Admissions Links Category
First Years: Apply for Inside ‘Dores!
Jan. 7, 2013—I was tipped off about Inside ‘Dores halfway through my freshman year at Vanderbilt. A friend of mine who wrote for the blog at the time said the Admissions office was looking for people to write about their experiences at school. Sure, thought I, people would love to read about my life! Whether or not...
Checking Boxes
Dec. 16, 2012—As you may or may not have heard, Vanderbilt is in finals mode, the campus a seething mass of caffeinated 20-somethings attempting to re-learn (or simply learn) content from wildly disparate courses. As this drama unfolds around me, threatening to engulf countless students, I will be acting as Inside ‘Dores’ Jim Cantore, reporting live from...
Catch-Up With Victoria and Nathan: Part IX
Dec. 13, 2012—This beautiful Tuesday evening, I was privileged to spend time with my closest friends, the Inside 'Dores team.
My MAJOR Dilemma
Nov. 5, 2012—Are you... Considering applying to Vanderbilt? Do you.. Feel generally confused about the future? Maybe you... Cringe a little when someone asks you plan to major in? If you said yes to any of the above...read this...
The Grind
Oct. 9, 2012—So, the number of blog drafts I have sitting on WordPress from mid-August when school began is a little embarrassing. I had every intention of posting updates on the first week of classes, Inside ‘Dores training, Melodores auditions, and a cornucopia of other beginning-of-year types of things. Fear not, reader, for I will deliver, albeit...
Campus Visit? — Here’s where you should eat!
Apr. 18, 2012—You just got accepted to Vanderbilt and are planning a campus visit to check out the school and the town in order to decide whether you’d like it or not? Well — look no further than here (and all the links I’m providing) for places to eat in Nashville!
Why Vanderbilt?
Mar. 27, 2012—Every once in a while I reminisce back to those wonderful (ha!) months of high school during which I googled different universities every day, wrote personal statements, and stressed about SAT scores…maybe more so now because soon I will have to do the same thing to apply to graduate school…and I remember discussions I had...
Opening the Right Dore
Mar. 22, 2012—As we approach April 1 and all those acceptance letters come flooding in, my pitch on why I (and you) should pick Vanderbilt.
My Shout-out (or How to be an Inside ‘Dore)
Jan. 25, 2012—Applications for first-year students to be Inside Dores bloggers are due today at 4:00 pm! I have few illusions that this article will be of assistance to applicants at such a late hour (if I even finish this before the deadline), but I decided this was a good occasion to write about being an undergraduate...
Dore for A Day
Jan. 24, 2012—Today, I missed the first half of the Vandy vs. University of Tennessee basketball game. Shame on me, I know, but no fear, I was there for the second half and stayed to sing the alma mater with my team after their dominating win. (In case you missed it, the final score was 65-47 and...