As suggested all you can do is contact Admissions to get their input. Applications to Vanderbilt have really increased, and its position has risen in the rankings and is considered one of the elite schools in the country. Beautiful campus, livable city, great music scene, good SEC sports with championship baseball team.
LITS I agree with your opinion on Vanderbilt, spent 4 years there and it was outstanding (I think they lowered standards for me then). Nashvegas-city without a subway (though Cumberland Riverboats), Jonesy’s, Loveless Café and Motel, Belle Meade Country Club parties. Have not been back in years and not sure I would recognize it. I raised Vandy with DS but wife said it was way outside the 4 hour radius she set for colleges (claimed she did not really mean it!)
Good luck MichUSNAparent.