I’m only a sophomore, but Vandy is my dream school already! I broke down my academic profile:
4.3 weighted GPA; Class Rank: 6th/277
No AP classes because my high school only offers one…and its for seniors, however, I have taken every available Honors class so far.
Extracurriculars:
~~ Marching and Symphonic Band (will be in for all four years)
– All-State, All-Region Bands; All-State Percussion Ensemble
– teach lessons to younger students
~~ S.A.D.D. (historian)
~~ Key Club
– volunteered for over a year at local hospital
– Salvation Army bell ringing
– New Toy Drive and Rake ‘n’ Run
~~ Spanish Club
~~ Business Professionals of America
– 3rd place: Basic Office Systems, 1st in Video Production
~~ Boy Scouts
– Senior Patrol Leader (highest leadership possible)
– a few weeks away from Eagle Scout!!!
– Bronze Merit Badge Palm, and should be in Nat’l Eagle Honor Society
– Order of the Arrow Honor Society member
~~ Church
– helped with Vacation Bible School for 3 years
– altar server (Catholic thing…)
* I have gotten all A’s so far.
* I plan on applying Early Decision One.
* I plan on taking four years of Spanish.
* I will have had 4 honors science classes by the time I am a senior, and will take another my senior year too. (Once again, AP Calculus (which I will take) is the only AP class offered at my high school; only other option was Honors.)
I don’t have any SAT or ACT scores yet, but I just want a general idea of my chances as of now.
My major would be a biological science, since I want to go pre-med. I also want to minor in Spanish.
Good academia?
Extra-curriculars on track?
If I keep this up will my chances go up as well?
Let me know what you think!
If you have been accepted/are a Vandy student, please answer! Also if you have been accepted at another great school (Washington Univ. in Saint Louis, Emory Univ., Univ. of Chicago, Wake Forest, Saint Louis University, etc.!), let me know too!
Thank you so much!
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So, I’m a Vandy student and your extracurriculars look fabulous to me. I’d say keep it up, and you’d have a good chance, but I’d like to emphasize a few things.
1. Even though colleges say that they’re trying to move away from standardized tests, they’re still important. A lot of possibilities open up if you have great standardized tests. They also say that it doesn’t help to take them more than once, but that’s a lie. My ACT went from 32 to 34 and my SAT went from 1430 to 1560 (not including writing). So take them more than once, but if you’re bad at testing, it’s not the end of the world. They will still take you with a 24 ACT, if you’re exceptional elsewhere.
2. Be polite and friendly in your interview, but try not to rehearse it. I don’t know of anyone whose given an interviewee a bad review.
3. This is really most important here: GETTING INTO COLLEGE IS A TOTAL CRAP SHOOT!!! They may reject an application one year, and take an identical one the next. It all depends on what quotas they have to fill. So apply to as many schools as you have time for, I’m sure you’ll get accepted somewhere good.
You forgot to list the University of South Florida on your list of great schools. Lol anyway, judging by your academics and extracirriculars, as well as your class rank, I would think you look like a lock to make it into Vandy.
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