Tulane Class of 2023

Interviewer just asked me to ask questions about the school so she could answer them. She didn’t ask me any questions, it was just me asking about things I wanted to know about Tulane.

I had a recent grad and she said she just wanted it to be a conversation so we talked about school and my life and what I wanted to be. It was the first time interviewing for both of us so went for 45 minutes or so

It’s so competitive out there. My son got deferred my UM yesterday along with the other 99% of applicants. Tulane in “known for” deferring and saying they’ll let you in if you change EA to ED.

Provided are the stats from 2016/2017 as taken from collegeboard.com big futures:

Total Apps: 35,622
Admitted: 7,657
Enrolled: 1,905

Wait Listed: 5,596
Wait List Admitted: 1,672

ED Applicants: 1,394
Admitted ED: 501

EA Applicants: 21,216
Admitted EA: 6,805

Based upon the numbers, and they are likely outdated to a certain extent, you can calculate the percentages. But as you can see, and the been counters in the accounting department know this from prior years, there is a little under a 22% acceptance rate and, of those students actually accepted, 25%, more or less, actually enroll.

So keep in mind, in the end, as we can see, a whole bunch more students are accepted than the university actually has seats for.

If a student gets a large envelope this morning from the office of admissions, is it a likely acceptance or will deferrals also receive one?

Is 25% enrolled rate mean Tulane is not the preferred destination for the majority of the student who got admitted?

if i didn’t get a letter in the mail, am I probably deferred or denied?

@bk1366

Historical statistical analysis is done by every college and university to determine how many students will actually enroll, within a margin of error of course, based upon applications submitted. Not every student will enroll if accepted and, thus, the school needs to accept more, based upon calculation, to make sure its seats are filled.

Now, for the benefit of all, keep in mind that if a FAFSA application has been submitted, every school knows which colleges and universities a student has applied to. Every school applied to is listed on the FAFSA. All it takes is telephone call or email from the Admissions Office to the Financial Aid Office to find out. Okay, maybe the student applies to his or her home state, which makes sense, but once you leave the state, it is easy for Admissions to learn where that student has applied. Thus, if Jorge and Laverne all have extremely high SAT/ACT scores with off the chart GPAs and applied to Duke, Harvard, U Chicago, U Penn, Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Vanderbilt (I think you get my point), how interested are they really in Tulane? And just to throw in a little speculation or conspiratorial thought, maybe Tulane will think these students are really using Tulane as a safe school and are not as interested as student who may have a lesser SAT/ACT score and GPA? Otherwise, why wouldn’t these students have applied ED in the first place?

@elcs76
I would think a large envelope received today would be good news!!

But @iamanonymouss
No mail could be anything. USPS is not an exact science.

Good luck everyone!!

Getting a letter today or not will likely depend on mail delivery in general for your area. Some in the New Orleans vicinity got letters yesterday. First class mail can take 1 to 4 days depending on where you are.

@BabaO I was not aware that colleges could see where else a student applied. It seems like a college could do just as you suppose. Totally sketchy…
I do understand your example as far as a school not wanting to be seen as a safety, but what about when a school sees that a student applies to a peer institution? My son will get his decision this afternoon regardless…

@bk1366, yes that stat is known as yield and every university wants it to be as high as possible:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2018-01-23/universities-colleges-where-students-are-eager-to-enroll

Reading the article, Tulane’s yield is pretty low. That is why they are so keen on demonstrated interested. This is hard to show on paper, so it really has to come through in your essays. This is also why you see top of the top students get deferred from Tulane, because there is an assumption that if that person got into an Ivy, they would likely go there.

From Facebook:
Tulane University Admission
November 30 at 6:57 AM ·
We will release decisions for our Early Action applicants on Thursday, December 20th at 3:30 pm CST! Best of luck to everyone! ??

@BabaO I have always wondered about this. One of the forms (can’t remember if it is FAFSA or CSS) requires you to list all colleges applied to in an order (we used alphabetical order, just to hedge our bets). I wonder if any admissions people out there can weigh in on whether or not this list is used when considering applicants? It would definitely, as BanaO points out, be somewhat of a predictor for yield.

@bk1366

I think the process of college admissions is vague for a reason. I even read an article that some Admissions Offices, which is juvenile in my opinion, may infer meaning into where a school falls on the FAFSA list. As an example, a student applies to 5 universities and the school of choice, unfortunately, gets added last. Go figure. Thus, in the article, the writer suggested alphabetizing the schools. I guess it is just one big game of Battle Ship.

Does everyone still have an ED2 button?

I still do!

I have my ed2 button back.

They brought the ED 2 button back for everyone last night I think.

You will only get a letter in the mail if you got in. If you’re deferred, it will just be posted on the portal at 3:30. Acceptances are both on the portal, AND real mail. They won’t send to just a letter to open just to say deferred, that’s just mean haha. Anyways, if you haven’t received a letter yet and your neighbors or friends in other states have, do not freak out. USPS sucks, and last year I was the only person who didn’t get a letter that I knew and I assumed I wasn’t accepted, but I found out a few hours later on the portal and THEN my mailman literally came at 6 pm that night. So don’t freak out if you haven’t gotten a letter yet!