Does anyone know if you have to apply early action to Tulane University in order to be eligible to apply for the Altman Program offered by the school?
@susanrivera123 - You can apply Early Decision, Early Action, or Regular Decision and still be considered for the Altman Program. The benefit of applying EA/ED is that you could have the chance of knowing you’re admitted to Tulane before going through the Altman application process.
Unless something has changed, you have to be admitted to Tulane before applying for Altman.
@susanrivera123 @nostalgicNOLA From Tulane’s website:
@jym626 @susanrivera123 - the wording on the Altman website is a bit confusing and makes it seem as if you need to be admitted to Tulane before applying to Altman Program.
I can assure you that you can apply to the Altman program without being admitted to Tulane. With that being said, you can’t be admitted to Altman Program without being admitted to Tulane.
I hope this clears things up.
@nostalgicNOLA - I communicated directly with admissions directly about this last year. Deferred students can apply for Altman and if they wanted to accept the student into their program, the student’s application would be reviewed. The Altman application, unless things have changed, says a student must attest that they have been accepted. They need to revisit that wording if it is not true.
@jym626, we are now saying similar things. I was originally replying to your above comment, ‘you have to be admitted to Tulane before applying for Altman.’
You do not have to be admitted to Tulane before APPLYING to Altman. You have to be admitted to Tulane before being ADMITTED to Altman.
I’m not sure that is correct. Do you work in admissions? If not you might want to check with them as, unless something has changed, you have to be admitted to Tulane before you would apply for Altman. If you are deferred you can consider applying to the Altman (the application doesn’t even go live until Jan 2 I believe) with the hopes that only if they want you in the Altman would they then have admissions reconsider your application. Again- the application to Altman, unless it has changed, requires the applicant to attest that they have been accepted to Tulane.
So,@susanrivera123, apply to Tulane, get admitted, and THEN apply to Altman after the first of the year.
@jym626 @susanrivera123 - sorry for the back and forth but I want to clear up some misinformation. I spoke directly with a member of Tulane’s Admission department who confirmed the following information:
As previously stated… A student who IS NOT yet admitted to Tulane CAN apply to Altman. If a student chooses to apply to Altman before being admitted to Tulane, they need to email Natalia Porto (nporto@tulane.edu) and let her know why you are interested in applying to Altman.
Just to re-iterate… A non admitted Tulane applicant CAN still apply to Altman as long as they email Natalia.
Well that takes extra steps that are not published on the Tulane or Altman site. Altman is very competitive, taking only about 15% of Altman applicants. The admissions criteria are stringent, and a student who is not admitted to Tulane EA/ED is likely an extreme long shot, to say the least, for the Altman. Makes better sense that only if there is a justifiable reason why an applicant is applying RD to Tulane but still wanting to apply for the Altman would one go this route.
To add to what the admissions person shared last year the message tat came through was that IF the Altman program wants to accept a student who hadn’t yet been admitted to Tulane, the admissions dept will review the students application and unless there is some glaring blemish on their application, they will be admitted.