<p>Does the acceptance letter say you are invited to become a member of the Tulane Honors Program? you can’t assume based on your merit scholarship amount.</p>
<p>Question about freshman orientation and signing up for classes…Since students sign up for classes during their orientation weekend, is it advantageous to attend and earlier session? Are you more likely to get the courses and times that you want if you attend in early June vs late June?
Fallen, perhaps you know the answer to this one??</p>
<p>tess1994 - I am not familiar with anyone that received the Founders being invited to the Honors Program. All the Presidents winners ($27,000) and about half of the Distinguished Scholars ($25,000) are invited, as I understand it.</p>
<p>But no worries, you really are at no disadvantage at all if your goal is to graduate with honors. You can still sign up for any honors section courses you want, and if you achieve a 3.6 or better by the end of freshman year, you can formally be in the program. It really is a program, not a separate college like at some state schools. It isn’t nearly as distinct from the overall program as a true honors college is. Which makes sense since Tulane is already highly selective in its admissions.</p>
<p>Congrats on the $22,000 it is a great benefit.</p>
<p>jozuko - I do know the answer to that one, it gets asked pretty much every year. And there is no advantage or disadvantage to which Orientation slot you pick. They set aside an even number of slots for each session so those attending at the end are no more likely to be put in a different section than they wanted than those at the beginning. It all cases it is rare to not be able to even get into a course. What is more common is that someone wanted the 10:00 section and got the 8:00 instead. But again, that is as likely in the early June orientations as in the later ones, because of the set-asides.</p>
<p>fallenchemist- thank you! That cleared up a lot :)</p>
<p>How/where do find out about the chat sessions?</p>
<p>last year’s january chat:</p>
<p><a href=“https://sites.google.com/site/aftershorewood/tulane-chat-room[/url]”>https://sites.google.com/site/aftershorewood/tulane-chat-room</a></p>
<p>thank you fallen, I knew that you would have some insight!</p>
<p>Accepted woo!</p>
<p>My daughter received her acceptance letter with a nice merit scholarship the end of November 2012. At this moment Tulane is her top choice from her acceptances received - 2 more pending from CA schools.</p>
<p>If she wins one of the Paul Tulane Awards, the decision is easy. </p>
<p>However, one item puzzles me. Let’s say 10k apply for the freshman class with 24% accepted. Tulane grants admission to 2400 knowing that some will not attend. 2000 accept and send their deposit money by the May 1 date. </p>
<p>What happens if significantly more students accept admission to Tulane than intended?</p>
<p>Fallenchemist - your thoughts please…</p>
<p>I am not sure exactly what you are asking, but I will take a stab at it. Your numbers are almost exactly right for Harvard, so let me use more realistic numbers for Tulane.</p>
<p>Tulane gets about 40,000 applications for the freshman class. They usually accept about 9,500 of these, for an acceptance rate of about 25% (obviously I am rounding a lot). Tulane’s yield has been fairly low the last few years, but the bottom line is they would like to have about 1,500 or so commit by May 1. The last few years the yield has run higher than before, with class sizes running 1600-1675 or so. It definitely does put a strain on resources, especially dorm rooms although Tulane has been able to handle it so far. If they ever got 2,000 I think they would lock the doors and cry. It would be impossible to handle that much of an overflow. But they know via past history about where things are going to fall, and also they can judge to some extent based on the number of EA students that have committed well before the April 1 date. So among other things they can adjust late admission decisions among the RD group to try to ensure the class size is going to be within reason.</p>
<p>Does that answer your question?</p>
<p>Fallenchemist, the answer provided was on the mark. Thank you.</p>
<p>Can someone report on the safety factor at Tulane? I know that New Orleans is a crime ridden city but what about incidents on or close to campus? Just curious…</p>
<p>Hi Bloomy. As you might imagine, this has been a topic many times. Take a look at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1431541-student-answering-questions-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1431541-student-answering-questions-3.html</a> (post #45) and <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1404865-life-tu.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1404865-life-tu.html</a> and <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1330582-why-neccesary-tulane-students-make-safety-video.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1330582-why-neccesary-tulane-students-make-safety-video.html</a> (especially post #3 for a summary of upgrades they recently made)</p>
<p>You can also look directly at the Tulane report of criminal incidents in the area. [Tulane</a> University - Police Department](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/police/]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/police/) I think you will see that the types of crimes are mostly small and non-violent. The rest are comparable or lower than most other urban universities, and as much as I hate to say it, some of these could have been avoided if common sense measures had been taken. I always hate reading about an assault, but especially one that takes place because the person was alone and/or drunk at 2 in the morning. As at any campus, urban or rural, common sense has to prevail.</p>
<p>My D has been accepted to Tulane and although she’s toured the school and spent a weekend in NO, we’d like to get back to the campus, meet some students and sit in on a class or two. Are the Destination Days that they’ve scheduled the best way to do this or is it simply an accepted-student event where you meet other incoming students and are herded to special events. We want to get a feel for what the school is really like.</p>
<p>Destination Tulane is a very good way to get a feel for the “true” atmosphere. Sitting in on a class is part of the program, and certainly she can select a second class to sit in on if she wants. A tour of campus is part of the DT program, so she could sit in on an additional class while the others were doing that, since she has already had the tour, then meet back up with the group. There are scheduled parts of the program and meeting other students is one of these, but Tulane is an easy place to just engage students on your own and ask questions.</p>
<p>Question about move in - we will be traveling from a distance. We will obviously have to ship things - will we be able to ship directly to his dorm or will we have to pick it up somewhere on campus and carry it? Next, how far is the closest Bed, Bath + Beyond? Normally we would not need to rent a car but will need to pick up items at stores - does anyone have experience w/this?</p>
<p>Bloomy–Everyone has experience with this! 
We never shipped anything, and keep in mind D1 has more clothes and shoes than Imelda Marcos. Flying Southwest allows 2 suitcases per person. We rented a car and went to BBB to do our pick-up (it is located between the airport and Tulane) and returned later for more stuff. If you want to ship, you will be informed of how to do this by Tulane. Each kid will get FedEx labels and info. On move in day there are trucks with all the FedEx deliveries on them. You just have to pick them up and pray they weren’t rained on. (I think Fallenchemist has some experince there). The process is pretty easy.</p>
<p>Bed Bath & Beyond is at Clearview Mall in Metairie, which is indeed between the airport & Tulane off of I-10 at the Clearview exit.</p>
<p>clearviewmall.com </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you!!</p>
<p>as a neurotic mom, I am obsessed with questions and issues like these (shipping stuff, BBB). My son thinks I’m nuts. My older son went to school about 4 1/2 hours from home. I went on marathon shopping trips, loaded up the SUV and we drove (for freshman move-in, we actually had two car loads of stuff. We brought the first one up when DS1 participated in a Wilderness Adventure at the school and stored it in a friends garage nearby). After Spring break of freshman year, we sent him back with a car, so for move home in May, we had two cars!
The thought of shipping and buying everything during move in has me totally stressed out. I know that thousands of kids do this, but it’s all new to me.
One of my best friends has a daughter at Penn State (4 hours from home). Her son just got in a few weeks ago. My friend has already purchased everything for his dorm room, down to the bedding, towels, lamps, under the bed boxes, hanger you name it!! She’s crazy, but I’m secretly jealous!</p>