<p>Tulane is aggressively in the hunt for top students and very anxious to up its yield of highly qualified applicants. Your class rank and GPA are excellent and your SAT scores are very good but not great by Tulane standards. The school basically is using its scholarship money as a discounting technique to “buy” the highest number of highly qualified students it possibly can. </p>
<p>If I were you and I wanted to go to Tulane badly and getting some scholarship money was going to make the difference I would definitely write a letter to the Dean of Admissions and tell him just that. Wouldn’t hurt to include any offers from other schools. Tulane is unlikely to be able to match the price tag of a state school but then there are few state schools that can match the education you can get at Tulane.</p>
<p>Don’t be afraid to ask for what you need. If the school didn’t want you they wouldn’t accept you in the first place. Below are links to two articles you should read. Both are a couple of years old but still very relevant.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/eep/news/college.html[/url]”>http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/eep/news/college.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/sowell-tuition?embedded=yes&cumulative_category_title=Education&cumulative_category_id=Education[/url]”>http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/sowell-tuition?embedded=yes&cumulative_category_title=Education&cumulative_category_id=Education</a></p>