentioned above that 25% of the class usually scores above 1540 and 34 on the SAT and ACT, accordingly. Can you tell me if students scoring below those thresholds, but graduating with a very high GPA and class rank (along with leadership, etc) are considered…or do the numbers above rule them out?

  • Jay Watson

    December 16th, 2016

    Hi Chris, thanks for your question. First, we do not use grade or test score cut offs – we consider the whole application. Second, this post is several years old, so you shouldn’t put too much weight on these specific numbers. For more current info, check out our profile at https://admissions2025.vanderbilt.edu/profile/ And for more perspective on the test score info we report please see this blog post https://admissions2025.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2015/09/what-is-the-middle-50/ Thanks!

  • chris

    December 16th, 2016

    Thank you, Jay.