<p>I really hate seeing this kind of negativity on this site. Fallenchemist has been phenomenal. In the end all this controversy about SAT scores doesn’t really matter. These kids do well, love Tulane and have great opportunities when they leave. My entering S has 2260 combined and lots 700s on SATIIs. He is confident, as am I, that there will be many intellectual opportunities and challenges. The measure of real merit is not in these scores-- but in what people choose to do with what they’ve got. Stop all this nonsense and enjoy the ride.</p>
<p>Jym - you and I read everything posted here. Do you recall anyone even talking about St. Joe’s before he came on here and started bashing Tulane? That would be bizarre to justify his behavior based on things said after he began the bad behavior. I know I have never insulted St. Joe’s. I think once I cited some stats from them.</p>
<p>Interesting that he says
So he is only here to run down schools with which he has no (known) affiliation?</p>
<p>smitty78 - Thanks for the compliment. I completely agree with you that in the end, it is of course only the experience that matters. I just don’t like to see misrepresentations and half-truths posted. Unfortunately there are lots of students and parents that just don’t know the background and could be misled by such misleading statements. I honestly have no idea why some people like to be negative in such a fashion.</p>
<p>smitty78 - Classic example in the Tulane vs. U Miami thread that I did not see until after this one. SJUHawk makes a completely false statement regarding the average GPA at Tulane vs. Miami, and the worst part is this was already pointed out to him before. But this is the kind of thing that just should not stand uncorrected, so I will (unfortunately) have to continue to correct him.</p>
<p>smitty,
Your posts are most poignant, and spot on. FC has indeed paid it forward, thats for sure. I remember several years ago when he first posted an adult version of a “chance me” post! LOL. Lot of water under the bridge since then, eh FC? </p>
<p>So yes, it is irksome when someone comes into a forum for no other reason than utter annoyances, but with the “claim” that they are "trying to be helpful, or just posting the “truth”. Please. It is insulting and offensive. And for those of us who have tried to be helpful to students, prospective students and their families, to answer questions fairly and reasonably the distracting, hostile and trollish posts are a waste of bandwith. We have tried to be fair in our sharing of the pros and cons of the school (though some simply will not see it that way). And some posters may be more enthusiastic than others, but thats fine. </p>
<p>FC-
To answer your question, as I mentioned, I’ve never even heard of SJU (the school or the poster) before this poster surfaced to bash Tulane. So I don’t believe there was ever any mention of that school in this forum before he bashed onto the scene. As he was want to talk about scores and stats and admission rates, etc, the mention of SJU’s comparative 82% admission rate (to Tulane’s low 20’s) and its low SAT scores were also mentioned. We neglected to mention that SJU has the honor of having amongst the highest debt load for its graduates than any college. Congratulations SJU, for that priviledge. Ouch.</p>
<p>Its hard not to feed the ■■■■■ when he continues to post rubbish, and as FC said, if his incorrect or deceptive posts are ignored and left unanswered, some poster might misunderstand their content. That would be unfortunate. Most are wise enough to see through the trash and ignore it, but I understand completely FC’s desire to challenge and correct the erroneous content of those posts.</p>
<p>Apparently some posters in that Miami thread got tired enough of the ■■■■■-baiting that they reported this poster. Perhaps there will be a positive outcome to that, and hoepfully the hawks wings will be clipped a bit. If not, lets all do our best to stay focused on appropriate topics and discussions.</p>
<p>Wow, even I don’t remember that post jym. Is there a way to see all one’s posts from the beginning?</p>
<p>Go back into the threads around the time you joined. I cant find it but I remember it.</p>
<p>No mention of St. Joe’s before I got here. And I have not mentioned Tulane on the St. Joe’s board either since none of the people there have heard of Tulane unless they got a free application in their Valpack mailing (also contained a coupon for 50% off any humanities course). </p>
<p>You point out St. Joe’s 82 percent acceptance rate that is a result of university expansion (why are we talking about St. Joe’s on a Tulane forum?) but fail to mention that a short time ago Tulane had a 79% acceptance rate. Before the barrage of marketing Tulane had a 79% acceptance rate! Look it up. Now, the rate has come down but only due to the free application and marketing to unqualified applicants in an effort to skew the acceptance rate. Tulane has tried to trick U.S. News but they failed. As a result, you continue to drop in the rankings. Everyone sees it. You didn’t fool anyone.</p>
<p>Actually Tulane went up from #51 to #50. No big move, but certainly is not “continuing to drop”. Just another fact you got wrong, SJUHawk.</p>
<p>We have no reason to post on the sju board as it is not a school relevant to us–just as you have no reason to post on the Tulane board other than to try to be a deterrant. Why dont you just go pester some other school?</p>
<p>You can feel free to post the acceptance rates of TU and SJU 2000-2010 for comparative purposes if you’d like. We will take a look. Please be sure to post your references for these statistics. Also, posting the comparative percent of enrolled students who were in the top 10%, 25% , 50% of their class would be interesting to see. Then, enough already.</p>
<p>Well, my wife got a dozen on the half shell and I got the trio of baked oysters which included Oysters Rockefeller, Oysters Bienville, and the Oysters Fonseca. </p>
<p>Wait what…? Oh definitely the Fonsceca was my favorite. </p>
<p>She then ordered the New Orleans BBQ Shrimp while I got the Oyster platter. </p>
<p>Hmm? Why yes it did include some pommes frites. </p>
<p>*Note:I’ve decided to have conversations with myself about restaurants I’ve been to within the last week. This conversation was called ‘A Night at the Bourbon House New Orleans.’<br>
‘Why’ you may ask, well, it just seemed to make more sense than to respond to certain people who make you feel as though you’re talking to a wall. It also seemed more relevant. :)</p>
<p>Brilliant, Benetode.</p>
<p>Ditto. Much more relevant indeed. ;)</p>
<p>Ben - I see the change from fiancee to wife. Congrats!! Hope everything went well.</p>
<p>lol, thanks. We got married this past Saturday. A ton of little things went wrong that no one expected but in the end, we were married and everyone had a great time. :)</p>
<p>Congrats, Benetode!!
Back to topic, The Associate Director of Admissions posted on the comments section of his Admissions blog today that this year’s yield was about 17%. Of course, even though this is hot off the presses and provided by Jeff Schiffman directly, it will no doubt be downplayed by posters who criticize the fact that he posted it on a blog. Whatever.</p>
<p>As I basically said in another thread, the data, no matter where it ends up getting published (USNWR, Princeton Review, anywhere) all comes from the schools. Where else would they get it? And certainly Tulane isn’t going to let their Associate Director of Admissions post information that would be contradicted by their official submissions to the Department of Education and other recipients that will publish them. So I think it is pretty safe to take Jeff’s numbers as official.</p>
<p>Quit being logical, FC.
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<p>I know what you mean Jym. Funny, I couldn’t get into the Princeton Review site this morning, I guess their server was down. Too bad I couldn’t get to it before the other thread got closed, because had a strong suspicion that they publish the top 10% data. Since SJUHawk considers PR infallible I thought it might help. Sure enough, you have to click on the "more " link under Freshman Academic Profile, but there it is. They report it as 60.02%, lol. Too funny. I guess that makes it official, since PR says it. They do indeed have Miami at 63%, but then again Miami reports 74% having GPA over 3.75, again because of the weighted GPA thing.</p>
<p>OK, I will quit being logical now.</p>
<p>Lets enjoy the quiet…while we have it. No background noise for now. Ahhhhh…</p>