<p>Oh great to know! I have registered us for the formal tour, with a meeting at admissions 1/2 hour ahead of time.</p>
<p>Have you visited both schools already? </p>
<p>He was 100% sold on Tulane without even seeing it, so I’m glad he got into Loyola for some point of comparison (and the two-for-one trip to NOLA is helpful too!). We’ve never been down there so I’m really looking forward to it myself. :)</p>
<p>We are locals so we are familiar with both schools. Big difference in size. In fact huge difference. Obviously, Loyola provides the same “new orleans” experience TU uses as a selling point. More commuters at Loyola. I can’t provide insight on which provides better education by department. Overall TU is looked upon as a better university. I can tell you that my sons school send students to each university yearly with all happy with choices. last year Val chose Loyola. I would be comfortable if DS chose either one. Loyola has very good business and music departments.</p>
<p>Thanks Jammer… very helpful. :)</p>
<p>Very insightful thread! Maybe we can re-open with anyone looking at these schools for Fall 2013…would love to hear where everyone is at with decisions/scholarship/finanical aid/merit. Thanks!</p>
<p>Jammer and Mavitale- interested to hear which school your sons ended up choosing and why. My son is a music major so Tulane was never considered. He was accepted at Loyola (and got an almost stunning scholarship package!) early, but since he hadn’t seen the campus, we put it on the back burner. (He had auditioned via video) His top choices were TCU, SMU and Baldwin Wallace.
Our family visited NO over spring break, so he got a chance to spend time on campus, went to class, met the music faculty, etc and tooled around New Orleans. Absolutely fell in love with the school and the city! (As did his mother and I). His other choices came through but by then he was sold on LoyNO. He’s joined the Loyola Class of 2017 FB group and made plans to meet up with future classmates during orientation next month.</p>
<p>My son chose Tulane for a few reasons: He is a Science guy and sat in on a class and loved it so much he wouldn’t even LOOK at Loyola (drove me crazy, since we were right there AND they offered him so much money). He’s an atheist so the Jesuit aspect of Loyola was a turnoff to him, even though I explained that Jesuits are not like other Catholics (I was raised Catholic but am an atheist now). No dice. Wouldn’t even go look once he saw “Touchdown Jesus” out front. Again I think the fact that he’s science-oriented makes the research university the better choice for him, but Tulane is giving him a pittance in terms of grant money so that part is not so great. He has money (life insurance benefit from his dad who passed away) but it won’t cover all four years at Tulane. Still, he says he’s paying for it so the final decision was his.</p>
<p>neovoxdad - My son is interested in jazz at Loyola so I’m wondering how your son likes it now almost a year out? Has it lived up to his expectations?</p>