<p>Someone suggested that I look at Tulane, but I really don't know anything about it.</p>
<p>What are the students like? Are they all-party all the time, or more of a work-hard play-hard group of kids? Are they politically active? Liberal, conservative, apathetic? Accepting and open? How about gay kids on campus -- would it be high school all over again?</p>
<p>Any input would be great, because from what I've read so far, Tulane looks great, but I can't make it out to visit.</p>
<p>My son is a freshman at Tulane, and just loves it. He loves his profs, very easy to get a hold of. The classes are more challenging than one would think, and the honors program is very well regarded.<br>
It is a little bit of everything: definetly work-hard, play-hard. I would say the politics (at least during this past election year) were more "W" than Kerry, but there was a sizable Kerry voice on campus.
The city has a ton to offer, and my son goes everwhere and anywhere for good music, comedy clubs, etc.</p>
<p>Sorry, I do not know anything about the gay community on campus.</p>
<p>CD</p>
<p>Tulane is a school filled with upper-middle class kids from northeast.If you are looking for a school with socio-economic,or racial diversity,then this is not the school you are looking for.But academics are great!!!Programs here are awesome!Kids here are the play-hard,work-hard type."A" kids go to parties and get wasted as well as "C" kids.There is not a cutting-throat competition here.Kids here live a loose life...Friends don't turn against each other because of academic rivalry.That's why we have kids who turned down Dartmouth and MIT and headed toward Tulane.We have an NCAA Division I football team,though.Well,our football team sometimes sucks though...I don't know about gay life here.I don't have gay friends though.Anyway,Tulane is an awesome school for kids who cannot go to Ivy Leagues.</p>
<p>well tulane is a pretty tough school despite the notion one gets from its location, new orleans. The buildings... are well.... not reallt up to date. They are kind of old. Old as in not alot of money invested to get the facilities up to date.</p>
<p>tulane mainly consists of rich white kids. As far as the gay life style goes. I haven't really seen any openly outward kids. So based on that observation, i don't think that is a strong gay community.</p>
<p>hope that helps.</p>
<p>I am a parent and I do not know how Gay life is on campus but it is certainly alive and well on Bourbon Street during Southern Decadence week.</p>
<p>For any parents who are afraid that if they are about to open a vein and bleed out their lifes blood to send their kid to a high end party school and any kid who thinks Tulane is a non-stop Girls Gone Wild film I think I can disabuse them of that idea. My son is a sophomore now. He graduated from a very highly regarded county wide magnet prohram ina school system with 120,000 students. He might not have been the best student in that program (or even the 50th or 60th) but he was very well prepared for college and used to doing a lot of work. Academically he is doing well at Tulane but he is definitely also finding it to be challenging.</p>
<p>I don't know how challenging the school really is,I mean when compared to Emory or Vanderbilt,but it is more challenging than I expected.Since I had a solid foundation in maths and sciences because of the rigorous math and science curriculum of my high school,I thought I don't even have to go to classes,but it turned out that I still went to class most of the time during the first half of my freshman year,haha.It is a Girls Gone Wild school,haha,but the wild girls managed to get "A"s and "B"s.</p>
<p>Lucky girls. Eventually, the level of instruction will be where the girls gone wild will be girls gone straight if they want to keep those A's and B's!</p>
<p>Its a shame its not true. That article was written based on no facts whatsoever. Just thought you would like to know.</p>
<p>"Tulane is joining college campuses around the nation in dealing with the epidemic of STDs among student bodies."</p>
<p>I am inclined to agree with Crackah since there was no study cited. Two doctors saying one in three isn't specific enough. But, I think the key thing here is that in no way does the article say this is a problem unique to Tulane. I think to pronounce judgement on Tulane for an article written a year and a half ago that may or may not have been well written is not sound.</p>
<p>Keep your pants on and you won't have to worry about STD's. I doubt the infection rate at Tulane is any different than at most other colleges though the wilingness to talk about it may vary. College kids at Tulane are doing what college kids have been doning for the last thirty years. There is not a special dispenation from social norms at the school.</p>
<p>Go on Google (I did) and put in STDs and colleges. You will see that every college is dealing with this problem.</p>
The students at Tulane are very varied. No matter who you are what your interests are you will find a group of people that you fit in with. The students are very intelligent and also have great social skills. If you don’t have very good social skills before attending college, you will graduate with the superior ability to function in almost any environment both academically and politically.
Tulane exposes you to so much more than most colleges. Academically you will be challenged and personally you will meet people from almost every state and major city in the country as well as students from all over the world. Most of the students whom I knew in undergraduate at Tulane have gone on to attend some of the best graduate schools and (even if they partied a little or even a lot) have some of the best jobs in some of the best organizations in the world right now. The connections you will potentially make here are invaluable.
Tulane, like many Ivy League colleges, functions not solely as an academic institution but as a modern day finishing school that will potentially help you flourish and preserve in your professional life and in your personal life. I highly recommend the school.
Please try to notice the dates of the last posts on a thread. This one has been dormant since before Katrina!! Needless to say Tulane has changed a lot since then, probably more than any school in the country in many ways. In any case, old threads should be for archival use only, please do not revive them. In case you are wondering, while it varies a bit by topic, I consider anything dormant for at least 4 months to be pretty much dead. Better to start a new thread at that point and get things off to a fresh start.