<p>Did anybody who received and responded to a personal application invitation last year get rejected or WL? </p>
<p>I really like Tulane but need to decide how many other colleges to apply to. I don't want to apply needlessly to other colleges and maybe take acceptances from other people. But if I don't hear back until Dec 15 and don't get in I won't have much time to apply to other schools. my school's GC is totally swamped and kinda spacy so I don't want to apply if I don't need to.</p>
<p>i got a 1210 and still received the personal application without showing much intrest in tulane. now that i received the application, and heard of all the benefits, i have went ahead and applied. does the personal application mean you are more favorable to get acepted.</p>
<p>I would assume that anyone who was offered to apply with the personal app would get in, because the school isnt getting anything out of you applying with it (no app fee). The only thing i could see them doing, is sending the app to areas that are not well represented or to really qualified people, so they can boosts their stats and come off as the "we had to reject kids with perfect SAT etc" school. I got the personal app, sent it in, and im not that qualified, go figure.</p>
<p>I think that certainly the school offers the personal apps to garner attention in the school and attract top applicants, but I also believe that they would like to even out the application review process - and like all ED and EA schools, they want to start building the freshman class. When my son applied early action and was accepted, we made a second visit to the school during his spring break. They were dragging in flatbed textbook carts full of postal service boxes. All were full of regular decision applications that were currently under review. They may reject some high scorers, but the freshman class this year had an average SAT of 1328 and the engineering freshmen had an SAT of 1344. One-fourth of the freshman engineering class were DSA or DHS recipients. The freshman class was among the top 4% of college applicants. Certainly, there were applicants with lower scores that had other talents and honors. One thing we learned.....nothing in the application process is a given.</p>
<p>Wow, alongfortheride, I am glad my S applied EA and not RD after hearing about the carts being dragged in!!!! Now we are waiting to hear about the SCHOLARSHIPS. Time will tell!</p>
<p>I really don't understand Tulane. You get sent a personal application with the promise of hearing in 4 weeks. My daughter's application has been at Tulane and complete since the second week of October. She is not the only student at her school that has not heard from Tulane; some have and some have not. She really doesn't care about the decision except that she was told 4 weeks and wanted them to keep their promise. If she had been told December 15, she wouldn't be looking for a response until then.</p>
<p>Did Tulane have the personal applications last year or is this the first year? Maybe they didn't realize how many would take advantage of the offer.</p>
<p>On a funny note-last week my daughter received an invitation to apply with the personal application. Too bad her application had been in for 7 weeks at that time. I woundered if she applied again if this one would get a response faster!</p>
<p>My understanding was that they promised a 4 week decision from the time they had received all your materials - transcript, scores, etc. - not four weeks from when they received your personal application. Maybe that's why some people heard very quickly and others are still waiting. Then again, maybe it has to do with how backed up they are with responses. From comments on this board, it does seem that people did apply who might not have otherwise simply because of the personal app.</p>
<p>My daughter's application as well as all supporting documents from her school and her SAT test scores were all in at Tulane by the second week of October. This is according to a reply postcard, as well as the number you call to check your application status. </p>
<p>I'm not worried, but I do hope they send it soon; it always feels go to have another school under your belt!</p>
<p>I sent in a personal application at like the beginning of October, and it took more than 4 weeks for them to respond. I think they're just really backed up, but don't worry--you should hear soon!</p>
<p>My son applied using the 4 week turnaround application and heard withing four weeks that he was deferred. at the time he had a 1190 on the sat 1 and later received a 1240 in November that was too late to be considered by Tulane. He has lots of good extracurricular activities (includes 2 varsty sports) and great teacher and counselor recommendations from a very highly rated public school. His GPA is around 3.4 unweighted and 3.9 weighted. I like Tulane the best of the several schools he is applying to. I also was extremely impressed with the admissions office, having met a number of the counselors at an open house day at the school. One thing that particularly impressed me was that I did not hear the work "passion" one time during any admissions presentation. This tired collegiate buzzword had been so overused as to become a joke. Admissions officers are, in many respects like a bunch of sheep, and when I hear this most overused word in the entire admissions process I cringe. I thought the admissions presentation was excellent. Both the President of the University and the chief admissions officer made presentations and they were straghtforward and excellent. Anyone have any thought on whether my son might be accepted since he has been deferred to regualr admissions?</p>