<p>Few cities in America are presented the opportunity to start with an almost blank canvas. The unfortunate parts are that it requires a complete devastation to get rid of the rats or the dead wood AND that those nefarious forces have a way to buy their way back. </p>
<p>In the meantime, there is hope. And that is something that that poor city has been desperately needing for generations. Now if the city could only get rid of the complete and abject reliance on the combination of welfare, debauchery and organized lewdness, it might be on the path to become a city one could be proud of calling his or her own.</p>
Ah, I guess I missed that along the way. Well, it certainly is one of America’s most unique cities. It is easy to either love it or hate it, no question. Or even both.
I wouldn’t call it a complete reliance. After all, Tulane is the largest employer in the city. But it just wouldn’t be New Orleans without some debauchery (great word) and lewdness. I also think you give them too much credit to call it organized.</p>
<p>Why spend the time when someone like you can simply educate all of us. So, how extensive was the devastation at Tulane? How did it compare to Xavier’s? Was it worse than what happen in the French Quarter? How many Tulane’s buildings were under water? </p>
<p>I think that your analysis is perfect. Hate it or love it … it makes it hard to be indifferent. All in all, the most important part is to be able to find a way to respect the opinions of others, especially since none of us is entirely right or wrong.</p>
Come on xiggi, play nice. Actually, both the FQ and Tulane got relatively spared compared to 3 or 4 other areas, with the 9th ward obviously being the worst. But it was pretty bad. Cowen and some others were literally trapped for days, I think it was in the Reilly Center although I would have to check that, and were rescued by boat I think. From a 4 year old memory, so can’t swear to the details, but close enough.</p>
<p>Maybe you are trying to be funny, but it comes across to me as if you are trivializing the disaster. Trust me, I don’t care where you were in any of those parishes in that area, it was bad. I mean really bad. I hope you never have to go through anything remotely like that.</p>
<p>FC, I was not trivializing Katrina in any way. Since the impact of Katrina was shared at length in our forums, many of us learned the extent of Tulane’s devastation. </p>
<p>Fwiw, one of your fellow Tulane parents could write a book on how Katrina defined the experience of his son at the school. Search the posts of Concerneddad. The stories from the application days to the successful transition to one of the better medical schools in the country should still be there. </p>
<p>As far as playing nice … I better start behaving. After all, Jym knows where I live! :)</p>
<p>FC-
I took xigs comments to mean (albeit a little flippantly) that the new poster probably isnt aware that his/her post could have perhaps come across as if these issues haven’t been discussed at length here before, not that these issues were trivial.</p>
<p>Well, I think that was my point. As a relatively new poster that person could not be expected to know there has been a ton already discussed on the subject. It was a perfectly reasonable post that sounded like it was being ridiculed. I see that the poster was apparently sufficiently dismayed that they removed the post! I don’t think that is the way to treat newcomers, myself. They don’t understand the dynamics on here.</p>
<p>A lot of posts seem to have been disappearing today! Bummer that that poster (welcome, Theleak) took down that post, if thats what happened, as it had some nice kudos to Tulane. Thats always nice to hear. It said
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<p>Heck xig and fc-- I know where both of you live!!</p>
<p>FC, I believe that you have been here long enough to know that the possibility that a poster with a handle such as “TheLeak” is a new poster is as remote as mayor Nagin getting the Nobel Prize is. If you missed it, that account was created to play with the mind of rather credulous fellow members.</p>
<p>^^^ I wondered about that right after I posted my last post, xig… (hence my postulating about how the posts were gone-- ie “if thats what happened”) checked for that posters history, and <em>poof</em> no record of that poster exists. My-- been a strange day here in ccland.</p>
I guess you just read minds better than I xiggi. I have no idea what in that post would have made you think that. Seemed like quite a normal post to me. If you are right, why would they have deleted it?</p>
<p>FC, I wrote “If you missed it, that account was created to play with the mind of rather credulous fellow members.” </p>
<p>I happen to read the first post of TheLeak in the thread related to the USNews “leaks.” What can I say, after a while, it becomes natural to pick the true new members from the ■■■■■■. An easy hint is that new members often start with questions versus statements. :)</p>
<p>Loyola New Orleans is adjacent to Tulane and its a fabulous school with some amazing faculty as well. That part of N’Awlins is gorgeous and very upper crust and not affiliated with the debauchery on Bourbon Street.</p>
<p>I, a happy parent here, am so glad that, with thousands of schools in this country, the NYT article included my three kids three individual schools. In other words, they are the most select or most known schools. So I am proud.</p>
<p>So do not care if school A has a better yield than school B. This is a very short list. Be proud if yours or your kids school is on it.</p>
<p>There are some screwy numbers on that table, like 100 % of those offered spots on the WL at Dickinson took it, and none took spots at Texas A&M yet 451 got in off the WL??? And U of Chicago has NA as # on WL, yet shows 71 admitted off the list. An update will be nice when the schools respond (as the article stated)</p>
<p>Given the high number of multiple apps and admits going on these days, I think a more useful number would be yield expressed as standard deviations from the mean.</p>
<p>We would have to argue which schools to include in the group though, and I can just imagine what a ruckus that would cause :)</p>
<p>Just to chime in about Tulane: It has rather quickly become a match school in my neighborhood in the US southwest, thought of (in gross generality) as ok academically and merit aid generous. Its star brightened a lot when UT Austin cut merit aid.</p>
<p>regarding UChicago, if you check the UChicago section on cc, apparently Chicago waitlist is still open at this late date!!! Some one is still being asked if they want to stay on!! It is weird… But the NYT stats are correct.</p>