What is with Tulane?

lewmin
Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:15:48 +0000

Let me add some additonal information.

My daughter is a freshman at Tulane. The campus looks great and there are several new facilities, including the food court and bookstore, as well as an upgraded basketball arena and baseball stadium, to mention a few.

It did not appear that the standards were lowered at all. 22,000 applied to Tulane in the current freshman class. 7,000 were accepted. Only 1,000 students enrolled (the Post-Katrina fear factor was the #1 reason).

I had seen somewhere on the Tulane website that the current freshman class has equivalent SAT and GPA scores than in the past. Tulane could have gone back to the pool of 15,000 students who were not accepted to increase their freshman class size, but instead they decided to maintain their similar former admission standards.

I had read somewhere that the incoming class will be more competitive - - now that Katrina is 18 months in the past.