Vanderbilt is the college in the top-20 that admits closest to pure merit.
Our high school sends anywhere from 8-15 students to Vanderbilt each year so the Naviance scattergram data is well populated, and there is a pretty clear demarcation in terms of GPA and SAT scores as to who gets in and who doesn’t. No other elite school admits the way they do.
@gobears1234, if your school has Naviance, see where you stats fit on the Vanderbilt scattergram.