<p>Is there a Facebook group for admitted students? If so, does anybody have a link?</p>
<p>I will add my son’s acceptance…don’t think I’ve actually posted it yet on this thread.</p>
<p>ACT-31
SAT -1900
GPA-3.3 (weighted at end of junior year, upward trending, with all As first quarter)
not sure what his uw would be.</p>
<p>Numerous APs, dual enrollment, great recs and ECs.
Did write an excellent (and sincere) Why Tulane essay, imo. Also attempted to explain the GPA…its personal, so I won’t belabor the details here…suffice it to say, he wasn’t just a lazy kid.</p>
<p>No merit.</p>
<p>DS took ACT again in December hoping to bump it up a notch, and as mentioned, if his second quarter goes as well as first, should have all As for semester, which should boost his GPA up. He is in five AP classes this fall, too, working his tail off to compensate for sophomore year deficiencies.</p>
<p>Tulane’s acceptance was a big deal for him. We are hoping to find a way to help pay for it.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/TulaneClassOf2017[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/TulaneClassOf2017</a></p>
<p>Just sent in a request to join the group!! How do you prove to them you were admitted?</p>
<p>It is being administered by Admissions, so I assume they will check out your current Facebook page and authenticate against what they have on file. I suppose someone could create an imposter page or something, but that seems like a lot of trouble to get in this group!</p>
<p>kelijake1987: did you find out WHY no merit?..call them up and get to bottom of this with its solution.</p>
<p>Simply calling them and asking a question like that is not the way to go. Again, read Jeff Schiffman’s blog. He is very clear as to how to approach this, and he is one of the more senior people in admissions. I can also say from experience in working with students and their parents that the approaches outlined can work, while the "don’t"s are definitely correct as well. Nothing will turn off an admissions person faster than someone with attitude and/or a sense of entitlement.</p>
<p>Of course, when calling the admission office, you have to talk nice and in polite manner NOT with vengeance, burning up, frustrated, etc…well you get the point. What if the no merit is typo error? how do we know without making the call?..just wondering.</p>
<p>A typo? The odds of that are so small it can be essentially ignored as a possibility. Far better to be able to go to them a little later with first semester grades that are better than your average before then, better test scores, and/or some other significant academic achievement. Then even if it was a typo, they will have a reason to give the best merit award possible, should they decide it is warranted. No reason to go back to them twice.</p>
<p>Since this thread is talking about merit, I have to express that we are still waiting on our letter. It has been 13 days. My dd emailed her rep yesterday asking her about the letter and the email for the password for admitted students. She told her rep she wants to get her deposit in…she’s a little overly excited and anxious! My h was laughing and said " well, if there was a chane of getting merit, she totally blew it." That wouldnt make any difference would it? There isn’t any way of finding out if she got any scholarship besides the letter is there? The only good thing about not knowing is there is nothing to damper our acceptence excitement. …ignorance is bliss</p>
<p>Oliver–i am so new to this game, but surely it wouldn’t affect merit in the situation you described.</p>
<p>Yes, I carefully read the blog and, as FC has suggested, I am cooling the engines before I go charging in demanding a recount.;)</p>
<p>That said, am hopeful that a significant leap in senior year GPA, along with increase in ACT might be to our DS’s favor. I am having him do the contacting, though, and am letting him be his own best advocate.</p>
<p>Lets face it, no matter what the reason, a 3.3 is not a stellar GPA by any selective school’s standard. To be honest, I am humbled they even admitted him after seeing stats posted by those deferred or even outright denied.</p>
<p>We definitely do not feel entitled. Worse case, DS may have to go to one of his other five choices…glad we do have choices in our country. If our biggest problem this next year is that we cannot afford Tulane, we are still so blessed…</p>
<p>oliver - LOL, no that won’t affect it. The decision is already made, they just have not gotten you the letter yet. It might have gotten lost in the mail, behind the copier, on the streetcar tracks…OK, not the last. I would say if you don’t have it by New Year’s, call them that Wednesday the 2nd (they should be working I think) and ask them to resend. If you can wait that long. Or maybe they will resend based on her e-mail. There is no other way to find out at this time.</p>
<p>Thank you. At this point my entire family is just ecstatic that she is in. My 13 year old son said he was going to move out for a month or longer if she didn’t get in. Her rep said she would resend the letter. I know in the past you couldn’t check online, I wasn’t sure if that had changed. I am very interested to find out. Based on what I’ve seen it’s a 50/50 chance. We are going out of town Friday for a week so I guess I’ll find out when we get back.</p>
<p>Have a great trip. The only way to check online is when they activate the financial section of Gibson for admitted students, and I don’t think that is until they start going need based aid in the spring. At least that is how it was before, and so far that appears to be the same.</p>
<p>2017?!??!???! God I feel old. Roll wave yall and welcome aboard!</p>
<p>Wondering if anyone familiar enough with Tulane’s admissions and merit grants to lend some guidance.</p>
<p>My D applied EA with everything submitted and complete by end of September.
She originally hadn’t marked it EA but had no way to go back and changed it herself so she requested it be updated and received confirmation from admissions Oct 1… Come Dec 15 no communication from Admissions. We contacted our Regional Director who was apologetic and worked to get us a response by the end of the week. My daughter wants to study Environmental Studies but the application defaulted to the School of Science and Engineering with no way to to change.</p>
<p>Background-
Top 5% of class at a top 50 US ranked a High School
GPA 3.96 uw and 4.59 weighted
11 APs upon graduation (5 completed already)
ACT. 30 with a 32 superscore<br>
Huge ECs, community Service and Leadership, two sports (one varsity captain) totaling almost 5000 hours in 3 years
Very Strong letters of recommendation
Showed interest in school TU visits etc.</p>
<p>She was admitted and granted Founders w/ $22k </p>
<p>Questions-
- What was necessary for her to have been granted one of the higher scholarships ?
- Do you think the mess up by admissions not including her properly as EA (now corrected after the fact) impacted the Merit Scholarship?
- What was necessary for her to have been offered to be part of the Honors Program?
- She plans to apply for the additional CSS, but being Founders and not HP, what is her chance at Deans Scholarship which was submitted early Dec?</p>
<p>We don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I can’t help wonder whether the Admissions mixup has affected her outcome? At this point we will wait for her mid year grades before contacting them.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Gschlat - first off, congratulations to your daughter! IMO it seams that she is slotted pretty much in line with others receiving merit scholarships. 1- her ACT probably limited the scholarship. I do not believe TU superscores the ACT. 2- No. 3- again I believe the ACT score is the culprit 4- I don’t think the level of merit should or will affect her community service scholarship chances. </p>
<p>I have seen others with higher stats get Defered or accepted with NO merit. Bottom line is that we will never know what favors one over another. Best of luck.</p>
<p>I agree with Jammer. I don’t think the issues with her application made any difference with her merit award. It seems to me 22K seems about right with the stats you outlined. Some on this forum got more but many got less or none. The ACT is about the median for this school.</p>
<p>Not much to add to what the others have said already, except to correct your notion that her application got “defaulted” to the School of Science and Engineering. Tulane doesn’t work that way, everyone gets accepted to Newcomb-Tulane College and there is no separate process for the individual schools, except for Architecture and even that only started having an additional acceptance process this year. They like to know what you are thinking of majoring in, but they also know that most students change majors at least once. So no matter if your intent is to study business, chemistry, history or public health, the admissions all come from the same office.</p>
<p>Also, don’t worry about the Honors Program. I have talked about this in other threads, but in short it isn’t a big deal that she isn’t in from the start. She can still take honors courses and if she achieves a 3.6 GPA or better freshman year, she can enter the program. She won’t miss anything major.</p>
<p>As far as the DHS, the odds are probably low, they have said in the past that an ACT of 33+ is what they are usually looking for, along with the other high stats, and I do not think that 33-36 is superscored. But for the CSS that won’t be the deciding factor, and if she were to get the $15K from that it would be very close to full tuition. Best of luck with that.</p>
<p>I do think they treated her application as if the EA had been there from the start. The awards this year have definitely been tougher to get, in general. So the $22K is really an excellent achievement. But if you do decide to contact them after her midyear grades, be sure to read Jeff Schiffman’s blog on this topic first. It is extremely useful and I recommend taking his suggestions very seriously.</p>
<p>Accepted with 22k/year scholarship</p>
<p>SAT’s
Critical Reading: 690
Math: 720
Writing: 610
-2020</p>
<p>92/100 GPA (unweigted) 95/100 (weighted)</p>
<p>Tons of EC’s - with leadership
Internship with a senator
Great Recs
Strong Essays</p>