When is the earliest I can apply for admission?

[Lialia]

I know Tulane has a rolling admission. When the earliest I can apply?

[fallenchemist]

@Lialla

Tulane does NOT have rolling admission, but applying early has generally been an advantage in the past. I believe the application usually goes live in August.

[lz57c4]

it is rolling for some, not rolling for others. Nobody outside admissions knows their MO. With switch to ED and EA (as opposed to SCEA and EA), they may well dispense with all rolling aspects during early rounds.

[fallenchemist]

it is rolling for some, not rolling for others.

That isn’t what rolling admissions means. From Wikipedia

Rolling admission is a policy used by many colleges to admit freshmen to undergraduate programs. Many law schools in the United States also have rolling admissions policies. Under rolling admission, candidates are invited to submit their applications to the university anytime within a large window. The window is usually over six months long, and some schools do not have a previously specified end date (the window simply closes when all spots are filled). The university will then review the application and notify the applicant of their decision within a few weeks from submission.

Rolling admissions as a policy also strongly implies that all applicants are processed and notified in the order received. @lz57c4 is correct that some applicants hear before the hard dates, and that is great for them. No idea if Tulane is going to keep doing this. But they have repeatedly said they are not a rolling admissions school, and they don’t fit the generally accepted definition of it. They sometimes have one partial aspect of it.

Just because some students get notified before the last promised date does not make admissions “rolling”. Tulane has hard deadlines for submission of applications that match or are very close to most other schools.