<p>Have any of you gotten a personal letter from Tulane stating that you are being invited to apply to their university (for free & without an essay) based on your outstanding academic record and that you will know in 4 weeks concerning acceptance and merit scholarships? Apparently, they have bought names from collegeboard or ACT that have scores on a certain level, which they somewhat indicated. My dd had not even considered Tulane, she is sold out for FSU- but decided why not for fun, since it doesn't cost anything? and applied online Sunday night. We were shocked when she got a personal call from admissions Monday evening thanking her for the app. How many of you have gotten these letters and calls? We're wondering if they're trying to bump up their app numbers maybe as a result of Katrina. It just all makes you wonder a bit.</p>
<p>the top 50% or so at my school have gotten that email (~100 people)</p>