Tulane sees record applications

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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.

Would you rather spend September through May in New Orleans, or Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?

Bethlehem is bar none one of the most depressing places I’ve been. Your DC would be in great shape having to scale that hill every day, however.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Would you rather spend September through May in New Orleans, or Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?

Bethlehem is bar none one of the most depressing places I’ve been. Your DC would be in great shape having to scale that hill every day, however.

Three words for you: Camden, Nee Jersey.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane “bought” better statistics by making the application free and by offering multiple Early plans. Many more applicants, nearly none of whom ID Tulane as a first choice, and most of whom have been deferred. This was a ranking-promotion move by Tulane. Nothing more.

I disagree.

Tulane has a message to tell and they want it to resonate with their perspective students. DD showed genuine interest and was accepted with generous merit. We visited and ultimately decided it was too far from home but in our experiences Tulane did a lot right. They have strong messaging around community and giving back. That’s a nice message for young people to hear these days.

I think of all the admissions presentation that I sat thru w/ 4 kids that the Tulane presentation was the one that stands out in my mind and definitely because of the service opportunities. But, I did think the oldness of the campus was "yuck" and not charming.

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Not even on the top 50 list.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/hardest-colleges-to-get-into/50/

I’m not saying that it’s not a good or fun school - but cut the false crap about how everyone is trying to claw their way in there.

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Do Jewish kids who go to Tulane actually want to go there or is it a safety for them?

[Anonymous]

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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.

City schools are in... mostly older parents prefer schools in the woods/suburbia

Lehigh in particular had a bad year - went to wait list - and it may have to do with the hardcore administration at Lehigh under President Simon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

City schools are in... mostly older parents prefer schools in the woods/suburbia

Lehigh in particular had a bad year - went to wait list - and it may have to do with the hardcore administration at Lehigh under President Simon.

Going to waitlist doesn't necessarily mean they had a bad year--just they got their yield calculation wrong and didn't want to take a chance on admitting too many students. Better to look at number of applications and percent enrolled of that to calculate if they had a good/bad year rather than whether they went to waitlist or not. Many schools much prefer to use their waitlist well than risk overenrollment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do Jewish kids who go to Tulane actually want to go there or is it a safety for them?

Safety.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What Lehigh didn’t announce in quite the same way is that they went to the waitlist this year. Undergrads there are very unhappy with the draconian social policies of President Simon.

[Anonymous]

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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!

Ridiculous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow I remember when Tulane was where the slackers/partiers my prep school went, but I don't think I get in today. And I graduated in '07, crazy.

+1. My childhood best friends younger brother was a Type 1 diabetic and a real slacker/ partier who attended about 20 years ago. It ended tragically. I never understood what his parents were thinking. The last place in the world I would send a Type 1 diabetic partier was late 1990s Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:They were e-mailing like nuts! So annoying, basically begged DD to apply, waved fees. Who wants to switch one humid area for worse humid and bla college?

Where did you learn to write? Yikes.

On dcum. My fourth language, so don't care.

Maybe you shouldn’t be talking trash about excellent colleges.

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Don’t get carried away......it’s a good college that has certainly improved over the years but it clearly has gamed its way up the rankings.

It did get hurt pretty badly after Katrina through no fault of its own. Lost the graduating class numbers and tanked on the US News list. It's been a while since Katrina but maybe they were trying to amend that?

I had a close HS friend who attended. Visited her there once, the campus was very pretty. Not as pretty as Rice but still very pretty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow I remember when Tulane was where the slackers/partiers my prep school went, but I don't think I get in today. And I graduated in '07, crazy.

+1. My childhood best friends younger brother was a Type 1 diabetic and a real slacker/ partier who attended about 20 years ago. It ended tragically. I never understood what his parents were thinking. The last place in the world I would send a Type 1 diabetic partier was late 1990s Tulane.

As opposed to UVa or any other school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

City schools are in... mostly older parents prefer schools in the woods/suburbia

Lehigh in particular had a bad year - went to wait list - and it may have to do with the hardcore administration at Lehigh under President Simon.

Going to waitlist doesn't necessarily mean they had a bad year--just they got their yield calculation wrong and didn't want to take a chance on admitting too many students. Better to look at number of applications and percent enrolled of that to calculate if they had a good/bad year rather than whether they went to waitlist or not. Many schools much prefer to use their waitlist well than risk overenrollment.

Lehigh went to waitlist last year too and they had a 30% drop in applicants this year. It is a academically a phenomenol school but as others posted, Simon has pissed off students. And parents and alumni.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were e-mailing like nuts! So annoying, basically begged DD to apply, waved fees. Who wants to switch one humid area for worse humid and bla college?

Where did you learn to write? Yikes.

On dcum. My fourth language, so don't care.

Maybe you shouldn’t be talking trash about excellent colleges.

i

Don’t get carried away......it’s a good college that has certainly improved over the years but it clearly has gamed its way up the rankings.

It did get hurt pretty badly after Katrina through no fault of its own. Lost the graduating class numbers and tanked on the US News list. It's been a while since Katrina but maybe they were trying to amend that?

I had a close HS friend who attended. Visited her there once, the campus was very pretty. Not as pretty as Rice but still very pretty.

really entirely wrong. - Katrina helped Tulane a great bit.