I got in last Tuesday which I guess was the first wave. I received the email at 6:04 Pacific time. Hope this clears things up for those that are still anxiously waiting! Hang in there!
6 pacific wow! that’s quite late. great now i feel like an email could literally come any day at any time lol
@somehmonggirl At this point, I don’t think anyone can rely on precedent for these decisions; at least for me, the two decisions I’ve received have come at times that I did not expect.
Michigan: I found out way earlier than I expected - I submitted my application in mid-January, heard back 2/8
Vanderbilt: I wasn’t expecting anything until the upcoming Friday, but all of the sudden I get an email on Tuesday night
i think they are waiting till the may 2nd ppl pay deposits and then accept more ppl
^^^^^ 2nd that
So just some math and maybe just to help people freaking out…
Last year Vanderbilt accepted 419 students and ended up with around 210 that actually went I believe.
There’s 126 in the facebook group right now (I’m in it) and I’ve searched pretty thoroughly and I’m pretty sure 13 of those are staff/transfer leaders.
Let’s assume that a few people don’t have facebook or aren’t in the group and say there were about 140~ acceptances in the first wave. That means given the two week periods, there’s still probably at least 2 waves of PURE ACCEPTANCES. Sure this is all conjecture but it’s supported by the numbers and I hope you all keep your heads up and wait for your acceptances!
Also a fair amount of people posting in the group have stated that they’re not sure they’re even going to Vanderbilt so I wouldn’t worry about spots running out.
Thank you very much for your info <~ @Whitefang1313
@Whitefang1313 That’s a reassuring statement! Even if you shave off some of the numbers to remove some of the optimism, it would still be a nice figure.
As I’ve said plenty of times in the past, I don’t mind waiting, as long as we can be assured that May 2nd will be the day, no questions asked- no iffy iffy, oh maybe no or so, etc etc bullcrap.
The constant anxiety rollercoaster doesn’t roll well with the looming finals week. It’s very unnecessary.
The sad reality is that a significantly large percentage (probably like 85-95%) of those of us who haven’t heard yet will get either denied or waitlisted. By not being in that first wave of acceptances, our odds of getting in took quite the hit
@newyorkgs Weeellll, the information posted above conflicts with your statement, but new views/facts are always welcomed.
@AGoodFloridian true, and there are hundreds more who could get accepted; 95% getting rejected is a pretty conservative estimate haha
It’s hard to tell because we don’t know what percentage of the applicants they’ve given decisions to. We only know the rough estimate of the number of acceptances but no idea about rejections/waitlist.
although this year seems to be a lot different from last year, LOTS of people in the 2nd and 3rd wave were accepted last year
so i would say that your estimation of 85-95% of us getting rejected isn’t even close @newyorkgs
I did some probably bad math trying to guess how many applications they have already been through including rejections. I figured since they said that acceptances for the first wave were high I would guess 90-80% get acceptances first wave. It could totally be higher. But if it’s 90% and we can guess from the FB page and guessing that there are people who either don’t have facebook or didnt join the page for whatever reason that there was about 140 acceptances (it’s a random number i guessed) then for 90% acceptance rate that means only about 155 applicants were given decisions out of about 1151 (a number from previous years it could be higher or lower). if they do the same amount every wave then it would take 6 weeks for all applicants to hear back. So… from that nonsense that probably sounds stupid here’s what I think:
- They may have more rejections than we think in the first wave.
or - They plan a similar sized second wave that will be mostly acceptances that fill the rest of the transfer class spots, then will continue a few large waves of rejections, waitlists, and possibly more acceptances if they don’t reach the number of deposits they would like.
LOL somebody tell me to chill!
I think 95% is a little too off, even for a selective college like Vanderbilt.
Weeelll then, whoever is on the Rice Transfer boat with me should head on over to that thread because things might get real on Friday!
The last Friday of April was the decision day for the last 5 years, so I don’t see any reason it would change this year.
But then again… Some certain colleges are full of surprises this year, huh? :))
Guys, you may not have the strongest profile in general but all you need is to beat the other 2/3. Hang in there! I was admitted in the 2nd wave last year.
Also let’s say there’s 400 acceptances they plan to give out, minus 140 already accepted = 260 more spots. 1151 applicants - 140 already got the decisions = 996 more applicants for 260 spots = 73.89% denied.
feel free to tell me if my math is wrong because i suck at math. lol
you know when you pretend to throw a ball to a dog but you actually just hide it behind your back? vanderbilt is the person throwing and the ball is transfer decisions
and we’re the poor dogs…