Destination Tulane? Honors weekend?

fallenchemist
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:22:29 +0000

Spring - Excellent! There is no special weekend for the DHS. Just to elaborate, there will be either 75 or 100 winners (not sure which they are doing this year) and they won’t be announced until mid to late March, as I recall the timing with my D last year. Of those winners, some subset will choose Tulane. It was 26 out of 75 last year, something like 40 out of 100 the year before (is that right jym?). They then have a really nice breakfast on the Sunday morning of move-in weekend at the start of the semester for the winners that matriculated.

For Honors Weekend, there are events for the parents as well as the kids, but mostly you attend various talks and do a tour if you want, and the kids split off later in the day and do their own things, including activities that night. Then they stay with a student in the dorm that night, do advising sessions and other things like attending classes the next morning, then you join back up. I thought it was quite worthwhile, even though I am an alum. It is a different perspective of course as a parent. If she decides on Tulane there are also orientation sessions during the summer, but that is for all students. The Honors Weekend is special since it is just for kids in the HP, and they get a head start on knowing each other. Many of them will end up in Butler (honors dorm) no doubt, and they might meet someone they want to room with.