@tbsna44 gave good information in their response to you.
They do give out a small number of full-ride scholarships and your daughters numbers would definitely put her in the running for it but otherwise as a full-pay family and a $50K threshold, there’s no other way Tulane is going to check that box.
Tulane is very heavy on demonstrated interest. They want to accept applicants that they believe have a high likelihood of attending (hence a big focus on the early decision cohort).
What’s “demonstrated interest”?
Sign up for their mailing list, and when she gets an email - click through some of the links.
Take some online information sessions (assuming you can’t visit the school personally)
Admissions does regional information sessions - if one comes near you make sure to attend.
Send your regional admissions officer an email - you can find out who this is on their admissions website - introduce yourself (your daughter obv) and ask some questions that might not be easily answered with a basic web search.
There have historically been specific “why Tulane” essay questions on the App. Focus on these.
OP: If applying RD to Tulane University, showing demonstrated interest will be important otherwise Tulane admissions officers might think that your daughter, due to her outstanding stats, is applying to Tulane as a back-up school which would greatly diminish her chances for admission.
Admissions officers are typically very concerned about the yield percentage of admitted students.
Not sure that is still true (that Tulane will consider a strong students’ RD application a “Tufts syndrome” application). Demonstrated interest has always been important to Tulane, and surely is still so. But Tulane has pulled its yield way up in the past few years, and while yes, it seems clearly a priority to them, they also know how to lure strong students. IMO a RD denial would more likely be due to the class being very full and there being many competitive applicants than to an assumption that it’s a back up application, especially since Tulane is not a safety school for anyone.
The school does not break out reporting on how many applied/accepted through EA and applied/accepted RD (nor those that got deferred through EA and what later accepted through RD).
The general thought - though unable to confirm - is that Tulane fills the better part of their remaining (non-ED) slots through EA and RD is for “institutional priorities” and a much smaller %.
Hmmm- that doesn’t seem supported by last year’s report from admissions:
“To accommodate lower-income applicants, Tulane continues to reduce the number of early decision acceptances to increase regular decision acceptances. During the 2023-2024 admissions cycle, Tulane stated that about 50% more students were accepted during the regular decision round compared to last year.”
They don’t specifically mention EA in that and I wonder if they are subsuming EA under RD as “not ED”. Pretty sure the number our counselor got (around 70% admitted between ED and EA) came from Tulane. This was earlier this year so would have been for the class about to enter.
Hmmm… dunno. But they specifically reference RD, which is not the same as EA (“ Tulane continues to reduce the number of early decision acceptances to increase regular decision acceptances. During the 2023-2024 admissions cycle, Tulane stated that about 50% more students were accepted during the regular decision round compared to last year.” ) so it would seem that they are at the very least accepting fewer through ED as they say, and since EA isn’t binding, they can see how many were accepting EA acceptances before the RD admissions came out, they could gauge HM RD offers to make. Still not surprising that they are working, through ED especially, to increase yield.
They did! In a pleather binder!! But they discovered that students could do a reverse tracking with UPS to see if one was headed their way so DK if they still do or not.
The 2023-24 CDS separates ED and EA. Stats are below. The CDS suggests Tulane keeps its yield up by admitting most of the class from ED and extremely few applicants from RD. In a different year, a Tulane rep is reported as saying RD admit rate was 1%.
The general thought . . . is that Tulane fills the remaining . . . slots through EA . . .
Is that a fact or an assumption?
As I posted, Tulane accepted 3403 more students after ED acceptances. That would be a lot of acceptances through EA. A real lot. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that they had anywhere close to that number who applied EA. And if these acceptances applied EA, why did only 20% of them eventually enroll? I would expect a better yield than that out of EA.
I don’t know - CWRU is an equivalent school I’d say. Their yield is less than 12% and that’s with nearly 300 EDs, which is 18% of their enrollees.
I think the high price colleges, outside of the elite, struggle with yield - because when push comes to shove and you have other options…although Case struggles more than most.
So, according to the 2023-24 CDS, 1193 were accepted ED and since it’s binding, the assumption is that all enrolled. Then 697 enrolled from the EA accepted group. This totals 1890 enrolled in a freshman class of . . .
1867!
Oops! Something’s wrong here. The number enrolled from ED + EA exceeds the size of the freshman class reported on the CDS. I guess they didn’t get 100% of the ED acceptances to enroll and they took 0% from RD. Or maybe there’s some other explanation?
Why would anyone bother applying RD? Word has to get out there pretty quickly about this kind of scam. Well, judging by the comments here, Inguess it has.
