The Vandy Admissions Blog

Thom December 19th, 2008

Q&A Time:

Q - How do I check the completeness of my application (i.e., do you have my stuff)? 

A - Call 800-288-0432 between 8am-5pm CST or email us at admissions@vanderbilt.edu.  We started running double shifts with our processing staff a couple weeks ago to be able to handle the mountain of paper (remember last year?).  Postmarked deadline for both ED2 and RD is Jan 3 (and yes, we know that’s a Saturday).

Q - What about merit scholarships and financial aid, when are the applications for them due?

A - The postmark deadline for both the Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Chancellor’s Merit Scholarships are also Jan 3.  For our need-based aid we use both the CSS PROFILE, which is available now and the FAFSA which goes live on Jan 1st.  The preferential deadline for Vanderbilt receiving both of those is Feb 1 for RD.

Q - Several months ago VU announced a big enhancement to student aid where need-based student loans in financial award packages will be replaced with gift aid starting with the next incoming class (2009).  With the worsening economy, are you still going through with that?

A - Yes, absolutely.  [We have actually heard this question a handful of times and we're proud to give the answer]

Q - I was just admitted at ED1.  What’s my next step? 

A - Well, I suppose you join the VU 2013 facebook group and write “I’m so stoked!” on the message board, thank your mom and dad for all their sacrifice and toil in raising you, enjoy the holidays, keep your grades up (seriously, its called a contingent offer of admission for a reason), cheer on the ‘Dores in the Music City Bowl on Dec 31, and look for the bigger admit packet to be sent around April 1 when it goes out to the entire admitted class (but maybe not in that order).

Stats you can’t use - even if you tried:

According to the Social Security Adminstration, the most popular baby names for the years of 1990 and 1991 (the years when most of the newly minted incoming ED1 class of 2013 were born) were the following:

1990 & 1991:

The top names of the 2009 VU ED1 admitted class?

There are 160 different female names and 130 unique male names in the incoming ED1 class. 

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admin April 28th, 2008

A couple quick updates on our waitlist for everyone. We’ve been getting a good number of phone calls and emails asking whether we’ll be going to the waitlist, and while admitted students have a few more days to make their decisions known (reply cards should be postmarked by May 1) it does look like we will be going to our waitlist to some degree (as we anticipated).

A couple of things to keep in mind:

1) In our letter that offered a spot on the waitlist, we indicated that we “might” admit students from the waitlist in late April. It now looks like we won’t be looking to start admitting students from the waitlist until early May.

2) We don’t know at this point how many students we will admit from the waitlist. As I’ve mentioned here before, we will assess where we are with our class and seek to round it out (if we need more Oboe players, Chem majors, etc.).

3) Just as a reminder, if you are selected to be admitted from the waitlist, your admissions officer will call and ask if you are still interested in being admitted to Vanderbilt. If you say yes, we will mail you an admissions packet. You will have one week to let us know if you intend to enroll. There’ll be more updates as we know them in the next several days and weeks.

So what’s new in Vandyland? Vanderbilt’s Dean of Admissions, Doug Christiansen was quoted in Time Magazine last week in an article about waitlists (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1734829,00.html).

BlogVU has been created for those of you who are interested in reading other Vanderbilt blogs. It’s a central website for all things Blog-related at Vandy (http://blogvu.wordpress.com/). By the way, did you see that the Chicago Bears took two Vandy players in this weekend’s NFL draft? Chris Williams (OT) in the first round and Earl Bennett (WR) in the third. Perhaps they’ll be marketing themselves as the “Commodores of the Midway.” Jonathan Goff (ILB) was also drafted by the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants.

And even though commencement is not until May 9th, they start setting up for it now. I thought you all would enjoy a picture taken this morning.

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