I am a high school student awaiting my results for the Tulane Dean’s Honor Scholarship. I have heard that the school looks at stats rather than the project itself. Is this true?
Yes, that is true, it states it right on the information for the scholarship
“Typical scholarship recipients rank in the top 5 percent of the class, have a rigorous academic program with honors and advanced placement courses, and have an outstanding record of extracurricular activities and score near the top of the range in a college admission test.”
Thank you.
I’m wondering if the quality of the project could outweigh the credentials needed to apply for it.
Not rather than, but before. It takes a certain level of stats for them to even look at the project. I think that is what dolphnlvr6 meant, and it is why they publish the criteria for being competitive. While those stats are not 100% rigid, they aren’t made of putty either. 2000 SAT scores or 30 ACT or 3.5 GPA (unless that last happens to be towards the top at your school) won’t make it past the screening. What the project does is separate the 75 winners from the hundreds that do meet the statistical criteria.
So to answer your next question, @thegladoddity
I feel certain the answer is no. I am sorry to have to tell you that, but I feel sure that is the case.
Thank you. What if you have the highest GPA but your ACT score is on the lower end of the scale?
Hard to say. I imagine it depends on the quality of the competition that year and, most importantly I would think, how far down “lower” is from 33, which is generally the minimum ACT they would be looking for. So a 32? Sure, that would have a chance. But a 31 or less gets very unlikely I think, no matter the GPA. JMHO.
Well that is upsetting. Thanks for your help. May the best ACT score win.
Do you get notified about the DHS and Paul Tulane award even if you didn’t get the scholarship? I applied and don’t know if I’ll hear anything if my app was unsuccessful
Tulane seems to have done a better job of this the last two years. Hopefully they will continue to notify everyone.
@fallenchemist doed Tulane email or send letters to the people who don’t win?
I believe email, but really not so sure on this one. @thegladoddity
@thegladoddity According to an intern from the admissions office, award recipients will get letters in the mail, and those who don’t receive an award will get an email.
Do they send out the UPS next day air packages with the letter and a pleather portfolio for the Paul Tulane and Stamps like they do for the DHS?
The wait is killing me, and I’m not the student! :-SS
LOL. Totally get it, @missbwith2boys . Truth be told, I still have DS’s UPS envelope and pleather binder with the award letter in his closet. The letter is dated Feb 15, 2008!! I keep the envelope for times like these, when I never remember what UPS called their next day air.
BTW, that year they had a typo and said they had received 10,000 applications (oops for the extra zero!) with the award going to the top 50. We thought we had a true genius!! LOL. Then we laughed.
I think it is UPS 2 day, but in any case the answer is yes. I won’t swear the PTA is sent UPS or USPS or FedEx, but I know the package received is the same. Same for Stamps, but of course it comes later since first the candidate has to interview in early March. Those chosen for interviews do not get the DHS package, but instead are notified by both telephone and email the day the DHS packages go out that they are in the running for the Stamps. Then they get the portfolios with either the DHS or the Stamps letters, depending on their result.
You do, and a very nice young man as well.
Thanks, FC. It’s ironic that our Tulane grad kids now live, as the expression goes, spitting distance from each other in the same area in California. I wonder if they have run into each other.
The age old trick is, if you have a UPS account, check to see if you are expecting a delivery from Tulane’s zip code.
Haha very clever!! @jym626