Vandy 2017er Here To Answer Questions!

LBowie
Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:56:05 +0000

bernie12 – I would predict that the GPAs and test scores of waitlisted students do not differ significantly from those offered admission. I think this is true at Vanderbilt as well as at many other schools that get far more applications than they have space for, and previous years’ yields would predict would attend. I think they just get far more qualified applicants than they can admit.

As for the number of students eventually offered spots off of the waitlist, I don’t know what it was for the past year, but it is a fairly large number – 200, I think. You can find the exact number in Vanderbilt’s Common Data Set that you can Google.

If you are on the waitlist and don’t have financial need and tell Vanderbilt “I will definitely come if you offer me a spot no matter what,” that works in that applicant’s favor, because at that point, as they said in the article, they are not need blind anymore. But for US applicants, I it doesn’t sound like they factor in who to put on the waitlist based on need.