<p>fallenchemist: What do you know about the Tulane engineering programs that they still have? Like biomedical engineering? What’s their status, popularity, strength, etc?</p>
<p>Regarding new threads, there is already a very active thread for Colleges for Jewish B Students and another thread (less active) Colleges for Jewish A Students.</p>
<p>LINYMOM - The BME program is very highly thought of. It was either the first or second one in the country, and it is still very highly regarded. It is a fairly popular choice of major to start out, but like all BME programs it is hard. Not everyone lasts. I don’t know as much about the ChemE program.</p>
<p>Yes, I am aware of those other threads, but I thought if people wanted to have a discussion about the history and current status of Jews at certain colleges as a matter of policy (stated or unstated), they might want to go have that talk in a location designated for it.</p>
<p>Reading this thread now, I had to laugh, I attended a private school in NYC and about 15% of my class, all relatively well-off, eastern Jewish kids, attended Tulane. These were kids from the middle of the class there, basically, who wanted a change of scenery and a reasonably good time along with their studies, completely consistent with Pizzagirl’s description.</p>
<p>I only know what happened to two of them, they both attended southern law schools and are practicing attorneys in the south. I would consider that a big success, for those two characters.</p>
<p>When I was looking at schools for my son this go-round I noticed Tulane stats seem to have risen materally. I would have been happy to have him consider it, even suggested it, but he chose not to.</p>
<p>I’ve enjoyed New Orleans during my several visits there, but haven’t been there since Katrina.</p>
<p>monydad - As a very frequent visitor to New Orleans, I think it is actually much better now that pre-Katrina. The whole vibe of the city seems better, and the restaurant scene has a lot of new life. Get down there if you can.</p>
<p>You are also correct about the stats. Tulane has gone up quite a bit the last few years, both in SAT/ACT scores and in the number of kids in the top 10% of their class. Nice to see.</p>
<p>“Get down there if you can.”</p>
<p>Not likely, I just started a diet.</p>
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<p>LOL! And I was thinking that it wouldn’t be the right school for me because I would never be able to control my hair! Last time I was there, it was end of September, and I had big hair the entire weekend! Fortunately, DS doesn’t have that problem.</p>
<p>You two are very funny, although my D would NOT be laughing about the hair thing. It is a major issue. 4 tests in one day? No problem. 3 straight weeks of super high humidity? A disaster. I can only roll my eyes like a good Dad.</p>
<p>I have also been dieting, monydad. Proud to say I have lost 57 pounds in 24 weeks. (Only 13 to go to target). However, I did go to NOLA for Thanksgiving and just went off the diet without going totally nuts, then got right back on after the long weekend. I was able to keep up with the gym while I was there, so that helped. Anyway, with good planning you can do it, but I definitely recommend going after you have lost a fair amount of initial weight. Going early in a diet would be deadly.</p>
<p>Tulane appears to be trying to jump up in the rankings, and it seems as though they will be successful. I am hoping one of my kids applies.</p>
<p>It looks to me to be as safe as any other urban campus, and better than some I have already seen.</p>
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<p>It’s certainly prettier than some of the urban campuses I’ve seen!</p>
<p>I don’t put any stock in rankings at all, but as a matter of plain fact I think you are right that Tulane will rise at some point. Unfortunately one of the fairly major factors USNWR uses are graduation rates, and while Tulane’s is getting much better the lag time from Katrina is actually kicking in the worst this year and next year, and this brings Tulane down. It isn’t right, and USNWR should make an adjustment for it, but I don’t think they have or will and so Tulane will look artificially low for at least another year. It is absurd, but those are the facts.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize that Tulane had one of the best biomedical/bioengineering programs. So, you study until 11PM or so and then go out on the weekend as all engineers probably did, given the workload.</p>
<p>FWIW:</p>
<p>[Biomedical</a> | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical]Biomedical”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical)</p>
<p>Tulane is not among the top 10 (did not review the methodology or seek the rest of the list)</p>
<p>"Was U of Kansas notable for admitting Jewish students during a time when they weren’t generally welcome? No. Don’t think so. "</p>
<p>What time are you talking about? Do you have information indicating that during this time U Kansas did not admit Jewish students? Maybe it is not the practices, or the time that made their admission practices not notable, but rather the location (ie not deep south)??"</p>
<p>I think I wasn’t clear, monydad. I was making the point that Tulane was notable for having been a “good” university that admitted / was friendly to Jewish students, esp from the northeast, at a time when many other schools weren’t so friendly (including some of the schools that everyone on CC wets their collective pants over). Someone else made the point, “yes, there are as many Jews there as at the U of Kansas,” which is a complete non-sequitur, since the U of Kansas was not notable for Jewish admissions one way or the other (that is, it reflected simply the applicant population, which undoubtedly includes Jewish kids from KC, Topeka, etc.).</p>
<p>Just to be clear, I didn’t mean Tulane BME was ranked first or second, I meant it was one of the first to even exist. It is ranked around top 20 by some, but I don’t follow that much. I think rankings are pretty worthless, I only know that people in the field think pretty highly of the Tulane program and the graduates get good job offers.</p>
<p>Thanks fallenchemist.</p>
<p>fallenchemist (love the name!) I understand , which is why I felt compelled to start that rankings post with “FWIW.” I only looked it up because I had not heard of the BME program at Tulane (not that that means a great deal.)</p>
<p>Oh, I wasn’t directing that at you mafool. I realized I wasn’t clear in my original comment is all. Your comment is perfectly correct.</p>
<p>no offense, taken, fallenchem.</p>