Carnegie Mellon is quietly helping Tulane students

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<p>Carnegie Mellon is helping Tulane students. CMU is making a real effort to make the displaced students feel welcome. In addition to Engineering and Sciences, CMU schools include those in Humanities and Social Sciences, Architecture, and Business.</p>

<p>Last week our daughter decided to work at an internship this fall and take a course at a local university. She wanted to be in a position to go down to Tulane and “help” whenever she could be useful. As it looks like she and other students would not be able to go to New Orleans to help for the next couple of months, this week our daughter changed her mind and thought she would like to try to have a fall semester in college. </p>

<p>Yesterday she called CMU. She wants to take some courses in Humanities. They put her in touch on the phone with the Assistant Dean of Humanities. He was very understanding and said CMU would help her. They did not want any paperwork (appreciated by us compared with some other schools). </p>

<p>My wife and daughter drove up to Pittsburgh last night. Today CMU has been terrific. My family is so appreciative of the professionalism, courtesy and sensitivity CMU has extended to us in a trying situation. In March our D was accepted jointly to CMU’s College of Science and College of Humanities. But, we believe CMU did these admirable things without realizing this.</p>

<p>A problem is that CMU started the fall semester almost two weeks ago (August 29th) and so our D and any other kids coming now are way behind, and CMU is a rigorous and hard marking school. This could make the fall semester problematic especially when our daugther’s thoughts are down south. But CMU is a school that is quietly helping Tulane kids and we very much appreciate it. I thought I would post this in case it might help someone else. </p>

<p>I would be remiss if I didn’t commend Cornell for all the wonderful things they are doing for displaced students. Ezra Cornell is probably looking down with a big smile on his old school.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your post. As an alum of CMU (undergrad) and Tulane (law), I am happy to hear that.</p>

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<p>I believe that CMU now has about 10 displaced Tulane students enrolled for the semester. Duquesne has a number of Loyola students enrolled (both Catholic schools) as well. And Bucknell has 20 Tulane students enrolled as of today. What a wonderful, generous undertaking by all these schools around the country to reach out and lend a hand to these kids and their families.</p>

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<p>The Carnegie Mellon numbers are a little higher. We understand that Carnegie Mellon has enrolled about 25 Tulane students and 1 or 2 from other New Orleans schools. Our daughter was at a dinner at CMU last night where Tulane students could meet each other as well as regular CMU students who come from the New Orleans area. There were about 20 Tulane students at that dinner.</p>

<p>It appears that the latest the displaced kids can start classes at CMU is this Monday. Given that CMU started classes about 2 weeks ago, the administration is trying to be realistic in what is possible to catch up on. So, unfortunately, the deadline for accepting our displaced students is fast approaching.</p>

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<p>Ahhh - you have newer info than I did, happydad…glad to see they are able to help even more students out. Hope your D enjoys her stay at CMU and Pittsburgh…also hoping that Tulane and New Orleans are able to regroup enough to welcome her with open arms next semester.</p>