Tulane sees record applications

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Anonymous wrote:Rice did too -- https://abc13.com/education/rice-university-breaks-records-for-number-of-student-applicants/5101210/

It's incredible how hard it is to get into these schools these days!

Rice saw a 30% increase from the free-tuition offer, according to the article. Costco also offers a $5 loss leader rotisserie chicken to draw people in. As long as people are coming in, Costco is ahead. When students apply to Rice competing for what few free-tuition slots Rice offers, Rice's ranking moves up, generating more full pay students for Rice to pick through. It's win-win for the few full rides and Rice.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane is a huge party school which has catered to the Mid-Atlantic area. It has a huge NY/NJ/PA/MD Jewish population as well. They are doing what Northeastern did a few years back.

That said, we visited and it is a complete sh*thole of a school. Inside and out. Old and Older. At least Northeastern put money into new programs, buildings, and campus. I just don't get the draw of Tulane except that it is in NOLA and the weather is warmer in the winter.

That said, they must know that people love to shout about their kids getting into harder schools, so paying big money to look like a hard school on paper, is good enough for some families.

I heard the honors dorm was nice

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Tulane's application is free and the e-mails they send to kids to get them to apply makes it sound like they have already been accepted.

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It is super hot. My DD has about ten friends who all applied ED and all got in. I do wonder if they’re going to have an extra large class this year. The combination of warm weather, a great city, a huge party atmosphere and not terrible academics are what is drawing these kids. I’m sorry but remote schools in Pennsylvania no matter how good they might be just can’t compete in these kids eyes. Most of my DDs friends are A- to B+ students And probably aren’t looking for the most intense academic experience.

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Sorry meant to say EA. But all of them are planning to attend

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Anonymous wrote:It is super hot. My DD has about ten friends who all applied ED and all got in. I do wonder if they’re going to have an extra large class this year. The combination of warm weather, a great city, a huge party atmosphere and not terrible academics are what is drawing these kids. I’m sorry but remote schools in Pennsylvania no matter how good they might be just can’t compete in these kids eyes. Most of my DDs friends are A- to B+ students And probably aren’t looking for the most intense academic experience.

I find this hard to believe, especially if from the same school.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are lazy these days. I remember how long it took me to apply to the 4 colleges I applied to back in 1993. Each one had separate essays and none of them were the same. It was just a lot more work back then.

Maybe you don’t have a kid who has gone through the process yet? Every school my child applied to had 1-3 extra essays (some short, some not) in addition to the common app essay. There’s nothing easy about the process.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane is a huge party school which has catered to the Mid-Atlantic area. It has a huge NY/NJ/PA/MD Jewish population as well. They are doing what Northeastern did a few years back.

That said, we visited and it is a complete sh*thole of a school. Inside and out. Old and Older. At least Northeastern put money into new programs, buildings, and campus. I just don't get the draw of Tulane except that it is in NOLA and the weather is warmer in the winter.

That said, they must know that people love to shout about their kids getting into harder schools, so paying big money to look like a hard school on paper, is good enough for some families.

I heard the honors dorm was nice

I lived in New Orleans and am not sure when PP visited or what buildings they saw, but there is a ton of new construction at Tulane including dorms, academic buildings, and common spaces, and a lot of renovations to the historic buildings. The idea that the campus is a shithole is laughable. It is absolutely gorgeous. The school puts a ton of money into modernizing and maintaining the facilities.

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Anonymous wrote:I confused as to why we see these numbers at Tulane but not at schools like Lehigh, or other schools on that level.

Lehigh reported a record number of applications last year, dropping their acceptance rate to 22%. As with almost all colleges, I expect they’ll report another record this year.

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Anonymous[b wrote:]I confused as to why we see these numbers at Tulane but not at schools like Lehigh[/b], or other schools on that level.

Se 11:24. It's all in the marketing If a school decides it wants to try and climb the USN&WR stats on no. of applications (thereby trying to look more selective), it will hire people who know how to do that. If a school wants to improve its yield numbers, it will hire people who know how to do that. It's all a numbers game now.

It’s a racket. The top colleges and USNWR are nothing but smoke and mirrors driving up the cost of education that is disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:It is amazing how a school can change in a short period of time-great marketing people can do great things.

This is from 2000 http://www2.tulane.edu/news/releases/archive/2000/admission_yields_results.cfm

in summary it was 72% is 2000 From a pool of 8,245 applications, undergraduate admission accepted 6,011 students this year, 534 fewer than last. It, however, enrolled 1,593 students,

My kid created an email account when he took the PSAT, so that all college emails would go to that one place. Looking at it now, I see Tulane sent him 44 emails between January of his sophomore year and December of his senior year. About a dozen of the subject lines mention there's no fee to apply.

He didn't apply, but he easily could have just checked a box on his Common App and for no $ had an application go in.

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Anonymous wrote:I confused as to why we see these numbers at Tulane but not at schools like Lehigh, or other schools on that level.

Because staying last year Tulane waived their application fee.

Acceptance rate went from 34% to 17% last year.

Now it's at 13%.

Magic!

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are lazy these days. I remember how long it took me to apply to the 4 colleges I applied to back in 1993. Each one had separate essays and none of them were the same. It was just a lot more work back then.

And it was uphill. Both ways!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous[b wrote:]I confused as to why we see these numbers at Tulane but not at schools like Lehigh[/b], or other schools on that level.

Se 11:24. It's all in the marketing If a school decides it wants to try and climb the USN&WR stats on no. of applications (thereby trying to look more selective), it will hire people who know how to do that. If a school wants to improve its yield numbers, it will hire people who know how to do that. It's all a numbers game now.

It’s a racket. The top colleges and USNWR are nothing but smoke and mirrors driving up the cost of education that is disgusting.

+100,000

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane is a huge party school which has catered to the Mid-Atlantic area. It has a huge NY/NJ/PA/MD Jewish population as well. They are doing what Northeastern did a few years back.

That said, we visited and it is a complete sh*thole of a school. Inside and out. Old and Older. At least Northeastern put money into new programs, buildings, and campus. I just don't get the draw of Tulane except that it is in NOLA and the weather is warmer in the winter.

That said, they must know that people love to shout about their kids getting into harder schools, so paying big money to look like a hard school on paper, is good enough for some families.

I think this IS the appeal.