Vandy 2017er Here To Answer Questions!

bernie12
Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:02:19 +0000

With a 1490-1600 admitted students range, I question if they are waitlisting the “perfect” students. Maybe it’s the less than perfect students that they are waiting to see about, to perhaps replace those higher up in the “non-perfect” range who may get in but go somewhere else. I mean, the 25% slides the most when you compare the admitted range to the enrolled range. The 75% slide is almost negligible (a 1570 is hardly different from a 1600, but 1410 vs. 1490 is a noticeable but not huge difference IMO). However, an opposite argument could be made where these stats. suggest that you are right because perhaps, not all of the perfect people waitlisted were were interested in or gained admission from some other high stat. school and therefore Vanderbilt was able to successfully pull most of them from the waitlist and then enroll them, whereas more non-perfect, but excellent people that got in elsewhere, took the admission at the other school and ran.

Regardless, who knows, this admissions stuff is clearly really weird and somewhat unpredictable once the school is beyond certain thresholds of selectivity (below 15-20%).