Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 13:57     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:Lots of distaste for Catholic schools and schools located in red states. Guess those parents are all for diversity and inclusion but doesn’t expand to certain religions and geographic areas of the country.


I would not recommend Catholic schools for gay kids. I have recently come to realize that there are a lot of Catholic people (in a liberal area!) who are not cool with gay people and they’re not quiet about it.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 13:50     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of distaste for Catholic schools and schools located in red states. Guess those parents are all for diversity and inclusion but doesn’t expand to certain religions and geographic areas of the country.


As a mom of girls, I want my kids to go to a college where they can access birth control from their college health services (unlike at Georgetown and ND) and where they can get proper medical care based on the decisions made by them and their doctors. We are pro-choice Christians. My best friend in high school - the valedictorian - had to have a kid at 20 after a shotgun wedding and that event influences my view that anti-abstinence education does not work. Has nothing to do with "diversity and inclusion."


I want to add - I'm sure the parents of sons on DCUM would not want their sons to become dads at age 20 either.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 13:48     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:Lots of distaste for Catholic schools and schools located in red states. Guess those parents are all for diversity and inclusion but doesn’t expand to certain religions and geographic areas of the country.


As a mom of girls, I want my kids to go to a college where they can access birth control from their college health services (unlike at Georgetown and ND) and where they can get proper medical care based on the decisions made by them and their doctors. We are pro-choice Christians. My best friend in high school - the valedictorian - had to have a kid at 20 after a shotgun wedding and that event influences my view that anti-abstinence education does not work. Has nothing to do with "diversity and inclusion."
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 09:38     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices


So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.


Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.


In my geo area (northern NJ), Tufts is grouped with Emory and Wash U. Tulane/WF might be safeties for the kids aiming for Emory.


PP specifically said, “besides Ivy-plus schools.” WashU and Emory are Ivy-plus. Tulane and WF are great mid-sized research universities that are not Ivy-plus. Tulane is R-1 and Wake is R-2. If PP is interested in medicine or health related subjects, both Tulane and Wake have medical schools. Further, Tulane has an amazing school of public health. Maybe they are a safety for a Tufts applicant, but kids need safeties too. People on here are so smug.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 08:20     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Lots of distaste for Catholic schools and schools located in red states. Guess those parents are all for diversity and inclusion but doesn’t expand to certain religions and geographic areas of the country.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 08:18     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Rice, Vandy, and ND are solid T20 schools.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 08:06     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices


So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.


Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.


In my geo area (northern NJ), Tufts is grouped with Emory and Wash U. Tulane/WF might be safeties for the kids aiming for Emory.


Tulane and WF have very different campus vibes from Emory/Tufts/Wash U. A lot of kids on my non-DMV area who are applying to WF and Tulane aren’t looking at Tufts/Emory/Wash U
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 06:36     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices


So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.


Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.


In my geo area (northern NJ), Tufts is grouped with Emory and Wash U. Tulane/WF might be safeties for the kids aiming for Emory.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 05:23     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices


So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.


Tulane is R1, mid-size and is doing tons of amazing research. Poke around on their website.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 02:23     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts prestige seems to be declining over recent years. Not a big school spirit vibe solid school but plenty of better choices


So, besides the Ivy-plus schools, which are lottery schools for all unhooked kids, what would you say are the "better choices" for a top student looking for a mid-sized research university (rather than a SLAC or a public university)? I can think of Tufts and Georgetown, Emory, and Vandy and that's sort of it. There's not really not many other schools that are in this bucket.


Beyond schools already mentioned, add William & Mary, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and BC. Add Tulane and Villanova if they suit. These are also closer peers of Tufts than Vandy, Rice, JHU, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, ND, et al.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 02:13     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rice


Rice is wonderful but its location in Texas is rather unfortunate.


Houston is a blue-ish bubble.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 01:55     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Thanks PP for the information about housing and pre-O trips. Really helpful.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2025 12:41     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame and Northwestern


Not interested in a Catholic school for my kids and Northwestern is a harder admit than Tufts.


That’s nice, but that wasn’t the assignment. PP (you?) claimed there are only 4 midsized research universities. Those are the criteria - not whether you personally would attend a catholic university like ND or Georgetown

It is demonstrably not true that there are only 4 midsized research universities in the US
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2025 12:30     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:Rice


Rice is wonderful but its location in Texas is rather unfortunate.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2025 12:29     Subject: Tufts ♥️
Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame and Northwestern


Not interested in a Catholic school for my kids and Northwestern is a harder admit than Tufts.