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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tufts's peers are New York University, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Florida, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University. If you think those schools are only a little step below the Ivy League, well... OK then, have at it.[/quote]

Honest question. How many kids who applied to the University of Florida or Santa Barbara apply to Tufts or even visit and vice versa? These  rankings create really odd “peer” groupings…[/quote]

If you’re thinking more vibe-wise, Tufts is probably peers with schools like Denison, Skidmore, U of Rochester, BC, W&M, Brandeis and Tulane. I’d also throw in UNC and Wake Forest from the previous list. And many kids probably do apply to both NYU and Tufts.[/quote]

Brandeis, UNC, Tulane, Denison, Tufts and Wake Forest have the same vibe?

Maybe some kinds of classes are similar, but, in my opinion:

- Tulane has big-time basketball, hurricanes, and students who’ve made existential choices about drinking.

- Tufts and Brandeis are hyper-serious humanities-oriented schools near Boston. But Tufts has a whiff of old-time WASP flavor, and Brandeis has a secular Jewish flavor.

- UNC is a serious school with serious sports and deep roots in North Carolina. But it’s as deeply, mournfully Old South as you can get. Some of the alumni must have died in battle with alumni from Tufts.

- I’ve never been anywhere near Wake Forest, but it sounds like it must be a sober, moderate, business-like place with a much different, less conflicted relationship with the Old South than Tulane or UNC.

- All I really know about Denison is that it’s been spamming high school kids for at least 40 years. But, however lovely Columbus, Ohio, might be, I don’t see how a school 25 minutes from Columbus can have anything like the same vibe as Brandeis or Tufts.[/quote]

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