Why does DCUM overrated Tufts?

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Anonymous wrote:Because many of us are all smart enough to pay attention to the actual colleges our kids are looking at and not silly magazine ratings.

Great, what are some programs or attributes about Tufts, that Tufts does better than say Emory, Washu, Vandy, Notre Dame, or CMU?

You missed the point, of course.

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Very funny that some thing Tufts (Lol!) is comparable to Emory. Tufts is in the BC, Tulane, Brandeis, William and Mary, UMiami, Wake Forest group of schools and continues to drop precipitously in the rankings just like all of those schools. To try to group it in with any other kind of school is laughable.

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^I would include Case in that group too.

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Anonymous wrote:Not everyone follows USNWR’s with slavish devotion. Tufts and Emory are probably as alike as any 2 schools in the U.S. on many key measure including student academics and resources. One has Atlanta and one has Boston. Yes, overall Emory may be a little easier to get into than Tufts but it is still a solid school.

So Tufts is great but Emory is just solid? Yet, USnews? And no Tufts isn't easier to get into... They're probably the same, but if anything Emory is harder to get into, like every other private T25, but what really matter is outcomes and Tufts grads can't compete with T25s.
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/tufts-university/admissions
Tufts- 10% 1460-1540/ 33-35
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/emory-university/admissions
Emory- 10% 1480-1540/32-35

I was just teasing you Emory mom - they are both great schools!

Great is subjective, clearly.

DP. Hair-splitting among undergrad rankings that will not result in different post-grad results.

I think it does result in different outcomes.
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools
Tufts doesn't make the T60 for placement in finance. We all know finance is very prestige conscious.

That's surprising, it's location should help it. International relations isn't enough to make a school elite.

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I don’t feel like Tufts is mentioned much here. You are the one that seems obsessed with bringing it up. If you don’t like the school for your kid, that’s fine, just move on.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked 37 on us news and world report. I don’t think comparing a school ranked 37 to a school ranked 25 is that ridiculous.

Until the New USNWR criteria a few years ago, Tufts had been around 30. That is why it's consistently compared with that---they were hovering just around 25

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts was ranked around 29-30-ish for a long time.

Keep in mind that the current US News rankings changed quite a bit with each formula change over the last few years to emphasize social mobility/Pell data, which favors large publics and disfavors mid size privates, especially those that weren't all the way at the top.

Well Said! Nothing changed to make the "smaller private schools" any "lesser of schools" USNWR simply changed the formula which definately favors larger public schools. Tufts is still a 25-30 school, if you value what a midsize private offers. If you prefer large public with 20-30K undergrads then go for that

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked 37 on us news and world report. I don’t think comparing a school ranked 37 to a school ranked 25 is that ridiculous.

But you all don't compare BC is the same way.

Because BC was never 25-30. It's always been 35-40ish. Still a very good school, but for most students, Tufts is a "better school"

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Anonymous wrote:For IR, 60k GWU vs full pay at Tufts, what would you choose?

Depends upon the major. International Relations? I'd do GWU for the location and opportunities, but most everything else, I'd do Tufts, if you can afford the extra $30K/year

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a Tufts booster but I think it gets a lot of hate on DCUM. Every post seems to trash the school because it's not in downtown Boston or (one of my favorite stupid complaints) the campus is hilly.

Fwiw, I went to Tufts for grad school a million years ago but found the undergrads really obnoxious then. But now I look and say - a medium sized student body, proximate to a GREAT college city, with excellent graduate programs... what's not to like? I don't think Tufts is overrated, I think it's underrated.

Tufts is like most 5-6K undergrad private schools in the T50. Filled with rich kids, most of whom had a first choice (or several) that were in the T25 and didn't get into, some of whom are very entitled/obnoxious.

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Tufts=CWRU, Tulane, BC, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked 37 on us news and world report. I don’t think comparing a school ranked 37 to a school ranked 25 is that ridiculous.

But you all don't compare BC is the same way.

Because BC was never 25-30. It's always been 35-40ish. Still a very good school, but for most students, Tufts is a "better school"

And BC will never be in the 25-30 range. Tufts is not Emory’s equal and has not been in the lives of adults now working.

BC alums and parents inflate the school more than Tufts. They’re expect it to be an Ivy any day now.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts fits in well to the UAA schools and is likely a more natural fit there than in the NESCAC. UAC is Wash U, Emory, Rochester, Case, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Brandeis, Chicago. I think Hopkins used to be in it. All excellent schools, generally a notch below Ivies. No shame in being a notch below Ivies - that is still very highly ranked and recognized. Each has its pros and cons. Those who bash them are wrong. Those who think they are interchangeable with Ivies are wrong (though there are obviously specialized programs, circumstances, etc.)

Those who place the Ivies above Tufts or any of the other 15-20 top private universities are just prestige whores more interested in 'brand awareness' than actual education.....fixed it for you.

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Anonymous wrote:For IR, 60k GWU vs full pay at Tufts, what would you choose?

Depends upon the major. International Relations? I'd do GWU for the location and opportunities, but most everything else, I'd do Tufts, if you can afford the extra $30K/year

If you want IR you'd do Tufts for Fletcher.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is a notch above BC altho the BC alum network is real

Bold part is negligeable to none.