what did I miss at Tufts?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like DC

[Anonymous]

I live in Boston. Can't speak to tufts, but I know students from BU and they have horrible issues with their housing, mice and rats.

I'm surprised about cockroaches. I've lived here over a decade and never seen one. Have seen plenty of other pests.

[Anonymous]

Maybe we can stay on topic and answer what OP is asking.

[Anonymous]

I lived in Cambridge for over a decade. Tufts has a lot of very interesting academic approaches--interdisciplinary, experiential--and really strong students. Location is great. Maybe you hit an off day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we can stay on topic and answer what OP is asking.

I visited Tufts last year with my DD...though it's not especially pretty, I think it has a lot going for it (location, size, academics). However, DD wrote it off as being too "remote", preferring the city schools. To be honest, I think there's some "group think" going on with the kids around here about wanting to be IN a city (not just near a city). I don't think they realize that being in a city as a college student is not like visiting a city for a few days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we can stay on topic and answer what OP is asking.

I visited Tufts last year with my DD...though it's not especially pretty, I think it has a lot going for it (location, size, academics). However, DD wrote it off as being too "remote", preferring the city schools. To be honest, I think there's some "group think" going on with the kids around here about wanting to be IN a city (not just near a city). I don't think they realize that being in a city as a college student is not like visiting a city for a few days.

Same. I made my daughter apply at th least minute. After visiting she was underwhelmed, but she really likes the idea of going to school in Boston so I made her apply. Anxious for the result!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we can stay on topic and answer what OP is asking.

I visited Tufts last year with my DD...though it's not especially pretty, I think it has a lot going for it (location, size, academics). However, DD wrote it off as being too "remote", preferring the city schools. To be honest, I think there's some "group think" going on with the kids around here about wanting to be IN a city (not just near a city). I don't think they realize that being in a city as a college student is not like visiting a city for a few days.

Same. I made my daughter apply at th least minute. After visiting she was underwhelmed, but she really likes the idea of going to school in Boston so I made her apply. Anxious for the result!

Lol my kid goes to HS in DC- and lived I. A very urban neighborhood. Likes the more remote/nature schools.

[Anonymous]

^lives in a

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Boston. Can't speak to tufts, but I know students from BU and they have horrible issues with their housing, mice and rats.

I'm surprised about cockroaches. I've lived here over a decade and never seen one. Have seen plenty of other pests.

Haven't heard of such issues.

BU is in the city but not in the hood.

[Anonymous]

Tufts desperately needs that ED2 round to remain selective. (Truthfully I side-eye all the schools that do ED2 - I think it drastically skews admit rates and hurts many students).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Boston. Can't speak to tufts, but I know students from BU and they have horrible issues with their housing, mice and rats.

I'm surprised about cockroaches. I've lived here over a decade and never seen one. Have seen plenty of other pests.

Haven't heard of such issues.

BU is in the city but not in the hood.

Ask anyone who has lived in Boston over the last decade about the rat problem. It is very real. BU and Northeastern are both in perfectly fine parts of the city but the rats are everywhere. I was there over the summer and they were in the most sought-after neighborhoods (e.g., Back Bay, Beacon Hill, South End)....I love Boston and lived there for several years but it has a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hilarious that everyone is talking about the roaches at Tufts but nobody seems bothered by the (very real) rat problem that is all over the city of Boston…and will certainly be encountered by your kid if they go to BU or BY.

Rats are all over DC too. My kid goes to Tufts. Hasn’t complained about roaches and even lived on the ground floor.

To those kids who like BC but not Tufts—they are very different campuses. BC is a Catholic University in Newton, a suburb of Boston. BC is in a neighborhood more like AU (not near Tenley) and Tufts is in Somerville and Medford with a new T stop and close to Cambridge and Davis Square. They are different types of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilarious that everyone is talking about the roaches at Tufts but nobody seems bothered by the (very real) rat problem that is all over the city of Boston…and will certainly be encountered by your kid if they go to BU or BY.

Rats are all over DC too. My kid goes to Tufts. Hasn’t complained about roaches and even lived on the ground floor.

To those kids who like BC but not Tufts—they are very different campuses. BC is a Catholic University in Newton, a suburb of Boston. BC is in a neighborhood more like AU (not near Tenley) and Tufts is in Somerville and Medford with a new T stop and close to Cambridge and Davis Square. They are different types of schools.

How does your DC like Tufts? Was it their first choice?

[Anonymous]

It was a nobody-even-wanted-to-get-out-of-the-car school for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tufts desperately needs that ED2 round to remain selective. (Truthfully I side-eye all the schools that do ED2 - I think it drastically skews admit rates and hurts many students).

Yep. Me too.