<p>I really don't know much about it, other than a girl from my school who was really smart decided to go there.</p>
<p>It is not that hard to get into if you are smart :-)</p>
<p>Hard is a relative thing in college admissions. Better not to worry about how hard a school is to get in to. Better to worry about how much you would like it if you got in to it.</p>
<p>Most the kids at Tulane are pretty smart. Most wouldn't or didn't get in to Harvard. Probably all did or could have gotten in to their state flagship uni and many very selective schools. They offer very good merit money for kids with high test scores and grades and four years in one of the most interesting cities in the world. They end up with a very interesting lot of kids.</p>
<p>is it true they base admission alot on stats because they want their prestige to increase?</p>
<p>"is it true they base admission alot on stats because they want their prestige to increase?"</p>
<p>That is probably true of every school. Of course it is not just the prestige, there is some pressure from the faculty as well. Given their 'druthers that'd rather have smart students than not so smart ones.</p>
<p>One oddity about the stats on Tulane students - the SAT verbals are higher than the math. You almost never see that outside of small liberal arts colleges and it seems especially odd given they have an engineering school and a pretty even male/female split. I don't know if that is strictly accidental or if there is something about the selection process that is causing it.</p>
<p>It's pretty easy to get into Tulane. As long as you have a 1250(old sat) and a 3.3 GPA, then I think that you can get in.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s as difficult of getting in as, for example, Washington University St. Louis, but it’s also not easy to get into. You would need 30+ ACT, and solid GPA. Good Extra Curriculars would also benefit you alot.</p>
<p>(I’m applying there) :3</p>
<p>Good luck with your application. You might not have noticed, but this thread is 8 years old, lol. You are atill correct though, while the stats of the average incoming freshman have gone up since then, WUSTL, Chicago, Duke, Vandy, etc. are all more selective in terms of stats. Tulane has more of an emphasis on community service than most schools, but otherwise selection criteria are largely similar to these other schools.</p>
<p>Tulane’s admission “overlaps”, if you will, from around the country include Emory, Brandeis, Boston College, U of Miami, Tufts, USC, U of Richmond, NYU, Boston University, Wake Forest and of course a number of the good state schools (e.g., U of Florida, U of Texas, U. of North Carolina, SUNY Binghamton, U of Virginia, etc.)</p>
<p>Agreed NJDad, those are some of the school that are most commonly applied to by students also applying to Tulane. Vanderbilt, WUSTL, USC and a few others also represent a fair amount of overlap, especially for those students hoping to get full tuition scholarships. Oddly, or maybe not so oddly, I have also noticed a lot of people I talk to mention applying to Delaware as well. Not sure how extensive that overlap really is, but I thought is was interesting. Not a state school that usually comes to mind like Texas or Florida.</p>
<p>Perhaps some of the Tulane cross-admits with Delaware are prospective chemistry or chemical engineering majors… these two things are the things I normally associate with both schools at once.</p>
<p>@FC Are you a member of some alumni club in the northeast? I knew Tulane had an alumni club in the northeast, though.</p>
<p>There is one in Boston, and I used to get their emails. For some reason they stopped and I never signed back up. Since it is still over an hour drive for me, almost 2 hours in traffic, I didn’t worry about it too much. Tulane has at least that one and one in New York City, I would think there are several others.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s too hard. If you can get 1 or 2 leadership positions in school clubs and get above a 3.0 GPA, then you can get in and earn a lot of micro-scholarships to pay for tuition.</p>
<p>Probably a lot harder now than it was when this thread was started nine years ago! ;)</p>
<p>Still a great school, though. </p>
<p>Wow, it’s cool to see how places like this have changed!</p>
<p>@ReggieM3131 - I think you underestimate how difficult Tulane is to get into these days. I am not saying it is Harvard or Stanford hard, but at about a 25% acceptance rate it isn’t trivial either. I can say that a 3.0 definitely won’t cut it usually, unless the high school is very hard and so the student still ranks high even with that GPA. I haven’t seen a high school like that for a long time though. In fact, the latest report from Tulane shows that only about 8% of the entering freshmen had a 3.0 or less.</p>
<p>I would also like to see any details Tulane has published about the micro-scholarships. I haven’t been able to find anything except general information. Do you have a link?</p>
<p>Average Tulane SAT score is 2020, average ACT is 31. I would say that sounds difficult.</p>
<p>FC, the only thing I’ve found on “micro scholarships” is the Rise Foundation. They award scholarships to high school students for various reasons. Tulane is one of the school that participates in funding the Rise scholarships but they don’t award them. </p>
<p>dolphnlvr - Yes, actually it is Raise and I put their link on the other thread. I found it to be a bit hard to determine exactly how they determine who gets awarded what to different schools, but I will certainly take your word for it. I am still fairly sure that a student doesn’t get $1,000 for each leadership position.</p>
<p>I agree I have never heard that in any promotional material from Tulane or heard anyone say they got that type of scholarship. With the caliber of students going to Tulane, can you just imagine how many of those scholarships they would be giving out? I can’t really tell how Raise determines who gets the scholarships either. Not much information out there. </p>
<p>It’s a brand new program, so that probably explains why there’s not a lot out there about it. The President of Tulane mentioned it when he was at the White House a few months ago. He was talking about college access, even though the program is open to all high school students in the United States.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to suggest that it’s easy at all to get into Tulane. It’s a top school obviously. I just hate when people get intimidated by the reputation of a top college like Tulane - there are things you can do to have a good chance of getting in, and it seems like the micro-scholarships provide a good idea of what those things are, including leadership roles.</p>