<p>The fact that you have not been updated doesn’t really tell you anything one way or the other. As Jeff said, some decisions won’t come until the very end. You can never compare yourself to another applicant. There are so many factors in the decision Tulane makes, that even two students with identical stats can get very different outcomes. Just hang in there, you will know soon.</p>
<p>Well we finally have a decision of sorts - my D was wait listed. She doesn’t know yet. No word on her PTA application, but I guess that it is likely DOA. </p>
<p>I just read Jeff Schiffman’s blog post (who is my D’s admissions officer by the way). I know my D still is extremely interested in Tulane and has sent Jeff multiple emails stating this fact, but the logistics are getting really tough. Assume a spot opens up for her and we are given the good news in mid May (unrealistic as I expect any good news would come near June 1), We have never been to the school and would definitely need to visit before making a decision to cancel on a school and switch to Tulane. It’s not practical to visit NOLA before May 15th both due to the cost and the fact that my D needs to spend her Spring Break visiting schools that showed enough interest to admit her. Yes, after all this time a little bitterness has crept in. Booking flights from the West Coast with no notice would cost a fortune. Even is we dropped everything and spent $3,000 to come out and visit, I’m not sure my D could get a good feel for the school. She would not be attending any special weekend. She would just be a California girl showing up on campus with one parent during a regular school day with no scheduled activities or events. She would have no ability to meet any of her potential classmates either. </p>
<p>Oh, just thought of something else. My D is very interested in Tulane’s honors program, but then again seeing as she was deferred then wait listed I am guessing her 4.3 GPA, 7 APs, 800 Math SAT II, and 35 ACT composite score, why Tulane essay, and PTA application are probably not good enough for the honors program. Sorry, will try and make that my last sarcastic comment.</p>
<p>I’m sure my D will want to stay on the waitlist and hope for the best. Who knows, someone always ends up winning the lottery. Why not her?</p>
<p>@rowerva I agree with your post completely. </p>
<p>@fallenchemist Thank you again for all of your advice. When this is all done I will be writing a letter to Faye Tydlaska. I own a market research company that specializes in customer satisfaction research. As I rule I like to give feedback to service companies when they do a good job, or, in this case when there is room for improvement. </p>
<p>Signing off, it is past 1 am my time and I need a break from this. Congrats to all who got better news then we did and good luck to the others.</p>
<p>Waitlisted as well. No response to the last three emails or word on the PTA/DHS, but I will be accepting a spot on the waitlist to see how it goes. Per Jeff’s blog (which has been extremely helpful), I have deposited at another university to ensure that I have a spot where I’d be happy. I was hoping for a definite “no” from Tulane, but alas I’m planning to ride the process all the way through at this point on the waitlist. </p>
<p>Congrats to anyone admitted after a deferral, and major congrats to everyone involved for making it through the process in one piece! </p>
<p>@socaldad14 I’ve been following your posts as I feel that everything you write, could be me writing them. And lo and behold, we are still in the same boat! Like you, we are also from So Cal. My son has been blessed getting into great schools and we are happy and proud. But we have this nagging feeling looming over us because Tulane still remains his first choice and are in limbo until we hear a definite answer from Tulane. We are also taking our spring break to visit the schools that have accepted him. Like you, we also fret that if he were to get that acceptance email in mid-late May, we would have to fly out to NOLA at the last minute and am afraid that experience won’t be a positive one. There won’t be the welcoming mat for us and no special orientation. We actually thought about adding Tulane on our college visit, but it seems that might just add salt to the wound. I guess my biggest regret with all this, is that we should have gone to visit Tulane months ago. I think that would have eased a lot of my angst. Who knows we may be flying out with our kids on the same plane sometime… </p>
<p>My son will stay on the waitlist and will (if he hasn’t already) send Jeff (yet another) email. Good luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>@calimom02 - I agree with you completely and am sorry your son is also in our same boat. You wrote " I guess my biggest regret with all this, is that we should have gone to visit Tulane months ago." I think you hit the nail on the head. We have two family friends who attended Tulane many years ago. They both have college age children now and were shocked that my D was deferred than waitlisted. Then one said “I bet you never visited campus. Tulane looks down upon applicants who haven’t visited”. I found this shocking given that Tulane states they know campus visits may not be feasible for those, like us, who live far away. I suspect fallenchemist may chime in to re-iterate that campus visits are not mandatory. My D has a classmate who was admitted with merit aid despite a lower GPA and test scores. The student did, however, visit Tulane before applying. I suspect your son and my D would have benefited from a pre-application visit.</p>
<p>My D will also ask to stay on the waitlist as Tulane remains at the top of her list. Congrats on your son’s acceptances and good luck on your visits. Maybe we will meet on a plane ride east.</p>
<p>Question for all the others in our boat - did you ever visit the campus?</p>
<p>My son was accepted EA …We visited several times, officially and unofficially. We vacation in New Orleans a lot and the Tulane campus was always a stop, especially once our son started becoming interested in attending there. We also attended the Tulane in your Town events when he was a Junior (although they were several hours away) and he kept in touch with his admission rep regularly since that event. He also started following faculty from his intended major on Twitter and “liked” various Tulane pages on facebook and followed them on twitter- including the Admissions accounts. </p>
<p>Campus visits have an impact, but I can assure you that admissions considers attending a local event equal to a campus visit. I can also assure you that quite a few people that got accepted early or got accepted after being deferred never visited campus.</p>
<p>It neither my job nor my desire to defend or rationalize admissions decisions. I don’t understand them sometimes either, but that is because we can only see the minimum of what an applicant represents to Tulane. It isn’t just about stats and interest, although these are important. They are looking at many factors when putting together a class, and the rest of the applications that are in the pool have a lot to do with it. That is something none of us can know and the applicant has zero control over. They (Tulane) say it all the time, and true as it is, accepting it is a whole 'nuther thing. And then of course there is the unassailable fact that Tulane wants a class size of about 1500 and there are far more than 1500 highly qualified people that want those slots. It is just a frustrating fact that these schools are called highly selective for a reason, or in a dozen or so cases “most selective”.</p>
<p>None of this is to say that there don’t seem to be some cases where communication was lacking or broke down in some way. That’s a separate but contributing fact to the frustration. But to try and determine why Student A got in early, Student B got it after being deferred, Student C got wait listed and Student D got denied even though all 4 seemed to have reasonably similar stats is an exercise in futility.</p>
<p>If I am accepted, waitlisted, or denied from being deferred should I be expecting an email or is it just posted on Gibson?</p>
<p>I think it is only on Gibson unless you are accepted. Then you will get a paper letter as well. I am not sure if Tulane still sends out letters for people that are denied admission. If anyone that got denied is still reading this forum, they can tell us.</p>
<p>My D was deferred then waitlisted and she received a letter. </p>
<p>OK, I stand corrected. I guess they send a letter out no matter the decision.</p>
<p>No, I think that they only send letters for acceptances, deferrals, and waitlists, but not rejections. I never got a letter from the school that rejected me ED (the only rejection I have- probably only for two more hours).</p>
<p>Hmmm, we will see. Most schools send letters when a student is denied. They even have a thread for the best and worst letters. Some are so bad they would be funny if the topic wasn’t so serious.</p>
<p>@fallenchemist thanks for your insight. You have been so helpful. I know you can’t technically help with this answer but I would love to know what you would do if you were in our shoes. Starting this weekend, we will visit our son’s three schools that he received offers from and were his second choice schools. We have gone back and forth whether we should add Tulane on this visit, just in case we get the acceptance (we’re optimistic!). Our biggest concern is that we think our son should concentrate only on his three schools. But we look at it in two ways, if we get the acceptance, we don’t have to rush down to NOLA, we would have already visited the school and we would let his admissions counselor know that we are serious in accepting the offer. Or, at this point, all is too late. Just wait and see what happens, and if he were lucky enough to get that acceptance we’ll cross that bridge then.</p>
<p>I would include Tulane on the visit. Shows demonstrated interest, can’t hurt! Also gives your son a chance to see if it is a good fit for him. Maybe he won’t like it as much in person? Maybe he won’t like New Orleans? At least it won’t be this fantasy school and he can realistically compare it to the other schools. </p>
<p>I agree with dolphnlvr. At this stage of the process, leave no stone unturned. If he loves it, then he can talk to the admissions officer and tell them he has been to visit all these other schools and Tulane is the one he wants. If he sees another school he decides he likes as well or better, and he is already accepted there, then he has that peace of mind. Even if seeing Tulane gets his hopes up and it doesn’t work out, at least he know he gave it his best shot.</p>
<p>I know those college visit marathons can be exhausting, but it’s the last push. And at least he will see it while school is in session. Go for it.</p>
<p>@fallenchemist</p>
<p>It was Duke, but they posted the whole rejection on the portal. I was rejected by Wharton today, so we will see if they send me one (but the full letter was also on the portal).</p>
<p>I was told my final decision will likely come out before May 1st (last week of April to be exact) but they also said nothing’s guaranteed until June 1st. I was also told it’s a “very short list of students to be considered”. I’m wondering how many are there on Tulane’s waitlist this year. It looks like a lot of us on here though. I’m hoping they are in a position to admit a lot more kids this year. I’m just in love with the school </p>
<p>@alex17895 - Hi. It is impossible to know how many they put on the wait list until they report it after the fact, but remember that only some percentage decide to stay on the wait list. It varies, but the last three years it appears to be fairly close to 25% each year. So perhaps only 1 out of every 4 people that have reported being wait listed will actually be there come April 1 or so. Hard to say, CC posters are not a random sample.</p>
<p>I wish you very good luck. Be sure to stay in touch with your admissions counselor, letting them know you are still highly interested.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. Going back to another conversation earlier in the thread, I sent my admissions counselor an email last month reiterating that Tulane is my top choice and adding in some extracurricular I have started this year. I got the automated reply that it was Mardi Gras and they would get back to me later, however, I never received a reply. Should I assume my admissions counselor read the email and took into account the extracurricular changes, or do you think they never read the email? I guess it’s too late now to resend it. </p>