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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's brutal for Tulane, which relies so heavily on ED. Who's going to ED to #73?[/quote]
Kids who are full pay and good but not great students. Tulane has always been a respectable school for kids coming out of private school who couldn't get into Ivy league schools, top Slacs, or even desirable flagships. It will still be that [/quote]
Don't kid yourself. Those are *exactly* the kinds of kids/families who care about these nonsense rankings. Both the size of Tulane's ED pool and its quality will decline noticeably this year.[/quote]
They are exactly the kinds of families who won’t be sending their kids to a state school.  You really believe people will now be sending their kids to Rutgers and Merced because IS News decided to promote public schools this year?[/quote]
Nice strawman. Not Rutgers or Merced, but BC, BU, even Lehigh or Santa Clara instead of ED'ing Tulane? Absolutely.

If Tulane were content being a strong safety school, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but Tulane has been trying for years to claw its way into the legit-first-choice tier (largely with strategic use of ED smoke and mirrors), and this ranking is devastating to that effort.[/quote]
yep, but kids currently EDing Tulane at the top privates are sub 3.5. The kids EDing Boston College are 3.7+. Lehigh is similar to BC.  These kids with higher stats aren't going away or magically going to turn their ED into Rice or Hopkins.  If the Tulane crowd bumps up their ED choice to higher schools then they're only going to hurt themselves.  [/quote]
The kids ED'ing to Tulane aren't a monolith. There absolutely are kids who would have ED'd to Tulane last year but will ED to BC or BU this year because of the USNWR rankings. There absolutely are kids who would prefer Vandy but would have taken a much-closer-to-sure-thing ED at Tulane last year but will take the shot with Vandy this year because they just can't stomach ED'ing to #73. There absolutely are kids who would have ED'd to Tulane last year but this year will sit out the ED1 round and instead will EA to UGA and the like this year--and ED2 to Tulane only if they don't get an offer they like better in the EA round. And kids who will ED1 to Vandy/similar and EA to UGA/similar. Etc. It'll add up to a smaller, weaker ED pool for Tulane.[/quote]

It isn’t as if Tulane was T10 last year, it was somewhere in the mid 40s.  I just don’t think the new ranking is going to change the perception.  You can’t imagine anyone applying to Tulane to begin with, and clearly hate the school with a passion, so aren’t well positioned to see why others might chose it.  And I have no dog in this fight, no one on my family attends or has attended Tulane.[/quote]

Different poster here, and also one with zero connection to Tulane.  I really think you’re wrong.  You act as if no one cares about the rankings.  Of course they do.  A lot.  There are, what, six new and active threads on the US news rankings since yesterday?

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