<p>Hey, I was wondering what my chances are...
I am a Caucasian male from an extremely competitive school in the Northeast. (constantly ranked the #2 school in my state)</p>
<p>GPA:
W-3.91
UW- 3.85ish (school doesnt do unweighted GPA)
Rank- top 15% (I have the option of whether or not I want to send my rank)</p>
<p>ACT/SAT/SAT II:
ACT-31
SAT-2090 (750 CR, 610 M, 730 W)
SAT II- 800 U.S. History, taking Biology in October (shooting for 750+)</p>
<p>ECs:
Volunteer EMT for my town's ambulance corps. (I'm on call about 10-12 hours a week) (11th and 12th)
Volunteer at local hospital (2 hours/week for a year) (10th)
Sophomore Vice President of service oriented program for inner-city kid (10th)
Student Government Representative for 3 years (10th, 11th, 12th)
Member of the "principal's cabinet" for 1 year (12th)
Senior Peer Leader and mentor for the freshman class (I met with a group of 13 freshman twice a month and we discuss issues facing high schoolers) (12th)
Part of a sensitivity program that fights racism, sexism, and prejudice by educating middle schoolers (10th)
Played on the freshman baseball team (9th)
Worked with 2 severely handicapped twins (9th) </p>
<p>Summer:
Went on a service trip to Costa Rica and I lived and worked alongside Costa Rican villagers for a month and spoke nothing but Spanish (summer after junior year)
Worked as a camp counselor at a local day camp (summer after sophomore year)
Took summer enrichment classes (summer after freshmen year)</p>
<p>Senior Course Load:
AP Literature and Composition
The Art Experience
Spanish 5 Honors
Peer Leadership
American Mind/American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century Honors
Constitutional Law/AP Government and Politics
Calculus
AP Environmental Science</p>
<p>-I am applying EA to Tulane and was wondering what my chances are of receiving any sort of merit aid-</p>
<p>You're in with at least the 24,000/year scholarship. I got that and I have a lower GPA than you and a 2080 SAT so yeah, there shouldn't be any doubt.</p>
<p>Ditto, assuming there is not contrary information that would disrupt the obvious, i.e. admission and some nice financial assist. While nothing's wrong with TU, you'd seem to be undershooting and wasting this question on Tulane. Ask about Cornell or Dartmouth or Rice.</p>
<p>^^^^^^
Why are there so many tulane bashers on this board???</p>
<p>If Tulane gives the OP 24k in Aid, why wouldnt he go there? It has very good programs, its a reputable school and it would cost him somthing like 15k a year to go there.</p>
<p>Thats a really good deal for such a good education.....</p>
<p>I really like Tulane and while it is not my "first choice" school I would have no problem going there and I know I would have a great experience. Also, I don't see myself "undershooting" by applying to Tulane. Regardless of competitiveness, every school on my list is a school that I like and a school that I would attend. Therefore, while I want a good education, how high the school is ranked on U.S. News and World Report is not THAT important to me. Also, I am looking at schools like Dartmouth, Rice and Cornell. However, I have been told by people on this site that I probably won't get in to these schools anyway.</p>
<p>^^^^
alot of people on this site dont know what they are talking about.</p>
<p>You have a good shot all of those schools you listed, Dartmouth, Rice, and Cornell..........</p>
<p>U.S. News isnt a great representation on schools either, they base there rankings on pointless factors like the size of the endowment....... really i mean you cares if the school has 2billion dollars vs 2.1billion dollars in endowment?</p>
<p>I'm a Tulane fan. It's a fine place, I'm persuaded. Just not close to the Rice, Cornell, Stanford, Dartmouth type places. I suspect the delusion about Tulane's "ranking" (of course, ALL the rankings are essentially tryng to rank order Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Tony Oliva, Harmon Killebrew, Tyler Cobb, Warren Spahn, etc. etc. ... make science of art and thus, if not delusional, illusional) is a function of location. Were it in Philadelphia or Cleveland or Boston, it would be one more ho-hum decent place that for some reason gets flooded every so often. Go figure.</p>
<p>The argument however, makes sense that if one likes the place and gets a bundle of cash to sign, it's a great "value." Now value is something that is a meaningful if extremely difficult notion to get a handle on in discussing college campuses. Most people are not at all interested in value though. They prefer perception of prestige. A lot easier to argue and defend once the decision's been made ... and of course with no real answer, one is never really wrong.</p>