Shoo-in for Vanderbilt?

Faline2
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:12:35 +0000

woeishe, write your essays on whatever you decide. there are highly qualified people in your region and then in committee who will read and react differently to your essays, and religious figures are not a taboo subject. they plow through 25 thousand essays, so you may want to make sure to at least read and to absorb one good book on college essays. I like the Harry Bauld short book which is often recommended. It has a lot of good warm up exercises and discussions of what would make a good and a bad essay.
Vanderbilt admits students with many different religious views. Politics and religion as topics are only as problematic as the insight or lack of insight and thought you display in your essays.

There really is not such thing as a shoo-in to Vanderbilt or any other selective school. There are hundreds of students who will be denied or waitlisted who would be quite successful at Vanderbilt and deserve admission. Stay tuned tomorrow as they post stats and make sure to broaden your college list to include schools that are sure to admit you as well as reach schools.

Attaching to your match college is the best way to get through the next two years. Match colleges for a person with your stats will all be glad to land you and the teachers are generally excellent at scores of colleges. The best thing my sons managed to accomplish was truly valuing their match colleges and visualizing themselves fulfilled at them. Visit classrooms in your match colleges and picture yourself there. Then apply to reach colleges as well.