Accepted!! 30k and honors college 
@seabear21 sure:
Decision: Accepted (EA)
Merit Scholarship, if received: 17k/yr (Academic Recognition Award)
[ b]School/major:** Undecided
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 35 C
SAT II (place score in parentheses): N/A
GPA: 4.21 (W) (no UW available)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 73/580
AP (place score in parentheses): Didn’t send in my scores
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, Calc BC, AP Physics C, Spanish V, then easy classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None, really
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Track and Field, School Leadership Club
Job/Work Experience: Fast food, one year
Volunteer/Community Service: Not much
Essays: Common App essay was decent, why Tulane was not well done at all but I guess they didn’t mind
Counselor Rec: don’t know
Additional Rec: 10/10
Interview: N/A
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): IL
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: competitive public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: -
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): -
To everyone worried about being deferred or rejected, DO NOT STRESS TOO MUCH. No decisions were sent out Monday, and I’m assuming that’s why a lot of decisions came today. But everyone who’s waiting still has until December 20th to find out, and in the past they have released acceptances up to that deadline so don’t get discouraged because there’s more to come!
Where are the ED acceptances? I don’t see many if any…Weird. Any thoughts?
If anyone has questions I am glad to answer right now.
Decision: Accepted
Early action
Merit Scholarship, if received: As of now no
School/major: Public Health
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1340/1600
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II (place score in parentheses): N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 29/506
AP (place score in parentheses): 15 APs 5 on Seminar 3 on LANG
IB (place score in parentheses): Not available
Senior Year Course Load: AP Research, AICE Thinking Skills, AP Euro, Med Lab 4 (medical program), pharmacy (medical program)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lol… none
Subjective:
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[]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): NHS, NEHS, SNHS, Hospital, Work as a Pharm Tech at Walgreens, Varsity Swim, Varsity Volleyball, more
[]Job/Work Experience: Pharmacy Tech at Walgreens, Camp Counselor
[]Volunteer/Community Service: 800 hours
[]Summer Activities: Camp
[]Essays:Bad multiple errors lol
Why Tulane? worse
[]Teacher Recommendations: good
[]Counselor Rec: great
[]Additional Rec: no
[li]Interview: no[/li][/list]
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: magnet
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
Income Bracket: ehh
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy
I got in tonight and my stats are terrible… hope this gives some hope to some of you guys who are still waiting!
Decision: Accepted Early action
Merit Scholarship, if received: Premier Scholar – $30,000 invitation to the honors program
School/major: history, social policy and practice, pre-law
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2220 (790, 670, 760)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): USH (770), Lit (730)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
AP (place score in parentheses): Euro (5), USH (5), Lang (5), Gov (5), Bio (4), APAH (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Gov/AP Econ, AP Geo, AP Lit, Band H, MUN, XC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, SAR CA state essay winner, 3rd at Nationals for karate, IDK what else qualifies here, but I have a decent amount of lower level awards from MUN, APs, etc.
Subjective:
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[]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): MUN (SG), Band/Orchestra (1st Chair), XC (captain), karate, honor court (founder/chief justice),
[]Job/Work Experience: I didn’t include it on my app, but I tutor a decent amount and coached swimming over the summer
[]Volunteer/Community Service: A bunch of music relating things, League of women voters: I did a lot of get out the vote and voter information work + worked on a study that is being used to lobby lawmakers
[]Summer Activities: pretty much what is found above throughout the summers.
[]Essays: Commonapp was about not saying the pledge and MUN 8/10
Why Tulane? I talked about community service I’d like to do in NOLA, friends who go there’s experience and about TIDES
[]Teacher Recommendations: 1 my APUSH teacher 9/10
[]Counselor Rec: I go to a big high school, so we turn in info packets about ourselves to help our councilors personalize them. I know my councilor liked my responses and knows who I am so 7/10
[]Interview: Didnot have because Early Action
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Other:
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: top CA public school
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: f
Income Bracket: 250K+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection:
Strengths: My extracurriculars are probably the best part of my app as I am very dedicated to them and have a lot of leadership. My essays were unique and showed off my personality well. My scores and GPA were on the higher end for TU so that likely helped get me the scholarship
Weaknesses: I didn’t visit campus, demographics, downward trend in grades (got my only B’s 2nd semester junior yr)
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: showed interest by attending 2 regional visits and doing the online chats, wrote a “why Tulane” that connected me to the school, and my stats
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: I’m going to attend the Top Scholars Weekend thingy and hope to see lots of you there!
@hadlee What are your stats???
Hadlee- Do you mind sharing your terrible stats please? Mine are not the best but I applied ED so looking for hope!
I have a 29 on my ACT and a 3.8 weighed… I have pretty good EC and I took all the AP classes my school offers which is why my GPA isn’t that high (my school weighs AP classes strange)
Do you know what your unweighted is?
My school doesn’t calculate unweighted GPAs but I’d assume it’s somewhere around a 3.4-3.6 range…?
29 on my ACT and a 3.8 weighed… I guess not “terrible” but for Tulane pretty low! @loop2loop
For those who have been asking, at least for me I got an email telling me my portal had updated. The portal now has a giant button saying “Congratulations, you’re in!” and buttons that let you register for destination Tulane and the Top Scholars Weekend. At the bottom of the page is a link to view changes that had an acceptance letter that told me my scholarship and such.
Are you automatically accepted into Freeman or do you need to apply separately?
I’m starting to wonder if they have had the ED numbers worked out for a while and will release them mostly at once. They know these are givens because their binding and just trying to work the numbers out on the EA to round the class out. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? There have been a few ED acceptances but not many.
@hbrunner no email here – just checked the portal … so strange the way they roll these out!
like this if you have been rejected/deferred! I have yet to hear back btw! Congrats to everyone who has heard!
My son does not post on here, but I did want to post for him since it seems to help others.
Decision: Accepted EA Applied on November 8th
Presidential Scholarship, if received:$32,000
School of Science and engineering: Chemical Engineering Accepted into Honors program
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): (36 M 36 S 35 R 35E 36C) Did not take writing
SAT II: never submitted but acheived (800 ) Math II (770) Biology
96.8 unweighted 105.68 weighted or around 3.95 estimate unweighted
Rank : 2 or 3 place 1st decile of 5 percent
AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (4), Physics(5), Statistics(5), Calculus AB(5), AP Latin
Senior Year Course Load: AP Latin cont. AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP English Language and Compostion
AP Psychology, Anatomy and Physiology
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semi Finalist, National Latin Exam silver medal(9,11), National Medal for Outdoor Achievement(BSA), Eagle Scout/William T, Hornaday Badge, Academic Decathlon earned 5 medals at states 2nd place Art/Science 3rd Place Math/Literature 7th place overall, AP Scholar with honor. I am not sure this is where to put it, but my son also completed 100 merit badges and earned 5 eagle palms in the (BSA)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Boy scouts( Senior Patrol Leader), (Junior Assistant Scout Master),
(OA Secretary), Author of the Casco Bay Chowder, Math Team (assistant coach) at the middle school. Swimming (9,10) Ultimate Frisbee(10,11,12), Math Team(9,10,11,12) Academic Decathlon(10,11), Science Bowl (9, 10, 12) Debate (9) NHS(12)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community Service: 200 hours+
Summer Activities: Boy scouts (summer camps, outings, Philmont, New Mexico (OA Trail crew), Maine Wilderness Leadership Camp
Essays: Wrote about his love of the outdoors and climbing tall moutains. The Tulane essay wrote about our visit and how he wanted to be a trip leader at Tulane so he could continue his love of the outdoors. Also wrote about a current friend that already goes to Tulane and how he learned a lot from him asking questions.
Teacher Recommendations: Latin teacher he had for 4 years plus his academic decathlon teacher for 2 years I am sure was excellent.
Counselor Rec: I am sure was good though he doesn’t get to see any of them
Additional Rec: Math teacher 2 years knew him well
Interview: N/A
Other: Applied for financial aid also applied for the Dean’s Honor Scholarship
State (if domestic applicant): Maine
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: self employed not sure how they figure out income around 100000+
[li]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None[/li]
Reflection: Definately show interest (visit, Tulane essay, online chats, scholarship if eliglible to apply)
Strengths: Test scores, good extra curricular activities, recommendation
Weaknesses: He did take a few college prep courses in social studies brought his grade down weighted gpa
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: showed interest had good achievements(unique)
Where else you are applying or have already applied:
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: We did visit and he stressed about it in essay, he also took advantage of other kids in the past and discussed it before hand. Even got help with Fallen Chemist before he died. I am sure he would be proud to hear he got in. Find your passion for my son it was the Boy Scouts and try to stand out among all the others that do that activity. It is not how many activities it is having one your the best against all the others that do similar activities. He actually met some amazing Eagle Scouts out in Philmont and some did even more amazing things, but for little old Maine with the cold winters I’d say he did good.