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[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]

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