@Empty_America Vanderbilt is test-optional and offers merit scholarships. The Ivies require standardized tests and offer none.
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If the leadership oriented kids with more "personality" are now selecting Vanderbilt instead of an Ivy, you can expect its prestige to eventually surpass the northeast schools.
When the president graduates from Vanderbilt or the like, that quickly becomes the place.
Bloomberg@business
Vanderbilt University accepted 2.9% of regular-decision applicants looking to enroll in the freshman class next fall, signaling that one of the most selective colleges in the US has become even more competitive bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@BarneyFlames Except Vanderbilt is not more selective than Yale, not for the class of 2030. Yale has a much larger international population, narrowing any white/Asian gaps.
Vanderbilt’s SAT scores are boosted by test-optional reporting and ~300 merit scholarships. Yale offers none.
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> significantly more white AND more Asian
> 25th percentile SAT score is same as Harvard
> 75rh percentile SAT is actually higher
Okay so their big secret is that their admission criteria is mostly test score based.
csz@cszabla
vanderbilt is now more selective than yale my theory of the increasing popularity of this institution is that it combines elements of ivy plus prestige with the increasing trend toward students opting for southern football schools. also a lot of people love nashville these days
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@cszabla Not quite.
“The News calculated that the regular decision acceptance rate, when accounting for deferred students in the pool, was about 2.9 percent — a decrease from last year’s regular decision acceptance rate of 3.65 percent.”
yaledailynews.com/articles/regul…
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vanderbilt is now more selective than yale
my theory of the increasing popularity of this institution is that it combines elements of ivy plus prestige with the increasing trend toward students opting for southern football schools. also a lot of people love nashville these days
Bloomberg@business
Vanderbilt University accepted 2.9% of regular-decision applicants looking to enroll in the freshman class next fall, signaling that one of the most selective colleges in the US has become even more competitive bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@Empty_America What’s more likely?
The ability to clearly see and decide what in life is worthwhile. You just don’t see it that way.
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Inability to clearly decide what in life is worthwhile.
Nearly all endeavors can be analyzed to death and found pointless before they are even commenced.
Feelings ღ@anxietymsgs
Why would someone who has a very high IQ achieve nothing worthwhile in their life?
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the answer to your question is 1600
admissions officers at these schools routinely state they could fulfill their classes with students who get 1600s a few times over
VB Knives@Empty_America
If Harvard admitted students strictly by SAT score, filling slots in descending order starting at 1600, what would be the lowest SAT score admitted to the school? And what would be the resulting demographics of the student body?
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@Empty_America Yes, some people assume I’m dumb because I went to Yale for college, and it never occurs to them that the opposite might be true.
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Yeah many people don't grasp that the median SAT of Harvard students is 1550 and this INCLUDES all DEI admits, legacy, athletes.
The great majority of kids walking around that campus scored 1500+, even if they had some type of preference.
Master Ridley@mstr_ridley
It's a good question. My guess is the composition of students would not actually change that much. Only about 500 kids get a perfect score each year. Harvard has 2000 slots to fill. The median score of admits _currently_ is like a 1550. And that includes all the athletes, legacy kids and underprivileged minorities. Everyone forgets how smart Ivy League kids actually are!
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@vazserox @Empty_America Admissions officers would still be looking at percentages like they do now.
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@Empty_America They should give a harder test then. Indian manages to do this for their institutions and I believe china does too. That's one reason many well-off chinese students come to schools one stop below the top tier. They couldnt get into the top chinese ones.
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