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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

I went to the University of Texas and, quite honestly, this is the biggest bag of BS that I've ever heard. No, you would not have been the smartest in the room nor would you have taught the class.

The arrogance and self-importance from people like PP is precisely why many of us avoid expensive private schools. Rich kids (and their egos) are a handful.

My neighbor graduated UT Austin in 1998. She's a moron.

And Lyle Menendez went to Princeton. What's your point?

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

I went to the University of Texas and, quite honestly, this is the biggest bag of BS that I've ever heard. No, you would not have been the smartest in the room nor would you have taught the class.

The arrogance and self-importance from people like PP is precisely why many of us avoid expensive private schools. Rich kids (and their egos) are a handful.

As an aside, I have a few friends who went to Tufts. We went to HS together and are friends to this day. They are not geniuses and did not graduate anywhere near the top of their class so I find the post above quite amusing considering our scores and class ranking.

Ok but you went to UT Austin which had a 50% acceptance rate during your college years. And you aren't Michael Dell are anywhere that level of achievement, are you??

This doesn't make any sense. So your conclusion is that unless you are Michael Dell, the education was wasted? Along the same lines, if you graduate from Harvard and do not become a SCOTUS justice or Zuckerberg, your achievement is thus diminished. Per PP, only the top .0001% of each universities achievers have merit. Odd conclusion which would assume that 99.9% of all funds on education were wasted.

Speaking of Jumping to Conclusions...... YOUR Conclusion, based on the 3 people that you know who went to Tufts who happened to not be at the top of their class, is that No One at Tufts graduated as Valedictorian, Salutatorian, or the Top 5? We're talking about value of the education here right? Perhaps I've made 7 figures annually...... Have you?

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

I went to the University of Texas and, quite honestly, this is the biggest bag of BS that I've ever heard. No, you would not have been the smartest in the room nor would you have taught the class.

The arrogance and self-importance from people like PP is precisely why many of us avoid expensive private schools. Rich kids (and their egos) are a handful.

My neighbor graduated UT Austin in 1998. She's a moron.

And Lyle Menendez went to Princeton. What's your point?

My point is that you don't know how to make an argument. Because you are a moron.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

I went to the University of Texas and, quite honestly, this is the biggest bag of BS that I've ever heard. No, you would not have been the smartest in the room nor would you have taught the class.

The arrogance and self-importance from people like PP is precisely why many of us avoid expensive private schools. Rich kids (and their egos) are a handful.

As an aside, I have a few friends who went to Tufts. We went to HS together and are friends to this day. They are not geniuses and did not graduate anywhere near the top of their class so I find the post above quite amusing considering our scores and class ranking.

Ok but you went to UT Austin which had a 50% acceptance rate during your college years. And you aren't Michael Dell are anywhere that level of achievement, are you??

This doesn't make any sense. So your conclusion is that unless you are Michael Dell, the education was wasted? Along the same lines, if you graduate from Harvard and do not become a SCOTUS justice or Zuckerberg, your achievement is thus diminished. Per PP, only the top .0001% of each universities achievers have merit. Odd conclusion which would assume that 99.9% of all funds on education were wasted.

Speaking of Jumping to Conclusions...... YOUR Conclusion, based on the 3 people that you know who went to Tufts who happened to not be at the top of their class, is that No One at Tufts graduated as Valedictorian, Salutatorian, or the Top 5? We're talking about value of the education here right? Perhaps I've made 7 figures annually...... Have you?

This has to be a troll. You missed the point. Again. I have stated ad nauseam that private schools are not inherently better than public. It will depend on child. I'm sure there are great kids at Tufts but the idea that outcomes are better by paying more (even when school is not highly ranked) is false.

By your language and punctuation, I'm doubting pretty much everything having to do with your earnings and education. Again, we're talking about Tufts - not Stanford - so the assessments above hold.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

The nerdiest valedictorian ftom my class of 1993 went to Tufts….

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

You’re literally using the word unequivocally here - and that’s just the first sentence. Also missing a comma there

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Tons of private ( and some public OOS) tuitions and room/ board come out to 75-90k now. It’s crazy but tufts is not an exception.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

You’re literally using the word unequivocally here - and that’s just the first sentence. Also missing a comma there

You’re missing a period in your last, which is also sentence fragment. Moron.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

You’re literally using the word unequivocally here - and that’s just the first sentence. Also missing a comma there

Exactly! But can you imagine how many more nits there would have been had he/she gone to state u?

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This is a pointless circuitous discussion. The haves and the have nots will never see eye to eye on how and where to spend money.

I’ve met and hired smart people from both private and public colleges. I’ve met truly impressive people from HYP. I will also say that by far the most unintelligent people I’ve met have gone to state universities. I’m sure YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

This is one of the craziest posts I have seen.

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The sometimes irrational preferences of kids whose brains aren't fully formed seem drive this process. How does one even decide between Case Western (Cleveland Ohio), Lehigh (Bethlehem, PA), University of Rochester (Rochester, NY), Tufts (suburb of Boston) or Northeastern (Boston proper)? The price points and rankings are in a similar tier. Is the overall education at one really better? Obviously availability and quality of a specific major is key but factors like location preference, size, where friends are going or even “vibes” might be the deciding factor in applying or accepting an offer…

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

Disagree. William & Mary is known by grad schools and law schools for pumping out exactly that kind of kid. It’s very rigorous and they turn out fantastic writers, thinkers, analyst and faculty are teaching them iv very small class sizes.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

This is one of the craziest posts I have seen.

As someone who has a kid who wants to go to Tufts and has the money to pay for it, I say: I agree. You have no idea how well educated other kids are at other schools nor do you know how Tufts educated kids now. I’m glad you liked the experience but your education wasn’t as superior as you’re thinking it was.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.

This is one of the craziest posts I have seen.

+1000

I would have been the smartest person in the room….suuuuuuure