<p>mine was blank for a couple of minutes so i kept logging off and logging back on and then saw i was accepted! so keep checking!</p>
<p>doingthisagain- My stats are in two seperate posts both on page 47 of this thread. I do not know about merit money at the moment because the official acceptance packet still has not made its way up to PA yet!</p>
<p>Bloomy- Your son’s stats are very impressive! I am positive he is a no-brainer for the Tulane Admissions Staff!</p>
<p>Congrats volleygirl20!!!</p>
<p>Congrats volleygirl20! I saw you at the UW-Madison thread also I believe? </p>
<p>Were you just accepted tonight?</p>
<p>pinkpig32 - i see you are from PA - any interest in Penn State?</p>
<p>THANK YOU! and yes hugoblack i am in the uw-madison thread-would love to go there! and i was just accepted about 30 min. ago</p>
<p>Bloomy- I actually already applied to Penn State University Park and was accepted a couple of weeks ago!</p>
<p>my son too - he got into the Smeal Business School - it is actually ranked pretty high - a serious consideration. He also applied to Wisconsin…seems this group applied to similar schools.</p>
<p>My daughter got accepted to Penn State 2 weeks ago as well.</p>
<p>Bloomy & jaynebe- are you both non-PA residents?</p>
<p>We are from New jersey</p>
<p>Live in Rhode Island.</p>
<p>Hi, good luck to all waiting to hear and congrats to those accepted. Just wondering: it seems a very large number of Tulane admits are offered $$. Has this always been the case? Are they enticing kids they think might go to higher rated schools? Do you think tuition is inflated and then “discounted” with these offers? How prestigious are these awards? WHat is the “average” award given by Tulane. I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth but I have no experience with schools that offer scholarships other than need based. Thanks in advance for info.</p>
<p>^^ btw, we’re from NJ. Son applied Nov. 14. Admitted Nov. 20. Award offer arrived snail mail today. 20k/yr</p>
<p>Applejax1, the only ones we know that were accepted at Tulane are the ones here on cc. I think 3-4 from our high school in OH applied and haven’t heard yet. We’ll just keep checking Gibson. Good thing I don’t have insomnia.</p>
<p>exlawyermom - the acceptance letter didn’t say anything about architecture but the Admin rep told her it would be a separate acceptance.</p>
<p>jaynebe, it had said application complete and decision pending. Good luck!</p>
<p>lioness4 - Nothing wrong with asking, it is a rather innovative approach.</p>
<p>I guess I would say first that I don’t think it would be correct to say tuition is inflated then discounted, only in the sense that tuition at many private schools similar to Tulane have very similar tuition levels. WUSTL, Duke, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Emory, on and on. There may be a few thousand dollars difference on one side or the other at various similar schools (Tulane is not the most expensive in the country, according to this article is was not in the top 20, although it had to be very close: <a href=“The 20 Most Expensive Colleges in America”>The 20 Most Expensive Colleges in America), but not $20-27K worth. Also, most applicants do not receive merit scholarships so it is not discounted for them based on merit, but of course still could be based on need. Merit winners can get further aid if need warrants it. I don’t know what the average merit award turns out to be. I doubt that is published anywhere. I think there is a number that is published that shows overall financial aid averages. If I can find it I will post it.</p>
<p>So yes indeed, I think it is clear that post-Katrina Tulane took some bold steps to reestablish themselves, and either it worked exactly as planned or, as I rather suspect, even better than planned. I have written on this at some length in the past, but to boil it down the strategy, which I find clever and very cohesive, is as follows.</p>
<p>1) Make the application free and very easy to submit. Also market heavily to students that seem to have the academic credentials. Tulane was, for better or worse, one of the early adopters of frequent mailings.</p>
<p>2) Provide decisions as quickly as possible, before the students hear from peer schools like Miami, Vandy, WUSTL, etc.</p>
<p>3) In that notification, provide the best students (I would estimate the top 25% probably receive merit offers, it just seems like more on CC) with merit scholarships that they didn’t even apply for. This piques their interest greatly, and students that really never seriously considered Tulane start to look into the school with new interest, and those that already were strongly looking at Tulane solidify their decisions.</p>
<p>4) For the students with newly found interest especially, get them to visit the campus if at all possible. Tulane and New Orleans “show” very well, and there have been dozens if not hundreds of anecdotes about students for whom Tulane went from hardly a thought to an interesting thought to “I’m sold, this is definitely where I want to be, or at least in my top 2-3”.</p>
<p>5) Then the other decisions come in either in December or late March, but in the meantime they have started picturing themselves at Tulane. If they don’t get into their top choice which is often an Ivy or equivalent, or they do but cannot afford it, Tulane becomes their school. Sometimes they get into those other schools and can afford it and come to Tulane anyway!</p>
<p>So without some of the nuance I could have elaborated about, that is what I think they have been using the merit scholarships to accomplish. It is part of a plan that is, as I have said, very well thought out IMO.</p>
<p>2asmom, same, we were told at the visit that portfolio would be reviewed and arch acceptance separate. Have you received the hardcopy mailing yet?</p>