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[quote=Anonymous]Harvard and MIT are just down the road.

It was never a fashionable college in the heyday of WASP colleges so it was also never an Amherst or Williams or Bowdoin. And for a Boston college it doesn't have the charming campus of BC or Wellesley, or the urban vibes of BU.

The pecking order of college prestige has been set in stone for a [i]long[/i] time and it's hard to overcome that.

One could argue Tufts is better than it should be because of its location. In another city it'd be another Case Western. Perfectly fine. But takes advantage of geographic proximity to Boston to build up a reputation as as second (third?) choice college for the kids with great scores and grades who didn't make the cut to their first (and second) options. That's a big demographic looking for the expensive private college experience on the east coast/New England and Tufts fits the spot when nothing else is available.

Ok, maybe I am being harsh here. Tufts is a perfectly fine school. [/quote]

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