Is Tufts underrated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not think of UVA or BC as peers to Tufts. Tufts peers are Amherst, Williams and the like.

Except you'd be wrong. For that to be the case, you'd have to have applicants turning down Amherst or Williams for Tufts. Which rarely happens.

[Anonymous]

Rankings aside, we have neighbors with three kids who went to, respectively, Yale, Dartmouth and Tufts. The parents think Tufts offered the best education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know of several people who went to Tuffs and did not love it there. Tuffs is a like other large, private city schools (e.g, NYU) that charge a lot and offer prestige, but students complain that quality of life is poor (bad dorms and food), faculty and staff are generally not helpful, and there's no school spirit or community.

Tufts is ~ 5000 students and in the suburbs. It's 20 minutes from the city, kind of like Rockville/Gaithersburg to DC

Are you talking about Northeastern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rankings aside, we have neighbors with three kids who went to, respectively, Yale, Dartmouth and Tufts. The parents think Tufts offered the best education.

Did the parents attend classes with the kids?

[Anonymous]

My rough idea about Tufts is that it suits certain students and not others. It is not sporty, for example. And not an LAC, though perhaps closer to that.

I feel the area around Tufts is sufficiently urban (yes we've been there), though that's a bit relative. Here out west, suburban = I see cows sometimes in between subdivisions and we are 15+ miles from my kids' high schools, though the local one is probably only 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not think of UVA or BC as peers to Tufts. Tufts peers are Amherst, Williams and the like.

Except you'd be wrong. For that to be the case, you'd have to have applicants turning down Amherst or Williams for Tufts. Which rarely happens.

Amherst and Williams are colleges not universities.

Amherst and Williams are the "ivy" of colleges they are not even ranked with universities.

Tufts is a university. It's like Brown or Cornell of universities. So yes, Amherst and Williams are more like Harvard and Yale of colleges... but if they had to be compared to Universities, clearly they are not Harvard or Yale.

So it is hard to compare a university like Tufts to colleges like Amherst.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it is underrated because it has a very strong reputation, much higher than BC in my opinion, and I lived in Boston and and NYC for many years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not think of UVA or BC as peers to Tufts. Tufts peers are Amherst, Williams and the like.

Except you'd be wrong. For that to be the case, you'd have to have applicants turning down Amherst or Williams for Tufts. Which rarely happens.

Amherst and Williams are colleges not universities.

Amherst and Williams are the "ivy" of colleges they are not even ranked with universities.

Tufts is a university. It's like Brown or Cornell of universities. So yes, Amherst and Williams are more like Harvard and Yale of colleges... but if they had to be compared to Universities, clearly they are not Harvard or Yale.

So it is hard to compare a university like Tufts to colleges like Amherst.

Huh??

[Anonymous]

Tufts parent here so I am obviously biased, but there is no shortage of kids who are very happy at Tufts currently. Moreover, it did very well on a very large "consumer satisfaction" survey of 146,345 college graduates by Strada-Gallup. Tufts came in at #19. See

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2020/10/21/the-top-25-universities-according-to-alumni-ratings/?sh=5770f7b711dd

It also seems to be a "desirable school" based on the desirability rankings from Academic Influence, coming in at #25, which are based on data from admitted students and identifies which schools were picked by applicants over others. See

https://academicinfluence.com/articles/schools/best-colleges-universities

https://academicinfluence.com/resources/guidance/what-is-desirability

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not think of UVA or BC as peers to Tufts. Tufts peers are Amherst, Williams and the like.

Except you'd be wrong. For that to be the case, you'd have to have applicants turning down Amherst or Williams for Tufts. Which rarely happens.

Amherst and Williams are colleges not universities.

Amherst and Williams are the "ivy" of colleges they are not even ranked with universities.

Tufts is a university. It's like Brown or Cornell of universities. So yes, Amherst and Williams are more like Harvard and Yale of colleges... but if they had to be compared to Universities, clearly they are not Harvard or Yale.

So it is hard to compare a university like Tufts to colleges like Amherst.

Huh??

they meant that elite SLACS are not comparable to Harvard or Yale, and they are wrong. Williams graduates end up in the same grad programs and Harvard graduates

[Anonymous]

You're confusing "ranked closely" with "peer schools". Tufts and UVA, for example, are Apples and Oranges.

Tufts is private, in a Boston suburb, with 5,900 undergrads; UVA is public, in a pure college town, with 17,000 undergrads.

Tufts is D3. UVA is ACC (a top P5 sports conference).

Very different college experiences. Both excel in their "categories". But would not consider each other peers in much of anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tufts parent here so I am obviously biased, but there is no shortage of kids who are very happy at Tufts currently. Moreover, it did very well on a very large "consumer satisfaction" survey of 146,345 college graduates by Strada-Gallup. Tufts came in at #19. See

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2020/10/21/the-top-25-universities-according-to-alumni-ratings/?sh=5770f7b711dd

It also seems to be a "desirable school" based on the desirability rankings from Academic Influence, coming in at #25, which are based on data from admitted students and identifies which schools were picked by applicants over others. See

https://academicinfluence.com/articles/schools/best-colleges-universities

https://academicinfluence.com/resources/guidance/what-is-desirability

People associated with Tufts seem to have an inferiority complex and it's coming across in this thread pretty clearly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not think of UVA or BC as peers to Tufts. Tufts peers are Amherst, Williams and the like.

Tufst is much less selective. It's also just very generic??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For instance, it's currently ranked 30 on USnews. That would make it's peer schools UVA to Boston College (5 above 5 below). Is that accurate? Or is Tufts a bit better.

I’d say over rated, based on my hiring experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not think of UVA or BC as peers to Tufts. Tufts peers are Amherst, Williams and the like.

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