<p>Who evaluates submissions for and awards the Deans' Honor Scholarship, the Paul Tulane Award, the Stamps Leadership Award, and the Community Service Scholarship? Is it the Office of Undergraduate Admission?</p>
<p>@nmfixed </p>
<p>As I understand it all: Admissions does the PTA. The Deans do the DHS, the Stamps is a subset of DHS winners. I am not sure who selects the Stamps finalists, but then there are interviews with the Stamps Foundation and the 5 winners selected. There is a separate community service organization within Tulane that selects for the CSS. I am not very familiar with this group, personally. </p>
<p>There is something about actually asking a question that sharpens the focus. Possibly it also bends reality, although this seems unlikely. After I read your answer here, I read the same merit scholarship page I read before I posted, and lo and behold, NOW it has the same answer. </p>
<p>DHS is Deans from the 5 undergrad schools, Science & Engineering, Liberal Arts, Architecture, Business, Public Health. PTA is “scholarship committee” headed by the Dean of Admission. Now I’m going to call on the magic again: no Tulane employee appears to be titled, “Dean of Admission.” </p>
<p>I think you are correct that currently no one holds that title at Tulane. Earl Retif is (was?) VP of Enrollment Management, which I would take as the equivalent position. I put was? in parentheses because I have heard rumors that Mr. Retif is on leave or something like that. I honestly have no idea if that is true or not.</p>
<p>The Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Faye Tydlaska, reports to him. Faye also holds the title of Associate VP for Enrollment Management. I imagine Faye is heading up the PTA awards committee.</p>
D has been invited to schedule a telephone interview for the first round of Stamps scholarship. I am thinking this is a good sign for her chances of a DHS?
I have received several private messages regarding this today. In short, it certainly isn’t a bad sign! But there will still be people that got this email that will not get a DHS or a Stamps. My own guess, and please be clear that it is just my opinion, is that this represents the first "cut’, if you will. Now, for various reasons, I think they are bringing another level of scrutiny, or maybe judgement is a better word, to the process. After all, the Stamps is the highest award Tulane gives, and there are only 5 of them. If they can make the DHS selection more thorough at the same time, then why not. I know they said they were optional, but I can’t imagine anyone saying no to an interview. Can you?
Would you say the chances for people who applied for the DHS and PT Award but didn’t get the email about the Stamps scholarship interviews are less likely to be awarded the DHS or PT Award?
I can’t say anything about the PTA in this regard. This only involved the DHS, which is the template for the Stamps. Said another way, if someone only applied for the PTA they could not possibly receive the Stamps.
So speaking about the DHS only, yes my honest opinion is that this would represent a signal that the people not getting the email are less likely to get the DHS. But certainly that is not gospel, and I only answered because it was asked. It is also possible that it only means they are not considering you for the Stamps, but you could still be in contention for a DHS. That’s not my opinion (God, I hate being a downer), but I recognize it is a possibility.
In either case, it isn’t like there was anything to be done about it at this point, so I guess we will know for sure in about 6 weeks. That is when they will notify DHS winners, and shortly thereafter they will set up the interviews for the Stamps finalists. The Stamps awards themselves should be announced in mid-March or so.
Any guess as to how many are invited for this first phone interview?
Nope, not a clue. No real way to even make an intelligent guess.