<p>Stats: Female from California, competitive private school
Decision: Accepted EA
SAT: 2040
GPA: 4.5
Class rank: 10/133
APs/Honors: 16
Lots of ECs (volunteering, xc, track, leadership)
Answered “why Tulane”
4-year Army ROTC scholarship recipient
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<p>@ReginaP @californiagabby Just be honest with them, that you’d like to check your application status and that you are getting nervous because you feel like the only one who hasn’t heard back. If you plan on attending if you get in, that is the time to tell them. It can only help!</p>
<p>I got the Presidential Scholarship! My counselor emailed me today. There was just a mistake in the mailing. </p>
<p>20,000 dollars a year!!</p>
<p>@StagNation </p>
<p>I was sure that was the case. Congratulations. Did they catch the mistake themselves or did you write them first, asking if there might have been an error?</p>
<p>@fallenchemist I wrote them first and they are now resending the package. They were very kind about it, no fuss at all.</p>
<p>Very cool, and very exciting.</p>
<p>@RMKA2013 </p>
<p>I heard back from the head of admissions today. Turns out we were both right and both wrong, although you were more right and I was more wrong :"> </p>
<p>So on the web site those are the stats for admitted students when it comes to test scores, because “usually students on that site are looking to see where they fall for admission purposes”. However, as it turns out, the middle 50% ACT scores for admitted students and for enrolled students are the same! I know, I am surprised as well. The SAT scores, on the other hand, do average higher for admitted students than they average for enrolled students. She didn’t say how much the difference is, but that does fit with our intuition that the gap between the reported middle 50% for enrolled students for each section added together (and the CDS does give the data for enrolled students only) wouldn’t be that far off.</p>
<p>So to recap, the middle 50% for the ACT is indeed 29-32, for both admitted and enrolled. The middle 50% for SAT is 1960-2140, whereas for enrolled students it is somewhere between that and 1870-2120, and I suspect closer to the latter but who knows.</p>
<p>Mystery solved. Also FYI, @Celticfan23.</p>
<p>Accepted today!!!
applied EA
Here are my stats:
Weighted cumulative GPA on 100 point scale (my school does not do unweighted) - 89.5
- relatively strong senior course load: AP Stats, AP Psych, History and English electives, Spanish 5
- SAT 2000: CR-630, M-660, W-710
- strong ECs + work experience
- 2 teacher recs and counselor rec were most likely very strong
- strong essays and supplements
OTHER
State: Maryland
School Type: competitive private school
Gender: Female
submitted my app November 13th </p>
<p>see @emorytulanereach? All that worry for nothing. 
Congrats!</p>
<p>@fallenchemist thank you so much!!</p>
<p>D was accepted last week, letter arrived today. Distinguished Scholar, $27,000 per year, no mention of honors.
3.89/4 unweighted GPA, 31 composite on ACT, school does not rank. Strong community service, good ECs. Submitted application on Nov 3’ without Why Tulane essay. Made her write it and submit it late, around Nov 20 (it was a really great essay). She is multiracial, Asian/Hispanic. We live in Wisconsin. She wants to major in Spanish and public health.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>School/major: Biology</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2340 highest individual, 2380 superscored: 790 CR, 800 W, 790 Math
ACT (breakdown): 34
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math II (750), Chemistry (780)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.67 UW, 4.62 W
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 40/491 UW, 18/491 W
AP (place score in parentheses): World (5), Stats (4), Chem (5), Language and Comp (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Chamber (an audition only competition choir at my school), Honors Civics, AP Psych, AP Calc BC, AP Literature and Comp
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): School Newspaper (Managing Editor), City Musical, NHS, Girl Scouting since 1st grade, Drama Club (Executive)
Job/Work Experience: Synagogue teacher’s assistant twice a week for two hours each for five years
Volunteer/Community Service: Pre-calc tutor at my school once a week for an hour
Summer Activities: Counselor at sleep away camp for 8 weeks, NFTY trip to Israel the year before
Essays: Pretty great, did optional one
Teacher Recommendations: One great, one good
Counselor Rec: I don’t know, but she doesn’t know me at all and she has a hard time with grammar
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 100k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I visited the campus and attended 4 local info sessions.</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: SAT score, interest
Weaknesses: GPA, Extracurriculars
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else you are applying or have already applied: Rice University (feeling kind of down about my prospects now), Wash U, Vanderbilt, Case Western, ASU, UConn, and a few others.
[*]General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: I’m pretty surprised that I got deferred, and kind of disappointed. I love Tulane, and it is my number one target school, with only a few reach schools placing ahead of it. I did submit ON the 15th which was probably bad, but family emergencies made it impossible to submit beforehand. I hope I get in later in the year!</p>
<p>By the way, any advice on strengthening my application so I can get in? I really thought that while my UW GPA was a bit low, it would be saved because i’ve taken nine AP’s and because of my SAT scores. Since that isn’t the case and I can’t make either one of those things better, I don’t know how to make my app stand out in the much more competitive crowd of regular decision.</p>
<p>@kaileemet did you write the why tulane? essay? </p>
<p>@Mark1965 </p>
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<p>These are considered two of Tulane’s strongest areas. Well, Latin American Studies, but obviously that includes a strong presence in Spanish and Portuguese (which appears to be very popular). And there have been other people that have noted that Tulane is one of the only schools that offers a degree in Public Health at the B.Sci. level. The two are strong together as well. Tulane has a lot of public health initiatives in Central and South America.</p>
<p>Tulane’s ties to Latin America go way back. One could write pages about it, but if you are interested look up Samuel Zemurray. He was a fruit industry kingpin that essentially invented the term “banana republic”, the political idiom, not the chain store name it became. He ended up donating generously to Tulane, and his mansion is now the residence for the Tulane president.</p>
<p>Just thought I would throw that out there. Congrats to your D.</p>
<p>@kaileemet </p>
<p>Did you do the Why Tulane essay? Were you able to show any other interest in Tulane, such as attending a local info session? Because it sounds like Tulane did not pick up on their being your “#1 target school”, but instead might have perceived more that you had a number of schools ahead of it on your list. I know you think those others are reach schools, and perhaps they are. Anyway, be that as it may, the only thing you can do is convince Tulane that you are genuinely interested in attending. Your grades from this semester will no doubt be important as well. I suggest that when you have those grades, you make sure they get sent to Tulane and you send an email to your admissions person expressing from a fresh perspective why you want to attend Tulane.</p>
<p>Wow - FC @kaileemet says she visited Tulane, attended 4 info sessions and she did the optional essay (in her write up). I think she just applied way too late. Just my 2cents. She definitely should write her admissions counselor!</p>
<p>@newjersey17 </p>
<p>Yeah, I missed that part where she said she visited/attended info sessions. But where does she say she did the Why Tulane? Oh, I see now: “optional one”. Well, a bit of a mystery then. But as I always say, we don’t see the whole file so who knows. I think waiting for strong first semester grades (hopefully) is always a good idea before writing.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the advice! I really put my all into my essays, and tried to bring a unique personal perspective into the Why Tulane essay instead of just looking up stuff on Wikipedia. But you’re right it probably did hurt me that I couldn’t apply until Nov 15- I wanted to apply by Nov 1 but family obligations just made that impossible. My GPA for the first quarter is a 3.7, but one of my teachers gave the entire class a B and the guidance system is trying to work it out so we get more fair grades- if mine is fixed, I should have a 3.9 first quarter. </p>