Vanderbilt or Notre Dame?

Faline2
Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:06:33 +0000

Vanderbilt is a wonderful institution in a much better city than Notre Dame and has a lot of southern warmth even as they are attracting kids from other regions in the US. I know it is hard for you to give up a family attachment to the place competing for your choice but I recommend you embrace Nashville and Vandy as “your places.” They can prepare you for med school, give you a good liberal arts base and expose you to massive amounts of cultural opps due to the grad schools and the fact that much talent passes through Nashville itself on tours. When my S did his overnight, the students were incredibly warm, from all over the US and he noticed full professors in the labs which is not something you will see at many good colleges. There are plenty of very cool people who don’t go Greek and in a town like Nashville, your social life is not going to have to be tied up there. Good luck deciding.