<p>My granddaughter has been accepted to Tulane Honors. She has applied for Financial Aid. Does anyone know when Financial Aid award information has been posted in past years? Has anyone accepted to Tulane received Financial Aid award amounts for Class of 2016? Thanks so much for your help.</p>
<p>I believe this information is usually sent out around the last week of March, often spilling over into early April. While sooner is better, of course, since students have until May 1 to decide it should give her plenty of time to weigh her options.</p>
<p>fallenchemist,
Thanks so much for your information! I have been reading this blog for the past few weeks and you have been a great source of information. I appreciate your help and I’m sure other reader’s do, as well.</p>
<p>Thank you HaleysGram. I really do appreciate the feedback; like anyone I like to know what I am doing is useful. Best of luck to Haley, I am sure wherever she ends up will be wonderful for her, since she is obviously a great student. Tulane would be lucky to have her.</p>
<p>applied RD received aid package last week ,north east</p>
<p>Dogears,
Did you receive Merit Aid (she already received that) or Needs-Based Financial Aid? If the later, how did you receive (email/snail mail)? Thanks.</p>
<p>received 27k merit and unfortunately no aid just 5k loan in gibson account under financial aid then by snail mail</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. We are hoping and praying that our granddaughter receives decent financial aid. She received great merit aid, but still not enough . . . thanks for letting me know that aid notifications have started. The wait is almost over . . .</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): CR: 690 M: 580 W:710
[ *] ACT: 25 overall
[ *] SAT II: N/A
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.41 (private school, grading is ridiculous) weighted is 4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): US His - 4, English Lang - 5
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP English, Precal, AP Psych, Adv. Art (AP), Adv. Topics in US History, Forensics/Anatomy
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Track and Field varsity all four years and team captain, philanthropic youth board president, senior honor board rep, community service in Africa, tons of theater work including script writing, acting, and backstage managing, other community service.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Classic car restoration, self-employed car detailer
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: already stated
[ *] Summer Activities: shadowed a foot surgeon, went to San Diego for youth conference, Pebble Beach car show work
[ *] Essays: all very good imo, wrote one about how much I love Cormac McCarthy
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: all very good
[ *] Counselor Rec: good I’m assuming
[ *] Additional Rec: N/A
[ *] Interview: N/A
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] Intended Major: Psychology
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): WA
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: White/Cherokee
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket: Middle class
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Very unique extra curricular activities
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: EC, SAT score is not bad, unique essays
[ *] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Emphasis on Cherokee heritage
[ *] Weaknesses: Weak ACT, GPA could be better
[ *] Why you think you were accepted: EC and my unique essays
[ *] Where else were you accepted: Whitman, U of O, U of Portland, and LMU</p>
<p>[<em>]SAT 1 - 2220 CR: 760 M: 750 W:710
[</em>]SAT 2 - US History: 720, Biology: M 750
[<em>]Unweighted GPA: 3.17 (One of the most competitive public schools, Tulane seems to really like the students from here) Weighted: No weight at my school. All Honors/AP
[</em>]Rank: N/A
[<em>]AP: APUSH: 5, English Lit. and Comp. 4, US Government pending
[</em>]Senior year course load: AP U.S. Gov, Italy/China Cooking, Honors Math, Public Speaking, [<em>]Honors Biology, Honors Legal Studies
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Internship at a courthouse serving under a judge, 2 years of wrestling (1 year varsity), active work on multiple political campaigns, 4 years in plays acting and performing, I work over the summer and school year at an italian restaurant, and have a small dog walking business.
[li]Essays - Everyone that read them really liked them[/li]White, middle class, northeastern male</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! I should have applied honors but I was too lazy and using Tulane as a safety.</p>
<p>SAT I: 2210 first sitting (650CR, 760M, 800W)
SAT II: US History 730, Lit 690, math II 650
ACT: 33</p>
<p>AP Scores: so far just 5 on US History
APs taken:
-freshman year–none offered
-sophomore year–just AP US offered
-junior year–Physics (Newtonian), Calc AB, Lang, Euro
-senior year-- Physics (E&M), Stat, Calc BC, Lit, Macro</p>
<p>GPA (UW): around a 3.8?
weighted: 4.23 (A in an AP is 5.0, in honors is 4.25)
definitely in top 5%</p>
<p>Summer:
PA School for Global Entrepreneurship (governors school)
PA Free Enterprise Week
internships
Girls State American Legion</p>
<p>ECs:
2 years of field hockey, lacrosse, and indoor track
Key Club officer (3 years)
World Affairs Club (Model UN/Congress)
volunteer at hospital (2 years)
volunteer weekly with underprivileged kids (homework help)
National Honor Society
French Honor Society
National History Day Regional and State Winner (2 years)
Student of the Marking Period several times
National Merit Scholar Commended (so far)
founder and president of club at school that raises money for education in 3rd world countries
top 10 student in freshman class
English Award freshman year
ap scholar</p>
<p>congrats everyone! feel free to PM me with any questions about Tulane :)</p>
<p>APoverload - You don’t apply for honors at Tulane, at least not as an entering freshman. They either offer it to you in your acceptance letter or they don’t. If you are only seeing your acceptance online so far, you wouldn’t know if they offered it to you or not. You will only see that when the paper letter comes. Used to be the same with any merit scholarship offered, but I guess now you can see that online as well. If they offered you the Presidential scholarship worth $27,000 per year, then you will be offered honors as well. If it is the $25,000 scholarship (Distinguished Scholars) then they probably will, but not absolute.</p>
<p>have all of the RD decisions been released?</p>
<p>My daughter applied on the later side of the deadline and has not yet gotten her RD decision. Her Gibson account says that her application is complete and that a decision will be rendered soon.
I think, like most universities, they will released the last batch of RD decisions next week before or by 4/1.<br>
Good luck everyone!!</p>
<p>If you haven’t heard by now is it a good chance that you got denied?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. They are still getting to some applications for the first time.</p>
<p>Yeah not true…I am pretty sure I will be admitted to tulane, and I haven’t heard yet, I applied in October…(I’ve gotten into UCLA and WashU)</p>
<p>ndude - If you think you might still want to go to Tulane (congrats on UCLA and WUSTL, btw) then you should check with admissions to make sure they show your application as complete. Sometimes things get screwed up.</p>
<p>What about applicants who applied EA and were deferred, but still haven’t received a decision? Do you think that probably means a denial is coming?</p>