This discussion was created from comments split from: What does it take to get into Tulane?.
<p>Can someone post some new stats for the gpa/sat/act scores that they had and were accepted into Tulane??? pretty pleeeease</p>
<p>Freshman son had 4.0 unweighted/35 ACT (don’t remember SAT as only took it for class ranking in high school ~ 2200???). He took AP and honors classes but his high school doesn’t really offer that many AP classes and only to juniors and seniors. </p>
<p>Basically getting accepted is “easier” if you have 30+ on the ACT and good gpa (3.5+). Tulane knows each school is different so they take that into the gpa consideration when offering students acceptance and also why the ACT and SAT are used to put people on the same playing field. There are students will less stats than 30 and a 3.5 but these stats should be real good on acceptance potential.</p>
<p>Now if you are wanting a scholarship those are more competative. Everyone is considered for the yearly $10-30K scholarships upon admittance. The other scholarships are more competative and require further essays and such.</p>
<p>Lastly a big part of acceptance is your admission essays and letting Tulane know you are very interested. People with great stats don’t get accepted while some with lower stats do get accepted and most of these can be attributed to their essays and interest.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Google “Tulane common data set” which is posted on TU’s website.</p>
<p>It gives incredibly detailed admissions information about the class that started in Fall 2013. </p>
<p>For test scores, TU’s 25-75 percentile range for that enrolled class was 29-32 ACT, 1240-1400 SAT.</p>
<p>S2 had 2140 SAT, 34 ACT and about a 3.8 unweighted, 4 point something weighted.</p>
<p>@syocrew6 - You also have to realize that CC users are skewed fairly significantly towards the upper quartile or better. So stats on here won’t give you the best picture. My D, for example, had 2340 SAT and 3.9 UW GPA, about 8 AP courses, most of the rest honors. The info northwesty posted gives you the best overall picture.</p>
<p>On the more average end of things, my D had a 30 ACT, 3.97 UW GPA, and only 2 AP courses, the rest honors where available.</p>
<p>I would never call a 3.97 UW average!! She is obviously very bright and a hard worker.</p>
<p>But FC, we’re in Louisiana…the classes really weren’t hard…but the one B that she did get was in typing. hahaha</p>
<p>My son, a Sophomore, had a 32 ACT. He attended a school with no class ranking, but we figure he was in the top 10-20 percent. (A broad range, but it’s a guesstimate). The GPA at his high school was weighted, so it’s worthless for you to use for comparative purpose. </p>
<p>You are definitely getting a very skewed picture here as FC said earlier. There are plenty of students who have stats that don’t fall into this category, but those students typically have something else that makes them stand out in the application process. My son had a 3.9 unweighted GPA, a 34 on his ACT, was in the top 4% of his class, had 8 AP’s. He also had significant service hours which I think was a big plus.</p>
<p>My son back in 2011 had GPA: 4.00 unweighted, 4.50 weighted, IB Programme with Diploma, Top 2% of the whole school, his SAT: 2000 (took it when he was HS Junior, one time only busy with stressful IB programs and did not want to take it second time to improve the score). He was in Dual Degree Programs 3+2 (Physics-Tulane and ME -Vandy). He has completed the Physics requirements at Tulane with GPA 3.75 is now at Vandy doing really good. He told me that what he has learned at Tulane is very valuable and applicable to his study at Vandy. Moral story is: low SAT/ACT needs to have high GPA to get into Tulane and don’t forget to write the essay.</p>
<p>Can’t recall his GPA for sure, but I think it was a 3.8 (can’t recall if that was W or UW) SAT was 2290. BTW, for those of you wondering about job opportunities after graduation, he worked for a consulting firm for 2 years and now works for a big, well-known company in silicon valley. So good luck to all of you!.</p>