<p>I am currently a junior in NJ. i have a 3.5/4.0 gpa and recently got a 1900 on the sat. I am retaking it in october and aiming for a 2000+ I was wondering what my chances are of being accepted into this school. Circumstances have it that I will have to leave at the end of my junior year, finish my last year of high school there, (something I don’t want to do, but will have). I went to collegeboard and looked for schools in LA, this seems to be the best school there. I was asking two things:
- What are my chances of being accepted because, according to collegeboard, you need a really good score…
- My parent want me to go to an instate school, so I get an in state tution fee. According to collegeboard.com, the fee is the same for instate and out of state. Is this true?</p>
<p>Thanks for answering my questions…</p>
<p>Tulane has been a private university ever since 1884 when the state turned it over to a selfperpetuating board that administers a trus left by Paul Tulane. In state and out of state tuition are the same and comparable to other private universities.</p>
<p>Get 2000 on your SAT or a comparable score on the ACT’s and your chances of getting in are very good.</p>
<p>The in state school system is fairly extensive but the schools are not very - no easy way of saying this without offending some people - very good. LSU in Baton Rouge is the flagship. University of New Orleans is mostly a commuter school. There are also schools in Lafayette and Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Nichols State, Southern a historically Black state system with sevral branches and a couple of other directional school and historically Black schools I am probably missing.</p>
<p>Tulane is easily the best school in the state and probably the best school between Atlanta and Houston and south of Tennessee in the Deep South.</p>
<p>Further, getting your SAT above 2000 puts you in pretty good position for a merit scholarship as well, which would make the price you pay at Tulane more competitive with the LA state universities / colleges. Here is some information:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.tulane.edu/~finaid/scholarships.shtml[/url]”>http://www.tulane.edu/~finaid/scholarships.shtml</a></p>
<p>Read through the “Stats for Scholarships” thread on the TU site for some more details.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for the quick replies! Well, I am aiming for a 2000 and hopefully, I will get into Tulane. What I am worried aboutis next year, my senior year. I looked at the high schools there and the test scores are really low. For example, I checked my current high school in NJ, and the scores for the school were 90%+ and the high school there is 60%+. Hopefully this will not hurt my chances into Tulane; I think they only check your gpa, etc. only up to the 11th grade…</p>
<p>why are u only limited to schools in louisiana? tulanes 50k a year, i mean for private schools it doesnt matter if you are a resident of that state or not for tuition purposes</p>
<p>Actually Tulane does very much want in state kids. Being a Louisiana resident would actually be a plus. The only reason they don’t take more is because the school systems are so bad and the best students get syphoned off to schools higherup the food chain.</p>
<p>I can assure you the administration gets pounded on constantly, particularly by athletic boosters to take more local kids meaning anyone within a couple hour drive of a home football game. More Louisiana and NOLA kids would also help with political issues before the city council and the state legislature.</p>
<p>All of that taken together means that you are in VERY good shape, Chip90. Because you’re coming out of a good school system, you’ll be better able to get the score you need on standardized exams, but you’ll be recorded as a local for stats purposes. Good for you!</p>
<p>BTW, please don’t ignore the ACT as a score-booster. For lots of people, it is a better test, especially for those who excel more in science and math, because there is a separate section for science, which the SAT doesn’t have. You could end up with a scholarship based on an ACT score that your SAT score might not land for you. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Not positice but I think the ACT may be required for Louisiana public universities so you might have to take it anyway.</p>