Tufts - what is the atmosphere like?

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is fine if you can’t get in higher ranking schools but need a prestigious school to go to and have means to pay for it. If you are a good student and working hard in a good major, Tufts will get you where you want to go like any other college would including your local state school. However, student body is quite affluent so you make a better network than state school and location is close to Harvard, MIT and good professional schools so you can socialize and date in a better pool.

Tufts is not prestigious though. Most people around the country are not familiar with it, or if they are, would not consider it a particularly prestigious school.

Wendy Williams does. She mentioned Tufts on her talk show before. Either way Tufts is a top 30 staple and will likely never be ranked lower than 35 so it's a top school. Every school can't be top 20ish.

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Would you rank Tufts over Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is fine if you can’t get in higher ranking schools but need a prestigious school to go to and have means to pay for it. If you are a good student and working hard in a good major, Tufts will get you where you want to go like any other college would including your local state school. However, student body is quite affluent so you make a better network than state school and location is close to Harvard, MIT and good professional schools so you can socialize and date in a better pool.

Tufts is not prestigious though. Most people around the country are not familiar with it, or if they are, would not consider it a particularly prestigious school.

Wendy Williams does. She mentioned Tufts on her talk show before. Either way Tufts is a top 30 staple and will likely never be ranked lower than 35 so it's a top school. Every school can't be top 20ish.

...Wendy Williams? Really? That's your parameter for prestige...?

And your last sentence sums it up perfectly. Not ever school can be top 20. Not every school can be prestigious, and that's OK.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS graduated with a music degree from Tufts in 2019 and he is still working odd jobs. He wasted 300K of my money on having fun at Tufts. YMMV.

You let him major in music, from Tufts no less, not Julliard,,... so....

I thought it's all about following your passion and enjoying

sure... if failure to launch is also permissible in your house, definitely 'follow your passion'.

Following passion isn’t the reason of failure to launch, if you are good at what you are passionate about and have a good personality, you are bound to do well. However in high demand STEM fields, it’s possible to do reasonably well even for mediocre students with dull personality.

Should have majored in STEM and minored in music.
I adviced and guided my kid to double major in STEM and Art.
The kid loves art and is also pretty smart.

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DS finished first semester and cannot wait to get back there to start second semester. He loves it there! He did not ED anywhere because he didn’t feel strongly about any one place and wanted to just see what options he had through RD.

It came down to Emory, U Chicago and Tufts. In the end he felt Emory students seemed a little too pre-professional focused; his impression of U Chicago kids were that they weren’t very happy; and although he wishes the campus were right in Boston, Tufts seemed like a better fit in terms of it feeling more like a liberal arts school and to him the students came off as collaborative and generally enthusiastic and satisfied.

He has made some really nice friends, many of whom share his interest in the outdoors. The apple fell very far from the tree because he loves hiking, camping, fishing and all that stuff that involves bugs and dirt that I hide from in hotel rooms 😂 He is very excited for the new T stop to open so he can get into Boston easily. He said lots of kids don’t care about going into the city but he has some international student friends and they love to explore.

No school is perfect and he has his pet peeves, but he is so happy in general! That’s all I care about. Not the ranking, or whether person X or Y thinks it’s prestigious. We were in New Mexico for the holidays and there were there some people who hadn’t even heard of it. These are probably the same people who think Wash U is in Washington state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is fine if you can’t get in higher ranking schools but need a prestigious school to go to and have means to pay for it. If you are a good student and working hard in a good major, Tufts will get you where you want to go like any other college would including your local state school. However, student body is quite affluent so you make a better network than state school and location is close to Harvard, MIT and good professional schools so you can socialize and date in a better pool.

Tufts is not prestigious though. Most people around the country are not familiar with it, or if they are, would not consider it a particularly prestigious school.

Wendy Williams does. She mentioned Tufts on her talk show before. Either way Tufts is a top 30 staple and will likely never be ranked lower than 35 so it's a top school. Every school can't be top 20ish.

Wendy Williams? Seriously!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is fine if you can’t get in higher ranking schools but need a prestigious school to go to and have means to pay for it. If you are a good student and working hard in a good major, Tufts will get you where you want to go like any other college would including your local state school. However, student body is quite affluent so you make a better network than state school and location is close to Harvard, MIT and good professional schools so you can socialize and date in a better pool.

Tufts is not prestigious though. Most people around the country are not familiar with it, or if they are, would not consider it a particularly prestigious school.

Wendy Williams does. She mentioned Tufts on her talk show before. Either way Tufts is a top 30 staple and will likely never be ranked lower than 35 so it's a top school. Every school can't be top 20ish.

Wendy Williams? Seriously!

Hahahaha seriously. Silly Tufts boosters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS finished first semester and cannot wait to get back there to start second semester. He loves it there! He did not ED anywhere because he didn’t feel strongly about any one place and wanted to just see what options he had through RD.

It came down to Emory, U Chicago and Tufts. In the end he felt Emory students seemed a little too pre-professional focused; his impression of U Chicago kids were that they weren’t very happy; and although he wishes the campus were right in Boston, Tufts seemed like a better fit in terms of it feeling more like a liberal arts school and to him the students came off as collaborative and generally enthusiastic and satisfied.

He has made some really nice friends, many of whom share his interest in the outdoors. The apple fell very far from the tree because he loves hiking, camping, fishing and all that stuff that involves bugs and dirt that I hide from in hotel rooms 😂 He is very excited for the new T stop to open so he can get into Boston easily. He said lots of kids don’t care about going into the city but he has some international student friends and they love to explore.

No school is perfect and he has his pet peeves, but he is so happy in general! That’s all I care about. Not the ranking, or whether person X or Y thinks it’s prestigious. We were in New Mexico for the holidays and there were there some people who hadn’t even heard of it. These are probably the same people who think Wash U is in Washington state.

LOVE this post! Now this is someone who is actually connected with the university. All that muck above about prestige and rankings and Wendy Williams has to be an exchange between people who have no actual experience with Tufts. It has long been know exceptionally talented yet quirky and down to earth students choose Tufts. Those same students have little interest in the other well ranked schools with better name recognition. Is this every Tufts student, no. However it is the vast majority of them. All the Tufts dissing comes from those who really know so little about the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is fine if you can’t get in higher ranking schools but need a prestigious school to go to and have means to pay for it. If you are a good student and working hard in a good major, Tufts will get you where you want to go like any other college would including your local state school. However, student body is quite affluent so you make a better network than state school and location is close to Harvard, MIT and good professional schools so you can socialize and date in a better pool.

Tufts is not prestigious though. Most people around the country are not familiar with it, or if they are, would not consider it a particularly prestigious school.

Wendy Williams does. She mentioned Tufts on her talk show before. Either way Tufts is a top 30 staple and will likely never be ranked lower than 35 so it's a top school. Every school can't be top 20ish.

Wendy Williams? Seriously!

Pp is acting like no one important knows Tufts, I'm saying that not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS finished first semester and cannot wait to get back there to start second semester. He loves it there! He did not ED anywhere because he didn’t feel strongly about any one place and wanted to just see what options he had through RD.

It came down to Emory, U Chicago and Tufts. In the end he felt Emory students seemed a little too pre-professional focused; his impression of U Chicago kids were that they weren’t very happy; and although he wishes the campus were right in Boston, Tufts seemed like a better fit in terms of it feeling more like a liberal arts school and to him the students came off as collaborative and generally enthusiastic and satisfied.

He has made some really nice friends, many of whom share his interest in the outdoors. The apple fell very far from the tree because he loves hiking, camping, fishing and all that stuff that involves bugs and dirt that I hide from in hotel rooms 😂 He is very excited for the new T stop to open so he can get into Boston easily. He said lots of kids don’t care about going into the city but he has some international student friends and they love to explore.

No school is perfect and he has his pet peeves, but he is so happy in general! That’s all I care about. Not the ranking, or whether person X or Y thinks it’s prestigious. We were in New Mexico for the holidays and there were there some people who hadn’t even heard of it. These are probably the same people who think Wash U is in Washington state.

LOVE this post! Now this is someone who is actually connected with the university. All that muck above about prestige and rankings and Wendy Williams has to be an exchange between people who have no actual experience with Tufts. It has long been know exceptionally talented yet quirky and down to earth students choose Tufts. Those same students have little interest in the other well ranked schools with better name recognition. Is this every Tufts student, no. However it is the vast majority of them. All the Tufts dissing comes from those who really know so little about the school.

This is seriously untrue and such a blatant example of whitewashing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of the sub-top privates, it goes something like Vandy/Rice > WashU/Emory > NYU/USC > Tufts.

No
USC > NYU/Tufts

agree.

Is this a joke? USC students are not as academic minded as Tufts or NYU. Likewise I’d say Tufts students are more academic than NYU although there is asuch a mix of cool talent at NYU which Tufts is lacking. Ask anyone in LA what they think of USC …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of the sub-top privates, it goes something like Vandy/Rice > WashU/Emory > NYU/USC > Tufts.

No
USC > NYU/Tufts

agree.

Is this a joke? USC students are not as academic minded as Tufts or NYU. Likewise I’d say Tufts students are more academic than NYU although there is asuch a mix of cool talent at NYU which Tufts is lacking. Ask anyone in LA what they think of USC …

Isn't USC ranked higher than Tufts? And don't Tufts people live and die by the rankings? It is, after all, a "top 30" school, as they love to remind us...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS finished first semester and cannot wait to get back there to start second semester. He loves it there! He did not ED anywhere because he didn’t feel strongly about any one place and wanted to just see what options he had through RD.

It came down to Emory, U Chicago and Tufts. In the end he felt Emory students seemed a little too pre-professional focused; his impression of U Chicago kids were that they weren’t very happy; and although he wishes the campus were right in Boston, Tufts seemed like a better fit in terms of it feeling more like a liberal arts school and to him the students came off as collaborative and generally enthusiastic and satisfied.

He has made some really nice friends, many of whom share his interest in the outdoors. The apple fell very far from the tree because he loves hiking, camping, fishing and all that stuff that involves bugs and dirt that I hide from in hotel rooms 😂 He is very excited for the new T stop to open so he can get into Boston easily. He said lots of kids don’t care about going into the city but he has some international student friends and they love to explore.

No school is perfect and he has his pet peeves, but he is so happy in general! That’s all I care about. Not the ranking, or whether person X or Y thinks it’s prestigious. We were in New Mexico for the holidays and there were there some people who hadn’t even heard of it. These are probably the same people who think Wash U is in Washington state.

LOVE this post! Now this is someone who is actually connected with the university. All that muck above about prestige and rankings and Wendy Williams has to be an exchange between people who have no actual experience with Tufts. It has long been know exceptionally talented yet quirky and down to earth students choose Tufts. Those same students have little interest in the other well ranked schools with better name recognition. Is this every Tufts student, no. However it is the vast majority of them. All the Tufts dissing comes from those who really know so little about the school.

This is just lying through your teeth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of the sub-top privates, it goes something like Vandy/Rice > WashU/Emory > NYU/USC > Tufts.

No
USC > NYU/Tufts

agree.

Is this a joke? USC students are not as academic minded as Tufts or NYU. Likewise I’d say Tufts students are more academic than NYU although there is asuch a mix of cool talent at NYU which Tufts is lacking. Ask anyone in LA what they think of USC …

Isn't USC ranked higher than Tufts? And don't Tufts people live and die by the rankings? It is, after all, a "top 30" school, as they love to remind us...

I think there's a one spot difference 27 and 28 and Tufts is more selective. And to there other poster, no Tufts is not rated higher than Georgetown.

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This is the kind of thing I associate with Tufts grads. LOL.

https://www.fishbowlapp.com/post/lmao-needing-to-post-about-how-much-emotional-intelligence-you-have-who-are-these-cringe-lords-and-he-went-to-tufts-and