Not dismissive, if the higher stats kids are often putting this school down as an afterthought, the expectation of a personal application experience is a bit much. It is a game of numbers at either end.
@Alfonsia
OK, I think I misinterpreted your post. Certainly I agree that anyone that only spent 15 minutes on the application, or anything similar to that in spirit, should not expect a great result.
I think a lot of people don’t understand the whole marketing angle. I don’t have any inside information but I remember reading an article from a few years ago that Tulane (among many other reputable institutions) outsource parts of their marketing/recruitment to companies that specialize in this. Those companies will then send out those “free” ( I always chuckle when someone says Tulane sent them a free app, it’s always free) and start the wooing. A particular SAT score will trigger the start of this process. So it;s not so much the person but the numbers they are recruiting. And, it’s NOT just Tulane, this is college marketing. I wish I could find the article. It was pretty interesting.
Found out I was rejected today, and I’m kind of surprised to be honest. I got into two of my reaches and was rejected from a match. Honestly, Tulane was making me insanely angry anyhow because I applied EA, they lost my secondary school report (which my GC reported 2 months ago), and I just now found out, so I’m pretty apathetic about my decision. And yes, I was sent a free app. I don’t think I showed enough interest.
@bookaddiiict
But let’s face it, the lead story here is that you got into two of your reaches!! That is great, congratulations. Have you made a choice yet?
@fallenchemist I’m still waiting on a couple more! But I can’t be bitter about Tulane. I wouldn’t have gone there, so that spot definitely should have gone to someone else. Right now, I’m heavily leaning towards Pomona College because it’s perfect in just about every way I can imagine.
@bookaddiiict
Perfect. That’s just how you should feel about where you attend college. Best of luck.
As much as I didn’t want to face this situation, I took myself off Tulane’s waitlist. I don’t want to have to regret enrolling somewhere else before I heard back from Tulane if I got accepted and I don’t want to be apart of a percentage of applicants who were rejected.
Best of luck!
Now that the dust has settled and my D’s results are all in, I thought I’d chime in. @fallenchemist has been dead on with advice and insight into the Tulane selection process. I wish all schools on CC had someone as helpful. My D was enticed by Tulane’s emails to apply EA, and it was admittedly as a safety. If not for the emails and 0 application fee, she would not have applied. She has stellar stats, but you never know going into this process where you will end up, and together with Tulane’s reputation and the appeal of generous merit aid, it was enticing and she bit. She showed interest, but she was deferred. On RD, she was waitlisted. Realistically, Tulane calculated that this was a safety for her, and it turned out to be the only school that waitlisted her. She was admitted to all her top choices.
The only bit of advice I offer to those with high stats and aren’t fully vested in attending Tulane if accepted: don’t bother applying unless it is a top choice for you.
D will remove herself from the waitlist. Best of luck to all who were admitted, and for those on the waitlist. It is a terrific school, and you have boundless futures ahead of you.
D was deferred and we are awaiting a decision. Is it strange that we still don’t have a decision or is that par for the course. We would love a yes with merit aid. Can we still even get merit aid at this point? That’s the only way my d could attend.
@NJProParent
Thanks for the kind reference. I am so glad your daughter got such outstanding results. Does she have a first choice yet?
@NJProParent and @fallenchemist
That is exactly why we decided not to apply to Tulane. My son was not really that crazy about the school and we were viewing it more as a good opportunity to try for merit aid. Realizing that they really want to see a lot of sincere interest, we decided not to apply there and put our efforts instead into the University of Miami, which also has merit aid, but is a much better match for him overall. Still waiting to hear the final word back from them, but he’s got a few other affordable offers from great schools, so he is in good shape in any case.
Congratulations on your daughter’s offers! Sounds like she will end up at a great school! 
Choose one:
Decision: Rejected
**Date applied: **11/25/2014
**Date decision postmarked/received:**3/26/2015 checked on portal
Which school/major at Tulane : Business
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):Didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 34
SAT II (place score in parentheses):Didn’t submit Had Math 2 780, Chinese 780, Literature 740, Biology E 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.82
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 28/350
AP (place score in parentheses): Lang(5) Chem(3) APUSH(4) Calc AB(5) Bio(5) Didn’t submit either. I cheaped out.
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Econ, APES, Ceramics.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Obtained first place state award in art contest. Won numerous aca deca regional gold medals.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Published in a national medical journal regarding diabetic medicine as co-author, formerly nationally ranked swimmer-competed junior olympic time trials, state team, stopped swimming sophomore year because of arm injury, picked up tennis-won D2 Section title,
President of Academic Decathlon, President and founder of Red Cross Club,
Job/Work Experience: Biomedical research at local pharmacy school, medical intern at local clinic
Volunteer/Community Service:600+ hours as dementia aid, 400+ as Sunday School teacher. Started both in 7th grade. Kept both up till now.
Summer Activities: Sat around twiddling my thumbs as a lifeguard.
Essays:. Talked about livers and how they fail and can regain function and how we need to do something similar.
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):: No idea.
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details):: No idea. I never really even talked to her, so it must have been generic.
Additional Rec (rating 1-10, details)::
Interview: N/A
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Nope
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant) USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:>300k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nada, no longer possible for me to be a recruited athlete, except maybe at a D3.
Reflection
Strengths: Maybe my ECs.
Weaknesses: GPA. Definitely GPA. Should’ve focused more in school.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: No idea.
Where else you are applying or have already applied: Accepted: University of Austin Texas Petroleum, Texas A&M Petroleum, UNC Chapel Hill Public Health, UOP Five year Pharm, USC, University of Iowa full ride and a few more.
Waitlisted: Colorado School of Mines, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Notre Dame
Rejected: UPenn, Duke, UCLA, Tulane.
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: Funny thing is they sent me a free application first. Who would’ve guessed?
@chris17mom - you made a smart move, and good luck with Miami. @fallenchemist, I think she’s got it down to 5 
@NJProParent
Oh my, April should be fun X(