<p>Hi everybody. On a regular basis, how many Tulane undergraduates get to go to top graduate schools (e.g. Columbia Law School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsvylania)? As a group, how prominent are Tulane graduates and alumni outside the ivory tower, both in Lousiana and the whole country?
In addition (if this question is reasonable), if the Tulane Honors Program itself is transformed into a college *independent *of Tulane, what will likely be its national ranking? The current Tulane ranking is roughly No. 50 nationally.</p>
<p>Well, if one looks at the schools with students admitted to Harvard Law last year, one will see Tulane listed. Further, Tulane enrolls about 1550 students, 25% of those students, about 388 students, have higher SAT scores than the entire entering class of some of the top ranked LACs. In essence, one will find about the same number, or more, of the very top performing students at Tulane as one would at a top LAC.</p>
<p>Tulane is ranked #50 by USNWR, but it is #30 or 31 based on average test scores. The latter is not a ranking per se but a statistical fact. The ranking systems have many flaws and shouldn’t be used to make any decisions regarding which school to attend, but that’s another discussion for another thread. Similar to what idad days, if you take the top 10-15% of admitted students (the HP students) you would have a profile similar to the most selective schools.</p>
<p>Implicit in your question about how many Tulane undergrads get into top post-graduate programs is that there might be some kind of filter used by these programs based on where someone went undergrad. While people are human and do have biases when they see someone graduated from Harvard before they even look at that students record, the correlation is far more about the selectivity going in. Tulane students do VERY well in applications to top programs, and Duke, Princeton etc. students do better. On the average, they were better students going in. This is my overly long way of saying that success post-graduate is more about the student themselves, especially if they attend any of the top 100 or so schools. But even outside of that list there are success stories all over the place. Tulane will provide far more than adequate resources and opportunities for a motivated student to get into any program in the country. In another thread we looked at lists of undergrad institutions attended at top law and medical schools. No surprise, the lists had multiple people that went to the Ivies and similar schools, but there were also many dozens, maybe even 1/3 of the class, from schools that one would not equate with top ranked programs at all.</p>
<p>So to your last question about the HP. Given that the USNWR rankings are based 25% on the subjective peer assessment, it is impossible to say where the HP would land if it were judged on its own. However, if you went strictly by the objective data of test scores, rentention rate, etc. I would guess (and it is only an educated guess since there are no breakouts of this) that it would rank around 10-15.</p>
<p>Finally, your question about Tulane grads and prominence. Tough to answer also, except for the Louisiana part. Tulane grads are top lawyers, doctors, politicians and business people in Louisiana and have been for many decades. Nationally, Tulane’s geographic diversity gives it a good reputation, and the northeast is especially well represented, as is the rest of the south in general,Texas and California. I would never claim it is as well known in Boston as BC for example, or in New York as NYU, or in LA as USC. But it is well known nationally and becoming more so rapidly.</p>
<p>In the end, these are 4 years of your life you only get to do once. Go where you feel you fit in best and will get both a great education and have a personally wonderful experience. If you do your job as a student while at Tulane, the result will be what you hope for.</p>
<p>Thank you and thank you, Fallenchemist. Tulane virtually becomes closer to me with every passing day because regular decision rejection and waitlisting letters are on their way to me. :-P</p>
<p>Tulane is very well respected in the northeast. At a recent family gathering where most of the relatives originated from NY, there was a great deal of respect and admiration for Tulane expressed. We found that many (more distant) relatives attended and all are quite successful lawyers, doctors, business leaders, etc. S2 has been accepted to schools much higher ranked than Tulane, but Tulane is still his #1 choice, to be confirmed by our visit. His goal is to attend a top 7 law school and feels Tulane will help him achieve that as well as any other school, and he likes the spirit of service that exists at the school, and, well, it is in New Orleans.</p>
<p>Yes indeed being located in New Orleans is Tulane’s advantage. I will do more research about the city.</p>