re: When did Tulane's student profile change?

I had a buddy who went up there, and I've visited. It's heavily a liberal arts college. Some liberal arts colleges have other, worthwhile degrees. They don't.

I believe they still make everyone have a room on campus, but a lot of people get houses right off campus. Beautiful area though, and all around Monteagle used to be a big spot for people from New Orleans and the Northshore to have extra houses

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Most of this was set-in-motion when the took the risk of leaving the SEC. They took the lead of trying to construct a "Ivy League of the South" called the Magnolia Conference. They petitioned Rice, SMU, Vandy, Duke, etc to formalize the conference. Much like the Ivyies, they wanted to minimize athletics (limited scholly $, smaller facilities, etc) and focus on the competing academically with the Ivyies. Duke didnt take the bait because they wanted to keep their rivalry with UNC. Rice and SMU stayed in the SWC (Texas probably made them) and Vandy saw the benefit of being the only private school in the SEC and stayed. It was a huge gamble that didnt pay off.

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almost everything about this post is wrong, guess that's the Tulane education paying off.

I believe it was Vandy that first offered the ideas late 40's early 50'

Rice/SMU turned it down because they were competitive well into the 50's ( rice beat Bama in the 54 cotton bowl) there was no need to downgrade athletics for academics for Rice at the time

Duke would not have had to eliminate they're rivalry with UNC, there were non conference rivalries well into the 2000's Pitt Penn State, V tech vs UVA, Florida vs Florida state still exists) Texas and OU was a non conference rivalry at the time.

the decision was mostly based on travel costs and difficulty at a time air travel was fairly new and very expensive. Don't care what the public reasoning might be today , at the time it was cost the extra travel time involved ( really would have a impact on studies) and safety.

Plus racism , in the South some private schools had already admitted blacks even if they weren't seen, but people knew about them

When I was there (98-01), the law school was still a mix of the two extremes you described in OP, but the undergrad was already Jersey Shore South.

When did SLU become SELU?

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Rhodes?

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The only people I know that went to Rhodes that I knew growing up in Memphis were socially, awkward nerds.

I guess that's why they are making the big bucks now.

The 1980's

Around 1920 when they admitted women is when the profile changed. A 2nd or 3rd cousin was one of the 1st they admitted too

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"Tuh-lane"

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Pretentious pronunciation for a pretentious school.

The Jewlane thing doesn't offend anyone I know. It's actually pretty factual.

The law school was like 30 or 40 percent Jewish. Seems like a large portion of the law school came from the NOLA/South Louisiana Jewish community.