<p>For parents of present students- how important is pre-acceptance visit in your opinion?</p>
<p>Well my general feeling is that if you have been on one college tour you have been on them all. However if you think your kid might be on the bubble - Tulane is taking less than 50% of applicants right now - then demonstrated interest is probably very much a plus right now. Admissions get a pretty high caliber student but their yield - % of accepted student who matriculate is nowhere near where they would like it to be. The reasons for the relatively low yield are many and varied and include geographic isolation (more kids come from more than 500 miles away than at any other school in the country), reputation as a party school, fear of crime in a large city, and the fact that many if not most of their accepted students also manage to get into schools 10 or 20 slots higher on the US News and World Report rankings.</p>
<p>Anyway the school has its acceptence rate about where it wants it but would really like to up the yield so if you are otherwise qualified demonstrated interest will probably get you accepted. Of course any time is a good time to visit the Big Easy.</p>
<p>i know of more students that did not visit and were accepted, than did visit. Tulane is one school that if you apply EA and have the grades and scores, you will be accepted. Most of the kids from here apply to Tulane as a safety; although, after receiving scholarships many decide to attend.</p>
<p>Yeah if you are a bright kid with good test scores and parents who are not wealthy Tulane with merit money can look a lot better than WUSTL or Vanderbilt or Tufts at full freight with a tom of loans. Plus you get New Orleans and good weather thrown in for good measure.</p>
<p>I wish she had applied EA but it didn't happen. She sent everything in mid-Dec. She has a 1330 Sat so I would say she is on the bubble. Great grades and most rigorous courseload etc. I think it is one of her 1st choices even though she has not visited. We could try to fit a visit in in the next few months. The hardest is missing school since we would be coming from Ca.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say your daughter is on the bubble for Tulane. In fact she looks pretty close to the middle for the last couple of entering classes.</p>
<p>Tulane is a nice school, good size, with a lot to offer.</p>
<p>do y'all think tulane is one of the schools who turn down "over-qualified" applicants because they assume that its a safety school? my scores/gpa are on the higher end, but i really am not using tulane as a safety; i'd be perfectly happy attending.</p>
<p>No, they are not the type of school that would do that.</p>
<p>From what I have read in their published goals I think they would like to increase their yield but not nearly as much as they would like to keep pushing the test scores and GPA's of their incomming classes higher. My suspicion is they will accept pretty much anybody over a certain bottom which they will keep moving up as the applicant pool and the yield increase.</p>
<p>No, as of yet, Tulane does not play that game, twink</p>
<p>thanks for the responses. here's hoping that i get an acceptance letter sometime soon...</p>