<p>Agreed. It’s pretty annoying when deferred/rejected applicants start bashing my favorite school.</p>
<p>“It’s not like Stanford or an Ivy League.” If I could add my two cents: I have legacy at Stanford and my father is the head of the economics department capable of granting me admission, but I would choose Tulane over Stanford without a shadow of a doubt.</p>
<p>Yes, one should be very careful when making statements like “Tulane is no Ivy”. Well guess what? Yale is no Tulane, lol. Of course these schools are academically more selective than Tulane, that’s just reality. But Tulane has a lot of facets that make it more attractive to the right student than higher ranked schools, academics aside. A fair number of students do actually choose Tulane even though they have been accepted at Ivies and/or other top 20 schools. These facets have been enumerated many times, so I won’t do it again.</p>
<p>To this point as it relates to admissions, there is no question that this year is palpably different than previous years. It really would be a mistake to try and relate it to where Tulane falls in the universe of academic selectivity. Also, while I understand the all too human reaction to feel negatively when you have been deferred, especially after fully expecting an acceptance, I hope you can see past that and look at it more dispassionately. Not that I don’t want you to feel passionately about Tulane! In the end, as I have said before, if you really want Tulane then make sure they know it big time. If you don’t and it was just a “safety”, then there is really no reason to get upset other than a somewhat bruised ego. Even on that point, it shouldn’t be taken that personally, it absolutely is not a disparagement of your record. It is just a strange year.</p>
<p>i got in on friday 33 act, top 20%, lots of comm service</p>
<p>just got my letter in the mail- was selected as a founders fellow and offered 80,000</p>
<p>I turned down 2 Ivies, WashU, Northwestern, & Rice to come to Tulane.</p>
<p>I really don’t know anything about Tulane’s admission process but here is a thought - Several students from my D’s high school have been accepted with lower stats than what has been posted here. The single commonality in all of these kids is their strong and consistent community service records…and their essay/why I want to go to Tulane reflected the opportunity for service.</p>
<p>I would DEFINITELY look into this. My friend was accidentally deferred as well but then (I guess he called?) they changed his decision and he got accepted with a scholarship.</p>
<p>I got deferred with a 30 ACT and a 3.5 gpa</p>
<p>Add another one to the pile , i just checked my status today and i was surprised to say the least at what i saw.</p>
<p>I used the personal application that tulane gave me.
720 in Math 680 Reading 640 Writing</p>
<p>7 AP’s , taking 5 more this year. Competitive High School</p>
<p>3.38 uw GPA ( kinda low ) , 4.1 Weighted GPA. ( out of a 5.0 scale)</p>
<p>EC’s: Summer Internship at ACCION International - non profit organization located in Washington DC. Summer Intern at the Embassy of Peru and the Museum of the American Indian - also in DC. Boy Scout for 6 years: already finished with Eagle Scout Project and almost done with Eagle Scout write up; have all the badges required and more. Stated that in my application. AP Scholar with Distinction, National Honors Society. Counselor in Art Summer camp for kids</p>
<p>I know some people in my school that applied earlier than me that got in with lower stats than mine.
I wrote both of the essays, and i thought they were pretty solid.
The funny thing is i expect not only to get in to Tulane but , drawing from fallenchemist forums posts, also to receive some kind of merit aid.</p>
<p>I’m applying to other top schools , but Tulane was in my top 3 choices if i receied decent financial aid. Fallen help me out here, how do i make them know that i really want to go to Tulane? Should i send them an email/letter? ask for my 1rst quarter grades and send them in? (3.77 uw gpa in 1rst quarter).</p>
<p>I’m confused =(</p>
<p>Yeah, I was deferred as well, even though the school was more on the likely side for me, and it looks to me like most people that heard back late-ish (December). I did not fill out the why Tulane part because I didn’t see this. Maybe because it wasn’t on the universal application (I didn’t do the reg app because they didn’t have options for dual citizenship).</p>
<p>But also, I remember tons of people getting rejected or waitlisted to schools that they for sure would have gotten into. For example, my friend who goes to Yale right now got waitlisted to GW. The school replied saying that they felt that the student was using them as a safety school and wanted to keep room open for kids that were for sure going to attend. Maybe with stats to high, the same thing happened to you?</p>
<p>justwanttogetin - Congrats!</p>
<p>thebigboss - Clearly this year is unlike the past few, that has become obvious. Up until a couple of weeks ago, predictions for both acceptance and merit were going as expected, usually. I would indeed wait until you have your first semester grades (although I doubt your stats are even an issue) and then decide if you would attend given the right scholarship and aid. If the answer is yes, then tell them that, no equivocations. If the answer is that there are a couple of other schools you would likely choose above Tulane if you get in and get the right package, then perhaps it makes more sense to wait and see what happens with them first.</p>
<p>I am convinced at this point that Tulane is having to be very careful about enrollment management. Again, this is a matter of complete necessity, not some arbitrary thing to be difficult or make people upset or try and boost appearances. Tulane makes more income by having more students, but they have to have a place to put them! As far as lower stat students getting in earlier, I can only assume that this was before it became clear that admissions might run tight again. Or perhaps that is being unfair to the students that got in, although I don’t mean it to be.</p>
<p>Did they post the number of the EA applicants this year? And did it rise from the last year?
Maybe AdComs ran out of time in the EA cycle and deferred all these qualified applicants just for that reason?</p>
<p>@shermani… i wish i could ‘like’ your post :] </p>
<p>similarly, i have legacy and/or close family connections at three ivy/prestigious schools but would rather be at tulane because it feels like a better fit for me.</p>
<p>keylimepie - Interesting hypothesis as well. I have heard no announcements yet about how application volumes are running.</p>
<p>haha so even you have contacts with the Ivy League. That’s a bunch of BS that doesn’t need to be put on this forum. I apologize if I offended the both of you, but please don’t lie on here and imply that the Ivy League only accepts those with a legacy cuz that’s not the truth. Come on; let’s try our best to be pragmatic human being here.</p>
<p>^ you missed my point entirely.</p>
<p>That’s faulty logic if I’ve ever heard it. I didn’t imply anything, I simply said that my family has close ties to Stanford and that Tulane is my top choice regardless of any other school I get admitted to. </p>
<p>Stop whining about being deferred, it’s kind of pathetic.</p>
<p>Well, I’m definitely surprised by Tulane. It will really be interesting to see if they accept me in April. I guess I’ll just have to wait 
Still haven’t gotten a letter. I just saw that I was deferred online. Does anyone know what the letter they send to deferred kids says? I’m curious.</p>
<p>Acknowledging the disappointment now of some, I think one should be careful not to be presumptuous about what should be sufficient to be admitted and on what basis that would be determined–as reflected in comments to the effect “how come I didn’t get in, so-and-so had lower stats”, or implying that there must have been some unintended “over-acceptance rate” in the EA round that now has to be compensated for with deferrals. Like many selective colleges and universities, and according to its own narrative in print and at ADCOM presentations, Tulane’s admissions process is individualized to the extent that they are looking at the varied qualities, interests, backgrounds (and recommendations) and other factors brought to the table by its applicants, and the overall composition of a class they are trying to create, not just high GPA, SAT/ACT and lengthy resume. Regardless. none of us are in the minds of the ADCOM to know what they were thinking when they chose one applicant or another, or maybe why one OVER another.</p>