Chances for Tulane?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Tulane University
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<p>Stats:</p>

<p>-African-American Female
-SAT: 1830 (1240 cr+m)
-ACT: Haven't gotten a score back...should be around 27
-GPA: 3.53 UW
-School: Private Catholic</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars:</p>

<p>Varsity Cheerleading: co-captain, 3 varsity letters, 4 awards, 60 community service hours.</p>

<p>Red Cross Club: president; first major project is the Measles Initiative - selling pins to raise money to have people vaccinated for measles</p>

<p>SAA Club: leader; organizing a spring break service trip to New Orleans to rebuild houses for Katrina survivors :)</p>

<p>African-American Summit Committee: Chair of Speakers Committee, organized a to-drive for Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. We raised over 50 toys!</p>

<p>Operation Keep Em’ Warm and Fed: Serve breakfast and converse with homeless people on the streets of Tacoma once a month. I also volunteered at charity dinner that benefits this program.</p>

<p>FIF: Student leadership program at school.</p>

<p>Volunteer Service:</p>

<p>Red Cross: Youth Chairman, volunteer for 4 summers, organized a project to make goody bags for deploying soldiers. 300 hours of volunteering.</p>

<p>Service trip to New Orleans. 40 hours of volunteer work. I wrote and published a newspaper article about my service work in my city's newspaper.</p>

<p>During my trip to New Orleans I created a blog so my friends could follow along as I wrote about the events that occurred during my service trip. </p>

<p>Other:
Essays: Unique topic, reveals a very interesting and touching story about my mother. Ties in compassion, the importance of helping others/my inspiration for volunteering, the power of fate, and family values in one cohesive essay. </p>

<p>Recommendations: Good</p>

<p>Grades: Transition from a public middle school to a competitive high school resulted in low grades my freshman years. However, I've had an upward trend and remained consistent in taking honors/AP classes ALL four years of high-school. Even though school was hard for me in the beginning, I still love to learn and wanted to challenge myself by taking rigorous courses.</p>

<p>Future Plans: I want to study Journalism and Pre-med. The ultimate plan is to become an Emergency Room Doctor and write articles about my future service trips to hopefully inspire others to volunteer.</p>

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<p>Since you have already applied (I assume), us telling you your chances isn’t worth too much. You will find out the real answer soon enough. I don’t think it will surprise you when I tell you your stats are at the lower end of Tulane’s profile, but you have the upward trend and strong EC’s. Also you are a URM. This makes it very difficult, for me anyway, to have a really credible opinion. I am afraid you will just have to wait and see. Where else have you applied?</p>

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<p>I just saw your list of schools on another thread.</p>

<p>-Stanford
-Northwestern
-Dartmouth
-USC
-Tulane
-Gonzaga
-University of Washington</p>

<p>I have to say, your screen name is well chosen, lol. But to be serious, you really need to apply to 2 or 3 true safety schools. Since UW is your state school, maybe that is a safety. Also Gonzaga should be a yes. But just to be sure, maybe you should apply to Washington State and a couple others where your stats are in the mid to upper range of the typical freshman class. Stanford, Northwestern, Dartmouth, and USC are very unlikely. Tulane is, as I imply above, a crapshoot. But admissions is a funny game. Just make sure you have a sure yes at a couple of places where you know you would still like to be.</p>

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<p>I am guessing from your information that there is a better than 50-50 chance you attend the same high school that my S, who is a freshman at Tulane, attended. There were 5 students in last year’s graduating class who applied and all were accepted. I believe that my S is the only student from the high school to ever attend Tulane. My impression is that because of where you live, the odds of getting in go up. From the school’s Naviance site, it appears that the average ACT score getting into Tulane has been a 27. Your SAT score is slightly below the average. I would recommend taking the ACT again if your score is a 27. Although your high school may not encourage taking it multiple times, there is no harm and you may find a dramatic improvement in score. My S had a 4 point spread in his ACT scores. You only need to send your highest score. I agree with FC that many of your schools are a reach so choosing a few more is a good idea, especially if you need aid. Good luck!</p>

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<p>The 25-75 spread for the ACT at Tulane is 28-31 or 29-31, I have seen both cited for last year’s class. So I think the Naviance data may be out of date, but the points being made are all still the same.</p>

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<p>I was referring to the data for the high school my S attended which shows an average of 27-28 ACT for the last four years. During that period 8 out of 11 Tulane applicants were admitted, and all 5 who applied last year were admitted. Due to the scarcity of Tulane students from this area, I believe it is a bit easier to get in than it would be from other areas of the country that send lots of students to Tulane. By the way, my younger S took a look at OG92’s activities and is quite sure she attends his high school. OG92, if you decide to visit Tulane, please feel free to private message me and I can put you in touch with my S who attends Tulane. He would be happy to show you around.</p>

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<p>Our school didn’t use Naviance, I don’t think, so I am not very familiar with it. Now I understand. I agree that schools definitely take into account geography and past success of students from that high school, if there is history. Thanks for the clarification.</p>

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<p>For the record, directly from the Admissions website:</p>

<p>Academics: Incoming Freshmen, Fall 2010
SAT, Middle 50%
Composite 1900-2100</p>

<p>ACT, Middle 50%
Composite 29-32</p>

<p>Class Rank
While evaluators do take GPAs into consideration when reading applications, it is hard to compare GPAs across schools. An ‘A’ at one school might not mean the same thing as an ‘A’ at another school. Therefore, we like to use class rank as a comparable statistic. Approximately 60% of the incoming fall 2010 freshmen came from the top 10% of their class, approximately 82% came from the top 20% of their class, and 98% of the freshman came from the top half of their graduating class.</p>

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<p>Oh good, they finally posted that profile. I kept checking but they hadn’t updated from 2009 as of a few weeks ago. Thanks for alerting us kreativekat.</p>