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When I chose to come to Tulane, I was a young farm girl from the middle of no where who was really nervous about the entire ordeal. Now tha I'm here, I love it. If there's one thing I've noticed, its that when you get on campus you either immediately love it (feel it) or you immediately hate it. I love the campus itself, the teachers, and the classes are amazing. Customer service in areas such as the Financial aid department, etc could be better, but they do get the job done.

a place where you can get a nationally ranked degree wihle having the absolute time of your life. unless the only reason your going to college is for big 10 sports or a year-round ski pass, i cant think of a single reason to go to school anywhere else. mardi gras alone is reason to come here. no, new orleans is not still under water, and i dont need a canoe to get around, so dont ask. there is no better college town then tulane when it comes to night life with the combination of frat parties and bars, both uptown and downtown. campus is gorgeous, the facilities are great, and any person from any background or belief system can find a group of people that they enjoy hanging out with.

Tulane school spirit is high, but you can forget about decent sports games and fans. We are usually too drunk to make it to the sports stadium. It isn't a college town. Crime and murder are rampant in New Orleans and around campus and on campus. Students cars get stolen, people are murders just blocks away from the campus (Tuck's Bar Incident April 19, 2008). A lot of my friends have either been mugged or given date rape drugs at fraternity parties. If not, one of my friends almost died from alcohol poisoning. If you aren't into partying on a large scale I don't recommend Tulane. Tulane administration is good and the school is a good size. The best thing about Tulane is class size.

I love living in New Orleans and at Tulane. The streetcar (trolley) is so convenient to get downtown; our campus is across the street from beautiful Audubon Park. The campus is pretty small considering the size of the student body. It doesn't take more than 15 minutes to walk from one end of the campus to the other. We have a lot of guest authors, musicians, and politicians, including: John Legend and Jeffrey Sachs, Barack Obama, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler, Lil Wayne. And these events are completely free and open to students. One of my favorite activities has been going to Whole Foods grocery store to buy ingredients and cooking dinner with my friends.

I feel it could be larger but don't believe it's too small as I have met and expect to meet many new people over the next few years. The school pride is somewhat lacking at sport events but thats on the rebound. As we are a D1 school that has a terrible football team. However, we excel in other areas such as Women's Track, Men and Women's basketball, Women's Volleyball, and Mens baseball. I personally don't drink but we here at Tulane are as I've heard it put "A drinking school with a studying problem." That is to say that drinking is taken up nearly every-night by different members of the school, save for Monday. In addition, over breaks most of my friends can only drink beer as I hear this is the typical most others schools while at TU hard liquor by far the drink of choice and I mean 7 out of 8 nights that's all people will have.

The best thing about Tulane is the faculty. All of my classes were taught by very good professors, each of whom teaches a variety of levels in their subject. Tulane is an excellent size, my biggest class had 25 people in it. When I tell people I go to Tulane, most people have some vague concept of the school, but hardly anyone knows where it is or anything about it. New Orleans is definitely not just a college town. It is an amazing and vibrant city. i've never enjoyed living anywhere more. Tulane's administration has really turned the school around. Just after Katrina, Tulane ran into some problems, but the new administration came up with a plan for change, and it has been successful. Tulane is very unusual in many ways, but the most striking difference about Tulane is the choice of major for the students. Over 65{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the undergraduates are pre-med majors. The most frequent student complaint is probably about the cost of tuition. The total cost of attendance for an undergraduate is about $48,000 a year.

When I tell people back home that I go to Tulane, they just look at me blankly until I explain. For my personal preferences, Tulane is a little too big (but it's small compared to most universities). Tulane's president is a great guy- he's one of the reasons why I came here. Unfortunately, his ability and dedication do not extend to most of the other administrators. New Orleans is a wonderful city, but Tulane is like a bubble of rich kids that is completely separate from the city.

I find it impossible to separate my time at Tulane from the Hurricane. The school has changed so much since my freshman year. During my sophomore and junior years it hit an absolute low, but in all fairness i have to say it might be beginning to come out of it. The past few years led to the development on campus of a feeling my roommate and I have called "the Madness," which is a elusive combination of apathy, depression, and anti-social feeling following the Hurricane. I'm sure a lot of people got through it with alcohol, drugs, and partying, and will say they enjoyed themselves, but deep down I think everyone feels it. There has been a sinister edge to the partying that was not there before the Hurricane. The administration at Tulane is horrible. Scott Cowen's "Renewal Plan" for the university basically consisted of an organized sack of every academic program to divert resources to the Business and Medical Schools. The Engineering program was canceled outright, and most other programs are severely depleted. Finding recommendations for jobs and graduate school has been a challenge as my professors rarely stay at the school for longer than a semester. Many of us on campus feel abandoned by the school, but perhaps this is one of those things that is improving as well.

Perfect size. The city of New Orleans is AMAZING tons to do both in the uptown neighborhood around campus and downtown which is more tourist oriented. Tons of things to do such as festivals concerts and just walking around the incredibly culturally diverse city. We're generally proud to go here but we definitely don't pack any stadiums because our teams seem to lose all the time, but we just got a new football coach so that may be changing.

The best thing about Tulane is that it's a private school so there's a huge opportunity to get to know some of your professors, especially in upper level classes because there aren't too many people in them. Most of my time is spent working in the biology building under one of the professors I really liked. An independent study with a professor in your field will help you to understand what it is really like to be a graduate student. Most students here are not that into sports because Tulane only has a good baseball team, but there's always tailgating before all the football games. The city makes going to Tulane interesting and fun, but you need a car to get the real New Orleans experience. The streetcar is right in front of Tulane so students without cars can get downtown to the French Quarter if they want.