Tulane Wait List

<p>That’s true that Naviance isn’t the tell-all, but it’s been a good indicator so far. Either way I’m simply disappointed because I definitely applied EA, had higher stats/more ECs/harder coursework than my peers who even got half-tuition scholarships.</p>

<p>Nervousparent: that depends on the high school; I know for a fact that the guidance/college counseling office has to specify for Naviance scattergrams to distinguish between ED, EA and/or RD…</p>

<p>Nervousparent - I should have separated the two thoughts with a paragraph indent. What I meant was that Naviance cannot take into account current events that change the whole dynamic, such as Tulane wanting a 15% smaller class than last year’s. This has, more than anything else, really changed the way Tulane approached admissions this year. Maybe they would have had the same shift in philosophy towards looking at level of interest as a bigger factor for admission than before. Naviance cannot factor that in.</p>

<p>The other statement was independent of anything to do with Naviance, and addressed what I just said, that applying EA was a plus this year, along with attending Tulane events and/or visiting the campus, saying something that caught Tulane’s attention in the “Why Tulane” question, so on and so forth.</p>

<p>Apologies for not being clearer.</p>

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<p>Why wouldn’t they specify that? Not specifying that seems like total incompetence.</p>

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<p>I’m with you on that inconsistency. Seems more this year than last few years when D1 and D2 went through this. D3 got in to Tulane EA this year when others with clearly better stats did not (so far-waitlist). D3 has not gotten in to schools when others did with worse stats than her. Mind boggling. But I agree, Naviance has been a good benchmark. It’s a drawback that it is centric to only your high school. It would be nice if the data could be expanded regionally somehow.</p>

<p>NP: good question!!! can’t answer that though…all I know is that when I asked the guidance office, they told me that it was an option they did not choose…I totally agree with you though; I asked for it and was told it was “voted against”…</p>

<p>Again, it isn’t that mind-boggling. Change the weighting factors on the inputs to the equation, and you often change the output. It seems clear Tulane is weighting certain non-stat factors more heavily this year than in the past. So yes, while Naviance is a good benchmark when nothing changes significantly from past behavior on the part of the school, when it does Naviance can do nothing to correct or adjust for this.</p>

<p>Will they go back to “normal” next year if this year’s class is, indeed, about 1450? Who knows. We will see. I rather suspect these changes, while perhaps they will continue to be tweaked, will find their way into the longer term considerations.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if there is any new information about the waitlist yet? Are there any statistics about how many students put down deposits, how many students stayed on the waitlist, etc?</p>

<p>No, there are not. I don’t know of any college thar releases that data until well after the fact.</p>

<p>Any guesses on getting off a Tulane wait list? My son applied late, but they still took his application, and seemed very kind. We submitted some extra writing samples, and the like. They will let us know no later than June 1. We accepted given it’s earlier than a couple of other waiting lists he turned down. He has some other good options, and we’ll, of course, accept one by May 1, but he should have applied to Tulane long ago, just as he started to do. He is outside of Louisiana and the South–we are in the West.</p>

<p>Isn’t this thread nine years old, for the most part? I wouldn’t want anyone to look at all of those stats and draw incorrect conclusions,</p>