<p>All selective schools crave kids in the top 10% of their class. Many schools don’t rank but that doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>When schools say that 90% of their students are in the top 10% of their class, what that means is that 90% of the 40% of kids reporting a class rank were in the top 10.</p>
<p>The top 10 percentage is a reported metric and does get baked into USNWR’s formula. So if a kid reports that he’s top 10, it is catnip to the admissions office.</p>
<p>Tulane peer Miami has improved its USNWR ranking by about 25 spots in the last ten years. Miami says they did that by improvement in “six-year graduation rate, freshman retention rate, average SAT, and percentage of freshmen who were in the top 10% of their high school graduation class.”</p>
<p>Top 10% class rank matters.</p>
<p>northwesty- You can be my new BFF. I know this forum is a very, very small sample. but I am focused on the 30 ACT number. There are at least 3 posters with 30 ACT who got 25K and Honors. While 30 is a great score, and it is comparable to what my child got, it is not off the charts for Tulane. It is low midpoint. Soooooooo… what do those kids have in common? All highly ranked in their schools. Top Ten in their classes. This is a very desired stat. Tulane wants the Ranking stat even if the SAT/ACT stat is not comparable.<br>
Certainly RDmomma’s child being top in class with only 3 years to do it makes her a SUPER SUPER star, and she deserves the acceptance, the $ and the honors program. I am not disputing that at all.</p>
<p>DTA – folks can rightly dump on how USNWR does its rankings. But fact of life is that those rankings matter a lot to people running colleges. If you want to improve your ranking, then you do things that will improve your standing on the metrics that are in the USNWR formula.</p>
<p>What gets measured get managed.</p>
<p>So a kid with a 31 ACT from a school that doesn’t rank is better stat-wise than a kid with a 31 ACT who reports top 15% (even if that HS is a rigorous HS). And a top 10 kid (even from a weaker HS) with a 30 ACT might be preferable stat-wise than the 31 ACT/top 15 kid. That’s why a lot of HS don’t like to rank anymore. </p>
<p>TU may be swimming in high ACT scores this year, but is light on top 10-ers and so that’s where they target the merit money. Or to boys. Or to kids from western states. Or to engineer majors. Or to french majors. Or to full payors. Or to whatever they want more of.</p>
<p>I ended up receiving the presidential scholarship and an invitation to the honors program. I just sent in my DHS project today! And I meant to write I might apply for DHS, not the presidential scholarship. Whoops.</p>
<p>Yes, that is what I thought you would get. At least some things are still fairly predictable! LOL. Hearty congratulations and good luck on the DHS. Did you go for the Paul Tulane also?</p>
<p>Does everyone who gets in get an email notification, followed by a letter, followed by a link to the website? If you get money does that happen in the letter? How long does it take to get the letter?</p>
<p>There is no e-mail notification. Maybe you meant to say web notification (Gibson), in which case the answer is yes to all, with the “link to the website” meaning an admitted students site, which went active today. The money is only in the letter, and that takes 3-10 days.</p>
<p>You will see your acceptance (if you’re accepted) on Gibson first, if you are checking it regularly, followed by a letter, which includes merit aid offer, approximately 7-10 days after your online acceptance notification. The admitted students website for confirming enrollment, etc. has just been launched and you should get an email about it if you were admitted.</p>
<p>Edit: yeah 3-10 is probably more accurate. It seems to average about a week though.</p>
<p>Yes, the 3-4 days only happens if everything hits just right meaning they happen to assemble and mail the envelope the day of or day after the Gibson posting and the candidate has close proximity to New Orleans (although this matters less these days than a decade or so ago). 4-5 business days seems to be typical.</p>
<p>It sounds as though the early action round is over now, since the accepted students have all received this new email. Would it be safe to assume that anyone who hasn’t heard by now will not receive a decision until RD notification? We have a friend who is still waiting.</p>
<p>I think that is a pretty safe assumption after midnight tomorrow, with one exception. They did say that for those that applied during the extension period of November 16-26, decisions could come a week or two after the Dec. 15 date. I would think they are continuing to review applications today at least for those that did apply by November 15.</p>
<p>From what someone else was told, anyone that was deferred should see that status reflected on Gibson after today, or maybe after this weekend. I am not sure if they will continue to let RD applicants know on a rolling basis or do it all at the end of March. I think the former, but definitely not sure.</p>
<p>That all makes sense. Was RD last year rolling?</p>
<p>Accepted/denied/deferred: ACCEEPTTTEEDDDDDDD
SCEA
Applied Nov. 15, but school didnt send SSR or Transcript until 26th. Showed as incomplete on Gibson 5th, couldnt log in for a few days, then got decision on the 8th
3.84 UW/School does not weight
1950 SAT (super scored)</p>
<p>1 APschool did not offer AP. Took a full course load of college credits at a university instead and graduated a year early because of it. The AP that I took was online because I needed the credit to graduate and my school didnt offer it. </p>
<p>Hooks: Currently on a gap year, working to save money for school. Applied RD last year and reapplied this year SCEA. Emailed constantly with admissions counselor, expressed a lot of iterest. Pretty good essays, excellent recommendations, decent ECs w/only some leadership (not very strongteam captain and co-head of a cultural organization) first generation American. Also expressed my drawing hobby (but I didnt apply as a art major) and sent some portfolio items. </p>
<p>Had a lot of special circumstances to explain, but still got accepted despite everything.</p>
<p>Academic Achievement Award, 20,000 a year. Its a little bittersweet for me because its 2,500 less than the offer I got from Case Western, and I worry that Ill have a hard time convincing my dad towards Tulane.</p>
<p>I would like to give a special thanks to fallenchemist for all of his help and advice in this forum, and also with editing my essays. I have a better understanding of a lot of things now and owe a lot of my successes in this whole process to you, and I dont know if I would have gotten the same outcome that I did without all of your help. Thanks!!</p>
<p>I love this forum about as much as I hate it. Though I have not been posting a lot lately I have been stalking these posts like a hawk and have email subscriptions that Ive been obsessed with checking. It can become an addiction when you havent heard, so I understand a lot of those who are still waitings pain. Though I have been driven a little crazy in the process, I have learned so much. Thank you all for your contributions. Good luck to everyone who hasnt heard yet!!!</p>
<p>Quick question - we have an envelope from Tulane that I am waiting for DS to get home fro work to open…those of you who were accepted, anything special with the envelope?</p>
<p>McMomma - my DDs acceptance was in an 8.5 X 11 envelope (looked like an oversized envelope that you would put a greeting card in, with the Tulane seal on the back side)</p>
<p>Accepted w/ $20K/yr
31 ACT
3.5/4 UW
4.3/5 GPA W
competitive hs in mass (top 15%)
so excited!!! one of my top choices :)</p>
<p>Congratulations relb1995! Did you take many AP classes? Also, is you hs public or private?</p>
<p>Even though I applied to Tulane Early Action, I still haven’t received a decision. I had called the Tulane admissions office a while ago (like 3 weeks ago) and they told me that there isn’t anything wrong with my application and that they just hadn’t gotten to it yet. But the deadline for notification was yesterday and now I’m really worried. Is anyone else still waiting on a late application decision?</p>
<p>I haven’t received my letter yet either. I was accepted late because of a glitch in the system, so I wouldn’t sweat it Coldplay.</p>