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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure what to make of it. In the 70s it almost went bankrupt. Now it seems more like a liberal arts undergrad school with a university title due to its med schools and such.

It’s decently ranked, but not that high.

It seems like a fine enough school, but what is the real attraction if you aren’t pre-med? It’s near Boston but not in it. It’s an okay campus but not great.

My sister wants her DD to apply there to be relatively close to home. But it just seems like the kind of place where there is no there there. I’d like to help sell it to my niece but am hard-pressed. She is a quiet hardworking kid but not Ivy or MIT level. I just don’t get Tufts though to even try to sell it to her.

If you went there, did you like it? What was the draw? [/quote]

Unless your niece has a Nobel Prize, she won’t really get to CHOOSE a school like Tufts; the school will choose to bestow admission on her as an act of grace.

Assuming she has decent stats (over 1500 on the SATs; 3.8 unweighted GPA, with a lot of APs; finishing with at least Calculus AB for humanities and social sciences, and at least Calculus BC for math; and either at least 1550 on the SATs or else impressive activities), then she could consider applying to
Wash. U., Tufts, Rice, the University of Rochester, NYU and Emory, and maybe she’ll get into one or two, especially if she’s applying for social sciences or the humanities.

If she likes those kinds of serious, midsize schools, then she could put schools like Case Western and Brandeis in a second tier of applications.

For most non-poor white or Asian kids who don’t have family ties to super selective schools, who don’t have the support of prep school guidance counselors, and who haven’t been in the newspaper or on the radio for some accomplishment, applying to any schools more selective than those is like buying a lottery ticket. The appeal of a Tufts, relative to Harvard, is that the education is comparable, and it’s possible to go to Tufts. It’s not possible to go to
Harvard.

The simple solution is to aim for solid, slightly less selective stats flagships, like the University of Wisconsin or UVA, but that might seem like a disappointing strategy for kids who hate drinking, hate football and basketball, and want to be around a geekier bunch of kids.
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