<p>ACCEPTED!!! Just found out via Gibson and am literally speechless</p>
<p>Congrats Leya!!</p>
<p>DS got accepted too! He found out on Thanksgiving Day and was thrilled. He had just gotten deferred on EA for what was supposed to be a safety school and was feeling pretty down. Tulane is his first choice. Now we just have to figure out how to pay for it. :-)</p>
<p>Congrats to all admitted students!</p>
<p>Congratulations Sn0flake to you and your son Hopefully he’ll get $!! Do you mind sharing his stats and when he applied! A lot of us are anxiously watching and waiting.</p>
<p>Congrats!! </p>
<p>Im sure if you post his stats most people on here could probably speculate pretty accurately how much merit aid you will receive.</p>
<p>Hi Oliver17,</p>
<p>Be glad to share stats. GPA is 3.8 through Junior year and showing an upward trend. SAT I was 2190 (cr 740; m 690; w 760); SAT II (U.S. History 800); AP US History exam - 5. He doesn’t have a lot of different ECs but he has served as a regional (multi-state) VP for an international group that is focused on community service. We haven’t really tracked the number of community service hours but it has to be well into the hundreds of hours. He will only have 2 AP classes under his belt at graduation because while his school has a lot of AP classes listed in the course catalogue, most of the classes are never held. He was told at registration last year that he could not sign up for AP Statistics because they were not going to be holding that class. He does, however, have a lot of honors courses so I guess that must of have made up for the low number of AP classes. </p>
<p>I am hoping for something to off set the high tuition at Tulane. Anything would be a help. We’ll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>Just compared to me, i was recently accepted and was offered the founders scholarship for 22k a year.
My stats were a 3.4UW with a strong upward trend and a 33 act which is equivalent to roughly a 2200. Also good EC’s ect ect ect. </p>
<p>Are stats seem pretty similar and i bet he will defiantly get something ( I dont really know but compared to me it seems as though he should)</p>
<p>Also, it seems like you son has a lot of community service so besides for the merit aid he could also apply for the community service scholarship and receive up to an extra 5-15k per year!
<a href=“http://admission.tulane.edu/documents/CSS/CommunityServiceScholarship2012.2013.pdf[/url]”>http://admission.tulane.edu/documents/CSS/CommunityServiceScholarship2012.2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>Sn0flake - I have to say I am shocked he was deferred for EA at UGA. Who knows why, maybe the crunch state schools are seeing has something to do with it.</p>
<p>As far as merit aid from Tulane, I wouldn’t want to speculate on the amount, but I would think he might get something. I seem to recall that Wuhandrummer had a few more AP courses. If there is some way the guidance office at your school could make sure Tulane knows that he took about as many AP courses as they offered the last couple of years, that might help. It is important for them to be aware how the rigor of his schedule compared to what was available to him.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing and again, congratulations. One of my daughter’s friends also had very similar stats ( 3.8 GPA and 32 ACT) he had a lot of EC’s but only had 2 AP’s. ( But a lot of Honors) He also got a very nice merit scholarship.</p>
<p>Wuhandrummer, fallenchemist, and oliver17 - I can only keep my fingers crossed. We will definitely apply for the community service scholarship and probably the Paul Tulane scholarship but I think his stats probably are not strong enough for the PT scholarship.</p>
<p>I am also shocked he was deferred from UGA but sometimes these admissions offices work in mysterious ways. A few years ago one of my neighbor’s sons was accepted into Bowdoin and Bucknell but rejected by the University of Maryland. So, who knows?</p>
<p>I was talking to my guidence counselor about why some kids who are highly qualified get denied and he gave me a pretty funny answer. He said he spoke with an adcom and said that once the adcom dropped his pile of applications in his house and the adcoms cat clawed at one and licked the other. So what do you think happend? The adcom denied the one that the cat clawed at and accepted the application that it licked. Who knows how this stuff works.</p>
<p>LOL, I hope that is not true but it is funny. Although probably less funny to those still waiting.</p>
<p>Wuhandrummer - that is hilarious but it would explain a lot. I heard another version of that years ago. That the admissions counselor would take a stack of applications and through them as high as he could up into the air. The applications landing face-up got in but those landing face down were denied.</p>
<p>Snoflake, that is so bizarre that your S was deferred EA to UGA. My D2 was accepted and her GPA is lower than your son’s (her ACT was 32). They even offered her merit $$ which shocked me. Are you from Georgia? We are not from GA - maybe they are trying to atract out of state students? The whole admissions process can be bizarre and random at times.</p>
<p>But sadly we still have not heard from Tulane. Congrats on your son’s acceptance to Tulane and hopefully they will make it affordable to you. And good luck to everyone else who is anxiously waiting.</p>
<p>mumof2 - we are also out of state. His guidance counselor was pretty shocked too. While his GPA was only slightly lower than the average of accepted students from his high school, his SAT was almost 400 points higher than average (out of 2400). She told him UGA would be a safety school for him. </p>
<p>Sometimes you never know. I have even heard of kids who got into the Ivys who got turned down by less selective schools. I think it may depend on who gets to review the application and who knows, this counselor might have just been looking at a string of applicants who had both high GPAs and high SATs.</p>
<p>I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. I know the waiting is the pits.</p>
<p>
That actually happens a lot with Tulane. There are students with 2300+ SAT scores, 4.0 GPA with 8 AP courses, captain of the sports team, President of the class, so on and so forth that apply to Tulane. Some really want to consider Tulane and apply EA, apply for the DHS, visit campus, and do the Why Tulane essay. They would almost certainly get accepted, and while many then get into an Ivy or similar school and choose that instead, some still come to Tulane. Others with those credentials do nothing to show true interest in Tulane and use it as what they think is a safety school, and then are shocked when they are wait listed. They are almost never denied I don’t think, but they might as well be since Tulane took no one off the wait list last year. They still came on here sometimes and complained about their bruised egos, but that is silly. So interest and fit really do matter.</p>
<p>Fallen, you are definitely correct on this. My best friends son applied to Tulane last year, with no intention of attending. The application was free and he used his common app essay, so it required minimal work to fill out. He did not write the Why Tulane essay and did not demonstrate any interest. His GPA, SATs and ECs were all better than my DS. Friends son was waitlisted (and shocked by this). My DS visited Tulane, emailed adcom several times, wrote a great Why Tulane essay - was accepted with $20k/year scholarship. I think that admissions can really sniff out those applicants who are not really interested and are using Tulane as a safety. The lesson here being, if you really want Tulane, let them know it!</p>
<p>I got my acceptance letter yesterday. Tulane was definetly a “what the heck” for me; I love the South and the application was free! I got the 27k a year scholarship, which came as a complete shocker because I wasn’t even looking at Tulane previous to this. It would take more money to get me to seriously consider Tulane though, but it put it on my radar for sure! Do you think there is a possibility for more merit aid? My family qualifies for no need based financial aid.</p>
<p>And for those interested, here are my stats:
Female 
33 ACT
West coast, attending a highly regarded private Christian high school that regularly sends kids to top schools (Ivys, etc). 1400 kids
Top 5%
4.5 W GPA, 3.95 unweighted
8 AP classes, all honors for others except extracurricular type courses and the first molecular genetics class in my state (front page of county news for it)
4 years ASB
TONS of community service </p>
<p>Accepted to Baylor with a 15k a year scholarship (another free, why not type application. Disappointed with the amount of aid; I felt I deserved more from Baylor considering what less achieving students I know received)
Waiting to hear back from:
WashU St. Louis
USC
Southern Methodist
Pepperdine
TCU
Auburn
Chapman</p>
<p>Ktf1994 - Absolutely you should apply for both the DHS and the Paul Tulane awards. These are both full tuition. They are due Dec. 15 and the former involves a project while the latter requires a couple of relatively short essays. But you definitely have a strong chance at either of these.</p>
<p>Your overall resume is very similar to my D, who is now a senior at Tulane. She won the DHS (the PTA is new this year) and also was interested in a couple of the other schools you are considering. You should definitely visit Tulane if at all possible, it makes a big difference.</p>
<p>Ktf1994-My daughter is a Freshman at Tulane. Her story and academic credentials are very similar to yours. She initially applied on the last possible date because Tulane offered a free application. She was intrigued by Tulane because it has an Historical Preservation Program in the School of Architecture. She also applied, and was accepted, to a number of other schools. She knew very little about New Orleans. In fact, I believe my daughter is the first person to attend Tulane from our area. After receiving her acceptance and merit award, we decided to look into Tulane a little closer. We attended the Tulane Orange County local Presentation (which still involved a bit of a drive because no representative came to our area), and we went to the Honors Weekend in New Orleans. She also visited with a couple of alumni here in Southern California. After visiting Tulane and speaking with former students, she realized that Tulane was where she wanted to attend. Like you, our family could not afford to send my daughter to Tulane based solely on the initial merit award (although quite generous). We spoke to a financial aid counselor and we learned that Tulane has a number of options available to make it more affordable for prospective students. You will also note from the numerous CC posts, and from the Tulane website, Tulane offers a number of full tuition scholarships. In summary, although my daughter did not initially consider Tulane, after learning more about the school, she realized that it was the best possible place for her. Because Tulane also made it financially possible for her to attend, she entered the School of Architecture this Fall. When we visited her on Parents Day a few weeks ago, she told us how happy she was to see us, but she made it known that she was glad we came to her because she absolutely loves Tulane and New Orleans and wanted to share her new home with us. Make no mistake, my daughter has never worked so hard in school (which is saying a lot because she had a boatload of AP classes in HS along with a bunch of ECs), but she is enjoying Tulane a great deal and is extremely happy with her decision. Even Hurricane Isaac, which hit New Orleans her first week of school, was an adventure. Based upon the other schools you are considering, I think you should definitely investigate Tulane before making your decision. I think you will find yourself seriously considering attending.</p>