<p>Gibson online isnt working on my computer, is that just me or is it happening for anyone else.</p>
<p>I came to this thread to say the same thing too…Gibson online isn’t working for me either. Decisions tonight ha?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if they reviewed and application if Gibson says incomplete? Tulane has all info, except the GC form. They have transcript, ACTs, etc. but the high school is very large w/over 400 per GC to do recs. It can take weeks. Had a priority invite (but maybe many or all of you did). It seems tough that they need that one form. The other recs I have are uploaded in Common Application and not sure if those can be forwarded to Tulane.</p>
<p>The GC won’t send via email, etc. </p>
<p>Just wondering if you are familiar with the process.</p>
<p>i was accepted to tulane with a 22k scholarship.
Now im just wondering if I should bother applying to LEhigh and URochester. Should I?</p>
<p>What are you applying for, engineering?</p>
<p>Site not working for me either.
Hopefully they’re shutting the entire thing down and putting all the acceptances up at once.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>if only… Hey, less than a week till the decisions though!</p>
<p>Cochon-- that was it! Thanks, FC!</p>
<p>Cochon is great. Been to New Orleans twice, gone to Cochon twice. Very good stuff.</p>
<p>playerplayer - Congrats! Maybe you could post your GPA and AP’s taken so far and in progress, and also some idea of your EC’s. I am trying to put together some stats. I saw your SAT’s on the Dartmouth thread.</p>
<p>I think whether or not you apply to those other schools depends on what you are looking for. Collegesgirl is right that if you are looking for engineering Rochester especially might be a better choice, unless it is biomedical in which case Tulane is strong. Complicated stuff, but what it really comes down to is where do you think you fit in best. Have you visited any or all of them? If not, go ahead and apply and try and visit. Stay overnight each place, sit in on some classes. That should give you a better idea of what’s what.</p>
<p>Tulane is my top choice. The urge to refresh the page every 5 minutes has somehow manifested into every 5 seconds and is now bringing some paranoia. I applied early action single decision and nothing on the page says Dec. 15… could this mean my application accidently got put with regular decisions?</p>
<p>The only thing you can do in this situation is call and/or e-mail your personal adcom. You can go to [Tulane</a> Admission: Meet Your Counselor](<a href=“http://admission.tulane.edu/counselors/index.php]Tulane”>http://admission.tulane.edu/counselors/index.php) and there is an easy way there to see who your person is.</p>
<p>How long does it take for the letter to arrive after a decision is posted online?</p>
<p>anyone heard today yet? refreshing every 15 minutes haha</p>
<p>Based on experiences related here, it takes 1-6 weeks to get the letter. The usual seems to be 2-3.</p>
<p>accepted!
(i actually got accepted over a month ago, but i havent been on to see all of this until now)</p>
<p>GPA- 3.4 uw 4.1 w
Rough junior year (grade wise)
630 R 510 M 800 W
IB Canidate, lots of AP/IB classes, lots of sports, lots of clubs/student council type stuff</p>
<p>not so sure about tulane at this point, anyone care to share some helpful advice?</p>
<p>*candidate</p>
<p>You should look through old posts by fallenchemist, he has given a wealth of information.</p>
<p>Gabby is too kind, but I hope you find it useful. I will add that I have recommended other schools many times to people, you just don’t see it on the Tulane threads for obvious reasons, and also because often they are private messages. Anyway, if you can post what you think you are looking for in a school, both academically and non-academically, that is always useful. Examples of the latter are size of school, climate, are sports important and if yes in what way, urban/suburban/rural thoughts, things like that. Otherwise it is just kind of tough to reply to such a large question. Oh, and congrats on being accepted. Another useful piece of info is where else you are applying and which ones of those are your top choices.</p>
<p>Normalcy asked
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<p>I am sure I won’t be telling you anything you don’t already know to say that the environments of the schools are quite different. Big state schools versus medium sized private institution is definitely going to create a completely different feel. Certainly, Berkeley and UCLA are more well known both nationally and internationally than Tulane. UCSD, although it isn’t correct, is often thought of as a lesser satellite campus, while in truth it has some very strong programs. Not that you should worry so much about recognition per se, but it is a difference. At the state schools you are going to have huge classes the first couple of years, maybe even beyond, and there will be a much higher dependence on teaching assistants. One thing for sure, you will get to know more faculty members better at Tulane than the others. Not a knock on the personalities of the profs at the other schools, just a reality based on size. On the other hand, there will be more course choices and certain kinds of resources that only a large school can provide. The dynamism that goes with such a large school is very different, such as on campus offerings and the sports scene. I guess the point is there are hundreds of differences just by the nature of the schools, and without knowing you it is impossible to focus in on features of the schools most relevant to you.</p>
<p>From the point of view of pure academic challenge, I think you will find them similar, especially since you are in the Honors Program. I think your comment about the “private school education” goes more to the class size factors I mentioned above as opposed to any fundamental quality difference. A lot of it is actually driven by the competition from and stimulation by your peers as opposed to the differences in the quality of the faculty. The mid-50% range SAT scores are very similar for Tulane and Berkeley, for example, in CR and Writing, while Berkeley has a lead in math. That’s not surprising since their engineering program is one of the country’s finest. Tulane has somewhat better average SAT scores than UCLA and UCSD, but not so much that it really makes a difference. However, within the Honors Program the average SAT scores at Tulane would be significantly higher than the general population at any of the schools.</p>
<p>Visiting the campus in the spring would be a very, very good idea. They have two weekends in the spring called Honors Weekend. Obviously, only Honors Program students are invited and you stay overnight in the dorm, along with hearing from the HP administration and teachers, and attending some classes. Do that with Tulane and UCLA both (I am assuming you know Berkeley pretty well already since you live around there) and you should have a really good idea of what your first year or two would be like. Just make sure you sit in on classes you might really take as a freshman, not some they select to make the class sizes look smaller than they are likely to be.</p>
<p>No idea if this helped you or not, but if you have other and especially more specific questions, I am sure current students would weigh in on what current campus life is really like.</p>