<p>According to their literature, January 1 is the date that Tulane announces DSA and Founders scholarships for EA applicants. Does anyone know how those offers are sent? By email? Snail mail? Online?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>My D had a $20k annual scholarship offer from them last year and heard via snail mail.</p>
<p>:):):)We are happy at our house tonight; S received a scholarship offer today via snail mail, letter dated 12-27-04 :) :) :)</p>
<p>congrats tabby and son. We heard by smail mail last year, and by phone for the DHS, followed by a snail mail.</p>
<p>Congratulations, Tabbyz! No such mail here but we are quite a bit further away. Does that mean your S will attend?</p>
<p>so are they only announcing the top scholarships now or are they also awarding some of the founder's scholarships to the EA/ED people?</p>
<p>Thanks, Concerneddad and wish. The mail should be getting around the country through the end of the week - we are just close by, so received it quicker. The chances of S attending really grew stronger today for sure.
soccerrulz, I think that Founders and Distinguished Student Awards are both going out at this time. Dean's aka DHS (a separate thing altogether requiring a special application) is supposed to be announced in February. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE :)</p>
<p>soccerrulz, I just looked in the view book and thought I would add that for RD applicants, the Founders and Distinguished scholarships go out April 1.</p>
<p>Tabby, this is good news indeed! I am so very happy for your son and for you. It's a nice ending to the year to see things fall in place for your son after he has worked so hard. </p>
<p>My son's scholarship was reworked after the first semester. He was initially awarded the DSA and his package is still for the same amount, but it has been switched over to what I imagine is an endowed fund since it carries an individual's name. Apparently, the Dean's offices from all of the colleges nominate students for this scholarship. The letter from the Dean stated that although the amount is the same, the named scholarship will be more prestigous down the road. I don't know about that. Only time will tell. All he told me was that they were redoing his package, and after I nearly had a heart attack, he told me they weren't reducing the package, just changing the name. Of course, true to form, he didn't bother to bring the letter home for us to read and file with his scholarship info, so I'll have to wait for him to go back from break and mail the info to me. </p>
<p>Tabby, my son is loving engineering at Tulane. It certainly has been a workload and a half, though. The first year is about foundation courses and everything seems to have a lab with it. First semester, since he tested out of freshman writing with his AP (only engineering is able to do this, I believe), he took a sophomore level engineering course. It had a lab as well as sophomore testing period, so he was in class 23-25 hours a week - depending on whether or not he had a lab class or lecture to audit for engineering TIDES - for 17 hours of credit. Next semester, he'll be in class for 28 to get his 18. Good news is that with the courses being 4 hour courses, they actually worked through things in class and had extra prep sessions before tests. I don't know what the average first semester GPA ended up being for this year's freshmen, but last year was an unusually high year at 2.7. It's usually around a 2.4 or 2.5 and about a quarter of the engineering freshman will transfer colleges or from Tulane altogether. I think the key to success is just doing what they all know they need to do - go to class, turn in assignments and study for those tests. It was a little frustrating for him to see other students having time to party while he sat at his desk and did online problems for physics and programs for his computer org class. However, that's nothing new for engineering students - no matter which school. I think the fact that Tulane requires 136 hours to earn an engineering degree and the students get that degree in four years has earned the Tulane engineering school the reputation is has enjoyed with graduate programs around the country. And, as the parents were told by the Assoc. Dean of Engineering Students at orientation, they throw this much at them because they are capable of doing it.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone that has received an acceptance letter from Tulane, and for all of you that want to attend and are waiting on those scholarship letters, I wish you the very best of luck!</p>
<p>along~, thanks for the congrats and for the very informative post! It will be required reading for my S!
Good luck again to us all :)</p>
<p>We received the same type letter as tabby, also dated 12/27....good luck to all...</p>
<p>congrats frazzled and child</p>
<p>congrats frazzled and your S or D; whereabouts are you from in the southern U.S.?</p>
<p>i recieved a letter today dated 12/27 as well. Tulane's Distinguished scholar award or something like that. I am strongly considering Tulane now after this, just gonna have to wait what other schools are going to offer. I applied with personal app, EA</p>
<p>I got the DSA today. I actually applied to Tulane on a whim; I've never been to New Orleans and never actually seriously thought about going to school there. But 22K a year makes a strong argument for going there.</p>
<p>along - thanks for the post - it is good to know your son is doing so well in engineering. My son also just received letter for DSA. He applied to college, but is interested in switching to engineering. We did not previously visit e-school, but will do so this Spring. Do you know if engineering students also participate in honors program? I know they are eligible, but don't know if it's done. Thanks</p>
<p>Noveldad, yes, engineering students can participate in the honors program, but I can tell you the gpa is harder for them to maintain their status in honors. Basically, from what I can tell, when a student graduates, there are the usual cum laude (3.4), magna cum laude (3.6) and suma cum laude (3.8). Those are the university honors. Then there are departmental honors, which I believe for arts and sciences is a 3.4 gpa with a 3.5 in areas of your major with a thesis. In engineering, it's a 3.0 gpa with a thesis. The honors college comes in when you want to apply for the national scholarships, such as the Rhodes or Marshall. I understand from the assistant dean that the first semester of the engineering student's freshman year is typically their lowest in terms of GPA, due mostly to adjusting to college and the academic workload. So, if a student does not maintain the gpa to remain in honors after their freshman year, they can reapply later if their gpa meets the minimum. My son is in honors and lives in Butler. He has enjoyed being around other serious freshman students - although not everyone in the honors program has taken it as seriously as perhaps they should have! He has attended a couple of honors round tables and has enjoyed them and took an honors section of math, but all in all, the engineering curriculum is so structured that it is difficult to take advantage of as many honors events as the students in Tulane and Newcomb. </p>
<p>Congrats on your son's DSA! I really think a visit next spring is a wonderful idea. We went during our son's spring break his junior year and then again during his spring break his senior year after his acceptance and scholarship offers. They really do see the campus and programs through different eyes after they are in. My son did after he saw a young man in the engineering offices who had been deferred and was visiting the department. It made him much more appreciative of his situation. The profs that weren't in class literally stopped what they were doing and took him on tours of the department and research projects. One is now his advisor. He was completely wowed that they cared enough to take the time with him. Plan to spend the whole day on campus - but do also spend time in the Garden District near the campus as well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, along. It does seem like one of the advantages of being in honors, even if you can't take full advantage, is being able to live in Butler with hopefully more serious students. I was concerned whether engineering students would be in there as well, but from your response, that appears to be the case. Of course, I am making the assumption he will be asked to be in honors because of DSA, but I have no idea if that is true. Again, thanks and best wishes for the New Year.</p>
<p>My son just received the Distinguished Scholarship award letter. He also applied for the Dean's Honors Scholarship. Does being awarded the Distinguished Scholarship mean that he can no longer be considered for the Dean's Honors Scholarship? Obviously the full tuition award is better than the Distinguished award (although the Distinguished award is very nice as well)</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>No, at least maybe not. Last year my son got a letter saying he was being awarded the DSA, but noting that if he had applied for, and was awarded, the DHS then he would get the greater of the two.</p>