<p>I think that would be assuming too much. Some number of EA deferred applicants will get accepted, but no one can say how many.</p>
<p>Pick one:
Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2240
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II:
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2 of 40
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4’s and 5’s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP’s 3 other courses
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Class VP, NHS president, Squash, Soccer
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Service Club, PVA
[<em>] Summer Activities: Governor’s School, Nationally ranked competitive marksman
[</em>] Essays: Lot of work went into them
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: VG
[</em>] Counselor Rec: VG
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:No
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:No, received Presidential Scholarship (yes!!)
[</em>] Intended Major: Bio? Pre-Med
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):VA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):US
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity:W
[<em>] Gender:M
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$175k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.
[</em>] Strengths: Academics, like people,
[<em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself:
[</em>] Weaknesses: Organization
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Balance of academics, extracurriculars, service, and application
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: WashU, Rice, UVA, William and Mary
[/ul]</p>
<p>Waitlisted.</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): didnt take
[ *] ACT: 32
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): macro econ 4 micro econ 4 lang 4 bio 4 human geo 3 calc ab 3 US 2
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: ap physics ap stats ap psych ap lit ap euro ap calc bc, hebrew
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): intel
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): soccer, asb, journalism, local leadership groups
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: spent summers working as a counselor
[ *] Summer Activities: camp counselor at sleepaway camp
[ *] Essays: super strong, i really liked them
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: good
[ *] Counselor Rec: great
[ *] Additional Rec: good
[ *] Interview: no
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[ *] Intended Major: premed
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): ca
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: private
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: f
[ *] Income Bracket: highest
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nope
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: scores, work load, awards, well-rounded
[ *] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself:
[ *] Weaknesses: !?
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: NO IDEA
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: deferred from harvard, waitlisted at vanderbilt</p>
<p>Well, I guess if somebody with a 4.0 and 32 ACT is waitlisted, it makes sense that my d was denied…just found out today.</p>
<p>Applied way back in October and was deferred.
Basic stats: W GPA 3.7, UW GPA 3.5 with good grade trend from highly rated high school(just shy of 4.0 since freshman year), 28 ACT, average EC’s, Hispanic.</p>
<p>Knew it was a reach, and she has been accepted into many fine schools. With Tulane’s crazy tuition, it was not a realistic option unless they gave her a decent scholarship, anyway. </p>
<p>Tulane is a great school, but it didn’t work out for us. Good luck to others.</p>
<p>Anyone have any ida when Community Service Awards get announced? Do they get posted on the Gibson accounts? S already accepted EA but a CSS award would help financially. Thanks.</p>
<p>Daughter rejected by Tulane. But accepted by Bryn Mawr with Bryn Mawr merit scholarship. Does that make any sense?</p>
<p>Tulane is quite selective, so it does make sense…although still disappointing. When I used the Tulane calculator and put in all of my d’s numbers, it had her down for an 18k scholarship…so maybe most people admitted at certain schools get scholarships…IDK. It is their decision to make. In my eyes, it is their loss, although when you have as many top applicants as Tulane, they probably reject thousands of people who would be their loss…not everybody can get accepted everywhere.</p>
<p>Our approach is you go into this process assuming that some schools which seem like a sure thing may reject you, and some that are a reach may accept you, and to not take any decision too personally. Apply to a variety of good schools and it will work out.</p>
<p>For us, all has gone according to the stats so far. My d applied to two reach schools (not huge reaches, but reaches…Tulane and Chapel Hill) and got rejected from both. Those are her only 2 rejections…she got into all target and safety schools (still waiting on Wisc-Madison).</p>
<p>Life will go on. There is always a risk that some decisions will make you scratch your head.</p>
<p>It really hasn’t gone according to the stats for us. She got waitlisted at pitzer which this year appears to be more selective than tulane (pitzer has a 15 percent acceptance rate this year). But my daughter is kind of different in many ways. She actually is doing better than her stats…except for tulane, lol. tulane though was not a strong interest for her and maybe they could tell that there wasn’t any passion in her "why tulane’ essay. it is her very first rejection, so it does hurt. we thought she would never get a rejection (J/K).
i know it all works out for the best in the end though.</p>
<p>By the way; no, at Bryn mawr, very few students get merit scholarships. and they are not awarded based on stats and formulas; they are holistically decided at Bryn Mawr. Which means she really was seen as quite desireable by them, and they are selective for admissions to begin with. Thus the scratching of the head reaction to tulane’s rejection…</p>
<p>Waitlisted? Really? 35 ACT, URM, NMSF, kinda low GPA but I wrote a pretty decent (at least, I thought so) Why Tulane. Hmm.</p>
<p>Yeah, we know our kids are exceptional…as are thousands of other kids. It is crazy what types of stats they need these days. For example, University of Illinois 10-15 years ago had an average ACT of 24-5…now it’s 28. Tulane is accepting fewer students this year. The pressure just seems to increase every year. I am proud of what my d has accomplished and know she will wind up at a fine school. What the stats dont show is what a fine person my d is…something they would not know short of a detailed interview. </p>
<p>It is a huge task to go through all of those apps and select the best fits. Paper says something, but not it all. I think of how many inept people I have met in my profession who look good on paper. But paper is what most colleges go off of. You could be an abusive, cruel person, but if you nail your ACT and have top grades…welcome to our fine school. In a perfect world there would be a better way to judge character, but that is not the way the game is played.</p>
<p>Tulane had a tough job, it was a reach school for my d, and they took the predicted action. Tulane will continue to thrive, and my d will thrive at another school that wants her…just the way it is.</p>
<p>I hear you, Splokey. Your daugheter earned that scholarship! Some schools value different things.</p>
<p>My d has been offered scholarships at over half of the schools that have accepted her. At least according to US News and World Report, the University of Illinois is higher ranked than Tulane, and my d was accepted with a scholarship worth half tuition. So she has been accepted into one of the finer schools with 1/2 tuition scholarship, but flat rejected from a comparable school. It is just the way it is.</p>
<p>Look at it this way, Bryn Mawr values you d and really wants her to go there, which may indicate a good fit. That school sees something on your daughter that Tulane may not value as much. Take it as a compliment from Bryn Mawr moreso than an insult from Tulane.</p>
<p>My Ds first denial out of many top schools. 3.9 UW, 4.3W, 2150 SAT, 9 APs, top 4% at top HS, awesome essays, great LORs and ECs. Luckily it was her last choice and she only applied because I saw the free app fee and made her since I heard they had great merit aid. </p>
<p>Anyway, it is probably good that they saved a spot for someone who did want to go there (maybe they somehow knew that). It’s a great school and I wish all the best to those of you that got in ! (and those that didn’t too) :)</p>
<p>looks like they are cranking out decisions now…and some top people are being denied or waitlisted.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all who really want to go to Tulane!</p>
<p>I was deffered from EA to RD. This morning I saw I was rejected and I have no idea why…</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
Class Rank: 5/364
ACT: 32
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC): 690 (I know these aren’t awesome)
SAT II Spanish: 690
APs: 5 classes (scores of 3,4,5 and the other 2 I will take in May)
Dual Enrollments: 11</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Dance (Captain, 1 year), National Honor Society (3 years), Spanish Honor Society (3 years), Interact Club (1 year), Key Club (1 year)
Volunteer/Service Work: Total: 250+
Honors and Awards: Congressional Award Bronze Medal, Congressional Award Silver Medal, AP Scholar, Dean’s List, Computer certifications </p>
<p>Demonstrated Interest
Submitted Why Tulane Essay
Called and email admission counselor</p>
<p>They have to be going on demonstrated interest. I was just rejected, which is not a big deal because I have zero intention of attending. I know my application demonstrated that since the entire thing was bland and uninspired. Still, looking at stats like Christena629, TV4caster’s daughter, and mine, and comparing those to who I have seen accepted, they have to be going off interest. I’m pretty shocked but luckily not too upset.</p>
<p>I’m sure not alone but Tulane does a few things to protect their IS kids. The kids who apply EA hear within about two weeks and receive very good money. If you miss that deadline you miss consideration for certain monies.</p>
<p>Plus you wait like everyone else. Tulane says if you have a certain ACT score and GPA from IS you are automatic but not always. A few got deferred this year.</p>
<p>My child wants to go out of state, thus she didn’t apply. But it is the backup for many state kids who are getting into top notch schools, there just isn’t enough money for the $50,000 plus tuition at some of these colleges around the country. With the early application (merit money) and then the TOPS program here in Louisiana, it makes it much more appealing which is Tulane’s goal.</p>
<p>While not as advertised as say some (UVA and Chapel Hill) they want to take care of the state kids first.</p>
<p>christena: for you and only you, the question should have been asked as to why you were deferred in EA in the first place…did anyone call at that point??</p>
<p>You def fell through the cracks…is my guess if I had to…and it is not as unusual as you would think…</p>
<p>as fallenchemist will attest to, sometimes pieces of the application are misplaced; misfiled and have to be put together…ya never know…</p>
<p>Keep in mind also that Tulane is trying to keep this class down to about 1450-1475, rather than the 1625+ the last two classes have been. It really caused some strains. So that probably means they are very comfortable with the numbers they are pretty sure will attend from those already accepted and thus getting in this late will be hard, even for superior students.</p>
<p>Momsaysso - Tulane does guarantee spots for Louisiana residents under these conditions:
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<p><a href=“http://admission.tulane.edu/apply/now/louisiana.php[/url]”>http://admission.tulane.edu/apply/now/louisiana.php</a></p>
<p>So if some got deferred they must have not met one or more of those conditions. But you are right, they do have programs and scholarships for Louisiana students that are not available for OOS students, even though they are private. Lots of history behind that.</p>