<p>very humbled and grateful; S received DHS UPS package Tuesday evening. We were especially surprised given he had initially received the lower end of early merit packages (22.5K). I would like to share his stats only because I think it is important to give hope and opportunity to future applicants with less-than-stellar straight numbers: 2170 SAT, SAT 2s (710, 730), 3.7 gpa at extra-ordinarily competitive Midwestern private school (student body already with lots of early Ivy admits, MIT, U of Chicago, etc). S has excellent ECs, but no other hooks (white, male, non-athlete). I suspicion his LORs are very strong and his project and scholarship essay (as well as Com App essay) were very good (counselor asked for copy of his Com App essay to share with future classes). good luck to future applicants.
Again, we are very, very grateful and truly humbled by the offer.</p>
<p>That is really fantastic for your son and your family, @vandyeyes (maybe you have to change your screen name now?? Nothing against Vandy, but…LOL) You are right that the stats are on the lower side than usual, and this is only the second person I have heard of that got lower than a Distinguished Scholar Award initially that then got a DHS. $22.5K is the Founders, right? Anyway, that must have been some impressive project he did for his DHS application! Send along my congrats to him, if you would.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the scholarship winners. My son received his “sorry… but no” email last night. Unfortunately, at this point, my son won’t be able to attend Tulane. He was accepted early, but that admission offer came with zero merit aid. It’s odd, because you would think that if a school were going to accept someone early, they would throw some money their way. On top of this, every other school that has accepted him (4 to date) has offered him some sort of merit scholarship. Go figure. </p>
<p>I guess we can take FC’s advice and wait to see what the financial aid package looks like, but my son is not holding his breath. He really wanted to go to Tulane, but he knows that he has to avoid too much debt and he has some nice offers from some very good schools. </p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone with their college decisions this spring.</p>
<p>Congrats to Vandyeyes and son!! we will be in a similar situation with similar stats next year. I am following this thread with great interest.</p>
<p>congrats to you and your S, vandyeyes! </p>
<p>Is there anyone else who applied for the DHS and has not received either the the awards package or the “sorry” email?</p>
<p>@bfhs83 I, too, have yet to receive the email or the package. I’m almost positive that I didn’t win the dhs so I’m wondering why I haven’t received the email yet</p>
<p>Check your spam folder, might have gone there by mistake. And of course Tulane is not perfect, they may have either not sent out all the DHS emails yet (most people here seem to have gotten emails regarding the PTA), or they may have just erred by missing a few email addresses, mistyping them, something else human.</p>
<p>We’ve checked everywhere.- Could be sender error I guess. </p>
<p>We have not received an email or a package yet on our D’s PTA applications. Still hoping…</p>
<p>still waiting for email or UPS in New York… any chance that " no news is good news" that they have not finalized all winners ? Is this just for Paul Tulane Scholarship at the current time? When does the Deans Scholarship get decided ? ( did get the Academic Achievement Award $20k with EA decision… 32 ACT , 96.7 weighted average with many AP’s / all other Honors… lacrosse, competitive marching band , jazz band, lots of community service hours , other clubs, tutor ) .</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the $20k is not enough to be able to attend unless he gets some Finl Aid assistance - Tulane is his #1 choice and his been for a long time ! …</p>
<p>Keeping fingers and toes crossed that more are on the way Monday ! </p>
<p>My daughter got her “sorry” email for DHS on Wednesday. She has been a bit unsure about whether to attend Tulane, and is still waiting to hear back from her dream school (and we’re pretty confident she’ll get in there, since she is a double legacy… my husband and I both attended that college too). I think she was a bit relieved not to receive DHS because if she had, there would have been a lot more pressure to go to Tulane. Who knows, she could still wind up at Tulane… we’ll know in another month or so.</p>
<p>Having said that, congrats to everybody who received these scholarships… it’s a huge accomplishment! Even if my daughter doesn’t end up at Tulane, all i can say is that I think it seems like a remarkably cool place to go to college!</p>
<p>@jocjarmom and @tcjmom - There is a lot to be said for anything that makes the decision easier! As I am sure you have read on my posts before, we has a similar situation when my D got the DHS for Tulane but did not get the equivalent scholarship at WUSTL. If she had gotten the one at WUSTL, it would have been a tough choice, but I think she would have ended up there. Who knows what that would have been like for her, but so many things went well for her at Tulane that could very easily have been absent at WUSTL, it is hard to believe that it didn’t work out for the best for her. To the extent that any of us believe in fate, I feel confident this is what was meant to be for your kids. I do hope her acceptance at your alma mater comes through, jocjarmom. I am sure it will. Best of luck to them both.</p>
<p>@cbrand - For Tulane, at least, being accepted early simply means that the student applied for early admission and met at least the minimum criteria for admittance. So if the student, in Tulane’s opinion, met the standards for being a successful student at Tulane, seemed genuinely interested in the school, and seemed like a good fit for the school non-academically, they would be accepted as easily EA as RD. Being accepted in the early round really is not related in any way to getting merit aid.</p>
<p>Having said that, the fact that 4 other schools saw the picture differently for your son just goes to show how different schools do indeed approach the process differently. He and you are very smart to realize that significant debt is a bad idea, no matter how much a particular school is the top choice. Thank goodness he has excellent other choices. That is a good example of the entirety of the admissions process working well.</p>
<p>@socaldad14 have you heard about the acceptance yet? My son is still deferred and I can’t imagine he would get the PTA without having been accepted.</p>
<p>could the winners of the DHS and PTA please share their stats so that we have an idea of where our children stand for next year. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>@njl1022 We are in the same boat as you. No email or package and my daughter was deferred in the EA application round. I checked and rechecked the SPAM folder and nothing there. We have signed into Gibson so often that I feel like Elisabeth Whitehead is family (the girl in the Tour video). LOL. I will post as soon as we hear anything. </p>
<p>Thanks for your kind words, @FallenChemist. I’m starting to really believe in fate these days… for the longest time, my daughter wasn’t even interested in my alma mater and we didn’t push her at all. Any time we talked about our school, she just seemed remarkably uninterested… for reasons that made all the sense in the world to HER at the time.</p>
<p>And as she started to see the value in giving our alma mater a second look, she also started to realize this college could be a great place for her. And also that maybe the things she’d been looking for in a college weren’t the right things for her after all. We took her for an official tour last weekend and she totally fell in love with it. </p>
<p>If you’d asked me 2 years ago where did I think she would end up, I would never have thought it would be my alma mater. But fate may have a different idea. And if she doesn’t wind up there, she’s still got 2 great options (including Tulane).</p>
<p>@jocjarmon…regarding fate and destiny, I completely agree; sometimes things happen that completely confirm that we are not always in charge. </p>
<p>My son, with various members of our family, stepped foot on over 20 campuses, literally strewn across the country…often tacking visits on to family vacations, swim meets (for the younger son), etc. So, that by the time the process was done, beginning with a visit to Georgetown over President’s weekend during S14’'s sophomore year and ending with a visit to Rice this past October., I was completely convinced that we had “covered all our bases” as far as allowing my son to generate an appropriate list of schools (12 in total by the end of the process) to which he would apply, including the requisite mix of safety, match, & reach schools per the recommendations/demands of any College Confidintial parent (and school college counselor) worth their salt.</p>
<p>The process has proven anything, but what I expected. S has been accepted to 5 of 6 so far…beginning with a briefly stinging rejection from Duke ED, but then quickly got better: (Centre with >20K merit, Case Western with 25K merit, Michigan (school of Engineering), Purdue, and Tulane (initially with Founder’s merit, and now, amazingly!, with the DHS merit). </p>
<p>The DHS, has, of course, completely brought a sea-change to the process for our son and family. I had counseled him throughout the process to not “fall in love” with any institution until it was all finished (with the exception of the ED choice of Duke, for which he had to “pick the one” to even opt in for the ED application process).</p>
<p>Now, because of the DHS, not only am I (and spouse) ironically overjoyed that he was rejected by Duke ED, we completely hope (again ironically) that he is rejected by the remaining 6 Ivies,and Ivy-like institutions due out at the end the month. We talked about pulling the remaining 6 applications, but at this point he wants to see how this crazy, circuitous process plays out. We have discussed with S that even if he gets accepted to one of the pending applications, they will all (save perhaps maybe Wash U) be completely without merit aid. Since we are full-pay, that translates to about a 200K difference (Tulane versus other). Obviously it’s a no-brainer, since the DHS will allow us to assist with S’s post-graduate studies, which would otherwise not have been the case.</p>
<p>The final bit of irony about this process is that the topic S’s DHS “project box” was inspired by something from a class that my son found to me a major thorn in his side (as a sophomore)…now in hindsight…clearly an unappreciated blessing at the time.</p>
<p>So for me at least, the bottom line is that while we often tend to think we know what we want/we need/or seems best/worst for us at any given time, often destiny/fate/powers greater than ourselves come into play to show us differently.</p>
<p>anxiousma, Son’s stats: 35 on ACT, 4.0 unweighted, top 3 in class (still don’t know who will be 1 and 2), honors and AP classes. Awarded Presidential and offered Honors Program before getting DHS. </p>
<p>This may or may not help as some with lower stats were awarded the DHS and some with his stats didn’t get anything. Tulane was his first chioce and he visited the school and joined one or two forums the university hosted (meaning he showed interest for Tulane). Good luck to you next year!</p>