Tulane Admissions Acceptance Rate Sham?

AH1310
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:42:31 +0000

It’s not a sham. If you really think it is, then every other college is running a similar sham. We got many mailings from Stanford and Yale. UChicago even sent us a t-shirt and a free application waiver. However we all knew that my DS didn’t have a shot at getting into any of those schools. ND sent us more mailings than Tulane and DS was in the upper 25% of the applicant pool there, expressed a lot of interest to AO and did a visit, but he got deferred EA and eventually waitlisted. No ill will towards ND though, they just had too many qualified applicants and he didn’t make the cut.

All schools employ admissions directors that have multiple goals which include recruiting the best class, and at the same time making their stats look good. That may seem like a sham to some, but parents and students are feeding into that by being obsessed with rankings.