Thoughts on Tulane

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt is a great school in a cool city. Have u visited?

+1 Excellent school with lots of job opportunities. Pittsburgh is an up-and-coming city that has become an increasingly desirable place to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pitt is a great school in a cool city. Have u visited?

+1 Excellent school with lots of job opportunities. Pittsburgh is an up-and-coming city that has become an increasingly desirable place to live.

It’s cold....so very cold...how many hours of light do you get this time of year? New Orleans weather today sunny 72/55..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traditionally, Tulane is very generous with merit aide to UMC's with good stats. I'm talking $25 - $30k. We visited and got a real work hard/party hard vibe. Our precious little snow flakes are going to have to learn to balance that at some point no matter where they go to college. I'd just as soon they figure it out in college instead of their first job when they may actually have the disposable income to do some damage. Assuming the price is right, I'd have no issue with my DC attending.

By the time they get to the working world their brains have matured and they will be damned tired by the end of long days.
College has a lot more free time associated with it and the kids are immature and susceptible. It is an issue whether you try to attack people with your stupid ‘precious snowflake’ comment. Some people’s kids become addicted to something at a party school and don’t ever recover so if you have a susceptible kid it’s probably not a good choice.

I have a nerd kid who wouldn’t want to deal with nonstop partying roommates. Is there an honors dorm?

[Anonymous]

Tulane has small class sizes and the professors are required to teach. You do not get the huge intro course with 700 kids and a TA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Traditionally, Tulane is very generous with merit aide to UMC's with good stats. I'm talking $25 - $30k. We visited and got a real work hard/party hard vibe. Our precious little snow flakes are going to have to learn to balance that at some point no matter where they go to college. I'd just as soon they figure it out in college instead of their first job when they may actually have the disposable income to do some damage. Assuming the price is right, I'd have no issue with my DC attending.

By the time they get to the working world their brains have matured and they will be damned tired by the end of long days.
College has a lot more free time associated with it and the kids are immature and susceptible. It is an issue whether you try to attack people with your stupid ‘precious snowflake’ comment. Some people’s kids become addicted to something at a party school and don’t ever recover so if you have a susceptible kid it’s probably not a good choice.

I have a nerd kid who wouldn’t want to deal with nonstop partying roommates. Is there an honors dorm?

Really? I worked really long hours in my 20's and it didn't slow down my social life one bit.

[Anonymous]

I was surprised to see that Tulane has the 9th highest percentage of Jewish students (32%)....any idea why that is?

[Anonymous]

Omg...so much anti-semitism on these boards lately. Sadly I think it is a sign of the times. Stoking a fear of Jews in small ways starts a ball rolling that will get harder to stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see that Tulane has the 9th highest percentage of Jewish students (32%)....any idea why that is?

Because they’re smart maybe? Also, public service oriented?

[Anonymous]

Party school for Jewish kids who can't get into Michigan or Miami.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Party school for Jewish kids who can't get into Michigan or Miami.

Oh come on......Tulane is objectively better than Miami.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Party school for Jewish kids who can't get into Michigan or Miami.

Oh come on......Tulane is objectively better than Miami.

Identical admissions standards. Tulane has gobs of wealthy Jews; Miami has gobs of wealthy Latino/a (internationals).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Traditionally, Tulane is very generous with merit aide to UMC's with good stats. I'm talking $25 - $30k. We visited and got a real work hard/party hard vibe. Our precious little snow flakes are going to have to learn to balance that at some point no matter where they go to college. I'd just as soon they figure it out in college instead of their first job when they may actually have the disposable income to do some damage. Assuming the price is right, I'd have no issue with my DC attending.

By the time they get to the working world their brains have matured and they will be damned tired by the end of long days.
College has a lot more free time associated with it and the kids are immature and susceptible. It is an issue whether you try to attack people with your stupid ‘precious snowflake’ comment. Some people’s kids become addicted to something at a party school and don’t ever recover so if you have a susceptible kid it’s probably not a good choice.

I have a nerd kid who wouldn’t want to deal with nonstop partying roommates. Is there an honors dorm?

Really? I worked really long hours in my 20's and it didn't slow down my social life one bit.

9-5 isn’t ‘long hours’. If you were working 13-14 hour days and then out partying after that you couldn’t have been really functioning at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Traditionally, Tulane is very generous with merit aide to UMC's with good stats. I'm talking $25 - $30k. We visited and got a real work hard/party hard vibe. Our precious little snow flakes are going to have to learn to balance that at some point no matter where they go to college. I'd just as soon they figure it out in college instead of their first job when they may actually have the disposable income to do some damage. Assuming the price is right, I'd have no issue with my DC attending.

By the time they get to the working world their brains have matured and they will be damned tired by the end of long days.
College has a lot more free time associated with it and the kids are immature and susceptible. It is an issue whether you try to attack people with your stupid ‘precious snowflake’ comment. Some people’s kids become addicted to something at a party school and don’t ever recover so if you have a susceptible kid it’s probably not a good choice.

I have a nerd kid who wouldn’t want to deal with nonstop partying roommates. Is there an honors dorm?

Was
Really? I worked really long hours in my 20's and it didn't slow down my social life one bit.

9-5 isn’t ‘long hours’. If you were working 13-14 hour days and then out partying after that you couldn’t have been really functioning at work.

Really? I worked in tax for one of the big public accounting firms. We routinely worked 12–5 hours a day, 6 days a week for
months at a time and it didn’t slow us down all that much. But, if it makes you feel better about yourself, keep thinking it’s not possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We know quite a few kids that have attended from the NYC area and they fall into two distinct groups:

1. high stats, well qualified with substantial merit aid including one full ride
2. moderate stats full pay

Tulane is aggressively playing the ranking game and it will pay off eventually.

They’ve been trying for 30 years. It’s just. not. happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Party school for Jewish kids who can't get into Michigan or Miami.

Any Jewish kid who can’t get into Miami...nice try working in Miami next to Michigan, though. Guess that Michigan rejection still stings.