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Anonymous wrote:No longer prestigious? The obsession with rankings just will not end. Tulane is an excellent school that gets a lot more applicants than it has places. That much isn't changing anytime soon.

Meh...they play the ED game. Whatever though.

This is my take on Tulane, too. Too bad, since I like the idea of it. I am down on Univ of Chicago now for the same reason. We know that all these schools play the game, trying to increase applicant pool and perceived selectivity. But there's something slimy about how Tulane and Chicago are doing it. So that if a good applicant who applies RD to either of them? a snowball's chance in hell.

Anonymous wrote:No longer prestigious? The obsession with rankings just will not end. Tulane is an excellent school that gets a lot more applicants than it has places. That much isn't changing anytime soon.

You just described most colleges.

Anonymous wrote:No longer prestigious? The obsession with rankings just will not end. Tulane is an excellent school that gets a lot more applicants than it has places. That much isn't changing anytime soon.

Meh...they play the ED game. Whatever though.

No longer prestigious? The obsession with rankings just will not end. Tulane is an excellent school that gets a lot more applicants than it has places. That much isn't changing anytime soon.

Anonymous wrote:Outside the top 50 colleges, consumers (parents) are being much more selective in how their dollars are spent. Tulane, Syracuse, these mid/lower tier privates are finding it hard to compete. Tulane's slide started with Hurricane Katrina and it has been a steady drop ever since.

Its interesting because New Orleans is thriving. More (wealthy) people are moving there.

Outside the top 50 colleges, consumers (parents) are being much more selective in how their dollars are spent. Tulane, Syracuse, these mid/lower tier privates are finding it hard to compete. Tulane's slide started with Hurricane Katrina and it has been a steady drop ever since.

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Anonymous wrote:With Tulane now being ranked below VTech, shouldn't it be easier to get in there now? Applications etc must be down after their ranking drop. Have things gotten less competitive at these places that are no longer prestigious after their ranking drops?

Yes. Tulane, Wake Forest, Brandeis, etc. All the places that dropped are on the outs. Only a few more cycles until the ranking drop catches up with them. It is just a matter of time.

Wake Forest apps have gone up every year since Covid.

Curious about Tulane essay for those who've been admitted in past years....

how much of the supplemental is really about New Orleans/vibe/culture? Seems like that's a big focus for the school. So less a traditional supplemental (with major, prof, classes) and more about the locality? Does that sound right?
https://www.koppelmangroup.com/blog/2025/9/3/how-to-write-the-tulane-supplement-2025-2026
This link talks about the "vibe check" too.

Any thoughts/predictions on what the ED shift might mean for EA stats needed to be accepted?

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Anonymous wrote:A few really unimpressive students at our private HS just got admitted ED. I am talking C's in non-honors classes.

I'm curious how you know these students were "unimpressive?" Did you acquire this information skulking around a parent-teacher conference, intercepted their report card, had your (presumably impressive) child be a mini-Aldrich Ames and report to you their findings?

Kids at smaller schools just know who is smart and getting good grades, who is smart and getting bad grades, etc. It does not take detective work to know who is at the top or bottom of any given class.

But how do parents know? That was the question.

Just a nasty troll.

Anonymous wrote:A few really unimpressive students at our private HS just got admitted ED. I am talking C's in non-honors classes.

I really hate to add on, but my DC was accepted EA and steered away b/c so many non-top performers from school were accepted ED.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few really unimpressive students at our private HS just got admitted ED. I am talking C's in non-honors classes.

I'm curious how you know these students were "unimpressive?" Did you acquire this information skulking around a parent-teacher conference, intercepted their report card, had your (presumably impressive) child be a mini-Aldrich Ames and report to you their findings?

Kids at smaller schools just know who is smart and getting good grades, who is smart and getting bad grades, etc. It does not take detective work to know who is at the top or bottom of any given class.

But how do parents know? That was the question.

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Anonymous wrote:A few really unimpressive students at our private HS just got admitted ED. I am talking C's in non-honors classes.

Seriously, what do you get out of making statements like this about other people’s children? It’s so nasty and weird.

+2 DCUM is so miserable these days.

Anonymous wrote:A few really unimpressive students at our private HS just got admitted ED. I am talking C's in non-honors classes.

Seriously, what do you get out of making statements like this about other people’s children? It’s so nasty and weird.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few really unimpressive students at our private HS just got admitted ED. I am talking C's in non-honors classes.

I'm curious how you know these students were "unimpressive?" Did you acquire this information skulking around a parent-teacher conference, intercepted their report card, had your (presumably impressive) child be a mini-Aldrich Ames and report to you their findings?

Kids at smaller schools just know who is smart and getting good grades, who is smart and getting bad grades, etc. It does not take detective work to know who is at the top or bottom of any given class.