<p>It is pleasant, isn’t it? </p>
<p>When I grow up I want to be a patient person just like FC. He must be a zen master.</p>
<p>I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not, idad. LOL.</p>
<p>FC: That was a sincere compliment. I do not have your patience, but I will work on it… :)</p>
<p>first let me say that i understand that this may be besides the point, and that i also understand all the assumptions my argument is resting on. </p>
<p>surprisingly, tulane alumni are allowed memberships at nyc’s cornell club (they also allow alumni from brown, colgate, duke, georgetown, notre dame, rensselaer polytechnic institute, stanford, and wake forest).</p>
<p>we all know how stuffy / pretentious those ivy league clubs are, and we also know the prestige of all those other universities listed, so tulane making cornell club’s list must just be a product of really heavy marketing, no? i mean how in the world did it end up there? props to the “cheesy” marketing campaign. ;)</p>
<p>LOL, I understand your sarcasm ExceptionalSea. I support your trying to poke fun at those people that would run Tulane down. Tulane has been a member of the Cornell Club for many many years. I remember getting an invite shortly after I graduated, and that has been awhile.</p>
<p>Membership in the Cornell club has nothing to do with prestige, all “affiliated” schools are invited to join. What does affiliated school mean? I have no idea but it has nothing to do with prestige. The ivies (except for Brown) are not affiliated schools. Obviously, there is some business relationship between these schools.</p>
<p>I think you are confusing the Cornell Club with the Ivy Plus Society. This vasin and vapid organization is based on imagined prestige. It allows members from the ivies and a few others. Tukane is not included. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ivyplussociety.org/about.html[/url]”>http://www.ivyplussociety.org/about.html</a></p>
<p>SJU, no one is saying the club means that Cornell=Tulane or Tulane=Ivy. The point was merely that if Tulane had such a bad reputation in Manhattan, they wouldn’t want greenies running around up there. </p>
<p>Also, I again find it difficult to see how you find this thread as your siren call to dispute. The title is Tulane admissions… TU may have received the most apps of any private school in the country. You have a problem with this how?</p>
<p>You can argue that the free app is THE cause. But TU has had the free and easy application since '02. </p>
<p>Having Pete Carroll at USC and Urban Meyer at Florida has helped in their applications numbers. It’s not a detriment to those good schools that they have winning football programs. </p>
<p>It’s not a detriment to Tulane for having a free and easy way to apply. It’s by no means a guarantee at admission. It is just making one of the most annoying aspects of the college admission process that much less annoying. </p>
<p>Has it gotten people to consider Tulane that would not have otherwise? Yes. Was that the point? Yes.</p>
<p>Tulane really grew its applications numbers as kids came down to New Orleans with church groups and their families, ect. to help out right after Katrina. They fell in love with the city and wanted to visit the school soon after. And since it was easy enough to apply…</p>
<p>Since then the national spot light has also been on New Orleans and the university. Since 2005, 3 US presidents have spoken at the university, the newly appointed Surgeon General and the newly appointed head of the EPA are both Tulane alum as is Obama’s assistant press secretary. </p>
<p>The Saints have also just won their 1st Super Bowl. </p>
<p>New Orleans will soon host its 10th Super Bowl (and tie Miami for the most ever.)
It recently hosted the BCS National Championship (2008, 2004, and 2000) It will host its next NCAA Final Four in 2012 and NFL Super Bowl in 2013. Kids want to be around those sorts of national events. </p>
<p>Tulane and New Orleans have come back from the brink of absolute destruction. They have not only come back, but done so in spades. The people that have a connection to the city and the university have been overjoyed at that. They start threads like this to discuss and celebrate the strides that their efforts and those of others have made. </p>
<p>And you seem to be fixated on what exactly…I’m not sure?</p>
<p>Ah, how we missed SJUHawk. I think, Ben, SJUHawk is only fixated on annoying people, and Tulane people in particular. It is hard to say. If I am right, I suppose that tells us something about the maturity level involved. The whole Cornell Club thing was partially a joke (at least I took it that way) as a dig at SJUHawk, not because the poster thought it really indicated prestige, but because it is so silly he knew SJUHawk would bite. Clearly a resounding success in that regard.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about SJUHawk. If he persists, I will compile a list of the numerous things he has factually gotten wrong, mostly about Tulane but also other schools. Then we can just refer people to that post so they can see his credibility is zero.</p>
<p>Back to the original topic, yield this year is, according to the Admissions folks, around 17%. I’d still love to see it in the 20’s, and maybe its getting there!!</p>
<p>*** oops, I think I posted this stat 10 days ago, before the nice respite.</p>
<p>Yes I missed SJU too. Well, perhaps ‘missed’ is a bit strong. :)</p>
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<p>Really? How did you end up in this thread? Lexington is a long way from NO.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/washington-lee-university/900425-washington-lee-vs-tulane-honors.html#post1064849727[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/washington-lee-university/900425-washington-lee-vs-tulane-honors.html#post1064849727</a></p>
<p>Yes, really. The link you provide is to a thread about TULANE, just at this thread is about TULANE. What brings you to this thread, Highlandmom?</p>
<p>^^I happened to click “latest posts,” and this one has lots of posts already, so I was curious.</p>
<p>What took you to the W&L board?</p>
<p>It is easy to use the search tool and put in “Tulane”. I am sorry to be so dense, HighlandMom, but who are you quoting, who are you talking to, and what exactly are you trying to say? I am not following, unless you mean how did a Tulane person end up on the W&L board. That’s easy, as I just explained.</p>
<p>That thread was comparing W&L to Tulane, so it is fair game for people that have something to say about Tulane, positive or negative or just factual, to post there. Here, on the other hand, there is no comparison to any other school in particular, and certainly no one trying to decide between 2 schools as on the thread you linked.</p>
<p>^^Edited to show the post just before mine.</p>
<p>I just found jym’s prior comment ironic, that’s all.</p>
<p>They really are two completely different situations, especially since her point was that SJUHawk has no known affiliation with Tulane. At least not one he has been willing to share. In that context her comment makes perfect sense, and like we said, the W&L thread did concern Tulane.</p>
<p>Now if we went to the W&L board or the St. Joe’s board and just started running down the school or even commenting on the school on threads where there was no reason for us to be there, then that would be a comparable situation. We may technically have that right, but it would be ridiculous and disruptive to those people that are there for good reasons. Make sense?</p>
<p>Exactly the same as you, highlandmom- I click on “new posts” and if there is a thread that catches my eye, particularly one that included a school that I have interest in or I or one of my family members attended, I may look at it. In fact, I saw that you’ve posted in the Rice thread-- my older s graduated from Rice. Do you have a child there? Do you have an interest in W&L or Tulane too?</p>
<p>** I am not even sure where you pulled up that quote from-- it is something I wrote, yes I recall that, but I have no recall when or where. There isn’t any irony as I see it, as our point is that we don’t post on the sju board as it isnt a school on our radar screen, and that post wasn’t on the SJU forum (if there is an sju forum-- I don’t even know). None of us can understand why sjuhawk takes every opportunity to try to rile up Tulane folks or smear the school. Its unnecessary, unpleasant and unkind. Whats more, the stuff he posts ad nauseum is frequently inaccurate, which is why some posters respond rather than ignore, which is really what it deserves.</p>
<p>That quote of mine was old, and on, I am guessing the W&L- Tulane thread. What casued you to search it out, find it, come over here and post it as some sort of irony? I don’t get it. And for the life of me I don’t know how/when you happened to stumble upon that previous comment I posted elsewhere weeks ago (when sjuhawk, marsden and fallenchemist were in an interesting roust about,( half of which has been deleted), recalled it, read it, copied it and brought it over to this thread, which, as you claim, you just happened to click on out of curiousity.</p>
<p>jym - It was post #150 on this thread. Of course it made perfect sense, nothing ironic at all.</p>
<p>Thanks for finding that, FC. But now I am even more baffled. A post from 2 weeks ago on this thread is pulled out of context to associate with, and linked to, another thread in another forum from even longer ago? And Highlandmom, correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t recall your posting in either this or the W&L threads before.</p>
<p>Highlandmom- we welcome you to the Tulane forum, and I look forward to seeing you on other threads where our paths may cross-- like the Rice forum, the engineering forum, etc, as it sounds like we have a lot in common. If, however, you are posting here to defend the nasty posts of sjuhawk, there our commonality diverges.</p>
<p>What grades do you need and SAT score for tulane?</p>