If you want more info on anything mentioned in those posts, ask away! But definitely take the streetcar from end to end if you can. I think it is one of the best ways to get a feel for what the kids have access to in the immediate area plus downtown, especially if you hop off the streetcar around the Camillia Grill and walk back along Oak and Maple Streets, and then take the time later to check out Audubon Park and Magazine Street. With a couple of exceptions like City Park, that will give everyone an excellent sense of 90+% of the kinds of off-campus “stuff” there is for the students. That’s assuming that you were going to take in the French Quarter and Frenchman Street anyway.
Congrats on the acceptance and scholarship. But it is an Honors Program, not a separate Honors College. The distinction is actually quite important. There is much less difference between the students in the Honors Program at Tulane and the rest of the student population, and there really are not that many honors courses. And if you do see honors courses or honors sections of certain courses that interest you, you are actually free to register for those. You won’t get preference, but they rarely fill up, actually.
So no, you are not eligible to be in the Honors Program as you start at Tulane, should you decide to go there, but with a 3.6 your first year you can get in. Best of luck as you make your decision.
School/major: Undeclared Liberal Arts
SAT I (breakdown): 2170 (790W, 720CR, 660M)
ACT (breakdown): never took it
SAT II (place score in parentheses): 750 (USHistory) 700 (Literature
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 uw, 4.19 w
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parentheses): Euro (5) English (5) APUSH (4) APES (4)
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Spanish, AP Stats, AP Lit, Leadership, Physics, AP Gov/Econ, Adv Dance
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
Received Presidential Scholarship ($32,000/year) and invitation to honors program
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Dance (jazz, tap, ballet inside/outside of school); Cello (private lessons and member of local youth orchestra); Theater (several productions throughout high school); Leadership/student council; swim team and cheer team (freshman/sophomore year only)
Job/Work Experience: Lifeguarding (1 summer); barista at local coffee shop (summer/school year)
Volunteer/Community Service: almost none…Rotary INTERACT club at school (community service club) but that’s really it
Summer Activities: working 2 jobs during the summer
Essays: pretty good
Teacher Recommendations: they weren’t ready yet when I applied, so I didn’t send them
Counselor Rec: good I hope
Additional Rec:
Interview: none
Other
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: mid-size public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: F
Income Bracket: $100K plus
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: GPA, personal essay showed a lot of thought and personality, focused non-academic extracurriculars
Weaknesses: almost no community service, didn’t spend that long on the “why tulane” essay
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: strong academic record; my sister and cousin currently go there as well so I think that helped
Where else you are applying or have already applied: lots of schools…still waiting to hear back before I make my decision about tulane!!
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: working hard all throughout high school definitely paid off, I’m really honored to have gotten such a large scholarship!
Congrats on the acceptance and the Presidential! It does sound like you worked hard in high school. Best of luck with your applications to other schools, I truly hope you get the choices that are best for you. I have no doubt Tulane would be lucky to have you. That would really start making it a family school, wouldn’t it!
Does anyone know when the deferred EA applicants hear back? Is it a definite date or is it around a certain time period when I will hear? I recently emailed my regional recruiter expressing interest and I mailed the admissions office a letter in December showing my interest but never heard back.
No definite date. Just the April 1 deadline. There will probably be sporadic acceptances before that, but nothing that can help you know that you will hear back before that.
There is no relationship between your receiving your acceptance now with the Presidential and your chances for getting the DHS. Those are separate processes. In other words, the Presidential is the highest award you can receive with your acceptance letter. You will find out about the DHS separately.
That’s certainnly true, FC, but I hvae to wonder if the DHS selections were made by the committee in advance of the candidates who were just admitted from the deferred list. Hard to know how the Paul Tulane and Stamps are affecting this process…
Is this based on an anticipated 2/20 delivery date, or is there some more info lurking there?