would help. Thanks so much.
Collegedata.com says the early action admit rate was 35% last year so I would expect the early decison to be near or above that. From my experience colleges with that level of esrly action acceptance rate has an early decision rate of around 40% to 50% but these are just educated guesses.
Here ya go:
https://tulanehullabaloo.com/38052/news/class-of-2022-admissions/
Wow-- the admission/acceptance rate is down to 17%?? Holy cow!
https://news.tulane.edu/news/class-2022-welcomes-world%E2%80%99s-best-and-brightest
Thank you. It’s become insane! I will pass this info on to my daughter who still thinks it’s a dream school.
I can’t find any cite for what the ED admit rate is. My guess is that it is probably LOWER than the 35% EA admit rate stated above.
For now, Tulane has an unusual admissions/enrollment strategy. It is “all of the above” – it has EA; also still has heavy merit aid; and it recently added ED. So currently, Tulane ED may be functioning a bit differently than at your typical top 20 school (Duke, NW, Vandy, WUSTL, etc.) relying heavily on ED. Those schools typically don’t do much/any merit aid, don’t have non-binding EA, and fill half their seats via binding ED.
Looks like TU’s recent ED experiment is working well – it filled 25% of its seats via ED for the recent class. And guess what then happens? Yield goes up (since ED offer yield approaches 100%) and the admit rate goes down. Like magic!!
My guess is that TU is still using its EA/merit aid combination to enroll kids at its 75th percentile stat level and higher (33 ACT), and is now using ED to enroll more full-er payors at the 25th percentile (29 ACT) and higher. As Tulane recovered from its Katrina crisis (USNWR rank #54) it relied heavily on EA and merit. Which killed TU’s yield and net revenue per student – it had to throw out a lot of merit offers to try to enroll high stat kids who would also be getting into lots of other attractive schools. Now that Tulane has recovered to its new normal of USNWR #40, you can see them moving to try to become more like the schools a little upmarket – which means more ED and less merit money.
Bottom line – if your kid is high stat (for Tulane) and looking for merit money, EA or RD is probably the way to go. If your kid is average/below average stat-wise and you’re willing to full pay (or will qualify for need-based fin aid), then go ED.
Actually dug up the ED numbers. My hunch was right.
For the latest cycle, TU admitted 562 kids ED from 1,819 ED apps. 31% ED admit rate, a little LOWER than the 35% EA rate cited above. But higher than the overall 17% rate.
Which means RD at TU (like many top schools) just isn’t the game you want to be playing unless you are a really really strong applicant. RD admit rate has to be moving towards 10%…
@northwesty - re post#4 - the links posted in post 2 give that info. you were seeking.
Thanks so much @northwesty So one has a better shot at getting in EA, but you probably need higher stats. I feel like my D doesn’t have a great shot coming from a city that sends lots of kids there.
City – you should go back and read the results threads for EA and ED to see if my hunch is actually borne out by the data. Which is that the EA admits might tend to be higher stat applicants looking for merit money. So if the EA pool is very strong stat-wise, then it shouldn’t be a surprise that the admit rate is up at like 35%.
For the longest time, Tulane has valued demonstrated interest in its admission decisions given its typical low yield on offers. Applying ED is the ultimate demonstration of interest. So if your kid really digs Tulane and the money works, ED is the way to go.
My hunch (which you should check) is that the 31% ED admit rate is coming from a weaker pool stat-wise than the EA pool. So the admissions “boost” being provided is biggest for ED applicants.
Bottom line – you should pick the admissions path that fits your kid and your finances. But the RD round is not the best game to play odds-wise.