Tulane is a huge party school which has catered to the Mid-Atlantic area. It has a huge NY/NJ/PA/MD Jewish population as well. They are doing what Northeastern did a few years back.

That said, we visited and it is a complete sh*thole of a school. Inside and out. Old and Older. At least Northeastern put money into new programs, buildings, and campus. I just don't get the draw of Tulane except that it is in NOLA and the weather is warmer in the winter.

That said, they must know that people love to shout about their kids getting into harder schools, so paying big money to look like a hard school on paper, is good enough for some families.

I am going thru this now with my senior and have another child in 8th. I truly hope they get this straightened out before the next one is applying.

These schools are not looking at these applications well at all. They don't have the manpower.

Schools need to have their own applications online or they need to max the applications on Common App to 10. Don't get me started on the scam of EA, ED, ED2, EASC, RD, Rolling etc...

Anonymous[b wrote:]I confused as to why we see these numbers at Tulane but not at schools like Lehigh[/b], or other schools on that level.

Se 11:24. It's all in the marketing If a school decides it wants to try and climb the USN&WR stats on no. of applications (thereby trying to look more selective), it will hire people who know how to do that. If a school wants to improve its yield numbers, it will hire people who know how to do that. It's all a numbers game now.

I confused as to why we see these numbers at Tulane but not at schools like Lehigh, or other schools on that level.

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Anonymous wrote:What top college didn't see record applications this year?

I thought a lot of the Ivy schools saw decrease in applicants?

Only one from what I heard... Upenn.
However only a few released their numbers, thus far.

Kids are lazy these days. I remember how long it took me to apply to the 4 colleges I applied to back in 1993. Each one had separate essays and none of them were the same. It was just a lot more work back then.

Anonymous wrote:What top college didn't see record applications this year?

I thought a lot of the Ivy schools saw decrease in applicants?

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Anonymous[b wrote:]What top college didn't see record applications this year[/b]?

LOL +1. They all did!

Thank you Common App. Couldn't have done it without you.

It is amazing how a school can change in a short period of time-great marketing people can do great things.

This is from 2000 http://www2.tulane.edu/news/releases/archive/2000/admission_yields_results.cfm

in summary it was 72% is 2000 From a pool of 8,245 applications, undergraduate admission accepted 6,011 students this year, 534 fewer than last. It, however, enrolled 1,593 students,

If their bombardment of my DC with promotional materials is any indicator, they sure worked hard for those applications.

Anonymous[b wrote:]What top college didn't see record applications this year[/b]?

LOL +1. They all did!

Anonymous wrote:Rice did too -- https://abc13.com/education/rice-university-breaks-records-for-number-of-student-applicants/5101210/

It's incredible how hard it is to get into these schools these days!

It would be interesting to see what percentage of Rice students fall under their free-tuition guideline, <$130,000 family income. Fully 89.24% of American households make <$130,000 per year.

What top college didn't see record applications this year?

Rice did too -- https://abc13.com/education/rice-university-breaks-records-for-number-of-student-applicants/5101210/

It's incredible how hard it is to get into these schools these days!

Early admissions (EA, ED1, ED2) see 56% increase
Overall acceptance rate drops to 13%

https://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-sees-record-applications-students-nationwide-apply-university