<p>Hey everyone!
I've recently been accepted into Tulane University, U Miami, Syracuse, and American. I wondering if you have any opinions or suggestions on where I should go! Right now, I am most interested in Tulane and Miami. I'm undecided as far as my major goes. So, I'm looking for a liberal arts school. I want to have fun in college, while still being academically successful. I play the trumpet, and playing in the pep band for the Canes is quite appealing. I visited Tulane and loved it. I think both schools quite similar academically/selectively. I have not been to Miami yet, but I keep hearing good things about it. Please help! Thank you very much. I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks Again! Goodluck to everyone else.</p>
<p>Hello??? Is there anybody in there?</p>
<p>Take either M Miami or Syracuse. In fact, I can't understand why folks would generally pick Tulane over these two. My reasons are as follows:</p>
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<li>Both Miami and Syracuse have higher endowments. This means more scholarship money and better maintained facilities , and more endowed chairs.</li>
<li>Miami is in fabulous climate. Admittedly, I can't say this about Syracuse. If climate is that imporatant, Tulate beats Syracuse all day.</li>
<li>Tulane has no highly ranked graduate programs that I know of. Both Miami and Syracuse have some well known graduate programs and both have good profesional schools such as law and medical school. If you attend their schools as an undergraduate and do well, you will have a better chance of entering their graduate and professional schools.</li>
<li>I do know that both Miami and Syracuse have a great social scene too. I can't speak for Tulane.</li>
<li>Both Miami and Tulane are located in great cities for fun, and for things to see and do. Syracuse is arguably in the worst college town around</li>
<li><p>Both Miami and Syracuse have strong teams for college spirit and for things to do on the weekend. They also have as a consequence great athletic facilities. Syracuse, for example, has an ice skating pavilion.</p></li>
<li><p>Despite the advantages of both Miami and Syracuse, I believe that the "ful bore" tuition" is lower than that of Tulane. In fact, Tulane is one of the most expensive schools in the nation.
For example: Tulane tuition for a year is $31,200. This should be compared to Miami's $29,000 and for Syracuse $12,860 per semester, which is $25,920 per year. Thus, Tulane is the most expensive.
Thus, why the appeal of Tulane is a complete mystery unless someoine is enamored with going to school in New Orleans.</p></li>
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<p>Hey taxguy, I'm sure others whose kids are already at Tulane will help more, but I can tell you what my dermatologist told me:</p>
<p>When she was an undergrad doing premed, she was accepted to several different medical schools. A professor of hers, a Nobel Laureate, BTW, told her, "They'll teach you pretty much the same things at any med school. Why not go where you can have a good time? Go to Tulane."</p>
<p>Her M.D. is from Tulane.</p>
<p>And you know what they call the person that graduates last in their medical school class? Doctor!</p>
<p>taxguy, I think you have miss the boat on Tulane, but everyone is entitled to their opinion. While I would not like to attend Tulane, it has been the perfect school for my son. Yes it is hot and muggy several months a year, but spring and fall are lovely. The tuition difference between Miami and Tulane are small, not enough to make a difference. </p>
<p>I think no matter where a students decides to attend college, they need to take a good hard look at what the school has to offer for the 4 years they will be attending. My son has loved Tulane and is considering attending medical school there also.</p>
<p>I am sure that you can have a good time at any school, and I would think that Tulane can be a real party school considering the party town that they are located in. However, considering the advantages of the other schools plus the lower tuition of the other "comparable" schools, I don't see the appeal of Tulane. Maybe someone who goes there can espouse its benefits that I am not aware of.</p>
<p>Wow, pokey, that was startling. She is quite a good doctor. What set you down the path to that joke?</p>
<p>Actually, I don't think I missed the boat at all,but I was in error in one way: Tulane has a 672,000,000 dollar endowment, which is about the same as Syracuse, but it is about 150,000,000 more than Miami. I just confirmed these figures from the Chronicle of Higher Education site.</p>
<p>Yes, regardless of the school, you can get generally get the same education. However, considering that Miami is still $2,200 per year less than Tulane ( which isn't that small over 4 years) and considering the other advantages that Miami has,I would certainly pick Miami or Syracuse (even with the bad weather there) over Tulane unless I were a hard core party animal or they gave me a large scholarship. Check out the graduate and law school, and medical school ratings (if you can believe this stuff), I don't see Tulane rated higher than the other schools mentioned in any area,but I haven't looked at every rating. However, with all this said, I am sure that Tulane is a fun school to attend as I am sure that you can get a fine education there.</p>
<p>We were just there for Honors Weekend, and Scott Cowen, the president, told us that when he came into office, Tulane was the #7 "party school." He made it his business to get it off the Top Ten list, and it is off now and he plans to keep it off. What policies he put in place to make that happen I do not know.</p>
<p>There are other recent threads here that discuss this same subject if it is of concern to anyone. There are plenty of serious students at Tulane. Lots of them are on large scholarships, just as they are at any good university. We met many of them last weekend. The difference I could see was that everyone was unfailingly happy and friendly.</p>
<p>ctymomteacher, I didn't mean anything by my comment. I just thought of that joke when you said, "They'll teach you pretty much the same things at any med school." My husband is a doctor, so this was a running joke among the med students. And no, he did not finish anywhere near the bottom of his class!! I am sorry if I offended you.</p>
<p>Thanks, Pokey. That's a relief! I was hoping the "she" didn't have anything to do with it! The lady is actually quite brilliant. And I HAVE heard the joke. I just couldn't figure the context this time.</p>
<p>All I know is that my son is happily comtemplating his next year at Tulane. In this day of unhappy teenagers, it is a relief to this parent that her son's freshman year was a good one. He has registered and selected his courses for next year. He has not once said "I wish I had." It's more of an "I have so many choices and I have to narrow it down."</p>
<p>I don't know if anyone has considered this on a thread concerning Tulane lately, but Tulane is generous with AP credit - for scores of 4 and 5. My son tested out of a year. I don't think he will try and get through engineering in three years, but it is allowing him to pursue possible double majors and multiple minors in his four years. Even if he doesn't pursue extra majors and minors, the flexibility these hours gives him to take interesting classes totally unrelated to his major is a real plus.</p>
<p>alongfortheride-yes, my son also got credit for almost a full year. He thought about graduating early, but then decided to take an easy semester now to study for his MCAT's which are next Saturday. I think he will also have a lighter load next semester as he will be traveling for med school interviews. He has the 1/2 scholarship so we figured why not take advantage of it.</p>
<p>Just in case anyone has thought about attending during a summer session instead of a spring or fall; the Distinguished Scholars Awards are only good for spring and fall semester. My son had thought about taking 2 classes during the summer while he was working at a local hospital and finishing a semester early, but Tulane said no go. Just a FYI.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your responses! I'm still really not sure...but hopefully i will visit miami next week and make my final decision. Keep em posting! thanks!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info about the DSA, pokey. My son has the DSA, so he'll need to know that. He'll also stand to benefit from Tulane's generous AP policies, and he intends to use it to delve more thoroughly into the several areas that make up a CogSci major. Lots of good sides to collecting several AP credts there!</p>
<p>Cty...., absolutely! My son took his AP's seriously. Not only because the schools he applied to like to see them, but because he really wanted to knock his basics out of the way so that he could move on into the good stuff. I'm glad he ended up at a school that offered him credit for them.</p>
<p>Just a note from the taxguy post. A correction or two. Tulane actually does have a big graduate program. There is even a creative medicine program in which a student can take all the premed pre-req courses by his or her junior year and already be accepted ahead of time into the Tulane Med School. There is also many other graduate programs. Also, there is the 4+1 program in many areas, in which a student can stay 5 years and have a bachelor's and master's degree. As for Tulane just being "hard-core" party school, I worry about this as a possible future student. I'm trying to decide if I want to go there myself. However, from what I gathered at Honors Weekend is that students don't go down to Bourbon and get trashed every night. Sure, some probably do, but it isn't all like that. Plus, hello, Miami? You can party there too. You can party anywhere. My state has two of the biggest party schools in the country, and they are in the middle of the boonies of nowhere. Trust me, a big city doesn't make it that much more accessible. However, I completely respect your opinion, I would just reccommend getting the facts first.</p>
<p>Ballerina18, I do have the facts! First, I never said that there aren't graduate programs at Tulane! Never!</p>
<p>Second, what I did say is that their graduate and professional schools, based on US News and World Report, aren't rated very highly. If you don't believe me, get the latest edition of US News and World Report rating on Graduate Programs!.</p>
<p>For example, Wtihin the top 50 rated medical schools is Miami. Tulane is mentioned nowhere. See page 32 of the report</p>
<p>Tulane is mentioned in the top 100 lawschools though
For the grad school of education both Miami and Syracuse are in the top 50- Not Tulane. See page 50 of report.
For an MFA, Syracuse is rated highly,but no where is Tulane mentioned in the top 50 schools. See page 87 of report.</p>
<p>Bottom line: Can you get a good education and have fun at Tulane: Yes! However for the reasons given, I think that Miami offers the better deal. I still haven't seen anyone give a complelling, cogent argument as to why Tulane should be preferred over Miami ( other than prefer New Orleans or wants to study envirnmental law, which Tulane is known for) or Syracuse (other than the weather).</p>
<p>First of all....I would like to say that if you are looking at rankings, you may want to pay attention to the fact that Miami is currently ranked 56 while Tulane is 44 (for undergrad.) Furthermore, graduate school does not really apply to me. As a matter of fact, most graduate schools prefer to take students from other institutions. My brother is graduating UChicago this spring and he is looking elsewhere for a graduate degree. Graduate schools are not a concern of mine right now. Does anyone know why Tulane is ranked higher than Miami, but yet...Everyone seems to be pushing for miami over tulane? Thank you all again for helping and I appreciate your responses Taxguy.</p>
<p>Actually, tulane is 43 and miami is 58...sry bout the mistake</p>