Tufts - questions (ranking, low acceptance rate, comparable schools - why?)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts would have been a near peer of WashU, Vandy, Emory 10-15 years ago. Not today.

The school on this list that doesn’t belong is Vandy. The other three are peer schools.

They are not no matter how you slice or dice it. Vandy WashU Emory are peer schools. Tufts is peers with BC UNC Georgia tech.

Vanderbilt, WashU, Emory, GA Tech, and UNC are all in trash states.

Yuck.

TN and MO are trash states (and I admit that even as a native to one of those states 🤣) but GA and NC aren’t nearly as bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts would have been a near peer of WashU, Vandy, Emory 10-15 years ago. Not today.

The school on this list that doesn’t belong is Vandy. The other three are peer schools.

They are not no matter how you slice or dice it. Vandy WashU Emory are peer schools. Tufts is peers with BC UNC Georgia tech.

Vanderbilt, WashU, Emory, GA Tech, and UNC are all in trash states.

Yuck.

TN and MO are trash states (and I admit that even as a native to one of those states 🤣) but GA and NC aren’t nearly as bad.

Marginally less trash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts and Georgia Tech are peer schools? What insanity. Tufts is peers with Emory, WashU. Size, applicant pool.

UNC is not a peer to Tufts. Tufts SAT 25% is almost 1500. UNC's 25% is 1370. UNC has more freshmen scoring lower than 1370 than Tufts has freshmen.

SAT scores are not what makes peers its the schools reputation. Northeastern has high scores it's not on these other schools levels.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
This is where you find Tufts peers.

Of course SAT's can be used to gauge peers. The research is unequivocal- SAT's are correlated directly to student outcomes. Tufts has one of the highest SAT averages of any school. Tufts, Emory, WashU are peers because the same quality of student attends each school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and Georgia Tech are peer schools? What insanity. Tufts is peers with Emory, WashU. Size, applicant pool.

UNC is not a peer to Tufts. Tufts SAT 25% is almost 1500. UNC's 25% is 1370. UNC has more freshmen scoring lower than 1370 than Tufts has freshmen.

SAT scores are not what makes peers its the schools reputation. Northeastern has high scores it's not on these other schools levels.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
This is where you find Tufts peers.

What reputation?
Reputation among students is what matters the most. Schools with high reputation will have high demand among high stat kids.

Only 2 T25s choose Tufts as a peer as opposed to 9 for Emory, 10 for Vanderbilt, and 11 for WashU

What students think actually matters much much more than what school admins think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and Georgia Tech are peer schools? What insanity. Tufts is peers with Emory, WashU. Size, applicant pool.

UNC is not a peer to Tufts. Tufts SAT 25% is almost 1500. UNC's 25% is 1370. UNC has more freshmen scoring lower than 1370 than Tufts has freshmen.

SAT scores are not what makes peers its the schools reputation. Northeastern has high scores it's not on these other schools levels.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
This is where you find Tufts peers.

What reputation?
Reputation among students is what matters the most. Schools with high reputation will have high demand among high stat kids.

Only 2 T25s choose Tufts as a peer as opposed to 9 for Emory, 10 for Vanderbilt, and 11 for WashU

What students think actually matters much much more than what school admins think.

Students don't think Tufts is peers with the other three

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and Georgia Tech are peer schools? What insanity. Tufts is peers with Emory, WashU. Size, applicant pool.

UNC is not a peer to Tufts. Tufts SAT 25% is almost 1500. UNC's 25% is 1370. UNC has more freshmen scoring lower than 1370 than Tufts has freshmen.

SAT scores are not what makes peers its the schools reputation. Northeastern has high scores it's not on these other schools levels.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
This is where you find Tufts peers.

What reputation?
Reputation among students is what matters the most. Schools with high reputation will have high demand among high stat kids.

Only 2 T25s choose Tufts as a peer as opposed to 9 for Emory, 10 for Vanderbilt, and 11 for WashU

What students think actually matters much much more than what school admins think.

Students don't think Tufts is peers with the other three

Students actually act(apply and attend) upon it and we have actual reliable data unlike bullshit from school admins

[Anonymous]

Tufts grad don't make as much as Emory, Vandy, WashU.
A reminder that Tufts is in Boston and feeds in New York durle to proximity. While Emory Vandy feed into Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin and Houston at best. WashU feeds into Chicago.
Tufts- $74k
Emory-$82k
Vanderbilt- $84k
WashU- $91k
Also Tufts, Vandy, and WashU, have engineering while Emory does not.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&search=Washington%20University%20in%20St%20Louis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tufts grad don't make as much as Emory, Vandy, WashU.
A reminder that Tufts is in Boston and feeds in New York durle to proximity. While Emory Vandy feed into Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin and Houston at best. WashU feeds into Chicago.
Tufts- $74k
Emory-$82k
Vanderbilt- $84k
WashU- $91k
Also Tufts, Vandy, and WashU, have engineering while Emory does not.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&search=Washington%20University%20in%20St%20Louis

BC- $96K
NU- $89K

Selectivity is similar, all the major metrics are similar, outcome is similar compared to the Boston schools.
(except Tufts is relatively weaker on outcome)

Prestige factor kicks in probably for Vanderbilt, but not much for WashU, and almost none for Emory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts grad don't make as much as Emory, Vandy, WashU.
A reminder that Tufts is in Boston and feeds in New York durle to proximity. While Emory Vandy feed into Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin and Houston at best. WashU feeds into Chicago.
Tufts- $74k
Emory-$82k
Vanderbilt- $84k
WashU- $91k
Also Tufts, Vandy, and WashU, have engineering while Emory does not.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&search=Washington%20University%20in%20St%20Louis

BC- $96K
NU- $89K

Selectivity is similar, all the major metrics are similar, outcome is similar compared to the Boston schools.
(except Tufts is relatively weaker on outcome)

Prestige factor kicks in probably for Vanderbilt, but not much for WashU, and almost none for Emory.

More Tufts grads go into education, nonprofit work, and public service- hence the lower salaries. This does not speak to the quality of the education or the prestige of the school but the interests of the students….not everyone wants to go to Wall Street or McKinsey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and Georgia Tech are peer schools? What insanity. Tufts is peers with Emory, WashU. Size, applicant pool.

UNC is not a peer to Tufts. Tufts SAT 25% is almost 1500. UNC's 25% is 1370. UNC has more freshmen scoring lower than 1370 than Tufts has freshmen.

SAT scores are not what makes peers its the schools reputation. Northeastern has high scores it's not on these other schools levels.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
This is where you find Tufts peers.

What reputation?
Reputation among students is what matters the most. Schools with high reputation will have high demand among high stat kids.

Only 2 T25s choose Tufts as a peer as opposed to 9 for Emory, 10 for Vanderbilt, and 11 for WashU

What students think actually matters much much more than what school admins think.

Students don't think Tufts is peers with the other three

Yes they do, but there is one misguided parent here who doesn’t and has a lot of time to invest in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate location being in the same state as Harvard and MIT. So comparably, it's not seen with the same fervor.

What does this have to do with anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts grad don't make as much as Emory, Vandy, WashU.
A reminder that Tufts is in Boston and feeds in New York durle to proximity. While Emory Vandy feed into Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin and Houston at best. WashU feeds into Chicago.
Tufts- $74k
Emory-$82k
Vanderbilt- $84k
WashU- $91k
Also Tufts, Vandy, and WashU, have engineering while Emory does not.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&search=Washington%20University%20in%20St%20Louis

BC- $96K
NU- $89K

Selectivity is similar, all the major metrics are similar, outcome is similar compared to the Boston schools.
(except Tufts is relatively weaker on outcome)

Prestige factor kicks in probably for Vanderbilt, but not much for WashU, and almost none for Emory.

More Tufts grads go into education, nonprofit work, and public service- hence the lower salaries. This does not speak to the quality of the education or the prestige of the school but the interests of the students….not everyone wants to go to Wall Street or McKinsey.

+1 Art is big at Tufts too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts grad don't make as much as Emory, Vandy, WashU.
A reminder that Tufts is in Boston and feeds in New York durle to proximity. While Emory Vandy feed into Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin and Houston at best. WashU feeds into Chicago.
Tufts- $74k
Emory-$82k
Vanderbilt- $84k
WashU- $91k
Also Tufts, Vandy, and WashU, have engineering while Emory does not.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&search=Washington%20University%20in%20St%20Louis

BC- $96K
NU- $89K

Selectivity is similar, all the major metrics are similar, outcome is similar compared to the Boston schools.
(except Tufts is relatively weaker on outcome)

Prestige factor kicks in probably for Vanderbilt, but not much for WashU, and almost none for Emory.

More Tufts grads go into education, nonprofit work, and public service- hence the lower salaries. This does not speak to the quality of the education or the prestige of the school but the interests of the students….not everyone wants to go to Wall Street or McKinsey.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts grad don't make as much as Emory, Vandy, WashU.
A reminder that Tufts is in Boston and feeds in New York durle to proximity. While Emory Vandy feed into Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin and Houston at best. WashU feeds into Chicago.
Tufts- $74k
Emory-$82k
Vanderbilt- $84k
WashU- $91k
Also Tufts, Vandy, and WashU, have engineering while Emory does not.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&search=Washington%20University%20in%20St%20Louis

BC- $96K
NU- $89K

Selectivity is similar, all the major metrics are similar, outcome is similar compared to the Boston schools.
(except Tufts is relatively weaker on outcome)

Prestige factor kicks in probably for Vanderbilt, but not much for WashU, and almost none for Emory.

If this makes you feel better. Emory and WashU are ranked higher, have peer schools that CHOOSE them as peers that are more reputable, their grads have higher incomes etc. And all you have to argue about is SAT scores. It's quite pathetic and there's not any more proof I can provide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and Georgia Tech are peer schools? What insanity. Tufts is peers with Emory, WashU. Size, applicant pool.

UNC is not a peer to Tufts. Tufts SAT 25% is almost 1500. UNC's 25% is 1370. UNC has more freshmen scoring lower than 1370 than Tufts has freshmen.

SAT scores are not what makes peers its the schools reputation. Northeastern has high scores it's not on these other schools levels.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
This is where you find Tufts peers.

What reputation?
Reputation among students is what matters the most. Schools with high reputation will have high demand among high stat kids.

Only 2 T25s choose Tufts as a peer as opposed to 9 for Emory, 10 for Vanderbilt, and 11 for WashU

What students think actually matters much much more than what school admins think.

Students don't think Tufts is peers with the other three

Yes they do, but there is one misguided parent here who doesn’t and has a lot of time to invest in this thread.

Students are DCs private certainly think Tufts is inferior to Washu , Emory etc. You could always test your theory out on A2C reddit where all the kids applying are. I'll tell you know they wouldn't put Tufts in that category.