The Early Advantage at Tulane University

Thinking about applying to Tulane University this year? If so, you might strongly consider applying during the Early round of admissions. After all, Tulane, which has in recent years seen its overall admission rate plummet to below 10%, doesn’t admit many students in the Regular Decision round. Case in point? … 

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2021-2022 Prize for the Longest College Essays

It’s that time of year. Awards season. And while Emmys will be given out this weekend, we’d like to give out another award: the prize for the longest college essays of the 2021-2022 college admissions season. So which university takes home the grand prize? Is it the University of Chicago … 

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Tulane Admissions Blog

Here at Ivy Coach, we often stand atop our soapbox in elite college admissions to speak truth to power, to debunk commonly held misconceptions, and to offer a healthy dose of sanity to stressed out parents and students navigating the churning waters of highly selective college admissions. When an admissions … 

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Tulane University’s 2018-2019 Super Long Essay Prompt

For the 2018-2019 admissions cycle, Tulane University presented applicants with two essay prompts. The first essay prompt, which is optional, asks students why they’re interested in attending Tulane. Our regular readers are quite familiar with this type of question: it’s a Why College essay. Many highly selective colleges ask students … 

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Tulane Admissions Error

Shame on Tulane University! It happens just about every year, particularly in the digital age. A university sends out admissions decisions only to quickly learn they’ve sent out offers of admission to students they didn’t intend to admit. We have no idea why admissions offices aren’t more circumspect with the … 

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