<p>LOL, it makes you sound like a gambler because you are (were?). That was rather risky I have to agree, but I guess it worked for you.</p>
<p>Even though you are not pursuing track in college, being an athlete at the level you must be takes discipline, leadership and management skills. All traits that are valuable for college.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send (but its a 2180/1460)
ACT: 34
SAT II: none
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0; Weighted: 4.38
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/162
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 on APUSH
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Journalism, Advanced Gov/Econ (honors didn’t make), Calculus (AP didn’t make), Honors Physics, AP english, Digital Photography II
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Three-Time National Finalist in three different FBLA competitions; Three-Time state champion in those Competitions; National Merit Commended student
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A lot. Varsity Cheer Captain. FBLA state officer. NHS president. Church involvement, State Education Commission member
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: Few official “hours recorded” but I’ve done tons of service activities for a variety of organizations
Summer Activities: ehhh. Trip to France; conferences. Little to send to a college.
Essays: wrote about how I make the best of my insomnia. It showed a lot of my interests and passion for learning independently. I thought my “Why Tulane” essay was GREAT
Teacher Recommendations: didn’t send any. Will send 2 for DHS
Counselor Rec: Awesome, my counselor and I are very close
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Political Economy
State (if domestic applicant): Alabama
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: medium sized, lower-middle class public in a town of 15,000 (classic Southern small town)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >150k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nothing that I can think of
Reflection
Strengths: ACT score, academic record, ECs, essay (I guess)</p>
<p>What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Passion for learning and dedication to anything I commit too. Showed a wide variety of interests and knowledge</p>
<p>Weaknesses: lack of SAT IIs or a competitive high school I suppose, didn’t send recs. </p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: fair guess</p>
<p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: University of Alabama & its Honors College.</p>
<p>Oh and my application was just marked complete Wednesday morning so I guess thats a good sign.</p>
<p>My application was complete by October 27th and I still haven’t heard a decision… I’m really scared I thought I had a decent chance, my grades and gpa aren’t as stellar as some of the people on here but I thought I could get in, especially because it’s my number 1 school so I tried to express a lot of interest in it. I’m freaking out now what everyone is saying is making me think I must have been denied or deferred. I legitimately do not know what I will do if I do not get into this school I want to go there so bad why is it taking so long?</p>
<p>daisydaze;</p>
<p>Hang in there and don’t lost hope. Your application has been complete for just a little more than three weeks. While this may seem like a long time, especially in light of some of the quick turnaround described here, it really isn’t. Longer wait times at other EA schools, appear to me at least, to be so much longer on average. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>daisydaze - Do you mean your application shows complete on the Gibson account or just that you sent it in then? Even if it showed complete on Gibson then, twoby2013 is right, 3 weeks is not that long. As we have said a number of times on here, you might be borderline as a candidate, or it might just be that you are borderline for which merit award they want to offer and the admissions committee needs to decide. I have also seen many cases where the student accidentally marked their app RD instead of EA. Hard to say, but you can certainly write your admissions counselor and make sure everything is in order and that it was marked EA.</p>
<p>Yes it was complete 3 and a half weeks ago. I thought I had a pretty good chance but I am having doubts now. I guess all I can do is wait but I’ve lost quite a bit of hope in trying not to be so surprised if it comes back denied, it’s just I was so set on going there :’( I think I’ll email my adco to make sure there isn’t an issue. I’ll let you all know when my official decision is posted…</p>
<p>We wake up every morning to check Gibson, for an update. We are so happy today to see the words “Congratulations! You have been admitted and welcome to the Tulane family.”</p>
<p>Soooo excited for the Tulane’s acceptance! My S sent his app in two weeks ago exactly and everything was complete within a few days. I am thinking because we are in the midwest and there are not as many applications that helped in getting admittance processed so quickly.</p>
<p>My S had a 33 ACT and great everything else! We are all so excited!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>congratulations! i really hope i get a decision soon. im international with pretty good stats</p>
<p>Looks like everyone is getting in!! Of course, it looks like everyone has good stats. Is Tulane easy to get into?</p>
<p>
Well, that’s a relative thing. Compared to Harvard? Yes. Compared to the national average or even most other schools? Not at all. Tulane is considered highly selective and accepts about 25% of applicants. That is not considered a high percentage. Since they get about 40,000 applications every year now, they are turning down 30,000 students.</p>
<p>You cannot go by CC as an indication of the general picture. People that use CC tend to be the upper end of the student/parent world, either educationally, economically, or most often both.</p>
<p>Plus the people who don’t get in are unlikely to broadcast that fact to the world…</p>
<p>True dat. LOL.</p>
<p>I just got back from taking my senior pictures in New Orleans. I took some of them on St. Charles Avenue, and when we walked by Tulane, I couldn’t help but smile. It’s so beautiful.</p>
<p>I’m entirely nervous about my application. After having unexpected surgery and rushing in my application afterwards, I can’t exactly say I did my best to represent my best. More than likely denied/referred for regular.</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>It was really fast. Breakdown is 35 ACT, 4.0, class rank in top 5%. Lots of sports.</p>
<p>No surprise with those stats. Hope you are applying for the DHS.</p>
<p>that’s the only reason I applied. I’m a bit stumped about the box, but I’ll figure it out next weekend.</p>
<p>D accepted —submitted EA about 2 weeks ago? Presidential Scholar scholarship and invitation to the Honors program.
ACT 33
SAT II 790 USH 750 Literature
GPA 3.9 unweighted and 4.3 Weighted
5’s on 3 AP’s<br>
Will have taken 5 by end of senior year.
Lots of EC’s
Awards academically, athletically and for film at a Film Festival
Great recommendations
Probably the intense work philanthropically helped.</p>
<p>Calmama- stats wise and apparently in other areas also she is a strong candidate for the DHS. Hope she is going for it.</p>