When did Tulane become a national university?

northwesty
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:01:09 +0000

Tulane is one of those schools that draws a TON of kids from outside of its region.

Its top sending states are usually something like NY, CA, IL, NJ, MA and LA. The rental house my kid lived in senior year was pretty typical. Kids were from LA, MD, NY, CO, CA, IL and Asia.

Big contingent of kids from the northeast, which overlaps with the size-able Jewish community (maybe 25% of undergrad students) that Tulane has long had.

The campus is not overwhelmingly “southern” in look and feel as a college (e.g. big time football, big time greeks, southern accents, preppy). Think a bit more like Duke on those things, and a bit less on those things than say Vandy, UNC or UVA.