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[quote=Anonymous]Okay gang.   I will say this:  this Tufts thread strikes me as the among the uglier and least informed threads that i have read. Odd.

Let me begin by credentializing myself. I went to Tufts. Wife went to tufts.  She went to Tufts grad school My two best friends went to Tufts.  So did their wives.  My brother and sister both went to Tufts and so did their spouses.  Okay?  So an informed point of view:

Reality:

1. It’s a beautiful campus on a hill that overlooks Boston.  The subway (called the T) now stops at the Unviersity gates and is a 30 minute ride into Boston…closer to Cambridge.

2.  Comparisons to American are off.  The comps for Tufts have always been Emory, Wesleyan, Tulane, Wash U, Middlebury.  A notch higher than Vassar.  As a rankings matter it feels like it has sort of tread water where it was vs 20 years ago whereas its previous peers (like Vandy and NW) have surged ahead.   When I attended Tufts, Northeastern was literally a place where you could witness drunken brawls in pools of vomit on the Boylston sidewalk on a nightly basis.  NEU something else now but I’m punting on that topic.

3. The reference to “greasy” preprofessionals was seemingly written by an unpleasant human being.  A lot of people emerge from the immigrant experience as “greasy professionals” because hard work and grit allow them to rise in a more meritocratic measure than other fields.  Perhaps that poster is landed gentry! If so,.good for him/her.  Tufts is unequivocally pre-professional.  It doesn’t pump into consulting or banking or tech.  It pumps into law school, medical school, dental school, veterinarian school.  Tufts gets plenty of respect at all those places.  Engineering is now more than 50% female, interestingly, it was probably 10% at best that not too long ago

4.  So yes while its liberal arts the undergraduate experience for most is heavily weighted towards the professions.  And on the pre med side that is heavily Jewish, Asian and Indian. The IR gang (which is strong) is more of the government minded folks and ultimately ends up at law school or government service.  And then law school.

5. Tufts has always been idiotically and painfully woke.  So much of what happens on campus is utterly painful and cringey.  I guess not that different from Yale banning offensive Halloween outfits but still deeply annoying.

6. Tufts has always been a school chock full of Brown rejects.  They have engineered around that by heavily favoring EDs.  In the past 3 years (and i know this because they just did some teach in for alums) the applicant pool has increased a full 50% and acceptance rates have dropped accordingly.

Thems my thoughts [/quote]

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