<p>Also, how do I choose between Monroe and Sharp?</p>
<p>You might want to pose those questions on the Tulane Freshman answering questions thread…</p>
<p>Monroe and Sharp, IMO, is a complete tossup. It makes little difference, really.</p>
<p>It depends on the subject, of course, but yes many classes are discussion based once you get past the intro levels. Rather than go into all the possibilities, because it does vary so much by subject, do you know what you think you might major in? I don’t think you ever mentioned that.</p>
<p>Also, back on the New Orleans and jobs thing, you are right that Tulane has a huge draw from the Northeast. I assume you would be going home for to Massachusetts for the summers, and with networking using online tools such as LinkedIn, you will find something. It takes initiative on your part, for sure. Once you start establishing those contacts, it doesn’t matter so much where your school is located. You get to know people in your class and a year or two ahead of you, they find jobs, you contact them, etc. etc. Tulane grads have found jobs nationally and internationally. Is it easier if you were located in the Northeast? Possibly, because you could go in for interviews more easily. But that is why they invented Skype. Usually for internships you don’t have to talk to more than one or two people. But it certainly won’t be any easier in this respect at Oxy or St. Andrews.</p>
<p>Oh ok, that makes sense. As of now, I am interested in Anthropology and English. But that could change, of course.</p>
<p>Sure, at least half the students at most schools change majors at least once, or so they say. But for those particular majors, should you stick with them, most of the classes are small and should have lots of discussion. Anthro, for example, has quite a few sections for each of the freshmen level courses, they mostly have a limit of 25 students, and most sections still had a few seats available so the class size appears to generally be about 18-23. The upper level courses generally seem to be limited to 15 and some had 5-10 seats available, so again small and very open to discussion. Interestingly I saw a junior level course called World Pirates that had an 18 seat limit with none available! People still love pirates, I guess. Another junior level course called Religion, Witchcraft and Magic had a 25 seat limit and only 2 open. Fascinating. As far as class sizes go, English shouldn’t be too different.</p>
<p>If you do end up at Tulane, shout back at me. I have a course I would recommend you take freshman year, but no sense getting into it now since you really don’t know yet.</p>
<p>Just a note on dolphnlvr6’s comment regarding Big 4 Accounting firms: Tulane has a very popular Master of Accounting Program and students are regularly placed in Busy Season internships with Big 4 firms all over the country which, more often than not, lead to a full time position upon completion of the Masters program. </p>
<p>Secondly, US News & World Reports ranked Tulane’s MBA program #1 in the nation for job placement in rankings published last March.</p>
<p>Good to know, I was only referring to Undergraduate level, although those internships may occur at that level as well…</p>
<p>I don’t know about Big 4 accounting, but I was with a member of the Freeman school admin a year ago and they were telling me that accounting is a field where they expect there will be more jobs than people to fill them for the foreseeable future. They were speaking internationally, not USA only. Tulane has a strong program for this, and the current Dean (3 years now?), whom they recruited from the University of Illinois, is considered one of the leading academics in the field of accounting. I also don’t know how much difference it makes having a masters instead of just a bachelors for this field. I am sure someone on here does. I know this doesn’t matter to jazz, but for those making the same type of decision of Tulane vs. another school based on location, it would seem that for this particular field the location of your undergrad doesn’t make so much difference.</p>
<p>Requirements to sit for the CPA exam have changed to require applicants have 150 credit hours. Most Bachelor degrees will give you around 120/122 credit hours so many students in Accounting are continuing on for a Masters before they start job seeking. Many of the firms that recruited here last year told us they will hire students with less than the 150 credits only if they have a plan for how they are going to earn the remaining credits.</p>
<p>Jazz, discussion based as in Harkness method? My son found his smaller classes were more discussion and less lecture (French & Portuguese) where his larger classes were lecture (International Relations & Logic). He got A’s in the first 2 and a B- and C in the second 2. If you’re used to discussion based classes, the lectures will take some getting used to.</p>
<p>That’s true GreenWaveMama. I remember having to make that adjustment many years ago. Most high schools don’t prepare you for those large lecture classes, I don’t think. The good news is that after the intro classes, lecture style ones become less common, although I suppose that still depends somewhat on the major involved.</p>
<p>yes, that’s exactly what they call it at boarding school: harkness method. but of course, I can’t expect that all the time at a school the size of tulane. to be honest, I was recently thinking about EDII at Emory, mostly because I’d probably get in (because of connections) and it has a better reputation–but I thought about it more, and there is just a lot more that is special to me about Tulane than Emory. I find it hard figuring out where spirit and fun can be found at emory, but tulane just sounds so vibrant. You cannot argue Emory doesn’t have a better reputation, but wouldn’t you agree, that at that point, the fact that emory’s rep is a bit better, it really won’t make a huge difference?</p>
<p>My son graduated from Exeter last year and we also looked at Emory. Great school, but you are right, it was tough to figure out where school spirit comes into play. I wouldn’t say that Emory’s rep is better.</p>
<p>It is an odd thing. Emory is higher rated in USNWR, but I have found that Tulane is actually a little better known as a school. Could be sports related, even though Tulane hasn’t been that good for a while we did have an undefeated season in 1998 and that got a lot of publicity. Also historically Tulane is better known. It’s pretty close, and they are both great schools. Splitting hairs at that point, and also as you imply, jazz, it really is hardly the focus of picking a school. Emory is an excellent school in a city I like very much (I did some research and teaching at Ga. Tech and lived in Atlanta for 3-4 years), but it is not at all like NOLA. Emory is a lot more like WUSTL. The students are smart, they enjoy being there, and it is a nice community of students/faculty. It just isn’t as unique, in the non-literal sense of that word, as Tulane and NOLA.</p>
<p>I live in NOLA and visited Emory, and I prefer Tulane and its surrounding areas. Driving around Emory & its surrounding areas just didn’t seem like there was too much stuff to do outside of the university, whereas there is so much to do at Tulane and in NOLA. There are always so many activities in the city, and plenty of places to just hang out.</p>
<p>Agreed, Tulane is certainly a special place to be. thanks everyone, I really appreciate your input.</p>