Louisiana Applicants

Focus Louisiana is Tulane's admission and financial aid initiative for Louisiana residents: we offer several programs to encourage prospective students from Louisiana to explore the opportunities available at Tulane.

The result of this initiative has been a significant increase in the number of Louisiana students enrolling at Tulane. We hope to continue to be of interest to Louisiana's best and brightest students by continuing to offer these related programs:

Louisiana Week at Tulane – Each semester, on campus programs set up specifically for Louisiana students are held on campus. Click here to see a sample schedule of the day's events. The fall 2012 Louisiana Campus Preview Day will take place on Saturday, September 22nd. Please check back in December for the spring 2013 dates for sophomores and juniors.

We offer guaranteed admission to Tulane for any Louisiana resident graduating from a Louisiana high school and meeting the following criteria:

• The student must apply Early Action or Single Choice Early Action, (postmark deadline November 15th)
• ACT Comprehensive score of 28 or higher (with a 28 or higher on the Writing section) or a combined SAT score of 1870 or higher
• A grade point average of 3.50 or higher (based on an unweighted 4.00 scale) in English, foreign language, science, social science and college preparatory mathematics courses taken while in high school
• Completion, prior to enrollment at Tulane, of a secondary school program consisting of four years of English, three years of social science, three years of lab science, three years of mathematics, and two years of foreign language
• No prior college attendance after high school graduation
• No suspensions or expulsions from school
• Submission of the completed application for admission by November 15th

Information on the Focus Louisiana Financial Aid and other Louisiana Scholarship programs can be found here. Tulane continues to sponsor the Legislative Scholarship and the Mayoral Scholarship (New Orleans residents only) programs. Louisiana residents may also apply the Louisiana TOPS Award (Tuition Opportunity Program for Students) towards the cost of attending.

Please visit this page in order to learn more about concurrent enrollment opportunities for Louisiana high school students.

If you have any questions about this information, or about Tulane in general, please feel free to contact the Office of Undergraduate Admission by calling (504) 865-5731 or (800) 873-9283, or by emailing us at undergrad.admission@tulane.edu. You may also contact our specific Louisiana program coordinator, Valerie Timmers.