<p>I recently received an email from Tulane University telling me that I can apply to their University for free! No application fee (usually it's $55), no essay required, automatic scholarship consideration and an admissions decision in 4 weeks. Did anyone else receive this email? Should I trust it and apply?</p>
<p>For anyone who doesn't know much about Tulane Uni, I did some research. It's located in New Orleans LA (Hurricane Katerina), it's ranked about 41 on the US weekly national college rankings, and i think overall, it's a pretty good school. </p>
<p>Tulane received my details from collegeboard, but i don't know on what basis they decided to send me the email b/c collegeboard doesn't give out SAT score information. </p>
<p>So what do you think? Scam or not? Worth applying? (i'll still have to pay the $9.50 to have my SAT scores sent - but that's nothing)</p>
<p>It's no scam.. but if you fill anything out on their app. about the hurricane, you should probably spell it "Katrina". Otherwise you might not get in :)</p>
<p>No, they have always extended that offer to high-scoring students - my son received mail from Tulane with the exact same offer in 2000. And it is definitely real -- my son did not apply but I know of many strong students who were offered substantial merit aid, including full tuition scholarships, to attend Tulane.</p>
<p>calmom is correct. This offer has been around a long time. The identify students they would like to encourage to apply and offer them a streamlined application. It is not a guarantee, but pretty darned close.</p>
<p>Totally worth it. I applied to Tulane on the common app (didn't get the email you're talking about...but I know people who did)...never paid the app fee (I thought I needed to...but I'm waiting on ED) and randomly got an acceptance letter a month later offering me a 22K scholarship/year. You should definitely apply.</p>
<p>I received a letter offering me a reduced application fee, and a friend of mine received several letters offering a free application. He only took the ACT, and I scored slightly higher than he did...what do they base this on, obviously it's not the score</p>
<p>Ohhh. I see! Thanks for the helpful feedback everyone. I was on the borderline of applying/not applying but now I think I will. It's not like I'll have to put as much effort into this application as all the other ones right? Since there's no essay required.</p>
<p>Lol! Hurricane Katrina not Katerina. Oops, how embarrassing. I think I subconsciously wrote that b/c my AP eng class is reading Crime and Punishment right now. There's a character in the book called Katerina Ivanovna or something similar to that. :D :D</p>
<p>My friend's son had the same experience as Elugguj. Like the OP, he was invited to apply, no fee, no essay, and was accepted a few weeks later with $22K merit scholarship. He and his mom are going there this weekend to check it out.</p>
<p>My daughter did not get particularly high scores, and she received continual letters and email from Tulane last year with the offer of the waived application fee, even after the deadline for applying (at which time they sent a series of emails saying that the dealine was extended). I think that she got these letters because she had "demonstrated interest" by attending a local Tulane admissions event. </p>
<p>But this was last year and I do think that Tulane may have been particularly liberal in its outreach programs in the months after Katrina. But I'll bet that if you called the school and asked for a free app, they'd give it to you.</p>