Which is more prestigious: Wesleyan or Tufts

[Anonymous]

I liked the BU/Tulane thread. Let's do Wesleyan v. Tufts. Which would you choose and why?

[Anonymous]

UConn is more prestigious than both.

#GoHuskies

[Anonymous]

I think Tufts is on the rise and Wesleyan is sort of dropping. But, they're both great schools. UConn isn't even close in terms of prestige.

[Anonymous]

If you have to ask, it doesn’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Tufts easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Tufts is on the rise and Wesleyan is sort of dropping. But, they're both great schools. UConn isn't even close in terms of prestige.

Funny, I think the opposite

[Anonymous]

Wes to me. Tufts was never on our radar until we moved here, but everyone knew Wes.

[Anonymous]

They are so different. Wesleyan is for creative, quirky kids, and Tufts is for competitive strivers.

While both are in New England, campuses are vastly different as well. If your child is interested in both (like our was), visit both and they will vastly prefer one over the other

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wes to me. Tufts was never on our radar until we moved here, but everyone knew Wes.

That's interesting! I grew up in the Midwest and knew of Tufts but not Wesleyan.

[Anonymous]

Tufts

[Anonymous]

From a west coasters perspective, Wes by a mile. Not even close

[Anonymous]

If you can get into either, you can also get into dozens of other schools with nicer campuses, nicer people, & more recognizable names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are so different. Wesleyan is for creative, quirky kids, and Tufts is for competitive strivers.

While both are in New England, campuses are vastly different as well. If your child is interested in both (like our was), visit both and they will vastly prefer one over the other

There’s more overlap than you describe (I have a kid at one and both my kids looked at both colleges themselves and have friends at each of them).

There are plenty of non-artsy types at Wes, who aim for law, med post-graduation and finance/management jobs etc. And Tufts can and does definitely appeal to artsy types (examples, they have a BFA and top notch a capella groups).

I’m not denying that historically the sterotypes you describe were true, but in today’s admissions climate, some kids (maybe more the NY set but holds true in some crowds in DC, too) basically apply to most of the Nescac colleges and cross fingers as to which they’ll get in. Within that bubble, Wes is the largest nescac after Tufts and also probably has the easiest city-access and even Middletown has some life to it versus towns like Waterville, Lewiston. Not saying the canpus are apples and oranges but they have some characteristics in common for say a kid who wants Tufts but doesn’t get in, and is choosing among other nescac schools incl Wes.

[Anonymous]

Tufts is a better school.

Wesleyan chances to make better connections.
Wesleyan has titans of industry send their kids. The networking is one of the best in the country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can get into either, you can also get into dozens of other schools with nicer campuses, nicer people, & more recognizable names.

I've been to Tufts and the campus in underwhelming, but I've heard Wesleyan is beautiful, no?