<p>According to the "leaked" 2009 rankings, and despite popular expectations, Tulane University has actually dropped and fallen out of the Top 50 school ranks.</p>
<p>So much for all of this marketing hoopla about being a "hot school on the rise"! While these rankings are based upon the 2007/Class of 2011 data (which was decent) -- and not the quite impressive/stellar data from the class of 2012 (25% acceptance rate and 31 avg. ACT) -- this news is seriously disappointing.</p>
<p>big deal. tulane moved down one spot to 51st. boo hoo.</p>
<p>let's force him to step down!</p>
<p>It is amazing that Tulane only drop one spot, considering the massive financial and personnel losses caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Tulane is still among the best/elite schools in the country in spite of the devastating losses.</p>
<p>"It is amazing that Tulane only drop one spot, considering the massive financial and personnel losses caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Tulane is still among the best/elite schools in the country in spite of the devastating losses."</p>
<p>Exactly. And the original poster obviously doesn't understand the US News rankings because the top tier includes every ranked university, all the way down to 130. No need to panic or get upset, we'll begin moving up next year. I didn't realize this until just recently, but the admissions stats actually got worse from 2006-2007. It seems like the worst year should have been directly following the hurricane. Anyway, I was actually here and witnessed everything first hand. It was pretty awful and for awhile I didn't even know if Tulane was going to continue to exist. If this is the lowest the school falls, I think we're damned fortunate everything considered.</p>
<p>I wish that we could get this thread deleted or at the very least renamed. This is misleading to prospective students that come here to research the university.</p>
<p>I know there are alot of factors that go into the rankings...but if you look at the middle 50% of the SAT scores, Tulane should be at least 5 places higher.</p>
<p>Monstar,
Why don't you start a new thread and explain the fallacy of this thread?</p>
<p>I believe the data used to calculate the USN ratings is at least a year old, so hopefully Tulane's ranking will improve next year. That said, while the acceptance rate was much tighter this year at 27% (approx 9200 accepted of 34117 applications), the yield dropped from 19% last year (if memory serves me correctly) to only about 16.8% this year (incoming class is approx. 1550 students). That yield rate is painful. They've obviously done a great job with increasing the number of applications-- now they should focus on improving the yield.</p>
<p>Actually, this was expected. Like others said, dropping one spot is impressive considering the damage it experienced. The "hot school on the rise" and impressive admissions, better freshman class data will not be in until the following years list.</p>
<p>Who cares about the ranking. Make of the college experience what you want with internships, coursework, etc. Tulane doesn't hand you these experiences like Yale and Harvard might, but if you work for them your experience can definitely be as good.</p>