How do you find your financial award info? It didn’t say anything about merit aid in my letter
@projectmgr did she do the why tulane/ get an interview/ visit campus/ meet with the rep?
@margaretwoodburn - she fully admits that she didn’t demonstrate sufficient interest ahead of the submission and should have spent more time on the Why Tulane prompt.
My post isn’t necessarily bemoaning her getting deferred from Tulane specifically - there are so many students equally/more qualified and deserving of acceptance - but more a general show of empathy for being a 17 year old who worked hard for 4 years and has nothing to show for it so far/for now.
We’re confident she’ll be fine and do well wherever she ends up 
Seems pretty clear that Tulane is trying to manage their acceptance rate by only admitting candidates that have shown interest and/or that appear “realistic” in terms of potentially accepting. They don’t want to accept lots of super high qualified candidates only to have them turn Tulane down because that raises their overall % acceptance and makes the school appear less desirable. Not a phenomenon that is unique to Tulane by any stretch of the imagination.
deferred, 1560 SAT, 4.0W / 4.5W, OOS, good ECs, wrote why Tulane, did alumni interview
If you received a merit scholarship it should be written in the acceptance letter. Mine was written in the letter.
Yes - it’s very important to show extreme interest in these essays. If you received any scholarship, it would have said so in the acceptance letter.
Deferred with a 1540 and top 5 percent class rank yes I am angry
Accepted!
SAT 1450 and 3.9/4 GPA.
Strong EC’s (president of two clubs, part of a professional improv group, volunteered at suicide prevention line and interned at a mental health startup).
Essay and recommendations probably helped a lot, I wrote about how being severely bullied for being gay affected my performance in school and how I was able to do well again because of my interest in politics.
I visited the school and had some contact with my admissions rep. Wrote about specific courses and opportunities my tour guide talked about in Why Tulane.
Congrats to everyone who got in! It seems crazy competitive this year.
Time to do UCAS…
Deferred 35 ACT with ECs 4.2 W OOS, but according to my school’s stats I am really overqualified so that might be the reason
@projectmgr of course. I’ve heard from people that simply writing an email to your admissions rep just saying that you would love to hear suggestions of what you can do better, while showing that you would still absolutely love to go can have a big influence when they go over the app again in the regular round
@123Class2023parent - I agree…this is clearly the new normal for the more competitive schools.
I give a school like Tulane more leeway taking this approach vs a Michigan, for example: trying to manage yield for an incoming class size of ~1,500 students is a different challenge vs a class size closer to 6,500 (Michigan)
@margaretwoodburn - very good advice. I will pass it on to my daughter and thank you.
Congratulations to you (or your student) on your acceptance and best of luck…you will do great things!
@projectmgr
Same boat here. Daughter deferred from UMich & Tulane so far. Wish we had one acceptance. Won’t hear from other schools until mid-January. I’m sure there will be an acceptance eventually.
The Chinese pool this year has been sooo competitive with so few places.
ACCEPTED! which is good because I started this thread… Lulz
@projectmgr Different story with U of M. I think they just couldn’t handle the sheer volume of applicants that were EA so they just deferred the masses maybe even without reviewing. They even sent an email to alumni parents of applicants before decisions came out basically warning them that their kids were likely going to have to wail 'til the spring for an admissions decision. I think Tulane just wants high qualified deferred kids to switch to ED2 to protect yield. Even the note the dean wrote at Tulane about what to do if deferred made the plight of deferred candidates sound really bad, maybe to encourage kids to switch to ED2
3.05 1030 SAT score, amazing extracurriculars and have been in the United States for one year, got deferred
Accepted! So happy. 1490 SAT, 95% GPA 12 APs, AP Scholar Also received nice financial merit aid.