<p>Hello,</p>
<p>My daughter applied EA and was very disappointed to receive a deferral letter today. We thought she had a decent shot at acceptance and merit aid (ACT composite 35, unweighted GPA 3.8 from top high school, 8 APs, decent ECs, and what my wife and I thought were very good essays).</p>
<p>She is planning on submitting her application for a PT scholarship.</p>
<p>Assuming she gets accepted RD, will she have any chance for merit aide besides PT? Or is all merit aid reserved for those accepted during EA? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any input!</p>
<p>Well, if she gets the PTA other merit aid is moot. Tulane only goes above full tuition and fees for the Stamps Scholarship (5 of those) and the Hainkel, which is for Louisiana residents only and there are only 2 of those. Obviously still a great deal!</p>
<p>But to answer your other question, in case she doesn’t get the PTA, there is definitely merit money for those that get in the RD round. Getting in later this way, assuming she does, shouldn’t affect the size of her award.</p>
<p>She seems very enthusiastic about Tulane, from what you post. As I said on the other thread, if she can communicate this to her admissions counselor, that is really key.</p>
<p>In fact, if you are saying she would attend Tulane over Stanford, Berkeley, Duke, WUSTL, wherever else she might be applying, I would have her say that plainly to Tulane. There is no doubt (and nothing to be ashamed to say) that most students that get into both these level schools and Tulane choose the former. It is in Tulane’s interest to defer the students that seem likely to be in this situation and see which ones come back to convince admissions that Tulane is really what they want. Because in most cases, why wouldn’t Tulane want a student as talented as your D? Of course they would. An academically strong student body, along with other desirable attributes, is what every high level university wants.</p>