Merit Scholarships

fallenchemist
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:56:08 +0000

Hi Bigdaddy - I think I addressed your points in the previous post to MusicMusic, but just to be clear:

You would be 100% correct if Tulane denied people admission, or even made deferral decisions, on a rolling basis during the EA period. But only acceptances are rolling, they don’t finalize “negative” decisions (defining a deferral as a negative) until the very end. Therefore the advantage of doing EA is still that you are getting a decision by Dec 15 if not sooner. It isn’t like a basketball game after the buzzer, because the buzzer isn’t until Dec 15. It would be closer to instant replay during a football game where there is information the ref couldn’t see before, so they make a better decision. I won’t torture the sports analogies because they are obviously imperfect.

It still could be that Tulane isn’t considering this updated info, I cannot say 100% for sure. It just isn’t consistent with what I have seen admissions do the last 5 years or so. And I still fail to see how it helps admissions to postpone until later using data they have right in front of them now. But I could be missing something, for sure.