<p>It is just a software glitch, I think. The same thing happened to me about three times, but everything was fine!</p>
<p>Having read all these messages, it seems like the program must “recompile” or something similar on a periodic basis, and we (well, you) are seeing the stages it goes through before it gets to the end again. Obviously (if I am right) this is a design flaw, these things should be hidden and only the final results shown. But this theory fits all the anecdotes.</p>
<p>ya hopefully ill hear soon seems like it will take another week or something…this “glitch” must scare the c*** out of kids who have no idea what is going on with Gibson or look it up on CC or something.</p>
<p>I already sent in a “why tulane” essay with my original application, so I’m just going to have to play the waiting game on this. I’ll let you know how it ends up, thanks for the advice :)</p>
<p>Oh, OK duke. I misread your other post. That’s OK then. As someone else said, not everyone can visit or attend a local session. Applying EA and doing the Why Tulane is good, so you should be OK as far as that goes. You appear to have a very good chance at acceptance.</p>
<p>Just got the Congratulations message! Super excited!</p>
<p>congrats callie101!!!</p>
<p>YAY Callie!!!</p>
<p>AHH! I just got the Congratulations message and could not be more thrilled! I have been following this thread since it started and finally have something to post:)</p>
<p>I submitted my app in early September and I live in Texas. A few people at my school were notified of their admission a few weeks ago, but they applied a bit after me, which had me worried! I don’t know why they found out before me but I guess that is just the crazy college application process for you!</p>
<p>Here are my stats </p>
<p>ACT: 32
SAT: 2100
-I have taken 11 AP classes total and received A’s in all of them, I did not submit my AP scores to Tulane though
-weighted gpa of 106.9
-#48 out of 650 at my high school (top 8%)
-pretty good community service
-involved in student council, interACT, french club (took a language for 3 years), and a leadership program at my school (I hold an elected position in this program)
-I expressed interest in Tulane by visiting this summer (my tour guide was the tour guide Owen that recently posted a thread here!) and attending the discussion with the admission counselor at my school (Morgan England), as well as having a short back and forth with her over email about a program at Tulane that I had a few questions about</p>
<p>Hope this helps give people something to compare to who haven’t heard back yet and I wish everyone the best of luck!!!</p>
<p>Congrats Callie and Mary!</p>
<p>Lots of really good news for our little community. Well, maybe not so little. Anyway, congrats to all, such amazing, accomplished students. Tulane is clearly attracting attention from a very select group.</p>
<p>“Little community?” 25,000 views… we may be “small” but we are also compulsive!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>We live in Maryland and heard this morning. So exciting! Congrats to all who have heard and will keep fingers crossed for those waiting.</p>
<p>Myboyz - Congrats to you and your son. Do you mind sharing his basic stats?</p>
<p>congrats to Callie101–now you can await the letter :)</p>
<p>and marymact–what a great resume!</p>
<p>Hope you both get great $$$ results and go to Tulane–roll wave!</p>
<p>Called Admissions today as child accepted 11/1 per Gibson, then acceptance was off and it went blank, to incomplete, to complete and under review. We were told that a letter had not gone out yet and they would send it…Lucky Gibson was being checked every half hour or we may have missed it and still wondering…FC-your thoughts?</p>
<p>Of all the accpetances–who is definately enrolling?
If you are waiting for another school…what is the school(s)?</p>
<p>I guess first of all my thought is that I have trouble imagining why this problem has not been able to be addressed. I am certainly not an IT guy, but of course the administration is aware of the problem, and it isn’t like they wouldn’t be concerned about it. They are acutely sensitive to both image and to providing a good experience, and obviously this accomplishes neither.</p>
<p>Therefore I have to believe there is some overriding reason they cannot fix this bug during the admission season. I don’t know what that reason would be; in my own experience when problems like this came up we simply took the program offline to a separate server, kept putting in data so we didn’t fall behind with that, put up a message to the web customers that we were performing enhancements to our system, and once the problem was fixed put it back on the main server and reloaded the data which had been kept up-to-date. But Tulane’s system might be completely different and that might be impossible in their case. Again I am far from an expert in this area, so I am only speculating because this has caused such distress among the applicants and their parents.</p>
<p>I do feel confident based on everything so far that the acceptances are real, that there were no false positives in that area. But there is no question Tulane really needs to get this fixed. At the same time, I think they know that already all too well, so whatever the reason for the delay in getting it to behave correctly it must be something they just cannot do right now.</p>
<p>I understand this will continue to cause anxiety, but it will all turn out fine. Or at least the same as it would if the program were working correctly. I suppose whether it turns out fine or not depends on their decision.</p>
<p>So happy for all the acceptances–have been on the road and away from internet the last couple days, so playing catchup here. </p>
<p>Wow, what a group of students my son shares an interest in Tulane with! You guys rock!</p>
<p>Thanks guys! You have been so helpful these past couple of months! It was thanks to the Tulane thread that I applied so early! Good luck to everyone still waiting! Now the wait for the letter begins…</p>