<p>I was deferred from EA with a 3.56/2120. Tulane remains my first choice school. Now that mid-year grades are available, I know I should send them down. Other than that, is there anything else I can do to improve my chances for RD? Or do I just have to sit tight and hope to be admitted?</p>
<p>I assumed the 3.56 was UW, but can you confirm or correct that? I looked at your other postings and you never said, at least from what I found. Anyway, of course send your first semester grades if they show an improvement compared to your overall record, and let them know you are very interested in Tulane. However, you have to be sincere. You say here Tulane is your first choice, but you said on the Fordham threads that Fordham was your first choice. I am not trying to give you a hard time, you might have changed your mind since the Fordham posting. Just saying that these people can smell insincerity, so just be yourself.</p>
<p>I’d be surprised if that GPA is unweighted. DS was admitted with an unweighted GPA around that and SAT scores a bit higher. Average UW GPA is 3.49 and your SAT is about the 75th percentile.</p>
<p>You stated in a September post that your GPA was UW, but also that your class rank was 25-30%. Maybe that was what raised eyebrows.</p>
<p>Ah yes, thanks AVHS Dad. Now I see that post. Even with the rather low class rank, I am rather surprised that she was deferred, but then again from what I am seeing other students report I can only conclude this year’s applicants are even stronger than before. Still, I like her chances overall unless there is something we cannot see, such as a poor essay or lackluster letters of rec. That’s the problem with CC of course, we just cannot see the whole picture for an individual student nor can we see the entire applicant pool. Add to that the fact that we cannot know the mindset of any school’s admission committee that year, and it is no wonder we get surprised sometimes. In fact, what is amazing is how often we nail it.</p>
<p>Probably it would be better to not do “chancing”, but as long as everyone realizes it is more of a psychological pallitive than a factual exercise, I suppose no harm done. I am guilty from time to time also, of course. But CC is really much better, I think, for just talking things through, giving people a feeling for different schools, correcting misperceptions, and of course helping with the mechanics. Oh, and for Tulane, recommending great restaurants.</p>
<p>I’ll give an outsider’s take on this; the OP is from a very over-represented area for Tulane…it is possible just possible, that Tulane wants to see how many kids who have already been accepted from LI decide to attend…
given that the OP did not apply SCEA, not sure Tulane could know that it’s her first choice; may be worth a call from the guidance counselor to snoop around, especially if she is a full pay/non-FA applicant…</p>
<p>just my opinion, though, and fallenchemist, thanks for the restaurant recs all the time!!</p>
<p>Ah, my pleasure rodney. Nothing like going from a simple oyster Po’ Boy to an elegant Creole meal all in the same day. I love NOLA for that and many other things. My W and D are recent converts to oyster Po’ Boys.</p>
<p>Your point about LI and admissions is well taken. This is one of those situations to which I was referring, there is not way we can know what admissions is seeing or thinking. But given that Tulane is SO poplar with kids from that area your hypothesis seems quite credible. And if it is correct, your plan of action would be strategically and tactically spot on. Good call!</p>
<p>Fallenchemist - Fordham was, at one point, my first choice. That has since changed. They say that when you know, you know. When I stepped on Tulane’s campus, I just knew…</p>
<p>As far as GPA goes, it is UW. The weighting system at my school is so complex (and frankly, ridiculous) that I wouldn’t even be able to tell you my weighted GPA. Ranking is also UW, unfortunately. This is perhaps the biggest issue I have with my high school. I have been on an accelerated curriculum all throughout my education and have taken the most difficult courses possible; I’ll graduate with 9 AP’s. I have a 3.56 and am ranked top 25% in the most challenging curriculum. Still, there are students who have a 4.0 taking the easiest classes possible and are ranked top 5%. AP weighting does not make much of a difference in ranking. </p>
<p>This is all pretty difficult (if not impossible) to determine from reading my transcript. I’d hope that my GC would touch on it in her letter, but unfortunately, she’s totally unreliable. She may actually be terminated at the end of the year because of all of the trouble she’s caused students with applications. For that reason, I don’t think her calling the admissions office would be of much benefit to me. </p>
<p>As for “hidden” variables… I’m applying as an English major, so I figured that my essays should really be up to par. I’ve had them critiqued by two English teachers and a published author, all of whom thought they were great. I even sent along extras. I’ve read my recommendations (barring the one from my GC, but it is probably a form letter anyway) and they range from above average to excellent, so I was not worried on that front. EC’s are great, as far as I’ve been told. The only other variable I can think of would be that my language/humanities grades are much higher than my math/science grades. But my AP scores, SATs, and interests reflect that, so I was told that it shouldn’t be too much of an issue.</p>
<p>I know that LI is HIGHLY represented, but it seems that hardly anyone from my school has ever heard of Tulane. FWIW, the only other person who applied from my school had similar stats and was also deferred.</p>
<p>OK, I think you are in pretty good shape then. Thanks for clearing those points up. And yet another student impressed by their visit. Why Tulane doesn’t follow Wash U’s lead and pay for top students to come down and visit is beyond me. Time after time students decide on Tulane after the campus visit, often when they were not seriously considering it. Oh well, that’s for another thread.</p>
<p>nervoussenior: you hit on a point that needs to be addressed; if no-one at your school has heard of Tulane, and the other person was also deferred it is highly possible that Tulane doesn’t KNOW your school; no track record…unfortunately, it is the job of your GC to educate them, and yes, he/she should call down to Tulane and let them know it is your first choice; that is why they are paid the “big bucks” (well, not exactly, but it is their job)…just curious, did you have a school profile sent with your transcript? did it explain the GPA situation/class rank?</p>
<p>I was deferred from ea at tulane as a business major with a uw gpa of 3.45 and a 1260 (680 math and 580 crit reading) also a 650 on the sat 2’s on math 1. I am top 25% in my class but im pretty sure that the other six kids that applied to tulane from my high school were in the top 5% :(. I have good ec’s and a really good essay. After deferred, I sent in a one page letter explaining that tulane is without a doubt my top choice. I also sent my first quarter grades which were all basically A’s besides a C in AP Calc and a B+ in AP Macro.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the numbers of the amount of deferred students accepted and/or waitlisted? And the % of students accepted from the waitlist? Has anyone heard back that was been deferred from early action? Does anyone have a better idea of what chance i have cause i have no idea.</p>
<p>Yes, Tulanefanatic, I’d love to know that too. DS was deferred with lower than average initial grades but great upward trend, recs, ecs, and ACTs. He’s kept up with his admissions contact, and emphasized that Tulane is top choice. Maybe Fallenchemist has this info?</p>
<p>I don’t, sorry. Wish I could help. I think you are doing everything you can by staying in close contact with the admit counselor, but they are also in a tough position of having to wait and see what the acceptance rate is likely to look like. Not pleasant for anyone in that sense.</p>
<p>DS was deferred from EA, too. Also has upward trend since freshman year, good recs, ECs, but does’t test well so SATs are middling. School has a good track record with Tulane, they send someone to the school and DS attended the meeting. I know several kids from other schools (NY and MA) who were admitted EA but Tulane is not their first choice. But question is this: why do they defer someone from EA but then accept others who applied RD without either admitting or rejecting the EA kids. At this point, it’s better to know either way IMHO.</p>
<p>Yes, admissions is in a tough position waiting to see acceptance rate - but they don’t really know that till close to May 1, right, after accepted students see all their options?</p>
<p>how do you guys know you were deferred?</p>
<p>Z - My son applied EA, and I believe he got a letter saying he was deferred to RD, after the EA notification deadline passed on Dec. 15</p>
<p>hgebs - They don’t have the final tallies until May 1, but they have a very good idea by early to mid April how things are shaping up and usually start making offers to the waitlisted people then.</p>
<p>Fallenchemist: you said “waitlisted”, did you mean deferred? Or are the deferred kids, for all practical purposes, the same as waitlisted?</p>
<p>Deferred shouldn’t be the same as Waitlisted.
My guess is that those EA applicants deferred to RD, and any other RD’s that have not yet heard, will find out at the “official” notification date of 04/01/10. It’s just a guess but makes sense to me.</p>