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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are there 11 pages of discussion about Tufts? It's a middling school outside of Boston. Probably 3rd or 4th most prestigious institution in the Boston area. No more, no less. Let's close the thread now.[/quote]

NP.  3 to 4 in Boston is hardly "middling".  [b]1 to 2 any place else[/b][/quote]

???

Uh... not in Boston, or NYC, or SF, or Chicago, or La, or Houston, or DC...[/quote]

Tufts certainly would be in top 2 in DC, NYC, LA and Houston- in Chicago I’d call it a tie for 2nd. So Boston and SF are the only cities and in both cases the 2 beating out Tufts would also beat out no.1 in most of the cities you named. [/quote]l

On the other hand, I think you can make the case that the admissions process for schools like Cornell on up to MIT is now so competitive and unpredictable that it probably favors kids who are dishonest or crazy, or supported by parents who are dishonest or crazy.

If that’s true, it could be that, after adjusting for parental wealth and investment in kid, typical graduates of schools like Tufts, the University of Rochester and non-UC state flagships, who are bright kids who’ve read a lot of books and played a lot of Minecraft, will get more out of those schools than the kids with 1600 on the SATs, 12 5’s on AP tests, a state championship in lacrosse, a tutoring company, a nonprofit that’s raised $50,000 for disadvantaged children in Haiti and a damaging relationship with an overly powerful recommender will get out of the top- tier schools.

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