Tufts

[Anonymous]

I have many friends who went to Tufts. They are all intelligent, kind, well read, empathetic, fun — and maybe not the most ambitious or hardworking. They’ve done well for themselves but not rolling in dough. Take from my anecdote what you will, but personally I’ve found it to be pretty consistent among Tufts grads.

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How hard a school is to get into is solely a factor of its acceptance rate. For 2021 Emory’s acceptance rate was 21.4%, Georgetown’s was 11% and Tufts was 14%. Sounds pretty selective…

This isn't true (I have a kid at Tufts so I am certainly not trying to knock it). Tufts takes a large fraction of its students through ED and the acceptance rate for the ED pool is far higher than 14%. They then accept a much, much smaller fraction of students through the RD pool and can still "show" very low acceptance rates overall. See:

https://tuftsdaily.com/features/2018/03/01/early-bird-applicant-trends-early-admissions/

Many other schools do this too.

Some schools have "artificially" lowered their acceptance rates by dropping application fees and supplemental essays, making it cheap and easy to apply, thereby boosting the number of applicants and lowering their acceptance rates.

BTW, the Tufts student newspaper reports the 2021 acceptance rate as 11%. See

https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2021/04/12/tufts-admits-record-low-11-of-undergraduate-applicants/

For an interesting take on schools with very low acceptance rates, see

https://www.highereddatastories.com/2021/04/the-highly-rejective-colleges.html

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone one is disregarding the nieces URM status. If her mom wants her to stay close to home, Tufts may be a more welcoming place for her than some other schools. Niece should visit and draw her own conclusions. She could look at Amherst too.

I don't think people are disregarding. OP waited till third or fourth post three or four pages into the thread to disclose that info. Until then, read as a troll post with someone throwing out potentially inflammatory bait to see the responses.

Agree with one of the PPs who mentioned that Tufts now has an 11% admit rate. Perhaps the school has some drawbacks of being a refuge for Ivy rejects and not being in Boston (though technically neither are Harvard or MIT), but enough seniors are throwing their hat in the ring to render it a highly selective school.

OP, perhaps you can ID a college counselor who may be willing to work with your niece pro bono. She could really benefit from a professional take on a very different college admissions landscape from when many here were in school. Even last year's admits may be the harbinger of a new trend rather than an outlier in terms of admissions.

I don’t think she “waited” to disclose. Her post wasn’t asking for advice as to whether the niece has a chance of getting in. It was about the college and campus itself.

She won't get in without top grades and scores and solid extracurriculars. That's just how it is there now. Tougher than schools like Georgetown, Emory and USC.

Tufts is not harder to get into than Georgetown and Emory. Maybe USC but not the other two. Tufts uses yeild protection and has lower GPAs and class ranks than the Emory and Gtown.

How hard a school is to get into is solely a factor of its acceptance rate. For 2021 Emory’s acceptance rate was 21.4%, Georgetown’s was 11% and Tufts was 14%. Sounds pretty selective…

Emory acceptance rate is 13%.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://emorywheel.com/emory-college-admissions-rate-falls-to-13-after-receiving-record-number-of-applicants/&ved=2ahUKEwjv2YeXtr7xAhVvmmoFHTXnDv8QFjATegQIJBAC&usg=AOvVaw175xLutjl4-Z5n0O-Hti64

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Anonymous wrote:At the Tufts/Emory level, it really doesn't matter. Tufts' SAT scores are slightly higher, acceptance rate a bit lower. Both take kids of the same caliber GPA-wise.

Emory's acceptance rate is 13% for this latest cycle, I think PP got there years mixed up as they accepted a lot of students the year before due to covid. Georgetown and Emory are more selective because of the soft factors needed to get into the school. If your student has good stats and shows interest Tufts will accept them 8/10 times.

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Anonymous wrote:At the Tufts/Emory level, it really doesn't matter. Tufts' SAT scores are slightly higher, acceptance rate a bit lower. Both take kids of the same caliber GPA-wise.

Emory's acceptance rate is 13% for this latest cycle, I think PP got there years mixed up as they accepted a lot of students the year before due to covid. Georgetown and Emory are more selective because of the soft factors needed to get into the school. If your student has good stats and shows interest Tufts will accept them 8/10 times.

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Anonymous wrote:At the Tufts/Emory level, it really doesn't matter. Tufts' SAT scores are slightly higher, acceptance rate a bit lower. Both take kids of the same caliber GPA-wise.

Emory's acceptance rate is 13% for this latest cycle, I think PP got there years mixed up as they accepted a lot of students the year before due to covid. Georgetown and Emory are more selective because of the soft factors needed to get into the school. If your student has good stats and shows interest Tufts will accept them 8/10 times.

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But it's true. On face value Tufts would seem harder to get into than Cornell, but we know that's not true. The soft factors make the other schools harder to get into.

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Anonymous wrote:At the Tufts/Emory level, it really doesn't matter. Tufts' SAT scores are slightly higher, acceptance rate a bit lower. Both take kids of the same caliber GPA-wise.

Emory's acceptance rate is 13% for this latest cycle, I think PP got there years mixed up as they accepted a lot of students the year before due to covid. Georgetown and Emory are more selective because of the soft factors needed to get into the school. If your student has good stats and shows interest Tufts will accept them 8/10 times.

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But it's true. On face value Tufts would seem harder to get into than Cornell, but we know that's not true. The soft factors make the other schools harder to get into.

This post makes me chuckle as my DH & I went to Cornell (which I only went to because I was WL at Tufts) and we loved it. But as hard as we rallied for Cornell our DD chose Tufts. In fact we have several Cornell friends who’s kids chose Tufts. It seems the thought of “centrally isolated” is more than today’s kids can take. I’m sorry they miss out on the incredible Cornell experience, but know they are getting a different and no less exceptional one at Tufts.

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I don't know how Emory or Georgetown got into the conversation but PP is right. They are better schools than Tufts, even with Tufts high stats I'm positive Tufts grads don't do better than Emory and Georgetown grads.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know how Emory or Georgetown got into the conversation but PP is right. They are better schools than Tufts, even with Tufts high stats I'm positive Tufts grads don't do better than Emory and Georgetown grads.

I just don’t know how anyone makes a statement like that

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know how Emory or Georgetown got into the conversation but PP is right. They are better schools than Tufts, even with Tufts high stats I'm positive Tufts grads don't do better than Emory and Georgetown grads.

I just don’t know how anyone makes a statement like that

You’re surprised that a comment on DCUM lacks intelligence or valid insight? You must be new.

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<<You’re surprised that comment on DCUM lacks intelligence or valid insight? You must be new.>>

inane, vague, and unsubstantiated posts are the "coin of the realm" here on DCUM

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know how Emory or Georgetown got into the conversation but PP is right. They are better schools than Tufts, even with Tufts high stats I'm positive Tufts grads don't do better than Emory and Georgetown grads.

This is a ridiculous statement. When it comes to admissions, Georgetown is about equal to Tufts and Emory is much easier. That's from the admissions rates, Naviance and what the college counselors at our school say.

Is Georgetown is a feeder for Catholic schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone one is disregarding the nieces URM status. If her mom wants her to stay close to home, Tufts may be a more welcoming place for her than some other schools. Niece should visit and draw her own conclusions. She could look at Amherst too.

I don't think people are disregarding. OP waited till third or fourth post three or four pages into the thread to disclose that info. Until then, read as a troll post with someone throwing out potentially inflammatory bait to see the responses.

Agree with one of the PPs who mentioned that Tufts now has an 11% admit rate. Perhaps the school has some drawbacks of being a refuge for Ivy rejects and not being in Boston (though technically neither are Harvard or MIT), but enough seniors are throwing their hat in the ring to render it a highly selective school.

OP, perhaps you can ID a college counselor who may be willing to work with your niece pro bono. She could really benefit from a professional take on a very different college admissions landscape from when many here were in school. Even last year's admits may be the harbinger of a new trend rather than an outlier in terms of admissions.

I don’t think she “waited” to disclose. Her post wasn’t asking for advice as to whether the niece has a chance of getting in. It was about the college and campus itself.

her earlier posts were about the college/campus yet still tethered to admissions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

How hard a school is to get into is solely a factor of its acceptance rate. For 2021 Emory’s acceptance rate was 21.4%, Georgetown’s was 11% and Tufts was 14%. Sounds pretty selective…

This isn't true (I have a kid at Tufts so I am certainly not trying to knock it). Tufts takes a large fraction of its students through ED and the acceptance rate for the ED pool is far higher than 14%. They then accept a much, much smaller fraction of students through the RD pool and can still "show" very low acceptance rates overall. See:

https://tuftsdaily.com/features/2018/03/01/early-bird-applicant-trends-early-admissions/

Many other schools do this too.

Some schools have "artificially" lowered their acceptance rates by dropping application fees and supplemental essays, making it cheap and easy to apply, thereby boosting the number of applicants and lowering their acceptance rates.

BTW, the Tufts student newspaper reports the 2021 acceptance rate as 11%. See

https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2021/04/12/tufts-admits-record-low-11-of-undergraduate-applicants/

For an interesting take on schools with very low acceptance rates, see

https://www.highereddatastories.com/2021/04/the-highly-rejective-colleges.html

Great article - read it a few months ago. Think about it every time my DD receives lit from a few schools in this category.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of really wealthy people and international kids who come from money but not a lot of people who seem to make their money after going to Tufts. In terms of the there there…maybe the best way to describe it is to say you don’t really hear about a lot of wildly successful graduates. There some notable names but those seems more like the exception.

I finally had the time to look on Wikipedia, and a couple of the exceptions are pretty exceptional: Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase.

Also (for people wondering, "Is Tufts just for liberals?"): Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas.