Merit Scholarship Notification Begins Today
Good morning,
I just wanted to provide a brief update regarding the selection process for the Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chancellor’s Scholarship awards. Beginning today, we will notify recipients of the Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chancellor’s Scholarship awards by both e-mail and letter. Applicants who were not selected for either program will only receive an e-mail notification. A total of 56 Chancellor’s Scholarship and 143 Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship offers have been made. Please note that decisions regarding Cornelius Vanderbilt recipients who have applied to the Blair School of Music are still being finalized. Recipients will be notified beginning later this week.
Competition for our merit scholarship programs continues to be intense. Awards in one of our three signature programs (Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chancellor’s and Ingram) are being made to fewer than 1% of our applicants for admission. Staff and faculty from the Vanderbilt community have spent countless hours reading and discussing scholarship applications and making difficult decisions regarding award recipients.
We continue to be humbled by the overwhelming response to our signature merit programs and we are amazed at the quality of the applicant pools. Over 3,400 students applied for the Cornelius Vanderbilt program and nearly 600 applied for the Chancellor’s Scholarship program. This is in addition to the 561 students who applied for the Ingram Scholarship program.
Thank you for your interest in Vanderbilt! Should you have any questions, feel free to e-mail our office.
Sincerely,
Brent Tener
Director of Undergraduate Scholarships
Vanderbilt University
Update 3/8/2011:
In our e-mail to students who were not awarded Chancellor’s or CV, we indicated that the process of selecting recipients for other merit-based awards is ongoing. This is particularly true for the Blair School of Music and a number of their merit awards and the Curb Leadership Scholarship.
Update 3/21/2011:
We are in the process of sending e-mail notifications (with hard-copy letters) to the 11 students being offered Curb Scholarships. We will not be sending “no” notifications as we did with the Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ingram and Chancellor’s Scholarships. Any and all other scholarship notifications will be included with admit packets being mailed on Wednesday, March 23rd.
Seth Johnson ’13 leads a tour through campus this past week
March 7th, 2011
Will everyone be e-mailed today, or could it be anytime in the next few days?
March 7th, 2011
Tyler: The emails will start going out today, but with thousands to send out some may not be sent until tomorrow or Wednesday.
March 7th, 2011
Were there any ED students awarded merit scholarships this year?
March 7th, 2011
Kay: Yes, ED students did receive each of the three signature awards.
March 7th, 2011
When will applicants be notified for decisions regarding the additional merit scholarships (i.e. Curb)? Thank you!
March 7th, 2011
Sarah: We are continuing the process of selecting scholarship recipients for other merit-based awards. No further application is required on your part as we review either admissions application materials or existing scholarship applications to make our decisions. Award recipients will be notified either by a separate letter later this month or with an offer of admission.
March 7th, 2011
Will you notify receipents (today) before you sent out the rejections?
March 7th, 2011
Radha: All notifications, both recipients and non-recipients, are going out starting today. As I said below, there are LOTS of emails to go out so some may not hit until tomorrow or Wednesday.
EVERYONE: Check your junk mail this week, we often find students get notices auto-forwarded to spam/junk folders.
March 7th, 2011
Will the recipients go out first or is it by alphabetical order?
March 7th, 2011
DandyDon: I honestly have no idea. Our amazing APC handles everything of that nature. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
March 7th, 2011
Hey, just wondering if the APC is done sending out notifications for tonight? Just to get rid of the anxiety…until tomorrow :)
March 7th, 2011
Diane: The email process runs overnight to accommodate all those emails. Don’t stress, it’ll come.
March 7th, 2011
Keep your head up VERY HIGH as all applicants were TOPS and 90+% of Scholarship applicants will be disappointed as there were only about 200 scholarships available. My wonderful daughter is disappointed as she received her email today….but Moms and Dads, give your son/daughter a very special hug for their wonderfual accomplishments. They are so Special. What a phenominal group of applicants that received the “yes” nod. Congratulations to all scholarship recipients and thank you Vanderbilt for your very hard work in working through our many applications. We appreciate you great school and hard work.
March 7th, 2011
I heard that the Blair decisions would begin being trickled out today/this week. Is this only for the Blair people who got scholarships, or is it for all the Blair auditionees? Will the people who did not apply for scholarships not hear until April 1?
Thanks and congrats to everyone who received a scholarship!
March 7th, 2011
Danielle: Blair CV scholars will begin receiving notifications late this week. Some students will find out at that time they received admission. Other students will have to wait until April 1st. Blair’s notification schedule is a bit more flexible than our other 3 schools.
March 8th, 2011
A “No” for me. what can you say? Best wishes to all recepients
March 8th, 2011
So if a Blair applicant applied for these scholarships, will they find out their admittance status this week, whether or not they receive the award?
March 8th, 2011
Claudia: Most Blair applicants already admitted early know at this point. The rest of Blair acceptance letters will go out with regular decision letters at the end of the month.
March 9th, 2011
received my email yesterday and turns out is a “no” for me..yes i am disappointed but congrats to those who received the scholarships.
March 9th, 2011
I did not receive any email whatsoever. I am afraid I may have emptied the junk folder without realizing it. What can I do?
March 10th, 2011
Jimmer: Call of the Office of Student Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships and they can get you an answer.
March 10th, 2011
For anyone who received a CV scholarship: first off, congratulations, and secondly would you mind anonymously sharing your stats? I would be interested to see what kind of numbers were required this year to get one. Thanks a ton!
March 10th, 2011
My son received an email notification about getting a Dean’s Achievement Scholarship. He did not apply for this and I can find no reference to this scholarship on the Vanderbilt website. Is this a real scholarship offer or is he the victim of a scam email?
March 10th, 2011
Mary: It’s real! Congratulations to your son.
March 11th, 2011
Still no email either way. Checked all junk and spam folders. Nothing. Should everyone have received something by now?
March 11th, 2011
Steve: We finished sending notification emails. Call the Office of Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships with questions.
March 11th, 2011
Wow, this is the 3rd university we have had to call to find out results. Disappointing.
March 11th, 2011
Steve: You should confirm the email address on file with each university. We communicate extensively via email and you want to ensure you’re receiving up-to-date information.
March 11th, 2011
It has been confirmed and we have received all other notifications throughout the process. All spam and junk mail folders have been checked as well.
March 12th, 2011
My daughter also never received any word either way – she is a Blair applicant. She has received other emails from Vanderbilt, and there is nothing in her spam mail folder. Also, I had sent an email to our area admissions rep to make sure they had received her updated (and improved) ACT score from Feb, but never received a response. She is away on a music trip with her school until Tuesday, but I will have her call then to make sure she is in the info loop.
March 13th, 2011
Claudia: I apologize for the inconvenience. You can call our main office line to make sure the February ACT arrived. The Office of Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships can answer any merit scholarship questions you have.
March 12th, 2011
If we were not selected to receive one of the three signature scholarships, when will we be notified regarding other scholarships? Will applicants who did not receive any scholarships still be notified?
March 13th, 2011
T.S. Eliot & Ashley: The process of selecting recipients for other merit-based awards is ongoing. This is particularly true for the Blair School of Music and a number of their merit awards and the Curb Leadership Scholarship.
March 13th, 2011
Have all additional scholarship notifications (for like the curb leadership, etc.) been sent out?
March 14th, 2011
Does the Top Tenn Scholarship apply to the same deadlines? And roughly how many people qualify for it each year?
March 14th, 2011
Branson: That’s a question for the Office of Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships. I’m not certain. Do know that all scholarship notifications will complete by April 1st (so not much longer to wait!).
March 18th, 2011
What if you applied for the Corn. Vand. scholarship and haven’t received either an email or a letter by 3/18/11?
March 19th, 2011
Bill: Call the Office of Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships to get an update.