<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Not yet
Intended Major: political science?
State (if domestic applicant): Pennsylvania
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Hooks: First generation </p>
<p>Strengths: Essay, teacher recs
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: wrote my essay about volunteer experience in south africa this summer, also showed a lot of interest by visiting/keeping in touch with my admissions counselor
Weaknesses: GPA</p>
<p>Overall I’m so excited! This is my first acceptance thus far plus I received the 22,000 scholarship! AHHH!!!</p>
<p>Applied EA
ACT: 30
SAT II: 660 History 660 Bio 660 English
Weighted GPA: 4.17 (school doesn’t share unweighted GPA)
School doesn’t rank
AP: Language (3) Bio (4) US History (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Art History, AP Calculus, AP Literature, Honors Physics, religion, Government/Econ
ECs/Volunteer: Lots, inlcuding Varsity and Club soccer all 4 years (CIF Division champions), Student Govt (2 years with officer position this year), travel to Costa Rica, Australia and Fiji to provide service, theraputic horsemanship volunteer, surf camp instructor, elementary volleyball coach, etc.
Teacher Recommendation: must have been solid
Counselor Rec: strong recommendation
Interview: none - but traveled to NOLA in March this year and took campus tour
Applied for Financial Aid?: NO
Intended Major: Undecided
State (if domestic applicant):California (So Cal)
School Type: Private Religious
Ethnicity: Caucasion
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Upper/Middle income
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: showed a lot of interest - It is really one of her top 3 schools</p>
<p>Received $22K scholarship
no other acceptances/rejections yet. Submitted application on 10/28, marked complete on 11/2 and decision posted on Gibson on 11/6 (yes, a Sunday!). Merit award came in mailed accpetance package she receved today.</p>
<p>Submitted App Oct 17. Tulane recieved all my stuff a few days ago. Two questions. On my app I forgot to answer one of the optional supplements. Do you think this will have a large impact on my decision? second question. When do you think Tulane will have my decision posted online?</p>
<p>himberman - Most accepted students do NOT get a merit based scholarship. It just seems like it on CC because the average student on here skews towards the higher end. Just the nature of a self-selected (i.e. non-random) user group in this case.</p>
<p>Congrats on your admission, though. Don’t lose sight of the fact that Tulane is a highly selective, academically challenging school that says “no” to 75% of the applicants.</p>
<p>I just got my letter today (a week after I got my decision) and got the $25,000 distinguished scholar award and an acceptance to the honor’s college…tulane is looking better and better. congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>katbelle16 - That’s very exciting! Congratulations. Also, Thanks for the confirmation that the $25,000 is the DSA. So they raised all the others $2,000 but raised the DSA $3,000 this year. Interesting.</p>
<p>SAT I: Didn’t send
ACT: 33
SAT II: Didn’t send
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/450
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geo (4), Psych (5), World (5), Enviro (5), Chem (3), Art History (3), Lang and Comp (4), APUSH (4), Euro (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Comparative, AP lit, AP Calc AB, AP Bio, AP Gov, and various dual enrollment</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): various clubs and officer positions
Job/Work Experience: Worked at a restaurant for all of junior year, biomedical research internship over summer before senior year
Volunteer/Community service: 140 ish hours
Essays: ehh
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t send any…woops
Counselor Rec: didn’t read it
Additional Rec: none
Interview:none</p>
<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Pre-med
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
School Type: Public High School
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>Haven’t found out about scholarships or anything. I applied Novemeber 1 and checked today.</p>
<p>Biomed - You may not have to pay the difference. This is merit based aid, and is guaranteed for your 4 years at Tulane unless your grades fall below a certain level or you get in trouble otherwise. There is also need based aid (FA), which they award in March if you apply for it. This is not just loans, it is usually a combination of grants, loans, and possibly work-study. The reason a grant is different than the merit aid is that the grant can vary from year to year, as can the entire FA package if your family’s financial circumstances change. I have seen students that do very well at Tulane get increased grants in their FA package from year to year, I have also seen them decrease slightly sometimes. Usually the loan amount per year doesn’t change that much.</p>
<p>If you think your family doesn’t qualify for need based aid, then the answer to your question (Is it worth $34,000 per year to go to Tulane as opposed to Texas A&M) can only be answered by you and your family based on your values and exact circumstances. Of course even if you got no FA the difference might not be $34,000 but instead would be that number less what A&M would cost. So if A&M were, say $20,000 per year (I have no idea what it costs to attend there) then you would have to decide if Tulane was worth an extra $14,000 per year to you. At that point you really have to get into the pros and cons of each place as it relates to you. Big school vs. smaller school, College Station vs. New Orleans, a more big-time college sports atmosphere vs. a lesser one (at this point at least), etc. etc. No right or wrong here, just what is meaningful and affordable for you.</p>
<p>The values thing is what I’m really thinking about now. I’m going to sign up for a program in spring where I follow a student for a day. And A&M is actually $20,000, and since they barely give anything I’m going to assume $0 total from them. I hope that if I go to Tulane that I could keep the grades up and keep the grants/scholarships.</p>
<p>I will point out that Tulane only requires a 2.7 GPA to keep your scholarship. While some majors are harder than others certainly, I imagine with discipline in your studying (i.e. have fun but don’t go too crazy) you would keep that up for sure.</p>
