My daughter was accepted (yay!) with no merit offer. It appears that most kids accepted were offered SOMETHING. Does anyone know if there is any chance at merit at any other point in this process? She applied for the Paul Tulane scholarship so we are wondering if this may mean she is being considered for that and other more full scholarships? Just looking for insight here as her stats were similar to many kids who got merit offers with their acceptances. Any insight appreciated…
The lack of merit now means nothing with regard to consideration for Paul Tulane or any of the other scholarships. They award merit at acceptance independent of additional scholarship applications…they are separate reviews.
Obviously, winners receive full tuition and that replaces any previous merit awards (or lack thereof). But in recent cycles, Tulane has been awarding additional, smaller merit bundles (less than $5K) to PT applicants whose submissions stood out.
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Thanks for the response. Do you know if there is any avenue to appeal the lack of merit award?
You can always ask your AO, but there would need to be some additional/new data that strengthens your application above what it was initially. Just asking for more merit is unlikely to result in any significant addition.
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My daughter won the Stamps scholarship last year. Her initial EA acceptance came with 28K merit. When she got her REJECTION for the Paul Tulane they bumped her merit amount up 8K. Then she got an email 2 days later to interview for the Stamps.
Take from all of that what you need.
Congrats to your daughter! It sounds like most kids who won the full scholarships were originally offered some merit scholarship so I am guessing that is not a good sign. Do you mind me asking what were your daughter’s stats at admission? Thank you!!
I was accepted this year early action with no merit. One thing Tulane is known for is trying to keep that acceptance rate low and in order to do that, they will offer merit scholarships to applicants who stand out as people who could have a wide array of options besides Tulane. This means those merit scholarships often only go to students with the highest stats and little is left for students who fall in the middle or at the lower end of their admitted student profile.
Friend’s superstar kid was accepted a few years ago with a half tuition merit scholarship. Deferred, then re-took SAT, got that up to virtually perfect, took a gap year (for own reasons, not for merit re-application reasons), and re-applied for full tuition merit. Didn’t get it, but no surprise, since they already knew kid was going there, even with just half tuition merit.
36 ACT, 8 AP courses, 3 AP tests all 5s, 100 UW GPA. Coolidge Senator. NHS president, Spanish club president, Sustainability club president. Acted in two school plays. Wrote full length play (in the process of being produced a local theater), many service activities that showed the breadth and depth of her personal interests.
Her brother is a senior at Tulane and I am a grad as is her aunt, but that didn’t play into her Stamps, because the first question they asked her in the interview is how she was going to make her Tulane
experience different from her family’s.
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I am also a Stamps Scholarship recipient at Tulane (bored during winter break 
). I didn’t have perfect stats, and imho, for these full scholarships, they’re looking for applicants who have decent grades and test scores but who also have a compelling story/interest and evidence to back it up. tbh @collegetour2022 if you didn’t get a standard merit scholarship offer in your acceptance letter, it might be a long shot for Paul Tulane. But remember, your story is what counts and will be the deciding factor. Good luck in the admissions process!
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I’m curious to understand your statement that the acceptance and scholarships are “separate reviews” - how do you know that? So the people reviewing for scholarships do not know whether the applicant was offered any merit in the initial acceptance process? If so, that is helpful in my daughter’s case. thanks!!
I don’t know what Tulane does, but my older child got a merit scholarship elsewhere and a faculty committee made those selections. Admissions admitted; faculty decided the elite merit awards.
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