<p>samsam, </p>
<p>If you really want to attend Tulane, get all the financial aid stuff (CSS profile and FAFSA) turned in on time. You may be surprised at the amount of need-based aid Tulane offers.</p>
<p>Here’s a silly question-
Rand into some friends last night who have one child at TU and one who was just accepted! The younger child said all his friends who applied have gotten in. Has anyone heard of anyone NOT getting accepted? Any deferrals or denials?</p>
<p>I can’t imagine that every single early action applicant made the cut, but you never know. This could make it harder for regular decision kids, perhaps?</p>
<p>Interesting.</p>
<p>I imagine it is just that people that don’t get in don’t like to talk about it. It is also possible Tulane chooses to focus on acceptance notices first, while wait-list, defer to RD, and deny notifications are made closer to the deadline of Dec 15.</p>
<p>FC … Good news yesterday. D’s acceptance letter arrived yesterday and she was offered the Presidential and Honors College! Now on to finishing the DHS application and keeping fingers crossed. She’s SO excited.</p>
<p>Dad2ILD - Ho hum, no surprise there. LOL, kidding. That is wonderful! I big step down, one to go, with any luck.</p>
<p>jym: heard the same thing here…and from some very low stat kids…the only ones who havent heard yet are architecture kids…granted, the low stats kids are full pay, though.</p>
<p>rodney - My D was accepted and the only major she applied for was architecture…</p>
<p>momofboston: Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>i applied almost two weeks ago for early action. i have not gotten an email with my gibson login info yet. should i have gotten this already? should i contact them?</p>
<p>Architecture here too! </p>
<p>dfunckmom, what do you mean by you may be surprised need-based aid offers, do they go above and beyond what you would qualify for through the FASFA? In doing a quick calculation we wouldn’t qualify for anything, but still at close to $50,000 a year we couldn’t afford that.</p>
<p>nickis93 - Yes, I would contact them.</p>
<p>its almost been a month…i dont think im going to get in…=[
JUST GIVE ME MY NOTICE!</p>
<p>Just got my letter today in the mail, which shocked me because I only sent in my application 15 days ago! Congrats to everyone else! I got the Founders Scholarship but nothing was mentioned about the Honors Program… is it possible to apply or do you have to be invited? </p>
<p>My stats:
ACT- 32 (might re-take)
UW- 3.94 (No weighted available but it’s not higher b/c of numerous medical issues my first two years of high school, plus I attend a rigorous public school. I have been doing/have done extremely well my junior and senior year-- I’m expecting my avg for the first semester of my senior year to be AT LEAST 95.)</p>
<p>Plus I was just elected Editor in Chief of my school’s literary magazine last Tuesday and haven’t informed them yet… would that make a difference?</p>
<p>I see from another post that your GPA is around 91 UW, which would actually be about a 3.6 on a 4.0 scale. If you do better on the ACT on a retake, and get 95 or better first semester, you can certainly submit these to Tulane (well, you have to submit the first semester grades anyway) and ask for reconsideration to the Distinguished Scholars Award. This still won’t guarantee an invitation to the Honors Program, but gives you a chance at an invite. To answer that part of the question, for incoming freshmen it is invitation only. You can apply later if you get at least a 3.6 your freshman year.</p>
<p>@ fallenchemist,</p>
<p>I was admitted to Tulane via Gibson two weeks ago. I was wondering when I should expect to receive the formal letter of admission. Should I contact undergraduate admissions?</p>
<p>-Cheers</p>
<p>Two weeks is a bit long for the letter to lag behind. I would contact them, there have been stories in the past of letters being wrongly delivered to neighbors, things like that.</p>
<p>Yeah, I thought it was 91, but supposedly according to my guidance counselor and my ACT score report it’s actually 3.94–there was an error in the Naviance reports that I was relying on for the previous score (everyone in my grade had similar errors till it was brought to my school’s attention!) 
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<p>I was considering taking the ACT over again to get an edge with other schools I’m applying to, and if it helps with getting the Distinguished Scholars Award, then I’ll definitely sign up for the December tests! Thank you fallenchemist! Do you know if any extracurricular achievements could also help in the decision or is it solely grades?</p>
<p>hi okay. </p>
<p>so i’m new to this whole college confidential thing. i kind of want someone to chance me, but i’m worried that it wil come back to bite me in the end. </p>
<p>merh.</p>
<p>what do i do?</p>
<p>It won’t bite you, but it may not help much either. Look at the college’s statistics and then, if your school has Naviance, look to see where students from your school get in. I found this site after I was admitted ED to Amherst and I would have committed hari kari if I spent any time on this during the college process. As far as I can tell, no one on this site has a GPA lower than 3.4 (and those that fall into that range think that they are hopeless morons, who will have to go to community college before they can transfer). A lot of this is baloney. GPA’s are relative, (and I am sure that someone will contradict me about this). Board scores are not. I had a friend who went to Wesleyan with a 2.7 GPA (and not ED). The average GPA at my high school for kids who get into GW is 2.4. These are just examples, but there is even a kid who got into Princeton with a 3.1 (or something around there, granted he was a recruited athlete, but not in an important sport, like football or baseball). I went to a very competitive private school and, apparently, schools take this into account. So, this is a long winded way of saying, you don’t need a bunch of people who don’t know your school and its history of getting kids into colleges to tell you what your chances are. BUT it’s not going to hurt you either.</p>