CONGRATULATIONS! I’ll bet quite substantially that 10, 20, 40 and 50 years from now you’ll look back on your EARNED Vanderbilt selection as the BEST (other than your family) blessing of your life. PLEASE don’t worry about money (you will get a great need-based grant), or friends (some/many those classmates you meet at, and after, MOSAIC are going to be your lifelong and closest friends), or academics (we ALL struggle a little bit as freshmen, but Vandy has abundant resources to get you through it). And always remember, you’ll properly judge others – and they you – based on character, decency, concern for your classmates, personality and integrity . . . not on financial status, ACT scores, AP classes, race, etc. Those things do NOT define a person, but character, decency, concern for others, personality and integrity do. I’m very happy for you. Whether or not you yet fully understand it, you are a living example of what American should be.