Tulane Admissions Acceptance Rate Sham?

callmom
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:23:08 +0000

From Tulane sources: comments in ( ) are mine.

Moving from 30 percent to 17 percent in just two years, Tulane’s acceptance rate has plummeted since 2015.

The university received 32,006 applications for Fall 2016, according to U.S. News, followed by 35,605 applications for Fall 2017 and 38,813 applications for Fall 2018.

accepting 700 fewer students, the Class of 2021 contained more students than the Class of 2020 as a result of a larger yield.

In response to these unexpected increases in yield, the school will accept 800 fewer students this year (speaking about the class of 2022), offering admission to only 6,700 students.

Admission predicts that 25-26 percent of these students will accept their offers, suggesting that the streak of broken admissions records may be coming to a close. (The 2022 yield was 29%, if I remember correctly, another record breaking year)

Statistics from the Class of 2022

Class of 2022 38,813 applications for fall 2018 — a 9 percent increase from last year. The Early Decision (ED) program also received 1,819 applications, marking a 37.5 percent increase from the 1,323 applications received in 2017.

acceptance rate was also curbed to 17 percent from 21

562 ED students

So I went to the admitted student day for Tulane in my city. The Tulane Admissions Officer said that the school prefers for the incoming class to contain between 1500 to 1700 students. I believe for the last four years, Tulane has overenrolled - over 1900 students. The acceptance rate had decreased year over year and the yield had continue to rise. So the acceptance rate is not a “sham”.

Additionally, in my state, Texas, and in my city which is a suburb of a major city, there are 8 high schools with graduating classes of over 1000 each. Texas has assured admission for Texas residents who meet certain criteria. The University of Texas, Austin had accepted those in the top 10% in 1997; due to the growth of population of Texas, only the top 6% are eligible for assured admission.

In my son’s high school, the top students had GPAs in the 4.8s and the students at bottom of the top 10% have GPAs of 4.5. I’m guessing to be in the top 6% of this year’s class, the students would to have GPAs above 4.6.

My oldest son was in the second graduating class, the Class of 2018. There was only one applicant to Tulane for the class of 2017 with one attending. For the class of 2018, there were 2 applicants with one attending. This year there were 28 applicants.