Top Scholars Weekend -- April 2014

almostdonehere
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:45:15 +0000

@fallenchemist‌

We spoke with the associated director of the honor program and 400 is what she quoted. She confirmed it when I responded that worked out to be twenty-some %. For the TSW event, the president stated the kids were among the top 20% admitted so your # for TSW is probably accurate as well. Apparently the honor program is also offered to admitted students outside of the TSW invitees. The Scholar program (something new this year) is selected among the candidate from the honor program. She did not elaborate on how the 75 students are chosen so I assumed it is not based on HS stats since this is selected after they attend Tulane. I probably should have asked her to clarify the selection criteria.

My daughter focused mostly on her academic and interests (music) during high school. I would love to see her become more engaged with school activities while attending college (but I doubt that she would volunteer herself). None of the student volunteers talked about the honor programs so I am if they are in the program. All the student volunteers were wonderful and during the entire event, I kept telling her that she needs to develop her personality during college (which she was not too happy to hear). For me it is not surprising to hear how honor students excelled in the academic are. What I meant to say is I wish I heard more examples of how the honor program students transformed during their time at Tulane to beyond academics. I would also like to hear from the administration on how they are reaching out to these kids in order to get them involved.