Yes, I’ve read that article and very familiar with the narrative. What I’m saying is that I’ve looked at the M/F data on the reports CDS and it would appear that - all else equal - no preference is given to either gender. Table below -
Our counselor got the number she quoted directly from them. I don’t remember the exact figure other than around 70%. She was very specific that if students wanted to apply to Tulane they should do it in the early rounds.
School is running a 2-day workshop on the common app, including essays at the beginning of summer - by lottery due to space limitations- and luckily C26 got selected. The info will be made available to all juniors, but I think having them actually do it at the beginning of summer will be a great help. Just need to ensure it can be retrieved for when the common app opens.
Ah, this reminds me that my D26 needs to go talk to her AP Lang teacher about this! I had asked their teacher at the parent-teacher open house at the beginning of the school year of maybe doing this after their AP exams when they still have a few weeks of school left. The teacher at the time thought that was a good idea and was planning for it. Then, she was fired in December for poor performance. I forgot to ask D26 to ask the new teacher about it! Hopefully, they can actually get started before summer kicks in.
D26 texted during her lunch break, said she thought the AP Human Geography test was “really easy.” No classes rest of today, just study hall, so she’s studying for physics and calculus. AP English Lit exam is tomorrow.
AP Chemistry my D26 is so happy to be done with that one!! This test is the only thing I have seen my D26 get a little stressed over. Two more AP’s next week ( not worried about them) then finals but, according to my D26 she can fail all those finals and still get an A in the classes so it was like summer started for her today!
What is everyone up to this summer ?
Every single sumner my D26 has spent countless hours coaching and doing her sport.
This is the first Summer [other than the summer after 8th grade when she toured the East coast of Canada in a RV with her Grandmother for a month.] that she is actually doing something outside of her sport!!
She is headed to France for 10 days with her school, going Miami U for a sports camp, then headed to ND for a leadership seminar. So happy she is taking time to explore outside of her sport
that’s great that she’s going to have a fun variety of different things to explore this summer!
my kid is going to continue working at Wally World (Walmart) 16 hr/wk over the summer, recuperating for a week mid-June from wisdom teeth surgery, and taking an online Python programming class.
Ugh yes the wisdom Teeth we have to figure out where to fit that in we want to do it before college! Working at Walmart will prepare your daughter for all the crazies in the real world.
I’m not sure if you were responding to an older post of mine, and I don’t remember what I said, LOL.
But yes, we learned this the hard way with D22! She was a tippy top student but wasn’t 100% sure of her first choice (and was hoping to compare some merit offers), so she didn’t ED anywhere. Tulane was maybe 5th in preference on her list, behind Rice, Emory, WashU and Northwestern. (She also applied to Brown but wasn’t sure because we hadn’t toured it.)
She applied EA to Tulane and was deferred, and then she was waitlisted in the regular round. She declined her spot on the waitlist.
We were salty at the time because she really liked the school – and the city – on our tour, and she would have seriously considered it. It wasn’t just a nice backup. Two other students in her class ended up there. We wondered if she was being “yield protected” – but who knows if that’s really even a thing. Clearly there was something in her application they just didn’t like, or it was just a numbers game. (And as you said, maybe they weren’t focused on stats – she had a 36 ACT and was salutatorian, but clearly they wanted something different.)
It all ends up working out – she landed at another of her top choices, and she’s been really happy.
Even though kids who ED still qualify for merit aid, from a logical standpoint, there’s little reason for the school to offer it. Schools typically offer merit to entice students into attending – but if a student is already a sure thing, it seems like they’d be more inclined to offer it to students in the RD round.
I keep hearing people say this, but plenty of people get financial offers with ED, though many colleges, like Tulane, offer much more need-based than merit aid anyway. My understanding is that you’re more likely to get merit aid the lower down the rankings you go.
If your D had the stats to apply to northwestern, brown etc, pretty sure it was yield protection.
Oy, so C26 realized today that the “leadership” part of the engineering program they’re doing requires that they wear “relaxed professional” clothes on most of the days. This is a kid who lives in cargo pants, baggy hoodies and sneakers, all of which are expressly on the “not suitable” list. I did point out that at some point they’re going to need something to wear to interviews/internships anyway (and possibly when they are presenting projects especially if there are outside architects coming to give feedback?) any suggestions- I was thinking of taking them to H&M as they’ve usually got work clothes aimed at younger people at good prices. If your kids are already wearing these type of clothes for anything, where do they go?
Relaxed professional = business casual? Land’s End, Old Navy, Kohl’s, even Walmart will have docker-style khakis, polo shirts, and button-down shirts. One of my children likes DSW for shoes. The other buys his online, usually from Amazon.
H&M is good – two of my three have found basics like black pants and button-down shirts there. That’s probably the easiest look for a kid who likes cargo pants and hoodies? You could probably even get away with Docs-type shoes.
My third kid is a non-standard size and hard to fit (and doesn’t have the motor skills to button) – so I rely on Amazon to find him nicer clothes.
Summer plans for D26: Essay writing, SAT prep, and two concurrent enrollment classes (statistics and ENG 202 - Critical Thinking and Composition), since Cal Poly SLO, one of her choices, recommends that applicants have approximately 10 million years of high school English. Or five years-- same thing Possibly a part time job too, as she is one of the world’s great consumers of clothes and cosmetics.
My 19 year old college student has had success buying things at Men’s Wearhouse I think? He has a wide range of formality in his wardrobe ranging from musician concert black, to business suits, to “business casual” stuff.
my D26 is so happy to be done with that one!! This test is the only thing I have seen my D26 get a little stressed over. Two more AP’s next week ( not worried about them) then finals but, according to my D26 she can fail all those finals and still get an A in the classes so it was like summer started for her today!
Possibly a part time job too, as she is one of the world’s great consumers of clothes and cosmetics.