<p>Dumb question–
How can the attending GPA average be lower than the accepted, if the attending pool is a subset of the accepted pool? And, just to clarify in my head, are you using the word “admitted” interchangeably with “attending”? Its a little unclear</p>
<p>jym: at every school, the students who apply can have a higher GPA than those who actually enroll…I think what idad is referring to is a situation (not particular to Tulane) where alot of those who apply at the higher end of the GPA range end up attending other schools so the “enrolled” GPA tends to be lower than the GPA of the actual accepted students…</p>
<p>I would assume (may be wrong) that a school (again, not necessarily Tulane) with a lower yield, will have a bigger difference between the “accepted” GPA and the “enrolled” GPA…(and conversely a school with a higher yield would have a statistically insignificant difference)</p>
<p>Just my take…as FC says, back to your regularly scheduled programming…</p>
<p>That makes sense, rodney. And now that I’ve had my morning cup of coffee and today’s dose of cold/flu medicine, the fog is lifting :)</p>
<p>rodney - your analysis is spot on. For the very top schools (HYP) there is virtually no meaningful difference between those they accept and those that attend. As you move down the chain, the differences grow, since students with the stats to attend HYP, WUSTL, Tufts, etc. apply to Tulane frequently as well, and get accepted to Tulane. If they get into one of those higher ranked schools, more often than not they choose it, although a surprising number still pick Tulane because of the merit money, the campus and location, and other, personal reasons. That is exactly Tulane’s strategy in being so aggressive with admissions marketing. Still, there is no question that the significant majority end up at the higher ranked schools, hence the lower stats for attending students. Heck, if the stats reflected the admitted student average we would be closing in on HYP territory, lol.</p>
<p>The only thing I am not sure about is if yields track with the gap in the stats. Tulane may be anomalous there because of their very different admissions strategy. In other words, while they are towards the bottom in yield, I would bet their gap between admitted student stats and attending student stats is smaller than would be predicted by that measure. After all, the attending students stats are pretty high, up there with schools whose yields are higher. Also, it depends on the type of school. University of Nebraska, for example, has an extremely high yield. Doesn’t mean anything other than they get mostly in-state apps from kids that are pretty sure that is where they are going.</p>
<p>Tulane is an outlier, but I would guess that there is a difference in admitted versus attending at least as large as USC’s difference. What might be a larger difference is the profile of applying students to attending. With the application being free and easy to do, I would believe that many more Hail Mary’s are likely. Attending numbers would be much higher. Here is a link to the USC data: <a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/FreshmanProfile2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/FreshmanProfile2010.pdf</a></p>
<p>Check out the discrepancy between applying and attending. My guess is Tulane would show a similar trend.</p>
<p>I agree, admitted vs. attending likely is rather similar. I am not sure why they even bother publishing the stats for those that apply. Seems kind of meaningless to me. You are right that with a free app, the applying students stats for Tulane would probably be even lower.</p>
<p>What is interesting to me is how different the Composite Middle 50% is than if you add up the individual ones. Just goes to show how wrong it is to try and calculate the median SAT score as the average of the 25th and 75th % scores.</p>
<p>tx idad for that link; really interesting…</p>
<p>I was accepted online today. Hopefully, scholarship $$$ are in my future.</p>
<p>Congrats Kicker! Fingers crossed for lots of $$! Keep us posted!</p>
<p>Congrats to all the acceptees! Must be wonderful to have such a great school in hand. I’m also new to this forum and my S’s big news: his Gibson status finally says: “Your application is complete.” Wheee! Now more waiting…</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got accepted!</p>
<p>I just sent in my application this week in time for early action, anyone have an estimate of how long it will be for a decision?</p>
<p>Hard to say, but at this point you might not hear until very close to the deadline, unless you are a slam-dunk admit. Even then, just depends on the number of apps they have to get through.</p>
<p>I was accepted via the Gibson portal about a week and a half ago. Still waiting on the Financial aid information…hoping it rolls in today!</p>
<p>samsam - just to be clear, they won’t award your financial aid package yet, if you are applying for it. This is strictly merit scholarships, regardless of your family’s financial status. Maybe that is what you meant, but I just wanted you to know in case you were thinking this would be the total package. I am not sure exactly when they send out the FA packages, but I think it is much later, like March.</p>
<p>When is the deadline?</p>
<p>very interesting link, idad. I agree that Tulane’s stats are probably very similar.</p>
<p>headingsouth - Tulane promises to let EA applicants know by Dec 15.</p>
<p>My application status on Gibson just turned to complete today. About how long do you think it will take to get a decision?</p>
<p>Are you EA?</p>
<p>Fallenchemist, I am new here and hope you can answer my question. My daughter was complete 10-22 and notified of acceptance online 11-4. She received her formal acceptance letter today - but no scholarship offer. </p>
<p>She took the October SAT which bumped her superscore from 1980 to 2100. Weighted gpa is 4.5 with 8 AP’s classes. </p>
<p>I thought she might get some sort of merit scholarship, but am wondering if her October SAT scores were actually included in her file at the time she was accepted. Would it be worth it to contact her admissions counselor? I would appreciate your thoughts.</p>