Tulane University - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png Tulane University - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 Tulane University: A Southern Gem https://greatcollegeadvice.com/tulane-university-a-southern-gem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tulane-university-a-southern-gem Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:00:49 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=13895 On a recent trip to New Orleans, I had the pleasure of visiting Tulane University. Much like the city that surrounds it, Tulane is a vibrant, enriching, and interesting place. Read this blog post to learn more about it.

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]]> Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA) is a top-notch school in one of our country’s most interesting cities. Known for its festivals, food, and culture, NOLA provides Tulane students with a variety of opportunities, as does the university itself.

New Orleans, particularly the French Quarter and Bourbon Street has a reputation for being a party-lover’s paradise. But Tulane is located several miles away in the city’s garden district. A quiet neighborhood with beautiful historic homes; wide, tree-lined streets; and the lush, expansive Audobon Park, which is across the street from campus and is a popular student hangout. Students certainly can venture into the French Quarter and other parts of the city if they like, but there is plenty to do right on campus.

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Tulane is unique for many reasons, including the following:

  • First, it is one of the most geographically diverse colleges in the U.S., with over 80% of students coming from over 300 miles away.
  • It has the first student-run stock research program in the country.
  • It’s in the top 2% of colleges for having a high level of undergraduate research. Undergrads have access to everything graduate students do in terms of research opportunities.
  • Along with that, it offers several 4+1 Master’s programs, meaning that students complete a Bachelor’s degree in four years and then a Master’s in one year. (Most Master’s programs are two years.)
  • All freshmen take a Tulane InterDisciplinary Experience Seminar, or TIDES course, which caps at 15 students. TIDES courses offer a variety of topics, each of which combines five or more different majors, thereby exposing students to a number of fields. Most of the courses involve off-campus field trips that help students acclimate to their new environment and become familiar with their surroundings.
  • Tulane is a medium-sized university with Division I sports. Most schools with DI sports are large or very large. Students get free tickets to every sporting event, including football games, which they play at the New Orleans Superdome. (However, the university is building an on-campus football stadium, which will open in the Fall of 2014.
  • “Fridays at the Quad” is a weekly event with free food and live music.
  • In addition to Thanksgiving break, winter break, and spring break, students get a “Mardi Gras” break so they can take advantage of all the festivities in New Orleans.
  • Also, the president of the university teaches a class. So does political commentator and 1992 Clinton Campaign Manager James Carville.
  • There is no fee to apply to Tulane. You can apply either with Tulane’s own application or the Universal College Application.
  • To conclude, Tulane provides a large number of scholarships. Applicants are automatically considered for partial-tuition merit scholarships ranging from $8,000-$27,000/year. Additionally, 30 students receive community service scholarships of $5,000 or $15,000/year, and there are two types of full-tuition merit scholarships that are awarded to approximately 170 students. The community service and full-tuition merit scholarships require separate applications.

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]]> It May be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! https://greatcollegeadvice.com/it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=9712 Although the January 1st application deadlines have passed, there are still many other colleges to which you can apply.

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]]> Sure the January 1st application deadlines for many colleges have passed, but fear not, there are still many, many colleges to which you can still apply.  In fact, there are a surprising number of colleges that have March 1st deadlines.

In this first of a series of three blogs, we’ll look at colleges which all have January 15th deadlines.

  • American University
  • Babson
  • Bard
  • Beloit (note: early action is 3 days earlier- Jan 12)
  • Bentley
  • Brandeis
  • Bryn Mawr
  • Bucknell
  • Case Western
  • Chapman
  • Clark University
  • Clarkson University
  • Colgate
  • UC Boulder
  • Colorado College
  • University of Dallas
  • Denison University
  • University of Denver
  • DePaul (Chicago)
  • Dickinson College
  • Emory
  • Fordham
  • Franklin & Marshall
  • Furman
  • Georgia Tech
  • Hampshire College
  • Haverford
  • McGill
  • Kenyon College
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Mt. Holyoke
  • UNH Chapel Hill
  • Oberlin
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic (RPI)
  • Rhodes College
  • University of Richmond
  • University of San Diego (USD)
  • University of San Francisco (USF)
  • Seattle University
  • Skidmore College
  • Texas A & M
  • Tulane University
  • Union College
  • University of Vermont
  • Virginia Tech
  • Wellesley
  • Whitman
  • Wittenberg

And if you’re feeling ambitious, you might even make the January 10th deadline for USC or the January 11th deadline for NYU!
Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York

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