<p>Hey Rice! That’s great!</p>
<p>I applied in late december, I didnt even know people heard back this early. Should I be worried?</p>
<p>^^^ Nah, stay confident! Many heard from EA, some as they are daily reviewing the RD apps. Hang in there!</p>
<p>Your stats, from what I could find of them, spcampbell, seem a tad on the low side for TU and many of the schools you are applying to. Did you retake the SAT? What was your total score (all 3 parts). Did you take the ACT?</p>
<p>Fallenchemist: Thank you for your rich information on Tulane! I have two questions: 1. Does Tulane re-evaluate its merit-based scholarships if an applicant sent a better test score after he/she received the initial scholarhip notification letter? 2: How does a typical Tulane financial package look like for a familty with $15,000 EFC?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I am not FC but I’ll take a stab at your first question:
If you have new information to provide, such as significantly improved SAT scores, it is certainly worth sending them to your adcomm and asking for a reconsideration. The worst they can say is no…</p>
<p>JYM–You sound just like FC!!! Quite the compliment.</p>
<p>LOL, vitrac! He and I tend to think the same…</p>
<p>LOL, yes jym and I have become friends through here and I know I have benefited from her points in the past. I can only hope she feels the same way.</p>
<p>Fairness - I can’t add anything to jym’s comment except to say that they are absolutely willing to reevaluate. I have had at least a dozen people tell me that Tulane improved the scholarship offer and/or Honors Program admission after receiving new information that was significant.</p>
<p>I cannot answer the second part of your question, because that is an area I am less conversant with. I have been told that two people with the same financial stats still might receive different offers because of scholastic credentials. FA is not totally based on a formula unless a school guarantees 100% of need, which Tulane does not. I think they average 92% of assessed need. Beyond that I cannot be much help, sorry.</p>
<p>Stick around long enough and we all start to think alike :)</p>
<p>So, I just finished touring tulane. I loved it! It’s my first choice now. It was much more than I expected it to be. The only thing I found quite odd was that the general chemistry lecture that I sat in on was easier than my AP Chemistry work. The questions he gave them that “are too hard to appear on an exam” were questions that frequently appeared on my test, and he was supposed to be one of the harder chemistry teachers. Well, higher gpa for me! 
lol, but anyways…the campus was very nice, although it was also very large and parking was horrible. They had catfish and gumbo for lunch today and it was AMAZING. In addition, the campus looked very lively and the professors were really nice. Hopefully I can get in. XD</p>
<p>whs2012-just curiously, which gen chem professor was it?</p>
<p>whs - Actually Tulane is considered a fairly small campus for a school its size. 110 acres I think. If you look up a lot of similar schools of around 6,000 or so undergrads are twice the size at least. It was always one of the things I liked about Tulane, that is is compact without being too small. I also like that the academic buildings are concentrated in two areas. Anyway, glad you loved it so much. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Hi, i got 1 question about enrollment confirmation. Do I have to pay the deposit and confirm now or wait until May 1st to decide?</p>
<p>@Tahunganh, you can wait till May 1st. there was also an “I’m not sure yet” option when they emailed me about my decision.</p>
<p>Just in case you guys were wondering, I have a friend at Tulane already and her mom got this email (not really sure why she did and I didn’t lol but I’m assuming that means you guys didn’t either).
"February 18, 2011</p>
<p>Good Morning:</p>
<p>We are starting to get a good idea of the character and characteristics of our new first-year class that will arrive on campus this fall. This year’s applicant pool should translate into an entering class whose average SAT score will be higher than any in Tulane’s history. Couple this with the fact that approximately 70 percent of admitted students rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class and you can see why we are so excited.</p>
<p>By design, this class will be smaller (between 1,450 and 1,475 students) than the previous two years. Since we will accept significantly less students than in 2010, our selectivity index (accepted students vs. number of applicants) will likely improve, again making us one of the country’s most selective schools.</p>
<p>Women make up 56 percent of the admitted class and 17 percent are from underrepresented groups. In addition to Louisiana, the states supplying the bulk of our new class include New York, California, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia and Pennsylvania. The average admitted student’s home is nearly 900 miles from New Orleans.</p>
<p>After receiving more applications than any private university in the nation last year, we decided to require this year’s applicants to answer more questions and write an essay on why they wanted to attend Tulane. This was done in order to ensure that our applicant pool was made up of students sincerely interested in attending Tulane. Even with this, we still received nearly 38,000 applications, ranking us in the top five among all private universities in the nation.</p>
<p>As their essays show, our new class is brimming with enthusiasm to join the ranks of Tulane students. They too want to make a difference by applying the skills and knowledge they acquire in the classroom to help solve the problems in their community and in the community of nations. I can’t wait to welcome them to Tulane.</p>
<p>And while I am on the subject of great Tulane students, don’t forget baseball season begins at Turchin today at 6:30 p.m., as our nationally ranked Green Wave take on Sam Houston State for a three-game home series.</p>
<p>Have a great weekend,
Scott"</p>
<p>This is something President Cowen does every Friday. I started another thread on this shortly after lunch. She got it because she has signed up to be on the mailing list for this. It is called “Tulane Talk”.</p>
<p>Yup-- we parents get that from Pres Cowen.</p>
<p>Richardson in 117…I went to the 1-1:50 lecture. It was good, just easier.</p>
<p>whs -You may of course be right about this, but be careful about making sweeping conclusions based on a single lecture. Often a professor will feel certain areas merit more attention than others. So they might only spend a short time covering colligative properties, for example, and give easier tests on that while going into great depth about quantum mechanical theory and molecular orbitals and expect a much higher level of understanding there. (Not that I might be thinking back to any particular individual case, lol). The AP test, on the other hand, is known to emphasize certain areas and so a good teacher will hammer those areas. Maybe one of those was being lectured on that day.</p>
<p>Or maybe you are totally right that your class was actually harder. Difficult to say of course. I just know from these threads last semester that few people seemed to consider the chem courses easy, and I know many of them scored 4’s and 5’s on the AP Chem. Anyway, I know you weren’t complaining or being negative, I’m just saying. You are right, of course, that if you did decide on Tulane and happened to find the class easy for you, that’s just a bonus for you.</p>