<p>Wow! Tulane just released their application count, and we hit 44,000 this year. </p>
<p>Tulane</a> sees record number ofapplications - thehullabaloo.com</p>
<p>While it remains to be seen if Tulane has the highest of any private university, it looks like we've beat out peer institutions like Vanderbilt, Emory, and Duke. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who is joining the class of 2014. It looks like this was a highly competitive admissions year for our school.</p>
<p>What is more interesting is the number of very qualified students who apply and then get hooked. That’s what happened to S2.</p>
<p>dwnkboy - you are both correct and incorrect, lol. It is correct that Tulane has free applications that are, for prequalified students, pretty easy to submit. Many students that are qualified for the Ivies and other top 20 schools see this as a quick, assured admission, no doubt. At the same time, they have had these free apps since 2002, yet it is only starting in 2007-08 that the number of applications took a huge turn upwards. From about 20,000 the year before, it went to 34,000, then 40,000 in '08-09, and now 44,000. Post-Katrina effect whereby a lot of students wanted to be part of rebuilding a great American city? Partly. Even more aggresive marketing? Partly. Generous merit scholarships in a down economy? Partly.</p>
<p>I have written a couple of times regarding Tulane’s admissions strategy, so I won’t repeat in detail here. Suffice it to say that idad’s S2 is one of hundreds of examples of a student that is qualified for Chicago, Duke, Vandy, etc. that wasn’t even thinking about Tulane, submitted the app, got a very nice offer early (mid-October or so), decided to come visit, and wound up turning down Chicago, Duke, Vandy, etc. This describes only a small percentage of those 44,000 that apply, but if 100, 200 whatever of those really top performers choose Tulane when they never would have given it a thought otherwise, that’s a good thing for the school. The last 3 incoming classes have been the strongest in the school’s history.</p>
<p>No, I am not saying that overall the average Tulane student has the stats of the average Duke student. However, you might find it interesting that even though Tulane comes in #51 on the USNWR list that uses such objective factors as high school guidance counselor impressions, it comes in #27-29 in average SAT scores of its incoming class. Also about 2/3 of the students were in the top 10% of their high school class. So Tulane stacks up pretty well overall. It isn’t the 44,000 applications in and of itself that is so impressive and makes much of a difference, it is the results that come from these applications. To the extent that some percentage of the 44,000 apps are from students that are hearing about what a great place Tulane is to not only learn academics, but also to learn how to really get involved, to see your involvement truly change lives, and to have an incredible time, it is pretty impressive.</p>
<p>Ditto what FC and idad said. My s loved Tulane when he visited-- and turned down Emory (with some merit aid offered from Emory) for Tulane.</p>
<p>And is it just me or do people see these “new” posters who suddenly show up and post nowhere else but on one forum… Hmmmm…</p>
<p>I turned down Emory (And a very substantial scholarship) for Tulane as well! I’m a freshman here, and I feel like I totally made the right desicion- although respectably Emory is a great school and an awesome option.</p>
<p>I turned down Vanderbilt, Emory and Duke (after being accepted off of the waitlist). I know I made the right decision!</p>
<p>DD chose Tulane over Emory, William and Mary, Rice and a host of others. They gave her a great scholarship. As an aside, at the DHS breakfast it was stated that this DHS group (37) had the highest stats EVER. The Dean stated the whole group could have gone to any school they wanted to but chose Tulane instead.</p>
<p>That’s great, spring. There were also two(!!) winners of the Presidential Scholars Prize. This is the one where there are only two academic winners per state, plus DC and Puerto Rico. That’s pretty heady stuff. I know one of the winners was from Pennsylvania, where you can imagine what the competition must be like. Just for comparison, Duke had 2, Emory none, and Vanderbilt 2. Won’t say every year is like this, but still nice to note.</p>
<p>Did they mention Dean Jean at the breakfast, Spring? We picked her up and brought her my s’s year (2008).</p>
<p>Sorry, no mention of Dean Jean.</p>
<p>:( </p>
<p>She did have a falling out with the powers that be with the Tulane-Newcomb merger. Despite this, she was an institution. Oh well.</p>