101 reasons to attend Tulane University

<p>If the French Quarter Festival is an annual event, it definitely belongs on the list.</p>

<p>Well, now that you mention it, the French Quarter belongs on the list, even if Bourbon Street is kind of scuzzy. Still pretty unique, and lots of the rest of the Quarter is fun to look at. I’ll research the Festival and make the appropriate additions</p>

<p>I am going to Destination Tulane on Monday. My family has never been to New Orleans and we will arrive Sunday afternoon. Not much time to see anything but I understand the French Quarter Festival is still going on Sunday PM. Assuming we only have time to to a few things is this what you would recommend?</p>

<p>Hmmm, that’s a tough one. If the weather is good walking through the garden district and seeing all the gorgeous homes is nice. But I bet the festival would be a blast too, just crowded. Are your parents staying downtown, or closer to campus? If they are staying downtown anyway, take in the Festival.</p>

<p>[French</a> Quarter Festivals Inc. - New Orleans, Louisiana](<a href=“http://www.fqfi.org/frenchquarterfest/]French”>http://www.fqfi.org/frenchquarterfest/)</p>

<p>jym - that confirms it is an annual event. Why don’t you do the honors and add it to the list?</p>

<p>To Fallen Chemist- I feel the same way about the Mississippi. I had the pleasure of seeing it in St. Louis, St. Paul (Briefly) and most recently Memphis. It is cool to think that it is the same body of water. </p>

<p>I only hope that students at Tulane will take the time to see the beautiful nature we have here: the swamps, the Mississippi, and not spend all their time partying in the Quarter. </p>

<p>Those coming down here now, our strawberries are absolutely awesome right now, so sweet, no need for sugar. I drove down to work in bayou country, in Houma, and they were selling flats of strawberries for 12 bucks.</p>

<p>Montegut - Awesome. Also, those are excellent additions to the list, things within an hour’s drive: Bayous, the old plantations on River Road, real zydeco at a Cajun bar, …any other additions welcome. Hope you don’t mind if I go ahead and do the additions, jym and Montegut. All credit to you for the ideas.</p>

<ol>
<li>Beautiful campus</li>
<li>Big research university resources, smaller LAC-style attention to students</li>
<li>Academic Flexibility – Easy to switch majors and to double major</li>
<li>The pre-professional programs and resources</li>
<li>The quality of your peers</li>
<li>New Orleans (this should be worth like 10 spots, LOL!)</li>
<li>Some of the best food</li>
<li>Very happy students who love being here</li>
<li>Very collaborative atmosphere</li>
<li>Easy access to streetcar (how unique is that?)</li>
<li>Reilly Center is awesome</li>
<li>Professors are more undergrad-focused than other top research universities</li>
<li>Undergrads have limitless research opportunities.</li>
<li>Camellia Grill</li>
<li>Audubon Park across the street (HUGE park with golf course, zoo. etc).</li>
<li>Excellent Honors program</li>
<li>The community service opportunities</li>
<li>The music</li>
<li>Fantastic amount of merit aid, more than I have seen at any top 50 school</li>
<li>Diversity of the student body</li>
<li>The new plaza they are building from McAlister to Newcomb. Should be really nice.</li>
<li>Halloween</li>
<li>School closes for Mardi gras</li>
<li>Jazzfest</li>
<li>Granny Cart Lady</li>
<li>Dean Jean on the Mezzanine (and free donuts)</li>
<li>The Boot</li>
<li>The crepe place</li>
<li>Incredible need-based financial aid (thank you Tulane)</li>
<li>Small school attributes with Division I sports</li>
<li>Voodoo Fest</li>
<li>Bruffs Commons Dining (meal plan) open continuously until 10PM</li>
<li>Great Political Science (for one, Jimmy Carville teaches there)</li>
<li>Hands-on architecture, building houses from planning to completion</li>
<li>One of, if not the best stock trading programs in the South</li>
<li>Caf</li>
</ol>

<p>In doing those latest additions, it reminded me that not that long ago we could have put “mile high pie” at the Pontchartrain Hotel on the list. Unfortunately they are converting it to a residence hotel and the Carribean Room, where the famous desert was served, will only be open to residents. The fortunate thing is that at least it is being preserved. Many famous people stayed there, and Tennessee Williams wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire” while staying there.</p>

<p>Just thought I would throw that in as a fun thing, even if it is no longer eligible for the list.</p>

<p>We may not get to 101 things, but we have done very well! It also really brings out how much of a factor New Orleans is in the Tulane experience. They really got it right when they came up with “Only in New Orleans. Only at Tulane”.</p>

<p>Thanks for updating it, fallenchemist. I have a job for ya. I “borrowed” this list of things a student loved about Tulane from a blog started after Katrina. Can you sift through it and post waht items should be added to your list, and remoce any duplications? CC won’t let us post a link to a blog. I think I found it by typing “what I love about Tulane” in the search engine. The blog was called tulanestudentinfo</p>

<p>It’s value of all types of music
The culture of the “Big Easy”
House of Blues
Audubon Park
100% Humidity
Ms. Mae
Red beans and rice on Monday
Bruff (well, we could probably live without it)
The TIDES program
F&M’s on Thursday
David Lesmond
The greek system
The b-school not having class on Friday
Jambalaya and Gumbo
Potholes
Crawfish boils
Sharp and Monroe
“Party Buses”
50 cent night on Tuesday
The Brennan family restaurants
The same 15 songs playing in the boot
Beau Parent
The library social scene during finals
thefacebook
Broadway
B-school free pizza
Brass bands
The sound of the street car going by
Pregaming
Hearing people say y’all
Dough Bowl pizza
Parades</p>

<p>Hi jym. Good sleuthing. I will do so this evening, eliminating duplicates and things that, IMNSHO, are not unique enough. For example, I would say House of Blues doesn’t belong, but I am open to persuasion by any and all. I love the one about b-school not having class on Friday. Is that still true?? Let me know before I post it, all you current Tulanians.</p>

<p>Also, not sure about the y’all, but it reminds me: How could we have forgotten “Where y’at?”!!!</p>

<p>crawfishhhhhhhhhh</p>

<p>Any updates since then?</p>

<p>I never did have a chance to get back to it, although it is a really good list now. If I have time I will try and go back to the suggestions jym made and add the unique ones, as well as add things like the move to all residential college style dorms.</p>

<p>There’s apparently a push to build a playground of sorts for the students. Sounds kinda fun!</p>

<p>jym, are you a parent of a Tulane student?</p>

<p>yup. DS is a current student</p>

<p>bump just cause I think it should be back in view.</p>

<ol>
<li>Beautiful campus</li>
<li>Big research university resources, smaller LAC-style attention to students</li>
<li>Academic Flexibility – Easy to switch majors and to double major</li>
<li>The pre-professional programs and resources</li>
<li>The quality of your peers</li>
<li>New Orleans (this should be worth like 10 spots, LOL!)</li>
<li>Some of the best food</li>
<li>Very happy students who love being here</li>
<li>Very collaborative atmosphere</li>
<li>Easy access to streetcar (how unique is that?)</li>
<li>Reilly Center is awesome</li>
<li>Professors are more undergrad-focused than other top research universities</li>
<li>Undergrads have limitless research opportunities.</li>
<li>Camellia Grill</li>
<li>Audubon Park across the street (HUGE park with golf course, zoo. etc).</li>
<li>Excellent Honors program</li>
<li>The community service opportunities</li>
<li>The music</li>
<li>Fantastic amount of merit aid, more than I have seen at any top 50 school</li>
<li>Diversity of the student body</li>
<li>The new plaza they are building from McAlister to Newcomb. Should be really nice.</li>
<li>Halloween</li>
<li>School closes for Mardi gras</li>
<li>Jazzfest</li>
<li>Granny Cart Lady</li>
<li>Dean Jean on the Mezzanine (and free donuts)</li>
<li>The Boot</li>
<li>The crepe place</li>
<li>Incredible need-based financial aid (thank you Tulane)</li>
<li>Small school attributes with Division I sports</li>
<li>Voodoo Fest</li>
<li>Bruffs Commons Dining (meal plan) open continuously until 10PM</li>
<li>Great Political Science (for one, Jimmy Carville teaches there)</li>
<li>Hands-on architecture, building houses from planning to completion</li>
<li>One of, if not the best stock trading programs in the South</li>
<li>Caf</li>
</ol>

<p>OMG, lol. # 59 is great! Have you had the pleasure of meeting one? Just curious.</p>

<p>I’m bucking from the list you guys are making, but I thought I’d share my personal decision list. For context, I’m from Boston, would be studying business, and got deferred from Cornell ED (will soon be withdrawing my application).</p>

<p>City:
 Large, culturally rich city with lots going on.
 No snow or cold in the winter.
 Summer months are humid, but won’t be there.
 Far enough from home to have some space, but close enough for a 2 hour direct flight.</p>

<p>Career:
 Average starting salary for business school graduates is $53,000. Cornell’s is only $55,000
 Average mid career salary for entire school is $100,000. Cornell’s is $107,000 for comparison.
 School is nationally known and considered more prestigious than some similar quality schools.</p>

<p>Academics:
 Business school has brand new facilities and buildings.
 Has a large range of major choices and makes double majoring easy.
 Ranked by Financial Times as a top 10 finance school, and Entrepreneur Magazines as a top 20 entrepreneurial school.
 Upward trend of student quality (last year saw highest number of applications, lowest acceptance rate, and most qualified students in university history).</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:
 Tulane often gets put on Princeton Review’s ‘Happiest Students’ list.
 Lots of college students in New Orleans (Tulane, Loyola, Xavier, etc.)
 Week off for Mardis Gras!
 Students strike good balance between work and play (high academic quality, but considered a ‘party school’ too).</p>

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<p>I’ll be visiting in a few weeks, so we’ll see if I get good vibes, but I think I could very easily see myself here in the fall.</p>

<p>ps: Some sad news for the group list/Tulane… The hullabaloo reported last week that #25 has died.</p>

<p>OOOH, sad about Granny Cart Lady. She was an institution.</p>