Congrats on your decision and welcome to the Tulane family! To respond to your question, as I said above I know Tulane’s intent is to award merit money based largely on stats, the same way they have been the last number of years, regardless of ED or EA or RD. But I don’t know if that is set in stone for this upcoming cycle or not. I think, despite the easy logic of not awarding merit or less merit to “bound” applicants, that Tulane has a lot of incentives to stay on this path. Besides the ones I mention above, another would be the fact that word would get out quickly if this were not the case, which would then dry up the ED applications from both the non-wealthy applicants, and applicants that have stats that would normally qualify for merit awards. Clearly that cannot be what Tulane is hoping for by making this move.
Oh, and just so there isn’t confusion among others accepted to Tulane, the Presidential was worth $32K this year. The $25K is, I think, the Founders Scholarship. Not that there is a huge difference! Over half off tuition is pretty sweet!