Tufts ♥️

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Can’t inagine much overlap between ND, HC or Georgetown with Tufts for loads of reasons.

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Ivy plus is the Ivy plus MIT, Stanford, UChicago, with maybe Duke, Vandy or Johns Hopkins.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices

So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.

Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.

In my geo area (northern NJ), Tufts is grouped with Emory and Wash U. Tulane/WF might be safeties for the kids aiming for Emory.

PP specifically said, “besides Ivy-plus schools.” WashU and Emory are Ivy-plus. Tulane and WF are great mid-sized research universities that are not Ivy-plus. Tulane is R-1 and Wake is R-2. If PP is interested in medicine or health related subjects, both Tulane and Wake have medical schools. Further, Tulane has an amazing school of public health. Maybe they are a safety for a Tufts applicant, but kids need safeties too. People on here are so smug.

I don’t have any skin in the game with Emory, Wash U or Tufts, I was just responding to a poster who said Tufts is more analagous to Wake Forest, GA Tech, William and Mary etc than to Emory and Wash U. At my kids’ north jersey public high school, there is a lot of overlap among applicants for Emory, Wash U and Tufts (and Tufts admits seem no easier than Wash U and Emory), but I don’t see overlap with Tufts applicants and say Tulane. My point with calling WF/Tulane safeties for Emory wasn’t to insult them, but instead to say I do think some kids will apply to those 3, or 2 of those 3, so that WF/Tulane is the safety for Emory (even though the campuses and vibes are different from Emory’s). I was trying to add info for OP.

My kids are at none of these colleges but have friends at most of those named and by and large they all are having great experiences and the right experience for them!

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices

So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.

Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.

In my geo area (northern NJ), Tufts is grouped with Emory and Wash U. Tulane/WF might be safeties for the kids aiming for Emory.

PP specifically said, “besides Ivy-plus schools.” WashU and Emory are Ivy-plus. Tulane and WF are great mid-sized research universities that are not Ivy-plus. Tulane is R-1 and Wake is R-2. If PP is interested in medicine or health related subjects, both Tulane and Wake have medical schools. Further, Tulane has an amazing school of public health. Maybe they are a safety for a Tufts applicant, but kids need safeties too. People on here are so smug.

I don’t have any skin in the game with Emory, Wash U or Tufts, I was just responding to a poster who said Tufts is more analagous to Wake Forest, GA Tech, William and Mary etc than to Emory and Wash U. At my kids’ north jersey public high school, there is a lot of overlap among applicants for Emory, Wash U and Tufts (and Tufts admits seem no easier than Wash U and Emory), but I don’t see overlap with Tufts applicants and say Tulane. My point with calling WF/Tulane safeties for Emory wasn’t to insult them, but instead to say I do think some kids will apply to those 3, or 2 of those 3, so that WF/Tulane is the safety for Emory (even though the campuses and vibes are different from Emory’s). I was trying to add info for OP.

My kids are at none of these colleges but have friends at most of those named and by and large they all are having great experiences and the right experience for them!

It may be accurate to say that a kid that is looking to go to Tufts has a better chance of admission at WF or Tulane, but neither school is going to be a safety for pretty much anyone, especially someone who considers Tufts a target. While Tulane and Wake may be an easier admit (if you meet their profile and all that) very, very few people can reasonably expect to be admitted to either school with certainty (i.e., with over 80% certainty).

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Tufts competes with a lot of the Boston schools- Wellesley, BC, NEU, BU, plus obviously Harvard and MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:Visited. Were hugely disappointed. Crossed it off the list immediately. Run down, pretentious and woke.

What east coast school isn't?

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices

So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.

Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.

In my geo area (northern NJ), Tufts is grouped with Emory and Wash U. Tulane/WF might be safeties for the kids aiming for Emory.

PP specifically said, “besides Ivy-plus schools.” WashU and Emory are Ivy-plus. Tulane and WF are great mid-sized research universities that are not Ivy-plus. Tulane is R-1 and Wake is R-2. If PP is interested in medicine or health related subjects, both Tulane and Wake have medical schools. Further, Tulane has an amazing school of public health. Maybe they are a safety for a Tufts applicant, but kids need safeties too. People on here are so smug.

I don’t have any skin in the game with Emory, Wash U or Tufts, I was just responding to a poster who said Tufts is more analagous to Wake Forest, GA Tech, William and Mary etc than to Emory and Wash U. At my kids’ north jersey public high school, there is a lot of overlap among applicants for Emory, Wash U and Tufts (and Tufts admits seem no easier than Wash U and Emory), but I don’t see overlap with Tufts applicants and say Tulane. My point with calling WF/Tulane safeties for Emory wasn’t to insult them, but instead to say I do think some kids will apply to those 3, or 2 of those 3, so that WF/Tulane is the safety for Emory (even though the campuses and vibes are different from Emory’s). I was trying to add info for OP.

My kids are at none of these colleges but have friends at most of those named and by and large they all are having great experiences and the right experience for them!

I do get the sense the some of perception is regional… we are in Philly area and I also think of Tufts attracting the same quality student as Emory and Wash U. high stats, no hook, academic, not rah-rah football type. Tulane seems to appeal to a different kind of kid. I don’t know any kids who have attended WF or William and Mary from my area. But several go to GW and I would see that as a easier admit alternative for Tufts in our area (also Lehigh and U if Rochester).

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Run down, woke, pretentious-sums up Tufts. Add in declining prestige and very little school spirit.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of distaste for Catholic schools and schools located in red states. Guess those parents are all for diversity and inclusion but doesn’t expand to certain religions and geographic areas of the country.

I would not recommend Catholic schools for gay kids. I have recently come to realize that there are a lot of Catholic people (in a liberal area!) who are not cool with gay people and they’re not quiet about it.

Well, they are not at my parish or my son's Jesuit high school, which celebrates Pride month.

"Catholic" is a very big tent.

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Why would anyone go to Tufts when they can go to Rutgers and get the same prestige for much less?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of distaste for Catholic schools and schools located in red states. Guess those parents are all for diversity and inclusion but doesn’t expand to certain religions and geographic areas of the country.

I would not recommend Catholic schools for gay kids. I have recently come to realize that there are a lot of Catholic people (in a liberal area!) who are not cool with gay people and they’re not quiet about it.

Well, they are not at my parish or my son's Jesuit high school, which celebrates Pride month.

"Catholic" is a very big tent.

Truly wish this was my kid’s experience at a Catholic high school. The tone seemed to shift rather sharply this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy plus is the Ivy plus MIT, Stanford, UChicago, with maybe Duke, Vandy or Johns Hopkins.

Vandy?

I see what you did there 😉

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Tufts is not a top destination

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone go to Tufts when they can go to Rutgers and get the same prestige for much less?

Tufts exists as a parking lot for private school kids who couldn't quite hack it into an Ivy or similarly prestigious institution. It sounds elite to your hometown peers while you can brag about intimate class sizes, first-year research opportunities, and amazing interactions with professors all while prestigious internships are handed out like candy to soothe your wounded ego. It's like a special club for those who know they're settling, you know?

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is not a top destination

It's tops for Ivy rejects or those with plugged in counselors who know ED at second tier private is a likely admit.