Fascinating article about a unique (most likely) DHS winner in his local paper. Brave young man. Would no doubt be a great addition to the incoming class. http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/education/article62564552.html
There was a related article back in December that I had seen. http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/hancock-county/article49291025.html
I was just coming here to post the same thing! Incredible young man! it seriously made me tear up, what a great addition to Tulane he will be!
Has anyone received declination emails yet?
@maggie_doyle Nope. Not yet.
Re ā fallen chemist on DHS winner "Fascinating article about a unique (most likely) DHS winner in his local paper. Brave young man. Would no doubt be a great addition to the incoming class. " http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/education/article62564552.html
I saw this film on youtube or someplace before announcements were made. Very cool. And what a filmmaker! (Now where did I put my āinstamaticā, my āPolaroidā and my ātransistor radio.ā Students today are AMAZING.
They really are. Now to be fair to students from even just a few years ago, the tools available via ordinary laptops and even smartphones that allow for far more professional quality productions is unprecedented. Studio quality effects and editing are right there for them to use. Still, these things donāt write the material or do the actual performance for anyone, much less provide the guts it takes to be that open in high school anywhere. In this case it is Gulfport MS.
Just got my rejection letter. Disappointed but at the same time, I just got some extremely good news for another college. Congrats to all of the winners!
My daughter just got the email saying she did not get it. So they have been sentā¦
Award won: DHS
UW GPA: 3.98
W GPA: N/A
SAT/ACT score: 33
Were you interviewed by telephone by a Tulane designate?: no
Likelihood of Attending Tulane (%): 60
Comment:
My project was a trivia puzzle. I created twenty-five questions from various subjects I had taken in high school. Once the person taking my quiz was done, they would need to turn over all of the trivia cards. On the back of the cards were different elements that would need to be sorted into the correct chemical equations in the directions. After that, they would be turned over again and one would need to record all of the answers to the puzzle in order. Finally, they would need to find a piano and play all of the answers in order. The resulting tune was āWhen The Saints Go Marching Inā 
I wrote an essay about the importance of music education to tie all of the pieces of my trivia puzzle together. Without music and the other equally important subjects, one could not complete the puzzle. (Sorry if this is a bit confusing)
I was completely surprised when I found a package waiting for me from Tulane! I had been deferred in December and I had kind of given up on Tulane because the only way I could afford to attend is if I won a full tuition scholarship. Being deferred, I thought I was no longer eligible for winning the DHS. I am planning on visiting Tulane within the next month!
You should have been reading these threads more. I told several people that were in your situation and asked that question that they could still win the DHS or PTA and that deferred people had won in the past. But maybe it was just as well since this way it was a total surprise. But mainly it is good to have another example of a deferred student winning. Congratulations. Let us know what you think after your visit. I think it will make Tulane at least 90% for you. 
@fallenchemist
What does it mean if I still havenāt received a scholarship letter or rejection email? Iām from Louisiana if that matters.
Am not FC, but if you applied for the DHS and it didnāt arrive, itās likely a follow up letter will be forthcoming.
@jym626
What do you mean by followup letter? Iām very confused because it all my friends have received either rejections or scholarships.
Apologies if that was unclear. By followup letter I meant. A letter as a follow up to the application. Where I live our mail service is painfully slow, and if the regular carrier is on vacation the backup person delivers junk mail only. The real mail shows up in a large stack several days laterā¦ But I digress. So, tomorrow is Monday. Watch your mail.
If you are only talking about the DHS, then there are several possibilities. First, you did win but somehow your UPS package has been delayed or delivered to the wrong address. Granted the odds of either of these things is low, but both have happened in the past. Second, made the list for the Stamps or the Hainkel and somehow there has been a miscommunication. That has lower odds in the sense that we are only talking about a dozen people in total so I would think they would keep trying until reaching you. The third possibility is you did not win which means an email should have been sent. Again, several possibilities such as it being in your spam folder or the email Tulane has was input incorrectly. Fourth would be you did not win and by mistake the email was simply not sent.
I would suggest checking your spam folder first, and if that is fruitless then email your admissions person at Tulane and just say that you received neither the DHS folder nor a denial email, so you thought you should check to be absolutely sure. I think jym626 thought that DHS denials were sent by snail mail, but it appears they are sent by email.
Ah, in the past I think the DHS were sent by snail mail, but obviously that may be incorrect.
Okay, I emailed my admissions counselor. In the mean time, Iāll lowkey panic about my future.
Edit: Also wanted to say that Iāve thoroughly checked my email.
And to be clear, I meant when they sent DHS denials, they did, I thought, go in the past by snail mail. Not the awards, the denials. I dont know when they started sending the denial letters.
Before 2 years ago, denial notifications of any kind appeared to be very spotty. It was definitely something Tulane was not doing well at that time. Now they seem to be notifying everyone in a pretty timely manner, and are now doing it by email. I have no idea how they did denials before that, when they did it.
^DS14 never received the UPS nor a rejection notification. It was a mute point by then since he received a full tuition scholarship from another school and decided to attend immediately. Had that not happened, we would have followed up with Tulane admission office. Nonetheless, I will always wonder whether DS did or didnāt received the DHS.