Why do you think so many STA boys end up at Tulane. It's the third highest school attended by graduates (13 in 5 years).

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Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted with great merit aid. We toured - lovely part of New Orleans.

DD was totally turned off by the dorms. I know - fickle kids. And I wanted to be open minded but I couldn’t pull the trigger on sending my DD to New Orleans.

Years ago I was at an annual sales meeting for a large software company. On of my colleagues called down to the hotel lobby to complain about the noise in an adjoining room early one morning.

Turns out it was one of the subcontracted AV guys being murdered in the room in a ritualistic black magic slaying.

This is not an urban legend.

A lot to like about New Oreans and I liked Tulane.

Not happening.

Do you think Tulane students are at high risk of being exposed to black magic and being murdered ritualistically? This is a serious question.

PP here.

Never in my life did I think anyone I had any remote connection to would be at risk of such an act. And yet it happened. So with all the schools in the world why am I going to send my DD to an environment where I know it's possible. College students are young and by their very nature they lack maturity and my DD did not grow up having to be street smart. New Orleans can be a dangerous city. So short answer as much as I tried to have an open mind - I didn't.

My DD also looked at Fordham and that wasn't happening. My DD does not have the street smarts to be on Fordham Road so why am I going to put her in that environment.

Ironically, I would have been ok with DD attending Columbia or Barnard because we know the area and we would have advised her accordingly. Morningside Heights is quite nice but it's an enclave that is surrounded by some dangerous neighborhoods. And it is sad to say but folks that do not respect that do so at their own peril.

So, to answer your question yes I think Tulane students do have a higher risk than most college students of being the victim of a violent crime.

Knowing what you know,
Why did your DD apply.

Fair question.

1. We were looking for merit aid. And I do think given their level of merit aid Tulane offers an excellent education for a very good price. So, very good value.
2. We went to a local Tulane presentation and frankly, by far, it was the best presentation we attended. By far. It was a young alum who was working in admissions, and she presented very well and did an exceptional job of representing the school.
3. Given the admit stats, I thought the student body would be smart, hard working, and yet not too serious. You could see the stress on the faces of the students at Columbia so we wanted an environment where we would not be worried about the mental health of student body. The students looked completely stressed out at Columbia. At NYU they have a net in the library to prevent kids from jumping to their deaths. When we eventually visited the Tulane students looked like they were having fun.
4. My experiences in New Orleans were from around the year 2000 so I thought perhaps things had changed. We are from the NY metro area and the changes to NYC in the past 15-20 have been substantial. So again wanted to keep an open mind.

In the end we just couldn't make the leap. Life has taught me, through some very tough lessons, that you ignore your gut at your own peril.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted with great merit aid. We toured - lovely part of New Orleans.

DD was totally turned off by the dorms. I know - fickle kids. And I wanted to be open minded but I couldn’t pull the trigger on sending my DD to New Orleans.

Years ago I was at an annual sales meeting for a large software company. On of my colleagues called down to the hotel lobby to complain about the noise in an adjoining room early one morning.

Turns out it was one of the subcontracted AV guys being murdered in the room in a ritualistic black magic slaying.

This is not an urban legend.

A lot to like about New Oreans and I liked Tulane.

Not happening.

Do you think Tulane students are at high risk of being exposed to black magic and being murdered ritualistically? This is a serious question.

PP here.

Never in my life did I think anyone I had any remote connection to would be at risk of such an act. And yet it happened. So with all the schools in the world why am I going to send my DD to an environment where I know it's possible. College students are young and by their very nature they lack maturity and my DD did not grow up having to be street smart. New Orleans can be a dangerous city. So short answer as much as I tried to have an open mind - I didn't.

My DD also looked at Fordham and that wasn't happening. My DD does not have the street smarts to be on Fordham Road so why am I going to put her in that environment.

Ironically, I would have been ok with DD attending Columbia or Barnard because we know the area and we would have advised her accordingly. Morningside Heights is quite nice but it's an enclave that is surrounded by some dangerous neighborhoods. And it is sad to say but folks that do not respect that do so at their own peril.

So, to answer your question yes I think Tulane students do have a higher risk than most college students of being the victim of a violent crime.

So you do not like black people...got it!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted with great merit aid. We toured - lovely part of New Orleans.

DD was totally turned off by the dorms. I know - fickle kids. And I wanted to be open minded but I couldn’t pull the trigger on sending my DD to New Orleans.

Years ago I was at an annual sales meeting for a large software company. On of my colleagues called down to the hotel lobby to complain about the noise in an adjoining room early one morning.

Turns out it was one of the subcontracted AV guys being murdered in the room in a ritualistic black magic slaying.

This is not an urban legend.

A lot to like about New Oreans and I liked Tulane.

Not happening.

Do you think Tulane students are at high risk of being exposed to black magic and being murdered ritualistically? This is a serious question.

PP here.

Never in my life did I think anyone I had any remote connection to would be at risk of such an act. And yet it happened. So with all the schools in the world why am I going to send my DD to an environment where I know it's possible. College students are young and by their very nature they lack maturity and my DD did not grow up having to be street smart. New Orleans can be a dangerous city. So short answer as much as I tried to have an open mind - I didn't.

My DD also looked at Fordham and that wasn't happening. My DD does not have the street smarts to be on Fordham Road so why am I going to put her in that environment.

Ironically, I would have been ok with DD attending Columbia or Barnard because we know the area and we would have advised her accordingly. Morningside Heights is quite nice but it's an enclave that is surrounded by some dangerous neighborhoods. And it is sad to say but folks that do not respect that do so at their own peril.

So, to answer your question yes I think Tulane students do have a higher risk than most college students of being the victim of a violent crime.

Knowing what you know,
Why did your DD apply.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted with great merit aid. We toured - lovely part of New Orleans.

DD was totally turned off by the dorms. I know - fickle kids. And I wanted to be open minded but I couldn’t pull the trigger on sending my DD to New Orleans.

Years ago I was at an annual sales meeting for a large software company. On of my colleagues called down to the hotel lobby to complain about the noise in an adjoining room early one morning.

Turns out it was one of the subcontracted AV guys being murdered in the room in a ritualistic black magic slaying.

This is not an urban legend.

A lot to like about New Oreans and I liked Tulane.

Not happening.

Do you think Tulane students are at high risk of being exposed to black magic and being murdered ritualistically? This is a serious question.

PP here.

Never in my life did I think anyone I had any remote connection to would be at risk of such an act. And yet it happened. So with all the schools in the world why am I going to send my DD to an environment where I know it's possible. College students are young and by their very nature they lack maturity and my DD did not grow up having to be street smart. New Orleans can be a dangerous city. So short answer as much as I tried to have an open mind - I didn't.

My DD also looked at Fordham and that wasn't happening. My DD does not have the street smarts to be on Fordham Road so why am I going to put her in that environment.

Ironically, I would have been ok with DD attending Columbia or Barnard because we know the area and we would have advised her accordingly. Morningside Heights is quite nice but it's an enclave that is surrounded by some dangerous neighborhoods. And it is sad to say but folks that do not respect that do so at their own peril.

So, to answer your question yes I think Tulane students do have a higher risk than most college students of being the victim of a violent crime.

Anonymous wrote:Every school is a party school.

FIFY

Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted with great merit aid. We toured - lovely part of New Orleans.

DD was totally turned off by the dorms. I know - fickle kids. And I wanted to be open minded but I couldn’t pull the trigger on sending my DD to New Orleans.

Years ago I was at an annual sales meeting for a large software company. On of my colleagues called down to the hotel lobby to complain about the noise in an adjoining room early one morning.

Turns out it was one of the subcontracted AV guys being murdered in the room in a ritualistic black magic slaying.

This is not an urban legend.

A lot to like about New Oreans and I liked Tulane.

Not happening.

Do you think Tulane students are at high risk of being exposed to black magic and being murdered ritualistically? This is a serious question.

Tulane is a party school.

Agree. My spouse recently spent 2 years in New Orleans on a long-term project, commuting back and forth each week. It is a complicated city with many issues. Enough of them that the one request my spouse had at the outset of DC's college search was "no Tulane".

DD was accepted with great merit aid. We toured - lovely part of New Orleans.

DD was totally turned off by the dorms. I know - fickle kids. And I wanted to be open minded but I couldn’t pull the trigger on sending my DD to New Orleans.

Years ago I was at an annual sales meeting for a large software company. On of my colleagues called down to the hotel lobby to complain about the noise in an adjoining room early one morning.

Turns out it was one of the subcontracted AV guys being murdered in the room in a ritualistic black magic slaying.

This is not an urban legend.

A lot to like about New Oreans and I liked Tulane.

Not happening.

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.

Anonymous wrote:I would not send my child to college in New Orleans. How many grads end up alcoholics?

+1
Getting hammered.

I would not send my child to college in New Orleans. How many grads end up alcoholics?

Good merit aid.
Big party college.
Great location.

Let’s talk about it.