poor SAT and nice SAT 2s....chance me for vanderbilt

laolu · 01-06-2009, 01:16 PM

international student, fifteen years old (going to be 16 in march)

SAT: (it sucks!)
math=600
CR=550
W=570

SAT 2: (it rocks!)
math level 1 = 790
chemistry= 800
physics= 800

GPA:3.5

teacher and counselor evaluations: good ( i asked the teachers to rate it on a scale of 1-10 and the average was 7.5)

essays: not too spectacular but alright

extracurriculars:

junior engineers club
library/readers club
chess club
arts club

honors:

social science honor award
school science team
inter-house soccer 1st place award
school chess team
school prefect

class rank: in top 15%

applying to engineering department, regular decision and financial aid

chance me for vanderbilt

Conscience · 01-06-2009, 08:56 PM

I can't chance people because my opinions are totally baseless, but I just wanted to wish you luck. Chess, reading, and art? You give me hope that I'll be able to find a roommate with interests I can relate to (if I get in)!

So you're international? Where are you from?

hilsa · 01-06-2009, 09:36 PM

You're FIFTEEN YEARS OLD!!!!????? And have SAT II scores like that??? Damn. I bet you're asian, since they have amazing schools over there.

laolu · 01-08-2009, 10:56 AM

im from Nigeria

hilsa · 01-08-2009, 03:42 PM

Wow! That's pretty awesome, actually. Good luck!

miktau · 01-08-2009, 10:04 PM

All I can say is try to take the act. you obviously a very smart kid. I'd only be worried that vandy might be wary of taking a 15 year old. good luck.

gofree · 01-13-2009, 12:03 AM

sats are really bad: 650 M 550 CR 520 VB
SATii: bio 610, math ic 670 math 2c 710
Gpa: 3.5 unweighted all honors and APs
very strong leader---president of three clubs and part of others, captain of two varsity sports [possibly be a walk on for one at vandy]--on teh team since freshman year for both, do so much service for my school
so much extra circ. its crazy and so much community service
I did ED 2 to increase my chances
essay is really good
i did the interview--went very well
amazing recs
greek
the only weakness are my sats!! what do you think?

hilsa · 01-13-2009, 04:00 PM

How did you do on your APs so far. A lot of people take APs and get pretty good grades in the classes, but if you do poorly on them, then it doesn't really matter.

Those score are low, but you never know.

simply lily · 03-16-2009, 04:22 PM

laolu - I'm from Israel and when Vanderbilt came to explain about the school and an Israeli scholarship, the Admissions guy couldn't stop gushing over how they take into consideration that internation candidates may have lower test scores and that they understand, etc. I'm not sure how much to believe something like that, but it seems like your chances are pretty good...