<p>So I've recently found out that my application is complete (thank god) and am now waiting to hear back. But I'm just wondering how exactly the scholarship thing works. If by chance I gained admission and received a scholarship, how would I be informed? And how soon?</p>
<p>First you will see your status online, if you are checking regularly. At some point they will tell you accepted, rejected, deferred. You might get a “pending review” type of message from what I can gather, also.</p>
<p>If you are accepted, shortly (a few weeks) after you will get a letter in the mail affirming this. In addition, it will tell you if you got any merit scholarship money and if you are invited into the Honors Program.</p>
<p>Let us know if you have more questions.</p>
<p>Other than the ones possibly offered with your acceptance, there are other scholarships which you have to apply separately for. If you look on the Tulane website it describes all the different scholarships available along with the applications.</p>
<p>thanks for the tip Gabby, but I’m not a Louisiana resident. If anyone received merit-based scholarships would you mind posting the amount and your stats as well? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>elizn - you can find some people that posted their info regarding how much they got and their stats at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/812100-accepted.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/812100-accepted.html</a> You just have to wade through it a bit. In addition, I have some information that came to me via PM’s and I am going to create a spreadsheet comparing this all over the Christmas break. But to give you a few examples of what I found out:</p>
<p>$22K: 4.5 (W) GPA, top 15% in very competitive school, 2230 SAT, many APs, average ECs, good recommendations</p>
<p>$20K: 3.7 (UW) GPA, 2180 SAT, 740 Lit SATII, 770 Math II, 7 AP courses, Good EC’s</p>
<p>$20K: GPA 4.1+, Class Rank top 7%, SAT 2130 (1340/1600)</p>
<p>The Community Service and Dean’s Scholarships are not just for Louisiana residents.</p>
<p>I received $25,000</p>
<p>New Jersey
ACT: 34
SATII Bio: 790
GPA: 4.92
Rank: 3/419
9 APs</p>
<p>Our son was within those stats and not offered anything along with the same of several of his classmates. So far, 10 from his school (OOS Private Prep school in the South) have been accepted. Senior class size is 150 - highly competitive class.</p>
<p>Did you receive the official letter, or only informed online? I understand they only inform about scholarships via snail mail.</p>
<p>idad - good point. Also, I didn’t mean to imply stats are the only criteria. EC’s and recs, maybe other factors could play a role. It isn’t entirely scientific, I am sure.</p>
<p>I think they put a lot of other considerations into it would be my quick guess. I got a $24k/yr last year with a 4.1 W 31 ACT 710 US His 730 French 750 Spanish. In high school I put a lot of work into ECs including volunteer work. They gave approx 5 of those scholarships to kids in my class of about 400 at a fairly competitive, well known public school in Ohio - I was the only one to take them up on it. Deferred though so I’ll be there next year with some of you!</p>
<p>That’s awesome! I was just accepted and I’m praying for some merit money!</p>
<p>Posting on my daughter’s account because she’s without internet access this week. </p>
<p>FC: Since you seem to be keeping track of scholarships, I wanted to tell you that daughter was offered a Founder’s scholarship @ 20k per year. She was NOT offered honors.</p>
<p>Believe she posted stats on “Accepted” thread. The only thing I wanted to add is that while others had more hours of community service, hers was high quality…We live in a place where the DA’s office has quite a history of wrongful convictions, especially in death penalty cases & daughter has been involved in an organization dedicated to overturning these. When she visited Tulane last spring, the adcom was quite familiar with the DA’s history and this organization, and they chatted abt it. I think adcom was impressed. </p>
<p>Since you are familiar with the honors program, I wanted to ask you: do you think she should write the head of the program a letter explaining why she would like to get in? She isn’t afraid of making the grades & then petitioning; in fact, if you knew her history, she’s used to having to prove herself. But I know she’s really wanting to have some smaller seminar-type classes with lots of teacher/student interaction from the start, since, for a lots of reasons, she didn’t get a whole lot of that in HS.</p>
<p>First, I applaud your daughter for getting so involved with that program (sounds like the Innocence Project or a very related organization). That is totally awesome, I really admire that. Putting that on top of her being a highly competitive athlete and still being such an excellent student, it really is beyond impressive. Second, congratulations on the $20K. Still a very nice acknowledgement of her achievements.</p>
<p>Unfortunately it sometimes just comes down to what is in the stats, at least as far as initial decisions. HP offers are always made to $25K awardees, and sometimes to $22K awardees. But I have never run across an HP offer below that level. Still, I think your daughter has a compelling story and case to be made. I can only say that if it were me in Dr. Luongo’s place, I think I would have to consider strongly the various highly positive attributes someone such as your daughter brings to the program. The 33 on her ACT is very competitive, and the 2 5’s and 2 4’s on the AP’s were certainly good also. She didn’t say if she is taking more AP’s this year. Clearly it is her GPA (and therefore her class rank) that is weighing her down in the eyes of people, through no fault of their own, cannot know how good that is given her heavy involvement in other worthwhile things. There are only so many hours in the day, after all.</p>
<p>So I cannot see how it does any harm to lay out the facts like I just did to him in an e-mail, and I don’t think it would sound too self-important to say that while she feels her academic capabilities are much stronger than her GPA might indicate (due to her heavy involvement in top level athletics and this legal project), she would bring many qualities beyond the academics that would enrich the program. Another factor that would help her case would be if her first semester grades came in very strong, like 3.75 or above.</p>
<p>I would say, though, that even if none of that worked she would not be shut out of participating in small classes. There are still plenty of them even in non-Honors sections, and since she is likely to place out of some intro classes, she would have a number of smaller classes from the start I would think. It all depends on the details of course, but that should be true, especially if she is taking more AP’s and does well on those. My D went right into 200 and 300 level classes except for first semester Chinese, which she had never taken. The thing she would be missing out on the most would be the Honors Colloquium course, which is a variation on the Great Books of Western Thought type of course. I doubt it is possible they would let a non-Honors person into that course, but again it never hurts to ask, as long as she is truly prepared for an answer of no.</p>
<p>Not sure how much help I have been, but I know it will all work out for her. I wish her the best of luck in any case and no matter where she ends up going to school. Tulane would be lucky to have her.</p>
<p>Oh I almost forgot: She should definitely apply for the Community Service Scholarship, applications due by Jan 15. It is $5,000-$15,000/year. While you may be right that she doesn’t have the number of hours of some others (how could she when she was a nationally ranked athlete!), the importance of the project she was involved in and her passion for it even more so gives her a chance I think. If she can make that passion come through it could work.</p>
<p>Should I go to Tulane with 22k scholarship, Lehigh, URochester or Brandeis?</p>
<p>playerplayer - try not to post the same question on multiple threads. You have 2 replies on the other thread.</p>
<p>FallenChemist/YoMomma:</p>
<p>I’m a freshman at tulane this year… I was awarded the $24/k/yr (top) scholarship last year and NOT invited to the honors program. I scored a 33 on the ACT but my GPA was “low” (4.2 weighted on a scale of 5) due to a crazy course load and ECs up the wazzoo. So basically, I don’t know if I’m some wacky exception, but getting one without the other certainly happens, if rarely. I WISH that I had thought to contact the honors program last year, especially since my grades senior year were more outstanding than the rest of my high school GPA.</p>
<p>My adviser told me that I should try to get in for next semester, even though they only technically invite students over the summer given a certain GPA. Now I’m not sure I want to because I’d rather come in to the program at the beginning of a school year, since I’m not enrolled in any honors courses for next semester anyhow.</p>
<p>In a word, to agree with you FC, I would encourage her to try her hand and getting into honors right now, all they can say is “NO!”</p>
<p>P.S. My roommate is in the frosh honors colloq. class and it sounds like a living nightmare… tons of HEAVY reading. Sounds very rewarding though if that’s what you love.</p>
<p>Hi wysteri - excellent post, thanks so much! Yes, you are the first person I know that got the Presidential but not invited to the Honors Program. I do wonder if it was just an oversight, since generally the same criteria applies for both decisions, and your GPA certainly doesn’t strike me as low. There is a reason they weight these tough classes after all. Anyway, maybe this discussion will identify more and that will give us better information. Just in general, I can see why they would want to keep a pretty strict “filter” going in. They want to be careful that the HP designation maintains a certain “integrity”. I hate to use words like that sometimes because they can be misconstrued as character statements. I mean it only in the sense of sticking to the mission they think the HP should fulfill. That is obviously easier if they don’t make exceptions from whatever criteria they use, and I certainly don’t know precisely what that criteria is. But I still think those that don’t ask never get. They often don’t get when they do ask, but at least they made the effort.</p>
<p>Also echoing what you say about the colloq. class and heavy reading. My D has said that also, but not using the “nightmare” description, living or dead lol. She does certainly love to read and learning all the things a course like this teaches. The extensive reading is indeed an integral part of the course, so you do have to love that kind of thing. Not to scare anyone, but Dr. Luongo told me they were thinking of making it a required course for Honors students, but I don’t think that has happened yet. I would imagine there are practical issues associated with that, such as having enough instructors. They would certainly have to keep the classes small, even more so for a course like that. But if there are, say, 150 students in the HP every entering class, then 3 sections, which is what was offered this semester, are not close to enough. They would have to have more like 10. That’s a tough nut to crack, I would think.</p>
<p>Good luck wysteri. Maybe you should try to get in now anyway, if your advisor thinks it is possible. Then at least you would get to know more of the people in the program more quickly, plus you would know about any special seminars or other events for HP students. Just a thought.</p>
<p>I just want to make sure I understand correctly, if you are offered a merit scholarship it is not posted in your application status. Merit scholarships are offered via snail mail. If someone could confirm that fact, that would be appreciated.</p>
<p>My DS got accepted to Tulane last night so we are very happy with this news.
Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>Congrats to son itsv! Yes, I can absolutely confirm you only get merit offers via snail mail.</p>
<p>Thanks fallen chemist. When DS got the priority application, the big attraction was the merit scholarhip. It’s nice to know he may still be in the running. .</p>