<p>Congratulations to everyone that has gotten acceptence letters. This thread is great but also a bit anxiety producing! I know my dd’s stats are in the range but everyone posting is a superstar with either really high GPAs, test scores or a million APs or ec. I am trying not to be too anxious and am not expecting an answer for a week or two but feel like a have to check Gibson hourly practically so I won’t miss a decision! Whew. Also, does anyone (Fallenchemist) know if merit $ is offered on a lower level? ( 31 Act, 3.6 ugpa- 3.2 freshman year followed by 3.7 the next 2 years. 5APs) decent EC . Strong private school . I know I should wait to see if she even gets in but I am curious.</p>
<p>Hi to everyone! I’ve been following this board for the past week or so and finally decided to make an account. Odd, but I feel like I know most of you already. Anyway, I applied about two weeks ago and am sitting tight with everyone else for a reply!</p>
<p>By the way, I forgot to mention, not sure if the individual ACT scores matter. She had a 34 English, 34 reading, 31 Science and 25 Math. Thanks for any insight you can offer</p>
<p>Oh yes, there are several levels of merit aid. I wish I could tell you whether her resume would warrant some, but alas I cannot. I can guess, and that would be that she will get offered something, I just really cannot even guess which level. But her 31 ACT and 3.6 UW with 5 APs, plus the upward trend, certainly at least will get her a good look. IMHO, of course. Don’t know if I helped your anxiety or added to it, lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are “automatic consideration” awards of $7,500; $15,000; $20,000; $23,000; $25,000 and $27,000. At least these are the amounts they have awarded in the recent past; I can only assume they are still in force. And by “automatic consideration” I of course mean that all applicants for admission are considered for them without having to submit any other projects, essays, additional recommendations, etc. The latter describe the DHS, Paul Tulane, and Community Service awards.</p>
<p>2937663 - Welcome to our own little version of the Cuckoo’s Nest. And best of luck. Want to post your stats?</p>
<p>Sure, they’re not the best, but I’m hoping my personal statement reels them in.
27 ACT
ECs include a part time job at Chipotle (a year and a half of employment and averaging about twenty hours a week) a member of the International Thespian Society, NHS, Beta Club, a leading role in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Film Club, a Stage Manager, Copy Editor for the Yearbook, Band, Dual Enrollment with Valencia College.
I’ve taken five AP’s: AP Human Geo, AP World History, AP US History, AP English Lang, AP Environmental Science
Community Service: About 100 hours
3.8 UW, 4.9 W
Rank is 5 out of 748, so in the 1%, I think?
Awards include: Most Excellence on a New Instrument-French Horn, Outstanding French Student of the Year, an AP Scholar, and a nominee for a National Beta Club Scholarship.
My standardized testing scores make me cringe, in comparison to everyone else’s fantastic ones.</p>
<p>Congrats to Callie, Mary and Myboyz!
Hey Bowler…any letter yet? I am anxious to hear!</p>
<p>Well, fortunately Tulane looks at the whole picture, and you are obviously a very good student, academically and otherwise. Some people just don’t do well on standardized tests, but are still outstanding scholars. What’s more of a flag, at least in my opinion, is when a student does really well on the SAT or ACT, but has poor grades. Barring some truly extenuating circumstance, as an admissions officer it would make me nervous about how disciplined that student is. Your situation, on the other hand, indicates excellent discipline and seriousness about academics.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, did you try the SAT? Sometimes people do well on one but not the other of the two standardized tests. In any case, hopefully the rest of your resume will put you over the top. Also keep in mind that the 29-32 ACT range Tulane reports is the 25%-75% levels. That means that fully a quarter of the class does have an ACT score similar to yours.</p>
<p>DD just logged onto Gibson and got the “Congratulations” message. We’re so happy! She submitted around October 15th and her file status was complete for about two weeks.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I got a letter today - won’t be home until later tonight but I will let you guys know as soon as I get it. And in response to someone’s question (can’t remember whose) - I am definitely enrolling IF I am offered an athletic scholarship for bowling to pay for most of If not all of the cost of attendance because I wouldn’t be able to afford it otherwise. I don’t know if I will get need-based aid either, but I’m hoping I do.</p>
<p>Congrats eaglesmom! That’s great news.</p>
<p>Congrats Eaglesmom09, Callie, Mary , myboyz! What a relief! Now we wait for the mailman…</p>
<p>fallenchemist-I did take the SAT, but my score was essentially the ACT equivalent. Thank you for the reassurance.
Congratulations to everyone. :)</p>
<p>Oliver17 – I don’t think the stats being posted on here constitute a full/representative sample. I think the 25-75 ACT range for the most recent TU class was something like 28-32. So your kid’s 31 is statistically above average (which is where the merit money clusters).</p>
<p>ACT is only one data point in the application, but last year ACT 31 = $22k merit for my kid.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>congrats everyone</p>
<p>northwesty is correct, of course. Minor correction is that according to Tulane’s Common Data Set the range was 29-32. But the point is the same of course.</p>
<p>And I said $23,000 in my post replying to oliver17. It appears that award (the Founders) is actually $22,000.</p>
<p>As posted by Rodney on the Jewish B Student thread:</p>
<p>"AS many of you here and elsewhere on CC know, there have been some missteps with Tulane admissions over the last few years (jym has a doozy story and her son ended up having a great 4 years!!)…well, I have another one…a tippy top kid applied via Universal app on September 24th; still hasn’t gotten a log-in; when I called last week, they couldn’t find his application (but had all his suppoting docs)…finally, a very nice admissions rep called me back and told me that they found it in the basement printer; apparently Tulane is having issues coordinating the Universal app with their computer system but nobody bothered to figure out that there were kids applications sitting in the system…he still hasn’t heard with a log-in…phone call on my schedule for tomorrow…</p>
<p>Moral of the story: check all your schools if you haven’t heard with log ins about 6 weeks after you submit…"</p>
<p>Northwesty and Fallenchemist, Thanks for your feedback, I had no idea. That would be AMAZING. Now I’ll just wait. My daughter is checking Gibson once daily, she doesn’t know about the issues which I’m thankful for because she worries a lot. HHMMM…I wonder where she gets it?</p>
<p>P.S. What’s the Jewish B Student thread?</p>
<p>In the Parents Forum-- Colleges for the Jewish B student (or something like that). The thread began as a way to address the needs of that population (less than an A student looking for a college with a Jewish presence) but it has since morphed into Jewish students (and all students who welcome a Jewish presence) of all different abilities and talents. Like the Tulane folks, it is also a wonderfully welcoming and warm bunch of people.</p>
<p>Here is the link to that thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/931514-colleges-jewish-b-student.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/931514-colleges-jewish-b-student.html</a></p>
<p>Obviously with over 15,000 posts and homing in on 1,000,000 (!!!) views, it has been active for some time. I do not happen to be Jewish, but it was a useful thread for many people looking for colleges that were strong in general and had students that perhaps didn’t make the 3.8 GPA in high school. But as Vitrac says, it has morphed somewhat since then, which isn’t very surprising at all.</p>
<p>And just to anticipate the obvious question that often comes up anyway, Tulane is about 25-30% Jewish, I think. Hard to get reliable numbers on something like that sometimes, but I think that is what is generally reported.</p>