<p>I was a finalist and I am very mad about this. I spent the weekend with a great group, I love every single one of them. No one was snobby or anything like that. We had a great time together - maybe we had too much fun but we were encouraged to do so. We were all relieved that the interview process was much less rigid than we expected and we were all led to believe that we were in the program. My interviewer actually told me that once you get to this point it was just a formality. So we had a good time getting to know these future classmates that we thought we would be spending a lot of time with. There was even a point in the weekend where someone was given some inside information about something the interviewers were looking for and everyone was sharing it with everyone else. No one wanted anyone to be left out and we were all hoping every single person would be selected. Uppity - really?? I am so disappointed (obviously I wasn’t selected) but more mad than anything else with the way this went down. I know Vanderbilt has missed out on some very good scholars and they should take a look at how this was handled and reconsider adding additional recipients.</p>