<p>If your application is one of the last ones read at your high school it does make a difference contrary to what admissions will try to tell you. Four kids were accepted EA in my school about 2-3 weeks ago. 4 more kids got their notifications back in the last 2 days. All were deferred or rejected. All had similar if not better stats and the same thing happened in my school last year. I recommend applying EA earlier than the November 15 deadline if you really want to get in.</p>
<p>That might be very misleading ehazoo. As has been said many times, stats are not everything. There are many other factors such as EC’s recs, interest shown in Tulane, etc. Do schools try to balance out an incoming class on many factors? Sure, they openly say they do. You want a balance of liberal arts types, science types, dancers, musicians, debaters, lacrosse players, etc., as well as geographic diversity. Just because they were one of the last to hear back doesn’t mean they were read towards the end. There might have been something that gave the admissions people pause, so they waited to see how the overall class was shaping up.</p>
<p>Or you could be perfectly correct, I certainly won’t swear it has no effect. I can say that my high school in suburban St. Louis, as I mentioned, sends many kids to Tulane every year. One year not so long ago I think there were as many as 8 that decided to go, and I know of at least 3 that same year that got accepted but did not go. That is out of a graduating class of about 250-300. Certainly that is just anecdotal, but it is at least one example that refutes the idea of a high school “saturating” the applicant pool. Although they do love my high school (public, btw). Historically graduates from there have always done very well at Tulane, so that would have an effect also. Which just is another way of saying these things are complicated.</p>
<p>One nearly irrefutable thing though, is your last statement. There is almost no question that at Tulane, earlier is better.</p>
<p>I wonder if I would have been accepted had they not misplaced my SSR. I finished everything by the deadline, but they just completed it yesterday on my Gibson account because I had apparently “fallen through the cracks.” I was deferred today.</p>
<p>I think timing did have a lot to do with admissions. I applied EA in late September with the personal Tulane App and was admitted by late November with the $27K scholarship. Not much about me is all that impressive, other than my SAT scores (2250). I didn’t do a Why Tulane? essay. I do have a family connection, though.</p>
<p>I actually applied by the deadline and my transcript was received a week after the Early Action deadline but I was still accepted with 27K a year a month later. I did submit a Why Tulane? short paragraph though.</p>
<p>Deferred…
Anyone know the %age of deferred students later accepted? I couldn’t find it on Bing…</p>
<p>Memaw - past results wouldn’t really be a reliable indication of what might happen this year, but in any case Tulane does not publish those stats.</p>
<p>Those who were accepted, did you send in additional letters of recommendation?</p>
<p>I didn’t. I only had my counselor rec, but I know that one was REALLY good.</p>
<p>Decision: accepted into business school</p>
<p>Objective:
-SAT I (breakdown): didn’t submit
-ACT: 30 comp, 32 superscore-ish
-SAT II: US History (680), took Spanish, Lit, and Math II earlier this month
-Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7-ish, 4.1 W
-AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (4)
-Senior Year Course Load: AP Environmental Science, AP Econ, AP English IV, Honors Calc IV, 1 Regular required course (theology/western civ), AP Spanish IV,</p>
<p>Subjective:
-Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years varsity golf (captain junior and senior year), NHS, spirit crew, tutoring in school, and some other stuff
-Job/Work Experience: summer internship at world’s finest chocolate, golf club
-Volunteer/Community service: a LOT!
-Summer Activities: mission trip to new orleans with church
-Essays: excellent
-Teacher Recommendation: 2 excellent ones
-Counselor Rec: excellent
-Additional Rec: 1 from my summer internship</p>
<p>Other:
-State (if domestic applicant): IL
-School Type: catholic
-Ethnicity: white
-Gender: female
-Income Bracket: $150,000+
-Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): visited school there and when they came to my school</p>
<p>Reflection:
-Strengths: essays, progression of grades over my high school years, recs, ECs
-Weaknesses: test scores
-Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted because of ECs, recs, essays, and shows promise for the future
-Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to BC and Indiana University, deferred at UMichigan (Ann Arbor) and Villanova</p>
<p>General Comments: school that i just learned about this year and love it! in a great city…glad i was accepted. tulane is now on my radar more than it was before!</p>
<p>golfingirl - Congrats! Which scholarship did they give you?</p>
<p>FYI, even though you put business as your probable major (I assume), you were not accepted into the business school. You were accepted to Newcomb-Tulane College, which contains all the undergraduate schools. The nice thing about that for you is that you could change your mind about your major tomorrow, the day before you register, two months into your first semester, or even after the end of your 3rd semester and that is OK. You don’t have to apply to anything new, you just have to change your schedule so you fulfill the requirements of whatever you chose that was new. Admittedly if you waited until the end of your 3rd semester you might have some ground to make up! LOL. But it makes everything very flexible, including doing 2 majors.</p>
<p>BTW, your test scores are not weak.</p>
<p>I applied under EA, but still didn’t heard from admissions…what’s happening?</p>
<p>i think u may have been late and been placed in RD???</p>
<p>Really? I submitted my app on Nov 14 though.</p>
<p>Oh, I applied as international student though.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten conflicting stuff from admissions for my still processing SCEA application: my regional counselor (a senior associate director) has said that the application will be considered for EA, but two interns said that it is regular decision with no deferral.</p>
<p>I would go with what your regional counselor is saying, and get back in touch with them shortly after they come back for the Spring semester (January 17th).</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the deferred applicants decisions come?</p>
<p>By April 1, although they could come sooner.</p>
<p>FYI- son was deferred EA and he checked online and he is in!!!</p>