<p>I got in yesterday! I have a 31 ACT, 3.89 unweighted GPA with full IB diploma curriculum (6 IBs junior year, 5 senior year), strong extracurriculars, and I thought my essays were pretty strong as well. Waiting to get the official letter with any merit aid… keeping my fingers crossed:)</p>
<p>congratulations to all those who have been accepted.</p>
<p>I’ve been following a number of early ad and rolling ad college fora and your, paperbaggi, is the first post I’ve seen that mentions participating in a full IB diploma program.</p>
<p>has anyone else seen much in the way of IB diploma candidates this year? D was going to do it, but it would have interfered with taking two languages and something else, I think. Then there was the cost, as well; so she just took two IB courses. How do you like it, paperbaggi?</p>
<p>I’m in the IB Diploma program as well!
Found out about my acceptance to Tulane on Monday!
Honestly, I think the program is great and that it is going to prepare me for college far better than some of my counterparts in my school participating in Honors classes and the 3 or 4 AP classes my school offers. (My school is trying to phase out AP). Overall, I think the program is very well-rounded and allows students to excel on exams and such due to the different assignments that weigh in to the final “IB Grade”. However, the IB program was obviously meant for private schools and academies in which all the students were in the program. Being from a racially and socioeconomically diverse southern public school, IB is not really the right program for a school like mine. Nevertheless, my school is doing the best they can to give their vastly different leveled students a great education, so I can’t complain. If I could go back and do it again, I would make the same choice. Now I just have to ace my exams in May!</p>
<p>Is there an accepted class of 2018 Facebook group or something? I haven’t committed anywhere yet but I’d love to get to know some of you guys! :)</p>
<p>Yes there is. You have to request to join <a href=“Tulane University Class of 2018 | Facebook”>Tulane University Class of 2018 | Facebook;
<p>I just received my letter in the mail, but unfortunately no merit aid was awarded, which makes it impossible for me to attend. I applied for the community service scholarship as well as the DHS, but is there anything else I can do to perhaps knock the price down? Thanks.</p>
<p>well, you still haven’t heard about the DHS and service results, so there’s that merit yet to be announced. maybe you’ll win one of those, keen. sometimes money will show up late in the process, sometimes because someone who was supposed to go to Tulane backs out unexpectedly.</p>
<p>Thanks @dolphnlvr6! :)</p>
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I could be misunderstanding what you are trying to say, but Tulane does not reallocate merit $$ offered to students that don’t end up at Tulane. They know some percentage of their offers are going to go unclaimed when they make them, and that is built into the process. This is true whether one is talking about the “automatic” scholarships like the Presidential, or the highest level awards of the DHS, PTA and CSS. It is typical that out of the 75 DHS awards, about half end up at Tulane. When a DHS winner decides to attend another school, they don’t go down some (non-existent) list of runners-up until 75 awards are used.</p>
<p>kkeen234 - Don’t give up just yet. People are often surprised what they get when they apply for need based financial aid. Remember, that doesn’t mean all loans. There are usually grants that don’t have to be repaid in the packages, and also possibly work-study to go along with some loans. The DHS is not likely for you. Sorry to be so blunt, but as the Tulane website used to state the winners typically have SAT scores of 2250+ or ACT of 33+. [Tulane</a> University - Tulane Dean’s Honor Scholarship](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/financialaid/grants/dhs.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/financialaid/grants/dhs.cfm) While the wording on this has changed from citing these specific scores to saying “…near the top of the range in a college admission test”, these are the kind of scores they are looking for. Perhaps the CSS will still work out. But you definitely want to get your FAFSA and other forms into Tulane and see what kind of offer they make from that.</p>
<p>@Variable2</p>
<p>Basically email your counselor anything you are passionate about. I emailed about club lacrosse one time and one time I emailed my first quarter grades. If there is a specific field you are interested in (especially if Tulane is one of the few schools that has it) then email about that. Just make sure you keep in contact… maybe do those online talk things too! Hope it works out for you!</p>
<p>I found out 2 weeks ago that I was accepted with $20,000/year
33 ACT and 3.75 unweighted GPA</p>
<p>D got a birthday card from her counselor yesterday. Nice touch.</p>
<p>thank you, fc, for correcting me about Tulane policy. We don’t want to give kkeen misleading information. I was thinking more generally about college merit at schools where that does happen.</p>
<p>That is a nice touch. I remember when my son was applying to college about 8 years ago and one school did that for him. I was impressed. Interestingly, he did end up there.</p>
<p>got my attention and D’s, too. I just wonder what all this marketing and reaching out to prospective students costs. we’re probably paying for it in the end. I saw some stats that suggested that schools spend some obscene dollar amounts on each applicant. I don’t want to quote what I heard because I don’t know if that’s accurate or if I recall it exactly. </p>
<p>Anybody know a url to which to refer me for a start on this topic?</p>
<p>oh, and congrats to ss5396.</p>
<p>I don’t know the $$ figure and cannot recall seeing a reference to it off hand, but I will do some digging later. I do remember an article in the NYT a few years ago about a company called Royall, I think, that specialized in the customized mailing lists and marketing campaigns that colleges use.</p>
<p>Sure enough, I just Googled them and their home page is spot on for this. [Direct</a> Marketing Recruitment, Research, and Yield Programs - Royall & Company](<a href=“http://www.royall.com/]Direct”>http://www.royall.com/)</p>
<p>thanks, fc. kinda takes the shine off that birthday card if you think that royall gave that poor admissions counselor one more thing to do before she went home that day. His or her December wasn’t busy enough, I guess. Still, we enjoyed the card if not the thought behind it ;+)</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t know. Didn’t mean to create cynicism, lol. Tulane might have seen other schools doing it and decided it was a good idea. Nothing wrong with that, no one school thinks of everything right away. The fact remains they decided it was a nice thing to do and followed through. Other schools no doubt know that this is done yet still choose not to do it.</p>
<p>But make no mistake, cynical or just realistic, colleges are a business and have to be businesslike in all aspects, including (and maybe especially) marketing. Marketing isn’t just what you advertise or mail, it is all the analysis of the user market and all the conditions, such as the competition, the economy, etc. one finds oneself in. How to react to keep your company/brand/university strong and competitive is key. Right now there is a downturn in the number of students going to college. Economic pressures on families obviously remains highly significant. These factors and more dictate how schools manage this whole process. Some do it better than others. Post-Katrina, especially, I think Tulane has done it absolutely brilliantly.</p>
<p>First i want to thank everyone because this thread has been very helpful. I now have a bit of a dilemma. I was recently deferred from Tulane after applying SCEA, and I herd that Tulane will not reject anyone during the early action round ( so i could be pretty much rejected). Tulane is my top school, but now I have an opportunity to apply ED to my second choice school. I would only do this if I feel that Tulane is completely out of my reach. Could someone give me feedback on what they think?
GPA: 2.9 ( I messed up freshman year that has been bringing my GPA down a lot, my recommendations and essay explain this. I also ended my Junior year with a 3.6 average and am taking all the AP’s my school offers) It will be a 3.0 if my first semester grades stay the way they are.
SAT: CR: 550 M:730 W:600
I have done quite a bit for the school and EC’s. </p>
<p>Thank You!</p>
<p>focus on the second choice and go ED only if you can afford to go there for sure.</p>