Did you know your local legislators give away full ride scholarships to Tulane?

Rich getting richer

I've seen better scholarships in the quad on a Tuesday

Kind of a strange tradition given Tulane is a private school. Does LSU have something similar? I wonder how this started?

My wife had one all four years.. never knew the legislature before but interviewed and voila.. full tuition ride

yes....

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Did you know your local legislators give away full ride scholarships to Tulane?

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have you been living under a rock?

Louisiana isn’t even the most represented state in the student body with this scholarship. If they did away with it, New York would completely overrun campus.

Yes.

It is a benefit those slimy POS get.

They can also examine their campaign contribution list when deciding who they will give the "scholarships" too.

It's hard to believe these scholarships still exist, but they are grandfathered in too strongly. There was a lot of negative press about this in the mid 1990s, but that eventually subsided.

Tulane in its current state is an interesting social experiment, with wealthy out of staters coming into New Orleans and running wild in one of the top party cities. It has changed a lot in 30 years -- back in the day it's where all the uptown New Orleans kids went to college. Now hardly any of them even consider Tulane, unless there is scholarship money involved. I grew up five blocks from Tulane and it is a neat place, but no way it's worth $69k a year, all inclusive.