360 freshman admitted off waitlist - very inflated. assume ed is high

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is great- closest thing Boston has to a school that offers an SLAC-type experience.

It has 7k undergrads and almost as many grads; not even close to a SLAC. Holy Cross and Clark are the closest things, which is not saying much because Worcester isn’t even close.

What about the actual closest liberal arts college...Wellesley.

Also, I'd argue Harvard college is a liberal arts college right in Cambridge, but I'm an ivy alum who still believes the liberal arts are foundational to the experience.

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is great- closest thing Boston has to a school that offers an SLAC-type experience.

It has 7k undergrads and almost as many grads; not even close to a SLAC. Holy Cross and Clark are the closest things, which is not saying much because Worcester isn’t even close.

Anonymous wrote:Wash U/Emory/Tufts attract kids who aren’t looking for the academics/sports/social package. They’re not pining for Duke/Vanderbilt/Northwestern. My kid looked at Emory and Tufts and liked the less-active social atmosphere, liked the smaller size and liked the access to a large city.

Chicago and JHU are the same.

Wash U/Emory/Tufts attract kids who aren’t looking for the academics/sports/social package. They’re not pining for Duke/Vanderbilt/Northwestern. My kid looked at Emory and Tufts and liked the less-active social atmosphere, liked the smaller size and liked the access to a large city.

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Anonymous wrote:ED numbers are very tricky to evaluate. A good number of our (top private) students apply ED to schools like Tufts and Wash U because they are unhooked and so, despite the fact that they have the stats/profiles for the ivy+ schools, have very little chance of getting in and are advised to go for these types of schools. So the ED pool is full of very strong candidates plus athletes and legacies.

See comparing Tufts to a T25, as if WashU ED isnt much more selective.

Dp, but they get the same levels kids from our school ED. I have no connection to either school btw.

Another DP, and same from my kids’ mcps public high school - pretty much identical profile of kids go to Wash U and Tufts (and Emory).

Anonymous wrote:I would assume a downward movement on the ED acceptance rate as is in the trend at every other college post Covid because more kids apply ED every year. This 50 percent numbers being thrown around with no support are definitely wrong.

So why don’t they share the number? What possible reason is there not to publicize the number other than that it’s very high, which would discourage the large number of RD applications that allow them to keep their overall acceptance rate low?

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Anonymous wrote:ED numbers are very tricky to evaluate. A good number of our (top private) students apply ED to schools like Tufts and Wash U because they are unhooked and so, despite the fact that they have the stats/profiles for the ivy+ schools, have very little chance of getting in and are advised to go for these types of schools. So the ED pool is full of very strong candidates plus athletes and legacies.

See comparing Tufts to a T25, as if WashU ED isnt much more selective.

Dp, but they get the same levels kids from our school ED. I have no connection to either school btw.

Nothing wrong with taking most of your class by ED. Lots of colleges do this, BC fills a huge part of their class ED, Tulane does, Emory does. There are lots of schools that still take fewer than 35% of their class ED. Those schools do stand out as they don't have to play the pretend yield game.

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Anonymous wrote:These schools that won’t provide full info on their common data set are frustrating. They intentionally make admissions more opaque, if that’s even possible

I have to think if they don’t publish something it’s because publishing it would mat them look bad.

Tufts not showing ED data is the equivalent of a student going test optional. Neither really likes the number.

Because a 40% percent ED rate, is embarrassing. Tufts boosters are constantly comparing it to Top25 schools and this quickly reveals thats a farce. If ED1and 2 are 40+% combined then ED1 is likely 50-60%.

And Harvard sends 80%+ of their Early Action "rejects" into Deferral. So ~700 are accepted via Early Action, they deferred almost 7K and then accepted about 10% of those. So 1400 of the 1900 who matriculate in fall came from EA. Because don't kid yourself, Harvard knows out of those 7K they deferred, 95%+ will attend if accepted in RD. It's a tool for guaranteeing yield (not that Harvard has an issue, but this ensures it). So almost 75% come from Early Action/harvard knowing it's the kid's top choice.

THat's what all schools try to do. be it EA or ED1/2

Anonymous wrote:ED numbers are very tricky to evaluate. A good number of our (top private) students apply ED to schools like Tufts and Wash U because they are unhooked and so, despite the fact that they have the stats/profiles for the ivy+ schools, have very little chance of getting in and are advised to go for these types of schools. So the ED pool is full of very strong candidates plus athletes and legacies.

See comparing Tufts to a T25, as if WashU ED isnt much more selective.