<p>My S wants to go to Tulane. He loves New Orleans and is interested in environmental science and urban planning. His grades/SATs are at the low end of the range cited, plus without FA, it would stretch us financially. Is UNO an alternative? Sure looks affordable and he'd be an easy match. (And New Orleans sems like a perfect city to study urban planning.) Any experiences, info?</p>
<p>GREAT merit aid (at least when I was a senior), but I heard bad things about campus life--I got the impression it is a commuter school, and there isn't really much of one. Everything I ran across on this school seemed pretty lukewarm to negative, so I didn't apply, but that's all third-hand.</p>
<p>Per the Princeton Review, only 4% of students at the University of New Orleans are from out of state, and only 2% live on campus.</p>
<p>So it doesn't sound very Tulane-like.</p>
<p>How about Loyola University in New Orleans?</p>
<p>I second the Loyola suggestion.</p>
<p>I may be wrong, but ... Loyola and Tulane are side by side and students at one university can take a class or two (maybe more) at the other university. </p>
<p>Loyola also gives scholarships (but so does Tulane). </p>
<p>Anyone - please feel free to correct my info. I'm relying on memory - oldest d applied and was accepted at Tulane 4 years ago, but went elsewhere. Soft spot in my heart for Tulane though: Tulane was her first college acceptance, gave merit aid, and was so nice when she let them know she would attend a different u. (Tulane sent a letter wishing her luck at her school of choice and let her know that if she changed her mind, her acceptance at Tulane stood.)</p>
<p>U of NO used to be named LSU - New O, but changed its name. I don't know if it is still part of LSU or not. Perhaps you would want to check that out for programs etc.. It is definitely not Tulane in terms of character and student body make up.</p>
<p>UNO has a few course videos that I downloaded to my hard drive a while ago: Post WWII American Cities and Shape of the city. You can download them from iTunes U and watch them. I plan to use them with our daughter for her homeschooling program. I think that they have another course too. The content would lead me to believe that they have a public policy program.</p>
<p>I guess you should check their catalog and their iTunes site.</p>
<p>We are from very south Texas. A high school friend of D's is a junior @ UNO on a very large scholarship (FWIW, she was an average student in HS.) From everything I've heard, she's very happy there.</p>