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[quote=Anonymous]My child decided not to applying after witnessing their questionable admissions/recruiting practices. For example, they repeatedly contacted her (mail, email) to notify her that her “stellar” academic record had qualified her for “priority consideration” and as such, she’d receive automatic consideration for merit scholarships, a waived application fee, and the opportunity to do an alumni interview if she applied EA/ED. Well, after a few minutes on the web we realized that Tulane doesn’t charge for an application fee for anyone, anyone who applied EA/ED can do an alumni interview, and that everyone who applies by the deadline will be considered for merit. That was on top of weighing demonstrated interest crazy high, tons of email blasts (some of her friends with SATs of like 1200 got emails from them alllll the time), and doing a lot of yield protection.

It actually sparked an interesting conversation between us about the obsession over rankings and numbers and we both ultimately figured that any school that needed to go to such lengths to their application numbers up/acceptance rates down was just not worth it. [/quote]

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