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Asking genuinely:
What if the school is ranked high for the student's choice of major but not as high overall? Like, does Purdue make the cut, but only for engineering? Or NYU/USC for business or film? Just curious how you'd suss this out. |
| wait nvm you meant schools that don't offer merit. Ignore me, thanks! |
Interestingly, people have different tastes and often chase what makes them happy. For some that's on the edge of a vibrant city like Boston or in the heart of Philadelphia while for others its a State U in a small town surrounded by mid-American farmland focused primarily on the 50,000 college-age kids that keep the town alive. I visited friends at UVa and Tech many times and found it depressing each time. They loved it, though, so good for them! I have no trouble understanding that they chased what they found interesting and engaging which can be the same environment I would've found isolating. |
PP here. Why do you think this? I don't this this is true. I think Tufts is a desirable target school for lots of private school and top public school kids - the same if not higher than Emory, Georgetown and WashU. Here is evidence that supports this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1c6j73v/where_the_elite_study_the_t30_for_selective_prep/ |
Where the Elite Study- The Top 30 colleges for Selective Prep Schools 1 Chicago 2 NYU 3 Georgetown 4 Harvard 5 Cornell 6 Brown 7 Yale 8 Penn 9 Columbia 10 Tufts 11 WashU 12 Stanford 13 USC 14 Princeton 15 BC 16 Michigan 17 Dartmouth 18 Northwestern 19 Duke 20 Tulane 21 Northeastern 22 Virginia 23 BostonU 24 Wesleyan 25 St Andrews (UK) 26 Bowdoin 27 SMU 28 Middlebury 29 Wake Forest 30 UC Berkeley The only public schools on the list Michigan, UVA and Berkeley. |
NYU has distinctive humanities and social sciences, with a transnational emphasis. It appealed to my DS, but others may not relate to it. My belief is that an applicant should understand the program before applying to a school. |
+1 There are lots of smaller schools that offer merit. Go ahead and spend $400K for Tufts. Some of us are just trying to explain why we don't feel that it's significantly better than other schools that are significantly less expensive. And it sure ain't Harvard despite costing just as much. |
If my kid wants to go to Wall Street, then I'd pay for NYU. But not for a major that NYU doesn't give a significant advantage for. |
Exactly! My kids didn't want to be that Isolated. They would have survived, but there are many better choices for them. |
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At some point this all starts sounding like a variant of the McMansion in the suburbs vs smaller rowhouse in the city debate.
There will never be a correct answer (except my own). |
100% NYU has some top programs, like Stern |
The easiest way to tell prestige is rankings and on campus recruitment. We already know Georgetown, Emory, and WashU are ranked much higher than Tufts. But looking at on campus recruiting events Georgetown, Emory, WashU are also much better. Especially Emory and Georgetown. https://cpd.emory.edu/events/ Emory- JP Morgan, Centerview Partners, New York Fed, Black Stone, Jeffries all for fall. Washu- https://careers.washu.edu/events/ M&T, Microsoft, Capital One, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard Tufts https://careers.tufts.edu/resources/career-center-events/ Bain and Co, BCG thats all listed as far as prestigious companies Georgetown- cannot find |
+1, I feel most Tufts grads have to go to grad school to have similar outcomes. Or use nepotism. |
+1 If I'm paying north of $90K, then there had better be some amazing recruiting results. Otherwise what am I paying for? |
Tufts is only worth it if you are going to stay in the Northeast. |