I thought Tufts was good, but . . .

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with above. I always considered tufts a respectable step down from Harvard and Williams, and on an individual student level more or less equal to duke, northwestern etc.
Anybody who thinks otherwise is just ignorant

This is crazy talk-Tufts is not in the same stratosphere as these top 10 research universities. Get a grip!

+1 million. Tufts is not even close to T25 let alone T10

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Anonymous wrote:Just starting to look as we have a junior DD. I've had both coworkers who have gone to Tufts and friends whose kids go there. They've all acted like Tufts is just a smaller version of Harvard or a bigger version of Williams. But I just read USNWR and it's 40, below BC and Rutgers! I feel like the joke's been on me all these years as I put up with the arrogance.

They might have considered them great schools.

Why do you give a magazine so much power?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with above. I always considered tufts a respectable step down from Harvard and Williams, and on an individual student level more or less equal to duke, northwestern etc.
Anybody who thinks otherwise is just ignorant

This is crazy talk-Tufts is not in the same stratosphere as these top 10 research universities. Get a grip!

+1 million. Tufts is not even close to T25 let alone T10

How do you even know that? If you take the criteria solely on what people care about schools (actual graduation rates, class size, faculty salaries, faculty terminal degree, % of top students, alumni contributions--things that US News no longer ranks), it is certainly a tippy top school. Educate yourself so you know what is actually for your students.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted at Princeton, brown, Amherst, BC, and Barnard. Waitlisted at tufts.

Ergo, the Tufts Syndrome

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Anonymous wrote:There are three sets of rankings on US news and world report that are helpful for figuring out a shotgun or application strategy

1. Ivy, ivy plus schools; ranked one through Vanderbilt.

2. Ivy minus schools and a few other top 25. Vanderbilt through NYU.

3. NYU and down.

These tiers have different levels of selectivity, different strategies with respect to applications, and just different levels of scrutiny.

Best tiering summary I have seen. Can you create a new post with this?

I think there are 4 tiers not 3. And yes app strategy for each tier is different.

Pfffft. Please.

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The same US News that has UC Merced the 60th best university in the nation? UC Merced's average SAT pre-covid when they last used the SAT was 1040. Heck, 25% of UC Merced's freshmen class had below a 980 on the SAT.

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Anonymous wrote:Growing up in MA it was always quite clear that Tufts was much better than BC (and always got better MA students). There was no question.

Totally agree as a Boston native. BC had an honors program. At Tufts, no need.

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middlebury > wesleyan > tufts > bates > colby

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I’m from the west coast and have never heard of Middlebury or Bates. They’re regionally known at best.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the west coast and have never heard of Middlebury or Bates. They’re regionally known at best.

how about wesleyan ? political leaning very west coast

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the west coast and have never heard of Middlebury or Bates. They’re regionally known at best.

how about wesleyan ? political leaning very west coast

It has a handful of very prominent living alums and while tiny is a darn good school. but it is a non-elite D3 school with less than 3k total undergraduates (maybe 800 total BA/BS degrees conferred a year??), no law school or medical school located in a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut is simply not going to have any widespread name recognition outside of New England beyond a small minority of people and employers. That could generally be said for some other NESCAC schools. Still, those schools could be a good fit and life changing for your DC

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the west coast and have never heard of Middlebury or Bates. They’re regionally known at best.

how about wesleyan ? political leaning very west coast

It has a handful of very prominent living alums and while tiny is a darn good school. but it is a non-elite D3 school with less than 3k total undergraduates (maybe 800 total BA/BS degrees conferred a year??), no law school or medical school located in a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut is simply not going to have any widespread name recognition outside of New England beyond a small minority of people and employers. That could generally be said for some other NESCAC schools. Still, those schools could be a good fit and life changing for your DC

Williams is smaller, more remote, and has wayyyyy fewer graduate students with 12x the reach of Wesleyan. It really just has to do with resources and attracting students from all over.

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought Holy Cross was a top SLAC - based solely on the arrogance of an asshat cousin growing up who acted like he walked on water. I’m sort of annoyed with myself for assuming he was right.

I knew a guy like this who attended Hamilton. We were years out of college, and he talked about Hamilton like it was yesterday. “At Hamilton…”

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the west coast and have never heard of Middlebury or Bates. They’re regionally known at best.

That says more about you than the schools. I’m from the west coast and everyone knew these schools when I was applying to college in the early 90s and when my kid was applying to schools last year.

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought Holy Cross was a top SLAC - based solely on the arrogance of an asshat cousin growing up who acted like he walked on water. I’m sort of annoyed with myself for assuming he was right.

I knew a guy like this who attended Hamilton. We were years out of college, and he talked about Hamilton like it was yesterday. “At Hamilton…”

Confused about how that makes him arrogant. It’s just a shorter version of saying “When I was at…”