Did he choose Tulane ? Just curious.
Thanks - he is stoked! Still waiting on some other options to make a final decision, but Tulane’s done a great job of making him “feel the love” through their follow-up communication.
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It seems highly likely. The merit helps a lot, the financials make sense for us, we have family close by, he’s loved NOLA his whole life, older classmates from here in Salt Lake currently attend and rave about it…..checks a lot of boxes for him and us as a family. My wife and I are both Bama grads and grew up there, so there’s a lot of family history on the Gulf Coast.
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Even if that is true, if the student will have regrets about an ED acceptance or wonder “what if”, then ED may not be the best path. The student has been accepted to URichmond which is another great option.
Assuming affordability, the ED decision should come from the student.
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Yes, ty for laying out all this detail! We are especially thinking about the fact of UR having Econ possibility within the bus school in case of wanting option to recruit for finance/consulting jobs through the supported process which I think would not be an option at T if not in the bus school.
ohhh - i thought it was a year ago. Good luck to him.
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Similar for my dc. Got in EA but did a ton of demonstrated interest. Loves Tulane but did not want to ED anywhere. I think dc will be weighing options until the end of April.
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I would ask each for career outcomes.
Neither seems to have a database - I can’t find anything about Tulane at all UR has a generic, we’re great and our kids get jobs and go to great grad schools.
The cities are different - both a bit out but Tulane has the public transport. The schools are different - Richmond may be an LAC but it’s business dominant.
The campuses are different.
They’re not one and the same. So perhaps, taking out the intangibles which are subjective and certainly not assured, the student would actually prefer one more - by a large amount?
Congrats on the EA admissions! It will be interesting to see how Tulane has tweaked its admission strategy this year
@tsbna44, thanks for the push back, my friend. Always more fun that way. 
And I learn that way. 
Thanks for the CDS update. Here’s my thinking on Tulane admissions. After ED is accounted for, their acceptance rate was 11.2% for this year’s freshman class, it was 10.8% the year before. That’s reach territory for anyone. Compare that to their ED acceptance rate which was 58.2% for this year’s class and 59.4% for last year’s class. Hence my comment that “the only way to get into Tulane realistucally is ED.” Can an applicant get in RD? Sure, thousands do. But realistically? Not when tens of thousands are applying and the chance of getting in are a long shot and when the chances of getting in ED are close to 60%.
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You’re welcome. I think that those surveys validate your worries about the partying there. According to the students surveyed, who are on the inside, there’s lots of alcohol and drugs on campus.
It won’t be surprising they tweak their admissions process this year. My guess is that they will take fewer ED and more EA. They have for now successfully addressed their yield issue, and probably want to reduce the reputation they have developed about ED.
You’re welcome. As I said above, take a deep dive into all of that. Ask questions of both schools. What are their respective track records in landing finance jobs for their kids? It may be that Tulane has a great track record. I’d also like to see what the various Econ majors offer and what they expect of their students. Does he want Quantitative Econ (Tulane), for example. Does he have the requisite math skills and love of math for that? I imagine that if he’s heading for Finance, he does but I’d still want to verify that he’s a good match for either school, given what he’s looking for.
I was impressed with how well Richmond showed up on those surveys. According to the students, career services at Richmond and internship placements are top notch. Those are really important advantages.
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Based on this analysis, Richmond places notably well in Wall Street and IB careers:
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The Link you posted isn’t showing - probably not allowed.
This might show similar. Richmond is #28 per capita o this report. Tulane not listed but i”m sure they place.
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There’s a lot of alcohol and drugs on most campuses. The issue with student surveys is that those students don’t have the experience of comparing School X to School Y - 98% of them are only going to see the inside of the one school they’re at.
Being in a popular tourism city that’s often a party destination, access to drugs and/or alcohol is going to be greater than it might be in a more rural area. If the student has a tendency towards distraction over academics then Tulane might not be the best place for them but based on the graduation statistics, most kids find the balance.
Tulane 6 year graduation rate - 86%
Richmond 6 year graduation rate - 88%
I would call those numbers effectively the same.
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We had a poster for many years- Mini- who worked in public health as I recall, and had access to all sorts of statistics around substance abuse. My memory suggests that drug/alcohol abuse was significantly higher on campuses which were NOT urban… and that lack of access to “stuff to do”- cultural offerings, artistic/athletic events in the surrounding community, etc. was believed to be one of several factors which could drive substance abuse on campus.
I don’t know if this is still the case (haven’t seen Mini on here in ages) and for sure, Covid changed many behaviors for teenagers– but I don’t know that Tulane has a bigger problem than other similarly situated colleges.
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