<p>I can assure you that the transfer acceptance rate is no longer 31%.</p>
<p>You’ll find that Vanderbilt has a spirit of camaraderie and not of competition. It’s not a cutthroat environment. I’ve told my closest friends my ACT/SAT score before and I doubt they even remember/care what it is now. They certainly don’t know my GPA nor will they ever care to know. There may be top 20 schools where people like to grill each other about “academic history” but Vanderbilt isn’t one of them. </p>
<p>Funny that you quoted that post from Cornell, an environment that is notorious for being cutthroat and miserable!</p>
<p>You’ll also find that a lot of people here believe they got in by luck or only because they applied EA/ were legacy, etc. People don’t feel entitled to their admission and so they don’t feel entitled to call out others on their stats. </p>
<p>Hopefully if there are any transfers who had a bad experience, they will say something, like that one poster did here a few years ago. However, since then all we have seen is stories of positive transfer experiences.</p>