Anonymous
05/14/2024 16:45
Subject: Tulane or Richmond
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my kid applied to both Richmond and Tulane and ultimately chose Tulane. She reported that a real benefit to Tulane is that because there are lots of social opportunities, you never have to feel like you HAVE to attend the ONE thing happening on campus. This allowed her to focus on school when she needed to knowing there would be parties/outings when she had time for it. She had a terrific first year and really appreciated the balance between studying and having lots of fun.
Do you or your daughter think many schools have one thing going on on campus? I imagine zero schools are like this, even if they have a major event that most attend, there are still choices. Take Mardi Gras: I imagine most kids attend it at some point, but kids that don't want to still have things to do.
+1 for Tulane. For the record there isn't one Mardi Gras parade, there's like 10 over the span of several days. DD would pick one or two then have the sense to sit out the rest. She's learned to balance school with her sorority and socializing. Going into her senior year now she's kinda over the social stuff and is focusing on doing her capstone. She's working in IB this summer.
Anonymous
05/14/2024 16:09
Subject: Tulane or Richmond
Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my kid applied to both Richmond and Tulane and ultimately chose Tulane. She reported that a real benefit to Tulane is that because there are lots of social opportunities, you never have to feel like you HAVE to attend the ONE thing happening on campus. This allowed her to focus on school when she needed to knowing there would be parties/outings when she had time for it. She had a terrific first year and really appreciated the balance between studying and having lots of fun.
Do you or your daughter think many schools have one thing going on on campus? I imagine zero schools are like this, even if they have a major event that most attend, there are still choices. Take Mardi Gras: I imagine most kids attend it at some point, but kids that don't want to still have things to do.
Anonymous
05/14/2024 10:23
Subject: Tulane or Richmond
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tulane would be my preference by a large margin. Size, location, research opportunities, national reputation are all in Tulane’s favor.
Most of that is personal preference, which I guess you are saying.
My kid hated New Orleans and wound up not applying after visiting because of that.
As for research opportunities, I’m not sure that is true. Many smaller colleges have better research opportunities.
+1 the Tulane boosters are unable to produce evidence supporting claims of national reputation, research, etc.
Where is your “evidence” that Richmond has more of a national reputation? I don’t see how anyone can provide this…it’s just an opinion either way.
I'm not from hear and hadn't heard of either one until a few years ago. U of R did not mean Richmond to people I knew. I know of Richmond b/c of the spider mascot and learned of Tulane about 3 years ago when an acquaintance sent her kid there.
Anonymous
05/14/2024 10:20
Subject: Tulane or Richmond
FWIW, my kid applied to both Richmond and Tulane and ultimately chose Tulane. She reported that a real benefit to Tulane is that because there are lots of social opportunities, you never have to feel like you HAVE to attend the ONE thing happening on campus. This allowed her to focus on school when she needed to knowing there would be parties/outings when she had time for it. She had a terrific first year and really appreciated the balance between studying and having lots of fun.
Anonymous
05/14/2024 10:08
Subject: Re:Tulane or Richmond
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tulane has more name recognition nationally, is in a much more interesting city, and is more diverse.
Cite that Tulane has more name registration?
It has name recognition as a party school.
This. This was evident during our admitted student day visit, esp. from the parent panel.
Can you elaborate on what you learned at parent panel (parent of junior who has Tulane high on his list)
Some things said (5 parent panel)- this is a sampling:
- I went to Tulane and my kid now understands the work hard, party harder motto. Had a kid said this, it wouldn’t be a big deal to me, but for a parent who had been there to say it, it bothered me.
- I came to visit my kid for a planned weekend trip, I saw him very briefly when I dropped off some food for the group — because he was out partying all weekend.
- our friends and family all have kids who say that they went to school to learn but are jealous that our kids when to school to have fun.
It was evident these parents love Tulane. Two of them were alumni, but this overall party school mentality concerned me. The parents on either side of me said they were concerned, too. I’ll add that when we toured Georgetown, there were tons of beer bottles and liquor bottles and party like trash littered everywhere. That was also concerning.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I’m the prior parent with the junior who loved it. I am concerned about the party culture and numerous distractions.
I’m sure many schools have massive party scenes, ie my mention of GTown above. But to have parents embrace it was concerning. That said to me it is not just a party school, but an overt one. I did think they put on a good admitted students day, but we ultimately decided on a different school.