<p>I used the personal application they sent me, so maybe some advantage in that?</p>
<p>Tennessee
Highly ranked public school
Asian Male
GPA 3.5UW 3.77W 7 AP's I've never taken a CP when an honors or AP was available.
ACT 31 32 superscore (31 First Time, 30 Second time)
Rank: Top 25%
My AP test scores kinda suck. Ive taken 4, the only one Im submitting is a 5 in ENglish
I have a really big upward trend
AS for EC's
250+ Service Hours
Cross Country Varsity Letter, 4 years
Track 3 years
SGA 3 Years (Elected)
Junior Class VP
Mu Alpha Theta(Our math club) STATE Secretary
Mock Trial (Law Club) Captain
Science Bowl Alternate
Science Club 4 years
Environmental Club Board of Advisors
LEO Club(a service club) Board of Directors
Red Cross Club Secretary
NHS/NJHS 4 years
I got an award called "Farragut's best" Farragut is my highschool
Great Essay
My guidance counselor recommendation should be great</p>
<p>That is more borderline I think. You have a lot of strong factors, but might not quite break through to that level. Close call as I see it. Last year I would have said very likely. Unfortunately for you, the applications this year are more numerous and of higher quality than ever.</p>
<p>What if this applicant submitted the Priority Application (paper one), their GC sent it out with a large coffee stain on it, their essay was lackluster, and they haven’t submitted their 32 ACT score until today?</p>
<p>(reason why I’m asking is because my stats are extremely similar to this poster’s, and the above question describes my Tulane App situation. Sorry about thread-jacking)</p>
<p>ROFLMAO…NP thread-jacking, perfectly OK since on point.</p>
<p>Well, the coffee stain will probably tell them you study so hard you drink a lot of coffee, the ACT not being submitted until today should be OK since it is still within deadline (isn’t it?), and the lackluster essay isn’t a great thing, but frankly if your stats are the same as the OP otherwise the essay is not much of an issue. Rumor has it that at a lot of schools (not sure about Tulane) they only look at your essay if you are borderline on stats. Neither of you are borderline on stats. I can believe the rumor, especially at Tulane since apps are 10% ahead of last year, which would put it at 44,000 apps this year, give or take. That would be a lot of reading, I don’t care if they are short.</p>
<p>If we’re talking EA, the due date was 11/15. RD isn’t ain issue, but even if it was EA, no worries. Everyone I’ve spoken to in the admissions office (and mind you, I’ve called many, many times) has been really lax about getting supplemental things in past the deadline. As long as the app was in by 11/15, everything else (including test scores) can be added on later. They’re so swamped right now that it really makes no difference.</p>