Atmosphere and life at Vandy?

bernie12
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:21:13 +0000

Well Vandy gives really good financial aid if they fall into a certain bracket (and even outside of it) so applying there along with state flagships that have a similar feel may not be a bad idea at all. I would put Vandy, Chapel Hill, and Virginia in the upper-range (I am assuming OOS for CH and UVa) of schools for someone who has already visited and liked Chapel Hill. I would then find some others and consider their honors college like you said. At some less selective, but excellent quality state schools, even an OOS person strong enough to consider applying to Vanderbilt could potentially get a scholarship or into the honors college. UGA for example, claims that it doesn’t even consider residential status in admissions…and I know they basically do scholarship/fellows/honors status based upon stats and I think their honors college is excellent and regular academics are solid too (though those classes are still a bit large for my taste).