Hello, I am an international school student, and my curriculum is British GCE. My predicted score may be ABC or BBC. My IELTS score is 7.0, do I have any chance if I want to apply to Tulane in the ED round?
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Does your school have a history of sending students to highly selective schools in the US? Will you be applying for financial aid (Tulane limits FA for internationals)? Do you have an SAT/ACT score?
What do you like about Tulane?
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What 3 subjects? What major are you thinking of?
Tulane would likely expect AAB or AAA, especially if you need FA.
If you don’t need financial aid, ABC makes it a high reach verging on the impossible and BBC would make it totally out of reach.
Any chance you can switch out of the “C” subject and take another one where you might have better odds of an A?
Wih AAB, you’re within range for Dickinson, Whitman, Brandeis, SUNY Geneseo, UMN Twin Cities Honors or UKansas Honors.
With ABC, you’re within range for Penn State (depending on major), Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Chico Honors, WWU, SUNY Albany, SUNY New Paltz, Marist, Fairfield, Muhlenberg, Elon, Wooster, Centre.
Wih BBC, you’re within range for Ohio Wesleyan, Cal Poly Humboldt, Sonoma State, CNU (VA), Mary Washington (VA), U Wisconsin Milwaukee, UMN Morris, UMaine Orono, UNC Asheville, Knox, Drew, Earlham, Luther.
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Physics B, Mathematics C Chinese A
I don’t consider about FA
Does this mean your family can pay $70,000 a year or more for your college education here?
You can’t get in if you don’t apply.
You can’t get in if you need significant aid because:
Tulane offers up to $25,000 in need-based financial aid to international students who qualify and who have not already been awarded that amount or more in merit scholarships.
Do you mean your parents can pay anything or just that you don’t want to think about costs ?
What major would you apply to?
Politics related. I just thought private schools had a more holistic evaluation than public schools.
If you want to apply to Politics, you dont need math at all, you need History or Goverment or any of the many Humanities/Social science A Levels.
Chinese+ History or Political Science or Economics… would make total sense for that major.
Is there a way Maths can be seen as an AS Level and you can take another subject for A Level, more in line with your choice of major?
Yes, private schools have a more holistic process but everyone at Tulane is an A student (A&B in the CGE context) and has solid extra curriculars (we don’t know what they are for you but I assume they’re solid too.)
An issue is that either you’re applying for Humanities and Social science, and your C in Maths isn’t a big deal but your A Levels don’t match that choice of major (and at Tulane where they admit to Newcomb first, they may wonder if you’re trying to “game the system” and get into a more competitive STEM major with a C in A level Math), or you’re applying for STEM and the C in Math will hurt you.
Another component to your application will be your iGCSEs - if you took them in the 1-9 system, they should all (* ) be 5 and above, with most at 6 or 7 (or higher).
(* ) religion or physical education, if required by your educational system, do not “count”.
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Thanks a lot for the helpful information.
Hi! How likely is Tulane to accept ED 2? I know their ED 1 acceptance rate is very high, but I don’t know anything about their ED 2. I’m visiting this weekend. My GPA meets their expectation possibly higher, and I have a lot of honors/AP courses. I also have a ton of extracurriculars. Going test optional. Just curious to see my stats.
Apply and see.
And you can ask when you’re there. But if you’re GPA is good…it’s a good start. But they also heavily look at interest (which ED is the best way to show it), rigor, class rank, etc. They actually list ECs as less important than demonstrated interest.
About half of admitted students submit a test per last years CDS.
PS - go see it and see if you like it. It was high on my daughter’s list and she hated it (but loved LSU). Not saying that will happen to you but it’s hard to talk about EDing anywhere until you actually visit and see the campus, etc. If you like it and your family can afford it (they don’t guarantee to meet need), then go for it.
Good luck.
How have you seen their ED1 acceptance rate as different from ED2? They only publish the broader “ED” numbers. Keep in mind that ED1 will include recruited athletes that are early commits.
All you can do is apply and see.
When you are committing to a college that is D1 it is typically not through the admissions process. So for tulane the athletes don’t a difference as far as I know. D2 and D3 is a different story
Pretty sure that’s wrong - may or may not be through Admissions, but the numbers are counted in the ED pool:
"The relatively high early acceptance rates among the Ivies and other competitive schools can be misleading, however. That’s because the pool of admitted students [includes recruited athletes], who often are accepted early.
“We work with recruited athletes every single year,” Norman said, “and they all go through early decision.”"
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I’m applying via ED 2 so this won’t affect me since it is a different applicant pool.
It was in response to your assertion that their ED1 acceptance rate is high.
They don’t publish separate ED1/ED2 acceptance rates so I’m not sure where you’re getting that impression and my note/response was your claim that at Div1 schools athletes are not counted in the ED statistics (they are).
All you can do is apply and see. ED (either pool) is the highest form of demonstrated interest - something very important to Tulane.
I understand that they don’t publish separate acceptance rates I was just curious to see my chances ED 2 since I don’t know much about their ED 2. I know that some schools have high ED 2 acceptance rates, but others it does not make a difference most likely because they know it is my second choice. I got deferred from my ED 1 which is why I want to do ED 2.
This is incorrect. D1 athletes definitely have to pass the admissions process. It is, of course, different for different schools and even different sports. A school like Tulane would have the recruited athletes as part of the ED numbers.