Tulane fields big time D1 sports including 85 scholarships for football but is probably one of the smallest D1 schools around outside of the Ivy league and Rice U… It’s highly unlikely those at the bottoms are not D1 scholarship athletes for the most part.
38% of the class was below 3.5 UW in 2018-19, yet only 6% of the class were varsity athletes. Maybe the 7% below 3.0 UW were primarily recruited athletes. but the 38% below 3.5 were not primarily varsity athletes.
This is why colleges are reluctant to supply more data. I literally grabbed the first example I could find and know nothing else about Tulane other than a friends daughter goes there. Even with the data, some argue over what it means. Many schools at that level don’t give the GPA breakdown, and you can see why.
38% is the actual data. This isn’t good or bad, its just the facts.
Any students application is far more than GPA, and the HS profile is meant to give context to the GPA. 38%. If all I know about the student is GPA(all that was provided in this post), than Tulane is worth looking into.
@Data10 Tulane’s 18-19" common data set says 700 males/ 1,100 female first time enrollment. 11% of the class is D1 scholarship football players for males. they are going to have about 200 recruited athletes per year. that’s about 11% of the class overall. Rice U. having a football team that competes in conference USA and has only about 900 kids per class is a major data distorter. Note: for olympic sports a lot of recruited athletes get no scholarships though they get pulled in by coaches through admissions in D1.
OP said schools with less than 30% admit rate (you can quibble about how elite that is, if it matters)
My daughter got into NYU this year (16% admit rate] with 3.5uw, no hooks (but a kind of almost-hook, brilliant essay and good ECs). A friend of hers, don’t know about his essay but he has objectively better ECs and a 3.9 uw GPA, got rejected. It’s not just hooks but it is holistic. Incidentally a friend of my daughter got into Tulane this year too with a 3.6, also unhooked. They both did ED though; the rejected friend was RD.
I’m giving these examples simply because you can get into a selective college with a 3.5. But as my daughter’s first friend mentioned above shows, and many many posts on CC do too, it’s a long shot because many people with better stats get rejected. So treat as a reach.
NCAA D1 FBS rules permit up to 85 scholarships across the full team including students of all years, not 85 for just freshman. If we estimate 85/4.5 = 18.9 scholarships for freshman, then that would be 18.9/(713 +1192), which would result in slightly less than 1% of the entering freshman receiving football scholarships, well under the 38% of the class with a 3.5 UW GPA. One of many possible sources for 6% varsity athletes is at Tulane at https://www.forbes.com/colleges/tulane-university-of-louisiana/ . It’s a lower percentage than Harvard and similar because Tulane has fewer teams.
Best to use the primary source for number of athletes. Tulane had 318 unduplicated athletes in 17/18 school year (most recent data). https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details
Total 17/18 ug enrollment was 6,571 per the CDS, so 4.8% athletes…and not all of those 318 athletes are recruited, or receive athletic scholarships…so we can’t assume all those athletes are in the bottom quartile of stats.
Lastly, it is not clear how Tulane calculates average GPA in the CDS, specifically whether they use all courses off the transcripts or only courses from the five core areas…those two ways to calculate an average GPA can lead to very different results.
I think we’re off track.
On another thread, OP says multiple B grades, each year, and some C. The elite colleges have their pick of fine students, many of whom will exceed OP’s academic record. They need to know the focus is there and the performance. Plus the rest in holistic.
When the rigor increased:
“Junior Year: 6 AP Courses, 7 courses total
First Sem: 2 Bs, Rest As
Second Sem: 2 As, Rest Bs”
A few days ago, she asked about Brandeis, Macalester, Barnard, Manhattan, Emory. Another thread adds Swarthmore, Emory, Duke. And more: American, URochester, Providence, Lehigh. All over the place.
A poli sci or similar major. The only hint of ECs is “social justice on a national level.” We have no idea what that means. Nothing local is mentioned.
Not enough for anyone to predict.
That would imply a lower gpa than 3.5, possibly quite a bit lower?