Why don’t people respect Tufts more?

[Anonymous]

It's not well known outside of urban and academic circles.

I grew up near Lancaster, PA with educated parents, middle to upper middle class public school lifestyle. I remember first hearing about Tufts in medical school when considering residency options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not well known outside of urban and academic circles.

I grew up near Lancaster, PA with educated parents, middle to upper middle class public school lifestyle. I remember first hearing about Tufts in medical school when considering residency options.

I get this argument, but you could say the same about Caltech and many other really good universities. Just not hearing about it for a long time doesn’t mean it’s bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I generally find LACs to be schools for rich kids to feel cozy, coddled & relaxed at.

Not

[Anonymous]

It's a great 2nd tier option in Boston area as well as BU, BC, NU after the 1st tier MIT and Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's an over priced rich kid school?

Is it so bad if it has a high % of UMC students? The class is still highly qualified.

Personally, I don't view need aware schools highly. Their endowment is more than enough to be need blind, which means that they are choosing to be a rich kid school. It's their right, but it also effects how their viewed

[Anonymous]

Harvard and MIT are just down the road.

It was never a fashionable college in the heyday of WASP colleges so it was also never an Amherst or Williams or Bowdoin. And for a Boston college it doesn't have the charming campus of BC or Wellesley, or the urban vibes of BU.

The pecking order of college prestige has been set in stone for a long time and it's hard to overcome that.

One could argue Tufts is better than it should be because of its location. In another city it'd be another Case Western. Perfectly fine. But takes advantage of geographic proximity to Boston to build up a reputation as as second (third?) choice college for the kids with great scores and grades who didn't make the cut to their first (and second) options. That's a big demographic looking for the expensive private college experience on the east coast/New England and Tufts fits the spot when nothing else is available.

Ok, maybe I am being harsh here. Tufts is a perfectly fine school.

[Anonymous]

I work in foreign policy and Fletcher grads are reliably the excellent, hardworking, intelligent hires. So maybe the people that matter (those that employ graduates) respect Tufts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It provides one of the best undergrad educations in the country but people treat it like trash.

Its a good school but usually gets compared with top schools and obviously comes short which some cheerleaders see as disrespect. ROI isn't great either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's an over priced rich kid school?

Is it so bad if it has a high % of UMC students? The class is still highly qualified.

Personally, I don't view need aware schools highly. Their endowment is more than enough to be need blind, which means that they are choosing to be a rich kid school. It's their right, but it also effects how their viewed

Their endowment is not large for a school with multiple graduate professional schools (med, vet, dental, IR, nutrition) and an engineering school. Not all the endowment can be used for undergraduate students/programs.

The full tuition paid by well-to-do families is used to provide financial aid to other students. Of all the financial aid offers that my kids received, Tufts' was the most generous. That isn't unusual. There are lots of kids from well-off families there but there are also lots of kids from not-well-off families. This is based on first-hand experience.

[Anonymous]

Not ranked high enough. Once you get into the 30's, an instate public might be better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not ranked high enough. Once you get into the 30's, an instate public might be better.

Even though it’s ranked in the 30s most would consider it a T25 realistically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not ranked high enough. Once you get into the 30's, an instate public might be better.

Even though it’s ranked in the 30s most would consider it a T25 realistically.

It's not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not ranked high enough. Once you get into the 30's, an instate public might be better.

Even though it’s ranked in the 30s most would consider it a T25 realistically.

It's not

+1, show us where Tufts is T25 on at least 1 ranking and I'll believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in foreign policy and Fletcher grads are reliably the excellent, hardworking, intelligent hires. So maybe the people that matter (those that employ graduates) respect Tufts?

Agree, as another employer here.

Clearly OP is neither a Tufts graduate, nor an employer.

Sorry for you, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's an over priced rich kid school?

Is it so bad if it has a high % of UMC students? The class is still highly qualified.

Those rich kids pay for the poor kids, but OP is too stupid to know that.