Will you commit to Tulane on May 1? (or perhaps have already deposited)
Yes or No
Answering for my son:
No. The final cost was not affordable.
Your child is not attending Tulane. It didn’t work out and it’s disappointing but your child has other good options. So why are you still in this forum continually posting negatively and now creating a survey? What are you hoping to accomplish other to push a sour grapes agenda? Are you asking this same question in the forums of all the schools your child applied to but is not attending?
Not sour grapes, more to see if others were impacted like we were with the reduction in merit. I am more trying to get a feel for yield.
We would have LOVED to have him go to Tulane, and wish all here the best.
This is not even going to be close to a scientific survey on yield. My son committed, we put down the deposit and he submitted his housing application. I guess so far the yield on this survey is 50%.
From the November 7, 2018 post from Hullabaloo.
“Merit-based aid is something that we will continue to offer, but it’s a lot less compared to two years ago,” Dattagupta said. “We’ve already started the process of moving merit dollars to need-based aid offers to students who are in financial need.”
According to Dattagupta, the amount of need-based financial aid awarded to students has increased significantly since 2016.
This would suggest that the Class of 2023 was not the first year impacted by the reduction of merit aid. What we see from the common data set is that the average of freshman academic (non-need/non athletic) awards peaked for the high school Class of 2016 (Tulane class of 2020). However, the total dollar amount of academic scholarship accepted continues to grow.
From the common data set - academic year 2015-2016. 559 freshman were awarded non-need based scholarships or grants averaging $26,196. In 2016 - 2017, the number of freshman students awarded non-need based scholarships or grants was 674 with the average of awards being $27,266. For the 2017-2018, the number of freshman awarded non-need based scholarships or grants was 765 with the average of award of $23,999. For the 2018-2019 year, the number of freshman awarded non-need scholarships or grants was 802 with the average of awards of $23,983.
Total $ amount non-need based aid awarded to freshman
14,643,564 in 2015-2016
19,234,366 in 2018-2019
The only non-need based awards captured by the Common Data set - to my understanding- would be those that accepted their place at Tulane. As you can see from the past threads, there are many students and parents who have declined a spot at Tulane for other offers.
Further, it is my experience from what I saw with my son’s friends, that many of the students that were holding full tuition offers were holing at least one half tuition offer. Many more had more than one half tuition offers. The point is there is a good fraction of merit awards that are declined. If the admission office knows from past data that a certain fraction of academic merit awards will be declined - does it matter if they shift a portion of that aid to need based?
S19 is a yes and he’s excited to be attending Tulane.
Absolutely, we just visited and it was amazing. Extremely generous FA for our son. Amazing city and school!
Just paid the deposit to Tulane. It came down to the wire because my D had a full academic ride at another school, and though she has a merit scholarship at Tulane, the difference between the two was quite large.