<p>Hello, I'm a 17 year old white senior who lives in South Florida.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.73
HPA: 4.17
Rank:87/666</p>
<p>SAT:
Reading-740
Math-560
Writing-580</p>
<p>3 AP classes taken Junior year:
AP Psych-5
AP US History-4
AP Lang/Comp-5</p>
<p>3 AP classes taken Senior year:
AP Economy
AP US Gov
AP Lit/Comp</p>
<p>131 Community Service Hours
Sergeant in Criminal Justice Academy at my high school
Private Writing tutor (Junior Year)
JV/Varsity Rugby (Junior Year) </p>
<p>But you are not in the top 10% of your class.</p>
<p>And your ECs, while OK, are not super great, such as if you were a concert pianist AND captain of the football team. (Some kids on CC have such super human ECs).</p>
<p>They do get a lot of applicants.</p>
<p>And I think that the fact that the schools ranked above Tulane are so hard to get into means that Tulane will be getting even better applicants than before. So it is probably geting tougher and tougher.</p>
<p>My hunch is that you won’t get accepted EA. Even if you don’t get in EA, don’t fret. My brother’s son did not get into Cornell ED, but did later get in RD. </p>
<p>So I would say that while you are definitely not one of their tip top applicants, that you have a chance of getting in towards the back of the pack. And who cares if you are the #1 guy they want, or the #5000 guy they want, as long as you get in. </p>
<p>I would take the SATs again, and try to raise my math SAT to a 600. My son raised his math from a 660 to a 700, with ZERO studying.</p>
<p>You would really be shocked? His SATs are barely in the 25% percentile and that’s a major factor at Tulane.</p>
<p>I would say at this point, you’re around 50/50. If you can get your SAT over 2000, it will do you a lot of good. At that point I’d say, if you apply EA then you’d be up to 75%. 120 points seems like a lot but you’d be surprised how much of a difference another try can make.</p>