Tufts/Boston > washU/STL

Go Jumbos!!! Still a solid school despite rankings change, and the right people know of it, regard it highly. I said what I said.

Tufts is Emory-lite in cold weather.

Rutgers has nothing in common with Tufts. I think that person was just trolling. That's like saying VaTech and Tufts are peers.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't Rutgers as prestigious as Tufts per US News? Tufts is a school of the past.

Maybe prestige is the same but Rutgers is 5X the size of Tufts. Totally different type of school.

No, that just makes it even more prestigious because it has research prestige.

Tufts has to battle the more well-known Boston schools for applicants such as Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Northeastern for those who want to go to school in or near Boston. Then you have the hot schools like Duke, Emory, Vandy, WashU that get the students who don't want to be in Boston.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't Rutgers as prestigious as Tufts per US News? Tufts is a school of the past.

Maybe prestige is the same but Rutgers is 5X the size of Tufts. Totally different type of school.

Isn't Rutgers as prestigious as Tufts per US News? Tufts is a school of the past.

Tufts is a strong school. It slipped in the rankings when USNWR formula weighed more heavily factors like 1st gen. graduation rates, borrower debt and Pell grant rates. These may be meaningful criteria, but DC won't be getting a worse education all of the sudden.

Every tweak in the formula will change ranking outcome... the school remains strong though, and if you care it's been 25-40 for as long as I can remember, whatever that means by year.

This whole thread reads like an argument about whether you can even compare the Cape with the Vineyard.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe how juvenile seniors and some parents are when it comes to hanging everything on a single tour guide.

And parents allow this?

tour guide was awful so it was crossed of DC's list. Parent agreed.

We had a couple of schools lose us with their presentations. As a parent I can overlook a bad tour guide, but if your selling me the professionals better have their act together. I was especially critical of a couple of private universities that are trying to remove 90k a year from my wallet.

I agree. The tour guides can vary in quality in my view, but the AO who is doing the admissions presentation needs to be professional and know their stuff and not speak in a condescending tone. They are, after all, employees of the college and should represent their college well.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe how juvenile seniors and some parents are when it comes to hanging everything on a single tour guide.

And parents allow this?

tour guide was awful so it was crossed of DC's list. Parent agreed.

We had a couple of schools lose us with their presentations. As a parent I can overlook a bad tour guide, but if your selling me the professionals better have their act together. I was especially critical of a couple of private universities that are trying to remove 90k a year from my wallet.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe how juvenile seniors and some parents are when it comes to hanging everything on a single tour guide.

And parents allow this?

tour guide was awful so it was crossed of DC's list. Parent agreed.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone go to Tufts when they can go to Rutgers and get the same prestige for much less?

The same prestige? What planet are you on?

I don’t think people choose Tufts for prestige. My kid chose Tufts over a more prestigious and well-known school because he felt it would be a better environment for him academically and socially. (And also religiously… he spoke with Jewish students and Hillel staff at several schools and really connected with one of the rabbis at Tufts.) He doesn’t attend until next year so we shall see. He also had some nice offers from large state schools, including our flagship but price was not a concern for us. If it were he would happily be attending our state school honors college.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone go to Tufts when they can go to Rutgers and get the same prestige for much less?

Tufts exists as a parking lot for private school kids who couldn't quite hack it into an Ivy or similarly prestigious institution. It sounds elite to your hometown peers while you can brag about intimate class sizes, first-year research opportunities, and amazing interactions with professors all while prestigious internships are handed out like candy to soothe your wounded ego. It's like a special club for those who know they're settling, you know?

But its ranking isn't even that great? Its peers are BC, Rutgers, etc. and that isn't that impressive?

Amoung the T50 - out of 4,000.

Not bad. 🙂

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone go to Tufts when they can go to Rutgers and get the same prestige for much less?

The same prestige? What planet are you on?

And there we go: "prestige." Prestige, however limited, is what people are after with Tufts.