Tufts

[Anonymous]

No one cares about "NE Circles"

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Anonymous wrote:Sad day for Tufts boosters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/pyv576/aita_for_telling_my_friend_harvard_kids_dont_care/

Pretty. Lmao.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad day for Tufts boosters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/pyv576/aita_for_telling_my_friend_harvard_kids_dont_care/

Pretty. Lmao.

*Petty

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard undergrad and Tufts for grad school. There was this weird saying about how the cannon on Tuft’s campus was aimed at a “certain nearby college.” So that was…telling.

No Harvard undergrad thinks about Tufts EXCEPT when deciding where to apply for grad or medical programs. Then we are all over it.

The undergrads I met there were smart, hardworking, nice. Just as smart as my Harvard peers. But I think it’s very hard living in Harvard’s shadow and feeling like you’re the less attractive sibling.

I loved my time at Tufts. If I had to do it all over again, I’m not certain I’d choose Harvard again as an undergrad. I think I would have enjoyed Tufts more.

"The [Tufts] undergrads I met there were smart, hardworking, nice. Just as smart as my Harvard peers."

Never heard that before. Maybe a small sample size.

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Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, at my NYC intense prep school everyone knew about Tufts and it was considered a little step below Penn and Cornell. No one had heard of Carnegie Mellon. Not that that should matter and CMU is a great school but people are oversestmsting the respect it gets in NE circles.

That was my impression of Tufts. A step below Penn and Cornell, but becoming a first choice school for alot of people. Two good friends had daughters who went there. Both really smart and accomplished. First choice for both.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, at my NYC intense prep school everyone knew about Tufts and it was considered a little step below Penn and Cornell. No one had heard of Carnegie Mellon. Not that that should matter and CMU is a great school but people are oversestmsting the respect it gets in NE circles.

That was my impression of Tufts. A step below Penn and Cornell, but becoming a first choice school for alot of people. Two good friends had daughters who went there. Both really smart and accomplished. First choice for both.

This smacks of desperation. Trust me, no one thinks of Tufts as only a small step below Penn and Cornell. Its main identifier is that it’s a school next to Harvard and MIT. The school has a whole syndrome named after it.

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There is not much that PP doesn’t know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, at my NYC intense prep school everyone knew about Tufts and it was considered a little step below Penn and Cornell. No one had heard of Carnegie Mellon. Not that that should matter and CMU is a great school but people are oversestmsting the respect it gets in NE circles.

That was my impression of Tufts. A step below Penn and Cornell, but becoming a first choice school for alot of people. Two good friends had daughters who went there. Both really smart and accomplished. First choice for both.

So this is interesting, so if Tufts is a "little" step below Cornell and Penn then what are schools like Vandy, washU, Emory, Rice etc peers. It's clear to me that these 4 schools are a bit better than Tufts from rankings and personal experience.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, at my NYC intense prep school everyone knew about Tufts and it was considered a little step below Penn and Cornell. No one had heard of Carnegie Mellon. Not that that should matter and CMU is a great school but people are oversestmsting the respect it gets in NE circles.

That was my impression of Tufts. A step below Penn and Cornell, but becoming a first choice school for alot of people. Two good friends had daughters who went there. Both really smart and accomplished. First choice for both.

So this is interesting, so if Tufts is a "little" step below Cornell and Penn then what are schools like Vandy, washU, Emory, Rice etc peers. It's clear to me that these 4 schools are a bit better than Tufts from rankings and personal experience.

Exactly. Tufts is several steps down from the Ivy League.

[Anonymous]

Tufts's peers are New York University, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Florida, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University. If you think those schools are only a little step below the Ivy League, well... OK then, have at it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, at my NYC intense prep school everyone knew about Tufts and it was considered a little step below Penn and Cornell. No one had heard of Carnegie Mellon. Not that that should matter and CMU is a great school but people are oversestmsting the respect it gets in NE circles.

That was my impression of Tufts. A step below Penn and Cornell, but becoming a first choice school for alot of people. Two good friends had daughters who went there. Both really smart and accomplished. First choice for both.

So this is interesting, so if Tufts is a "little" step below Cornell and Penn then what are schools like Vandy, washU, Emory, Rice etc peers. It's clear to me that these 4 schools are a bit better than Tufts from rankings and personal experience.

Well to be fair Cornell and Penn aren't the same level either. You could argue Vandy and the other 3 are peers of Cornell.

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The only reason Tufts is ranked lower is because they didn't report the top 10% of incoming class ranking number at USNWR. Had they done so, and it were in the historical range, it would have fallen in the top 25.

I have NO affiliation with Tufts, but people are being ridiculously harsh on it in this forum. I personally see it as on par with Emory/WashU/Rice tier.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread continues to intrigue. In many ways it’s as if folks are shouting at the top of their lungs, wanting to be heard - yet no one else really cares what they have to say because their are unaware that what they offer is only relevant to themselves and not to others.

For those desperately trying to compare/rank Tufts as if rankings are objective in any way - news for you, they are not. Rankings are used or ignored based on whether they support someone’s existing perceptions. No one looks to rankings to identify schools. They use them to validate opinions. Not unlike how participants in this thread have used the exchanhes to assert their favorite school is superior to Tufts. In the end, unless someone shares your affinity for a school, no one cares about your assertions.

Those who think BC is a peer or Tulane is a peer think that because those schools are their frame of reference. However, those who I know to choose Tufts in recent years share one thing in common - they are there because that is where they want to be. Contrary to what many here assert - that Tufts is somehow a backup school because of its ranking(s), Tufts is most often a first choice for those who attend. That is why so many at Tufts apply ED. Those students could care less what folks think about Tufts compared to Tulane, Vanderbilt, UofR, Emory, Carnegie Melon, or Washington University. They have little interest to attend those schools. Nor do most Tufts students wish they were at some Ivy or other often cited aspirational school, because they know those schools not to be the best fit. Students who attend Tufts do so because they have identified the school as the best combination of all they seek.

Here’s hoping this is all helpful to OP in deciding to support their niece and encouraging they explore Tufts further.

This is absolutely true. Most of the kids at Tufts applied ED. It’s a good fit for them. They are not thinking about Harvard or MIT. Probably for practical reasons. Tufts is possible if you are a really good student and a good fit for the school. And Somerville is a great place to live as a student.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread continues to intrigue. In many ways it’s as if folks are shouting at the top of their lungs, wanting to be heard - yet no one else really cares what they have to say because their are unaware that what they offer is only relevant to themselves and not to others.

For those desperately trying to compare/rank Tufts as if rankings are objective in any way - news for you, they are not. Rankings are used or ignored based on whether they support someone’s existing perceptions. No one looks to rankings to identify schools. They use them to validate opinions. Not unlike how participants in this thread have used the exchanhes to assert their favorite school is superior to Tufts. In the end, unless someone shares your affinity for a school, no one cares about your assertions.

Those who think BC is a peer or Tulane is a peer think that because those schools are their frame of reference. However, those who I know to choose Tufts in recent years share one thing in common - they are there because that is where they want to be. Contrary to what many here assert - that Tufts is somehow a backup school because of its ranking(s), Tufts is most often a first choice for those who attend. That is why so many at Tufts apply ED. Those students could care less what folks think about Tufts compared to Tulane, Vanderbilt, UofR, Emory, Carnegie Melon, or Washington University. They have little interest to attend those schools. Nor do most Tufts students wish they were at some Ivy or other often cited aspirational school, because they know those schools not to be the best fit. Students who attend Tufts do so because they have identified the school as the best combination of all they seek.

Here’s hoping this is all helpful to OP in deciding to support their niece and encouraging they explore Tufts further.

This is absolutely true. Most of the kids at Tufts applied ED. It’s a good fit for them. They are not thinking about Harvard or MIT. Probably for practical reasons. Tufts is possible if you are a really good student and a good fit for the school. And Somerville is a great place to live as a student.

This is not the case in my experience. A loooot of sour grapes/shoulder chips in that part of Medford/Somerville...

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason Tufts is ranked lower is because they didn't report the top 10% of incoming class ranking number at USNWR. Had they done so, and it were in the historical range, it would have fallen in the top 25.

I have NO affiliation with Tufts, but people are being ridiculously harsh on it in this forum. I personally see it as on par with Emory/WashU/Rice tier.

They reported it this year.