<p>AP Language:4
AP US History:4
AP Psychology: 5</p>
<p>-My essay for the common app was entered in a few contests which my teacher recommended me for; so I think it is safe to say it is pretty good</p>
<p>-My schedule this year consists of 5 AP courses, and I will have four A's and 1 B for my mid-year reports in these classes</p>
<p>-I have taken PreAP and AP Courses throughout high school, almost all, and my GPA is low as a result of 2 C's and a couple B's on my transcript in these advanced classes. </p>
<p>-My high school is highly competitive (everyone says this..but really), to be in top 10% at my school you need a 4.3</p>
<p>-Eagle Scout
-Numerous Competition Awards in FBLA
-4 Years in Marching Band; 4 Years in Theatre
-Community Service Club- 200+ hours since 9th Grade
-AP Scholar Award</p>
<p>I have applied to Tulane early action (nonbinding). I have still not heard back yet. </p>
<p>And does anyone think sending my AP Scores would help? I have sent them to Boston College and NYU, but I am not sure if I want to send more since it is $15 per report.</p>
<p>Sending AP scores does help, but I think you will get in anyway. You seem to meet all the criteria for Tulane pretty solidly. The only thing hurting you a bit is your class rank, but I don’t think that would break you with Tulane at all. Everything else seems good.</p>
<p>does anyone play sports anymore? I look at all of these students extracurriculars and all I see is clubs and community service… thats all great but where are the sports… It’s absolutely shocking to me! I play a sport every season of school!</p>
<p>t9805123 - I understand, but remember that with a lot of schools you don’t know your fate until April 1. I understand that Tulane promised a much earlier decision, and they should meet that promise. But let’s keep it all in perspective, everyone. Look at it another way. I am sure it seems like no time at all you were just starting high school, not to mention starting this school year. Time goes by fast, and before you know it you will moving into a dorm.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard back yet! so frustrating! but I have no idea what these kids do with their time no wonder they can take like 15 aps and have over a 4.0! But that might be the prestigious boarding school kid coming out of me where that type of GPA is basically impossible and completely unrealistic the smartest student in my entire school has a 4.2 or something which is unheard of!..</p>
<p>@fallenchemist hs has surely been long enough… I already live in a dorm and half for over two years so I’m happy to move on</p>
<p>mm boarding school. That’s interesting. So is Tulane your first choice? Yeah I mean it sort of sucks since the school you come from makes somewhat of a difference. I go to an average-sized high school in suburbia. None of my friends even know where Tulane is.</p>
<p>yeah going to my school does give me a boost but its a lot harder than an normal public high school… anyway USC is my first choice and Tulane is second right now tied with university of miami… I’m literally going crazy I feel like I’m going to go a-wal any second now, I check it every hour! It’s so hard to work right now!</p>
<p>haha. That’s too funny. Well I’m sure you’ll be fine. I mean, you play sports so you’re like a rare commodity from the sounds of it. You’ll hear from them when you least expect it. And then you’ll go a-wal again.</p>
<p>mongoose:
you are lucky to be able to play sports every season. I wish I could…in our school district it is nearly impossible to play more than one sport, I know a couple kids who could juggle two freshmen year, but that was because classes were easier and freshmen teams require less dedication. I played tennis for 2 years, but I just didnt include it on here.</p>
<p>I highly disagree. Playing on a team and making that commitment is far more rewarding and beneficial to your character then going to a soup kitchen for some hours… I think you are largely mistaken and believe it would be naive for anyone to truly believe that.</p>
Really? Some schools provide the percentage of varsity athletes enrolled. Even at a Div. III school such as UChicago 43% of the class of 2013 were varsity athletes. Colleges tend to highly value athletic participation.</p>
<p>Calm down boys. Especially since you are both wrong. Rh, mongoose is right as far as playing on a team, even if you are not going to go on in that sport to play varsity in college. It can be a tremendous character building experience, teach valuable lessons in teamwork, and build friendships that last a lifetime. Universities absolutely recognize this as a factor to be considered. Even if you are 3rd string on the high school football team for 4 years, you still have to make the committment to practice as much as the stars, play your role, and be ready if you have to step up at a critical time.</p>
<p>However, mongoose, you go too far with the soup kitchen remark. To a large degree it is apples and oranges anyway. Clearly the decision to contribute to those less fortunate and try to make their lives better can take just as many hours as a decision to play sports, and many would argue it is far more valuable. I don’t agree with the last, because again they are too different to make that value judgement. But it is ironic you would make that statement on a Tulane thread, given that Tulane is hugely about helping in the “soup kitchen” of New Orleans.</p>
<p>Some kids will never be athletes and will never experience that directly. Others choose not to even though they have the capability because they find helping others to learn to read or to build a home more rewarding. It is a choice that is right for the athlete in one case and the volunteer in the other. Both are good for the student and the community, just in very different ways.</p>
<p>I think one of the most important things the Admissions Office learns from sports is the applicant’s propensity to stick with something. It’s more impressive to read that an applicant put 4 years into cross-country (even if they suck at it), with the corresponding investment of time and effort, than it is to see they tried 4 different activities and quit each one.</p>
<p>It’s like the Eagle Scout badge in Boy Scouts, it’s not the fact that the applicant can start a fire by rubbing sticks together that’s impressive, it’s the fact that they were engaged enough to actually keep working at it until they met all the requirements that matters.</p>
<p>I suspect that Tulane is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to sports. I would think they have a devil of a time recruiting people who can seriously compete at the Division I level, and they probably lose quite a few less talented athletes to smaller schools where those people actually have a shot at competing in a less competitive environment.</p>
I think well both be okay in the end!</p>