I was encouraged to apply due to same reason my father told me no application fee. Actually he spent $16 on CSS. LOL, good I am in now, so the outcome worth $16.
Good for you for doing this on your own. Itâs hard enough when you have a lot of support. If you get admitted and really canât make it work financially, reach out to Tulane. They may be able to offer you more money or release you from the ED commitment. Hope you get the result you want!
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Listen to your parents. I know all you kids think we are full of hot air but we simply want u to play all options.
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To the person contemplating the debt, please donât do it! Thatâll be a mortgage or house payment. Look into state schools that offer auto merit and see if you qualify. We would never let our daughter take that amount of debt. Our goal is that she owes $0 upon graduating.
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@pishicaca love your user name!!! LOL Ode to La La Land by any chance?
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Accepted Tulane EA for Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Economics
GPA: 3.21/4 UW
ACT: 32 Composite, 33 M, 32 S, 35 R, 29 E
Class Rank: NA
AP scores: APHUG(3), AP Euro (3), APUSH (5), AP Lang (5), AP Bio (3)
Race: Black, child of refugees from a large school in Kansas, and parents are middle-class
ECâs:
- Genomics Internship with a professor at my local university over the summer.
- Policy Debate, the first team in my school to qualify to the TOC (didnât put it on my application though because I didnât have bids back then).
- President of the Muslim Student Association
Those are my top 3, I had other leadership positions and ECâs but I feel like those took the most time
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Dont do it I know it sucks but not worth it. My son in a similar situation But accepted other schools with nice merit and waiting on merit from others There are plenty of other choices out there and if you want Grad school another expense you will need to budget for.
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I would strongly encourage you to pull your ED II if you canât afford it. The school has to understand that some kids are doing this on their own with little support. Have you already submitted the contract with signatures from your counselor? I believe schools understand that you may have been hasty and love Tulane so much that you jumped the gun before realizing how expensive it is. That is my two cents. If you get in you are bound and it could hurt you with other schools if you donât go. Of course thatâs only if Tulane goes after you and finds out the other schools you applied to. Iâd reach out to your rep and discuss the situation before. This canât be the first time. Bottom line, the stats may be the reason you donât get accepted and may have nothing to do with pulling out of ED II. Itâs true youâll never know. But it would be much worse to have 240K of debt. Kids who have a lot of parental and counselor involvement are really at an advantage and if you donât have a lot of advice that is something the school would definitely understand.
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Ya! Thatâs exactly what I did. My counselor, though sheâs amazing, didnât really ask if I had the financials figured out. And my mom signed off as long as meant I was going to college. But it is what it is right now. Iâm just praying I get in and from the advice Iâm getting, it seems I can talk to the financial office and figure something out.
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Typically you can pull out of the contract if you can prove you canât afford it and they did not give you enough money.
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I donât know if this is true since Tulane doesnât guarantee to meet full aid to begin with, so itâs very much dependent on their funding for ED2 applicants (IIRC one of the blog posts stated that they have separate funding pools, at least for scholarships, between ED vs. EA vs. RD).
Iâve heard admissions counselors talk about this one loophole in the contract but I donât know to what extent it works.
Applicants can always pull their ED app if the school isnât affordable, based on the familyâs definition of affordability. Whether the college doesnât meet full need, the NPC COA was accurate (or not), or the familyâs financial picture changed (or not), one can pull their ED acceptance, citing affordability. The ED police are not coming.
Obviously, ethically one wants to think through the decision, but ultimately the applicant has a consequence as wellâŠthey used their ED chit and got nothing for it.
Someoneâs HS counselor might be also be a bit unhappy but reallyâŠno one wants an applicant to attend who doesnât feel the FA is adequate. And no, a college is not going to blackball a HS if the occasional applicant pulls their acceptance due to affordability.
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I was deferred from Tulane and I was like, hey thatâs not bad but now it seems like students were only accepted or deferred from EA. Is this true? Does Tulane reject any EA applicants?
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Tulaneâs goal is to keep that acceptance rate low because it looks good on paper. This means they often defer who they deem overqualified applicants to the spring admissions decision. They may also defer underqualified applicants because they see some sort of appeal in their application. Whether they only defer or accept in early action, Iâm not totally sure but many of the overqualified applicants who are deferred, are ultimately admitted. This helps keep acceptance rates low while stats are high.
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Woah I didnât think about that reasoning! You made some very good points.
What sucks is that even if Iâm considered âover qualifiedâ I would genuinely love to attend Tulane on a merit scholarship. I wish they could see that from my application 
Anyways, #deferralgang!
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Over qualified youâd probably be looking at SAT in the high 1400s or ACT of 35 or 36 with an almost perfect GPA. If you write to your admissions officer expressing your interest in the school and you have those scores you may have a better shot at being admitted but show to much interest and they wonât give you money since they expect you to come anyways. This is why the âWhy Tulaneâ essay is the most crucial part of your essay. They arenât looking for a generic response like you are interested in a special program or you know a specific professor, they want to know why you put Tulane on a pedestal from other schools so they know you are seriously considering it with other offers. The essay really needs to show not just interest in the school but also passion for it.
Accepted
ACT: Composite 32
GPA: 3.80/4.07
Class Rank: none
Date Applied: 11/15/20
Decision/School: Accepted into Business School
Date Received: 12/17/20
Most of my ECs had to do with community service along with my Common App essay. I toured Tulane in August, interviewed, attended an online rep visit with my school, went to an in-person local rep visit, and emailed with my admissions counselor. My Why Tulane essay was almost 700/800 words. I wrote about my specific major and how I would pursue my intended career at Tulane, as well as mentioned a specific New Orleans charity I wanted to work with.
Tulane is HUGE on community service, its always one of the best things to right about for them. For anyone writing a letter of continued interest, put a huge emphasis on Tulaneâs community involvement. Do some research.
I have seen âtypicallyâ go wrong 9/1 more than right. Proceed with extreme caution.