My daughter was recently accepted to Tulane and is 99% likely to attend. She has applied for both the DHS and Paul Tulane scholarships and I was wondering if she should hold off committing until those decisions come out.
For anyone who has received it in the past, had your child already accepted the admissions offer?
I’m a current applicant who also hasn’t committed. Admissions has made it very clear that all applicants are eligible who turned in their stuff on time including those who have not committed or were deferred from EA/ED.
@3kidsinMa I don’t know the answer to your question but you have nothing to lose and possibly everything to gain by waiting till those scholarship decisions are announced in mid or late February before deciding to commit. My personal belief is that if you need additional money to attend, you lessen any incentive of the school to offer you more merit or need based aid if you have already committed. Because by committing now you are showing you can afford the cost of attendance without any additional scholarships or need-based aid (decisions for need based aid should be made by feb or march if you filled out fafsa and CSS profile and submitted your last year’s tax return already). And you may always wonder “what if” you hadn’t committed until after scholarship and/Or need-based aid decisions are announced.
Not sure where you read that tuition is increasing by $10,00. If you look at the Cost of attendance for 2016-2017 tuition is $47,130. FOr 2017-2018 it is $48,920
http://www2.tulane.edu/financialaid/cost/cost-of-attendance-2016-2017-historical.cfm
http://www2.tulane.edu/financialaid/cost/cost-of-attendance-2016-2017-historical.cfm
I would wait to commit. I agree that these scholarships are used as an incentive to get kids who may go elsewhere to attend Tulane. I do know of a young man who is there now and who won one of the DHS scholarships, and he waited to commit. Good luck to your daughter!
@dolphnlvr6, While you are absolutely correct about the tuition number, but to be fair, the bs academic support fee takes the #real tuition to over 50,000 for the current year. Tulane is following a recent trend of hiding some of their tuition costs in foolish fees. It has to do with how they report tuition increases to certain government agencies. The UC’s are also known for this trick. In the case of Tulane a Library and tutoring fee of 2700 is really a tuition cost. Just saying…
It’s not a recent trend, many colleges (including the one I work for) charge academic support fees. They really are not part of tuition, they help to pay for various support services including software we use in our department that is rather expensive. Academic support departments do not charge for our services so we bring no money into the University so we rely on those fees to help out with services we provide. The fee did not increase at Tulane from last year to this year so I’m still not sure where a $10,000 increase in tuition is coming from?