<p>I am currently at Western Michigan University and want to transfer for this Spring admissions. My gpa freshman year was horrible and i ended up with a 2.6. But my sophomore year was 4.0 both terms bringing my GPA to 3.4. Would a 3.4 be too low to transfer, and will my boost in grades during my 2nd year help me in any way?</p>
<p>How hard is it to transfer OOS?</p>
<p>Tulane is a private U, there is no difference really between oos and is.</p>
<p>Well how are my chances? Exactly how hard is it to transfer?</p>
<p>Hello there. I got in for undergrad. regular admissions, not too hard. (and am attending!) ok, otherwise, a few of my friends at tulane say that it's not impossible to transfer, but it's somewhat tough. As long as you have above a 3.2+, you're set pretty well. But, you have to have decent test scores too. And write a kick-A** essay.</p>
<p>3.2?? more like a 3.7 minimum, tulane has a super high percentage of students that return now, and it is going to be super difficult to be admitted as a transfer</p>
<p>hey jayhawk have you gotten your room asignment or anything like that yet?</p>
<p>yeah same jayhawk. i'm going insane waiting for this darn roommate stuff.</p>
<p>so is it more like 3.2 or 3.7 ???</p>
<p>3.2 is minimum. 3.7 is great but they admit people with a 3.7 gfrom h.s. lol. don't worry. just kick a$$ with everything. it's still tough but i have faith!</p>
<p>jay hawk -- you're wrong. at least last time i checked. </p>
<p>Tulane transfer admissions are very high because they have (or at least had a couple of years ago) a rention rate of around 80-85% between people flunking out (mostly loss of scholarship) and transferring out. </p>
<p>You should be fine.</p>
<p>=-O omg! 80-85% transfer rate? jesus christ that is absolutely horrible lol. i didn't think many people transferred out of tulane (but i guess it's not for everyone.) i don't even know if it's right for me.</p>
<p>a couple of years ago, notice i said NOW</p>
<p>no i havent tayshodd, have u?</p>
<p>What's taking so long with housing...I think Freshmen got their assignments.</p>
<p>80-85% RETENTION rate. That means 80-85% STAY. Which is still quite low.</p>
<p>yea so i was driving through new orleans today as part of my job....managed to stop by campus and ask a few questions. As it turned out, I came the day they were moving the undergraduate advising office (including transfer advising) to a new building, so everything was a little out of place.....i did track down mrs. pizer (spelling?) who's the transfer advisor. From my lengthy conversation with her, she seemed to imply they are having difficulity this year handling all the transfer kiddies because they have something like 250 commitments compared to like around 150 or so (or less) in years past. So, they are understaffed and overworked. While she didn't directly handle housing for transfers, she did mention that in years past it was not uncommon for incomming transfers to find out about their housing and roomate assignment the moment they arrived and no earlier.....if they even get housing at all (apparently).</p>
<p>and yea 80-85%....thats like state school range there, though i think with tulane's social dynamic, thats not too odd</p>
<p>they dont have an 80-85% transfer rate, they did because of katrina because many chose not to come back...however this past year they had above a 95% retention rate, and things will only get better...</p>
<p>the previous post is so misinformed, i don't think i can let it go by without commenting on it. there is no way tulane will have a 95% retention rate for the freshmen class of 2010. their rate before the storm and with indisputably stronger, more qualified classes was 87%. if anything, it's not going to go up now. i would like to know where you got the 95% statistic from. clearly you have been reading the new wave too much. i was a freshmen at tulane last year, and judging from how many people left (many people had singles by the end of the year) tulane's retention rate for our class is going way down from an already low 87%. us news has cited the 87% statistic on its website, it is reflective of the retention rate of the class of 2008, since it was the same number published in the 2006 US News edition (before the hurricane).</p>
<p>I'd like to eleaborate on a couple of things. </p>
<p>The reason Tulane had a low retention rate (I think 87% sounds right...I couldn't remember exactly but I know it was in the 80's when I was there), is not only because people don't like it and transfer out. A lot of people party too hard and lose their scholarships, and have to leave no matter how much they like Tulane. </p>
<p>Arm -- I don't think you can soundly say that the previous classes are more qualified. On what do you base that?</p>