Congrats! Please go to Mosaic no matter what. Because you are going to have multiple offers by April and probably by MidMarch. The Admissions staff knows what they are doing!!! They know what numbers mean and they are accurate judges of context re high schools and other advantages like rigorous prepping at home and parents who have been to college a few generations. You are not a 30. You belong at Vandy or at any peer college where you decide you are most comfortable. You CAN DO the work. Plenty of admits to Vandy are not going to make As or Bs in engineering or physics or for that matter film or Spanish.
Play the LONG GAME for your life, my dear urbancatfitters.
When in doubt, look at the retention rate at any top tier American college where you are chosen for a seat in the freshman class. You are in the percentile that will graduate with your college class.
BTW my sons went to a public school with a 50% drop out rate but had the advantages of parents who had graduate degrees. They had to up their game on rote learning skills and habits at Duke and Vandy but they had the moxey to stick it out and each one of them dropped one class they fumbled in the first six weeks --and retook the class later.
You don’t have to have it all together you just have to be in the game and use the resources around you. You are enough as you are today.
Best wishes for your college decision happiness in April. I think I am going to put up a link of a graduate in 2013 who took a longer way to graduate and was interviewed among other grads on my son’s graduation day at Vandy for you. (Although I do not predict you will struggle and have no idea why she had a setback and a recovery at Vandy.) The point is…if you come to Vanderbilt the entire staff is there to make sure you find your path. Do not worry about cash (thus said from the wife of a man who went to Vandy law and had to turn off the heat to his apartment one winter because he didn’t have the cash to pay and he worked 20 hours a week at the Public Defenders which he went to by bicycle or bus)…he has had a satisfying 30 plus year career and only one winter in a coat and hat while studying in his cold grad school apt. Thank you Vandy. By the way the Vandy Freshman Commons is a Palace of Riches and Gifts and Guidance compared to the freshman campus program at most of the fine colleges in the USA.