Dean's Honor Scholarship

fallenchemist
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:55:07 +0000

We will have to agree to disagree about that email last year. According to others that received the email and posted last year in direct response to your past post about this:

The email explicitly said that the Stamps Interview did not guarantee an award but you and I, and likely most others, read it as an implied win (not without reason).

So both of you inferred something that simply was not there to be inferred, although clearly it did lead Tulane to be even more careful this year. And in the post right after that:

I have to disagree with you on this one. There was no guarantee of an award for students who were interviewed, explicitly or implicitly. Quite the opposite.

…(Then a couple of paragraphs about how great Tulane’s merit aid is compared to other schools)…

As StagNation said, the email was explicit in saying that the interview did not guarantee an award. If students and parents went away from that assuming that it did, I don’t know what else Tulane can do differently.

Well, as we both already said, Tulane did do something differently to eliminate any trace of doubt, apparently. But all water under the bridge now, and things do progress.

A 4.0 at Tulane is good enough for the HP, as I said. And the HP is now fully loaded as a research oriented program geared towards that subset of students who are most interested in the highest academic achievements such as post-graduate fellowships and scholarships, getting published for their research, and possibly moving on to the finest graduate schools in order to obtain the highest degree in their field. Not to mention more easily finding and socializing with like-minded students. Read the Honors Program page, but they reconsider after the freshman year. Although as I have said elsewhere, if she talks to the people at the HP directly, especially now that she should be through midterms I think, or right at them, and can demonstrate her GPA is continuing at or near that level, she could be put “on the list” now in order to insure her housing next year.