@northwesty
I agree ED can help the optics of any school’s numbers. Especially if they take a large percentage of their class ED.
You are also correct that many students use ED aspirationally.
You expressed that Tulane wants to resemble Vandy, Duke, WUSTL, Rice, and the Ivies.
My question for you:
How does Tulane elevate the stats of its incoming freshman and “get out of the big merit money business” simultaneously?
06-01-2016 at 11:23 am edited June 1
I’d think this will be a pretty minor change in the shorter term. ED just replacing the odd duck SCEA.
Tulane’s current model relies heavily on using merit money to poach high stat kids that are shooting at Vandy, Duke, WUSTL, Rice, Ivies, etc. You’d think those type of kids are going to be using their one ED silver bullet at those other schools rather than for Tulane.
Longer term, Tulane does aspire to more closely resemble the schools it now poaches from. So eventually (but perhaps still several decades away) TU would presumably like to get out of the big merit money business and also have a brand strong enough so that it can fill up half its class through ED (many of whom will be full payors).
That’s how Duke, Vandy etc. roll. Because it helps drive up yield, drive down the acceptance rate, and drive down the amount of aid/scholarships required to fill the seats.
I’ve got kid #3 applying EA to Tulane in the fall, so I guess I will find out how TU admissions circa 2016 compare to TU admissions circa 2011 (when my recent TU grad applied).
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