Books and stories have always played an important role in my life and it all started with a simple line: “Once upon a time, there was a green turtle named Sherlock and a brown owl named Watson.” Those words would commence my favorite part of the day: story time. When I was very young, my dad began stealing the plots of famous stories to create Sherlock Stories. He created an adventure that could wrap me up tight for the night...

My favorite course thus far has been English 118w: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis. It really depends what...

Volunteer! It is so rewarding and it looks great on your application. Pick something that you're really interested in--for...

I intend to either attend law school or head into the business world, depending on where...

Test scores and GPA are really important. GPA is hard to fix after a certain point, but if you can bump up your ACT/SAT, it can really help. Also,...

Ask teachers that know you well and that you succeed in...

I wrote my college essay my junior year for a writing class,...

There pretty decent grade deflation and you will have to work much harder than you did in high...

Greek life. Vanderbilt attempts to deflate the number of students involved in greek life by tabulating the numbers in the fall (freshmen rush in the spring),...

Rich. Intelligent....

I did not use a private counselor, because my family did not have the money for that type of thing. In some ways, I...

I fell in love with Vanderbilt (and I was admitted Early Decision, which forces me to decline other schools). I was...

I live in the north where the winters are brutal. Nashville, on the other hand, has mild winters and, aside from some rainy days, spectacular weather. The campus itself...

Vanderbilt offers three full tuition scholarships, and they pretty much never award these to Early Decision applicants. Besides that, they do not really offer many scholarships, so you're on your own for those. I made sure to search around my community to find some scholarships so I didn't have to take...

I applied to Vanderbilt ED because of their fantastic financial aid program and their status as a top 20 university (which is somewhat pretentious, but it's worth the connections that come with the name.) I applied to...

While I am not transferring schools, I have known friends either transferring into Vanderbilt. out of Vanderbilt, or between two schools separate from Vanderbilt. This is a decision one cannot take lightly and it...

Early Decision requires that the...

It's difficult to get involved in some of...