<p>Thanks FC. I know she is on the bubble. I guess that is why we are so anxious. I am very intrigued by you. You are very knowledgeable and extremely helpful, not to mention very accessible. Your posts are thorough and it seems like you post 24/7. Tulane should be paying you for the extreme amount of time you devote to CC.</p>
<p>LOL. I am pretty much on the computer all the time these days, that is true. So I just check in every so often. It isn’t as much time as it seems because I can answer these questions very quickly most of the time. There isn’t much new in any given year. And I enjoy it. Also the iPad makes it easy to do short answers while I am traveling and the like.</p>
<p>Getting paid would be great in theory, but then of course I would have to be open about that and it would taint my usefulness here somewhat. I mean of course I am biased anyway, but still once money changes hands it changes perceptions. I know you weren’t being literal, but I thought I would throw that out there anyway.</p>
<p>Congrats MommaMafia! Very exciting!</p>
<p>Just want to add my congrats to bowler and all the other students. My son is applying SCEA and just like your daughter, pushydad, his GPA is a tad low…he has all A’s this year in all AP classes. But it may be too little too late. That’s why we’ve got some good rolling and regular admissions schools as backup.</p>
<p>I want to also thank fallenchemist for her calming effect. It’s funny how just a liitle encouragement from a knowledgeable source can go such a long way.</p>
<p>Thanks kelijake, although I am a him, not her. LOL, np. I would also point out that even if your son doesn’t get in EA (and he well might), he would more likely be deferred to RD. If that happens, his first semester grades could indeed make a big difference.</p>
<p>MommaMafia, Congratulations to your daughter!</p>
<p>kelijake1987, best of luck to your son and to the rest of you awaiting admissions and/or merit scholarship news. </p>
<p>You are right, fallenchemist is deserving of many thank. He is a great resource and a very fair advocate for Tulane. He provides such much help to so many.</p>
<p>How do you get notified of Merit scholarships? Is it online or only through the mail with your acceptance letter?</p>
<p>Basically through the paper letter. Starting last year they added the financial aid tab to Gibson earlier than they used to, and merit awards will show up there. I am just not sure when they post that.</p>
<p>Congrats to MammaMafia! That’s awesome!</p>
<p>We are booking flights tomorrow for the end of the month. Anyone else planning a visit now?</p>
<p>Hi Linymom - we are going down Fri 11/30 - Sun 12/1. Signed up for 9:00 tour on Sat. No news yet - application still says ‘incomplete’. I know the GC sent transcript last wkend - seems like it takes several days for TU to update Gibson with an ‘app complete’. It would be great to visit knowing you’ve been accepted. We are in’waiting mode’.</p>
<p>FYI - if you are planning on a trip to Tulane, if you tell the hotel that you are coming down to visit the school, many offer a special discount rate. We stayed at the Roosevelt (near the French Q) in April and got a great rate. I also got a great discount rate down in South Beach Florida when visiting U of Miami. You just have to ask!</p>
<p>Vitrac, Thanks for the PM, but I don’t have enough posts yet to reply. We are from the southeast area. And, yes, my DD knows about the Facebook page for admitted students, but I do not know whether she has joined it yet.</p>
<p>For those going to visit, we stayed at the Hampton Inn on St. Charles, and it was great. I got a decent rate by going through the (somewhat odd) reservation system you can find on the Tulane website. You tell them which hotel you would like to stay in and that you are prospective student paying your own way, and they email you back with instructions on how to secure the reservation at the Tulane rate. </p>
<p>I am also interested to check out the Parkview Inn which is VERY close and looks cute. Anyone stayed there before?</p>
<p>Re. merit scholarships, my daughter’s was in her Admission Acceptance letter. I had looked on the Financial Aid tab on Gibson, but got strange error messages about that tab not being activating for the current role of the user, or something like that.</p>
<p>OK, so they have not starting posting merit scholarships to the Gibson page yet. Good to know. So the only way to find out if one has received merit $$$ is via the paper letter.</p>
<p>FALLENCHEMIST—OMG! Sorry about the assumption you were of the female persuasion! Guess your posts came across as nurturing yet firm and I associated those qualities as “female” ??. Kind of betrays my own bias, I suppose…</p>
<p>Yes, DS is fully prepared to be deferred to RD…sure would beat outright denial. My son is, fortunately, keeping a balanced and pragmatic perspective. He knows he will land on his feet wherever he ends up…but boy, wouldn’t it be awesome if he ended up in NOLA?</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who has results already. I’ll just have to wait until after the school’s guidance office finishes/submits my child’s missing document. Just goes to show you how some students are at the mercy of their schools - child submitted his senior questionnaire/resume in August before school even started, applied SCEA to Tulane at the end of September, requested that the school doc be sent to Tulane at that time, and has even submitted his scholarship applications/essays. The only response we get from school is that it will be submitted before the deadline. This is now they handle the SCEA application of a class-ranked, NMSF, high-ACT, high-GPA student??!!</p>
<p>Hi Keli - I guess I have a feminine side after all, although some would no doubt express shock at that. LOL. But 5 years or so of doing this has definitely led to some perspective. I remember the anxiety associated with my first (not a Tulane student) all too well, and of course the waiting for the DHS result with my second, the current Tulane student. Lucky us, everything turned out great in both cases, better than I would have guessed in fact. The non-Tulane school was absolutely perfect for my son. So yes, I am sure you are right that he will do great if he does end up somewhere other than Tulane, but NOLA is indeed most awesome.</p>
<p>Justmehere - All I can say is: outrageous. They must have no clue how timing can help, but I am also sure that Tulane (and other schools) have seen this many times and know that much of this is outside of the students’ control.</p>
<p>Fallenchemist - Good to know. Thanks for responding.</p>
<p>Justmehere–well that just ****es me off! (at your school). How frustrating.</p>
<p>Justmehere- That is just disgraceful. Frankly, I think a meeting with the principal is in order with copies of the posts on CC revealing the kinds of awards that are given this early. If they have “no clue how timing can help” (FC–this is your sympathetic female side talking!), then they should get a clue. It is their job, after all, to be as knowledgeable as we are.</p>