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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slightly overrated due to its NE location. [/quote]

Huh? I'd argue it's totally overshadowed by its neighbours Harvard and MIT[/quote]
It is certainly, but it's location helps it a ton. Replace Tufts with Vandy, Emory, Wash and Lee, WashU, UVA even location wise and it wouldn't be top 50. Tufts only has 2 top 20 programs (I just checked) Vet medicine and occupational therapy. [b]It's ranked in the top 30 because it's so selective, and it's so selective because of where it is,[/b]a feeder for NE prep school students. [/quote]

I don’t know anything about Tufts, but location always affects a school’s appeal, and therefore its selectivity, doesn’t it?  I went to Stanford, which I chose largely because of the location.  [/quote]

Yes, you're right but that's the point. There are schools in much less socially desirable places that are ranked much higher. Emory is in Atlanta, Rice is in Houston, Vanderbilt in NASHVILLE?!, Notre Dame in South Bend etc. If Tufts was in Alabama or Georgia instead in Massachusetts, the wealthy NE'ers would not flock to it. Tufts doesn't have to work as hard or be as academically or socially renowned as the other schools to get top students. [/quote]

Tufts can attract a high performing cohort of students in part due to its location therefore it “doesn’t try as hard” and is overrated doesn’t compute to me. [/quote]
I don't see what is hard to understand. Tufts has an advantage in the admissions process to get highly prepped and qualified students because of where it is. However, it cant beat schools who don't have that advantage. [/quote]

If you are saying that if Tufts and W&L were both in BFE then W&L would be ranked higher than Tufts then I would disagree but also I would say it’s a completely useless point because schools are where they are. Carleton would be different if it wasn’t in MN. Eckerd would be different if it wasn’t in FL. What’s the point of comparing where a school is to where it might be?[/quote]

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