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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a very liberal school with vocal population of activist students. It used to have a sizable Jewish population (north of 20%) and was a good alternative for kids who were also looking at Brandeis. That has probably changed. Boston weather can be terrible if you are not from the NE, but the area is considered to be a desirable place attend college. Since they have won some DIII championships recently. So, you might see a slight uptick in school spirit. It has a number of cultural housing options and centers for different affinity groups.  It has a decent engineering program and lots of kids major in international relations and study abroad. The campus is ok and people seem to get excited about things like dance groups, theater or acapella. It is very expensive but poor people can probably get 100% need-based aid. [b]Not a great school for UMC kids who don’t have stats for lots of merit-based scholarship money[/b]. They might end up with a lot of student debt. The endowment used to be terrible. Something like only $160m in 1990. It’s around 1.9 billion now, but for comparison Notre Dame’s is 12bn, Emory’s is like 7 billion, Williams and Amherst are around 2.5 bn. More often you see people doing well or even really but not really elite or at the top of their field (law firm partner but not superstar), musician but not rockstar, key adviser to well-known politicians, but not the politician, very good doctor but not world renowned surgeon, accomplished author but not NY times best seller, Olympian but not a medal winner etc.[/quote]

Tufts does NOT provide merit aid. "[i]Financial aid for undergraduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences and School of Engineering is awarded entirely based on financial need[/i]."

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