Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:28     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts has an increasing number of students each year applying ED so it is a lot of students first choice nowadays (same could be said for many other colleges- respected and disrespected ones, haha). I agree Tufts isn’t as respected as imo it “should” be on dcum, but having grown up in NY it is very well regarded there, so maybe some is geography? I tend to think of it lumped with Emory ad Wash U, but I realize both of those are ranked higher on USNWR than Tufts. I don’t understand why they are, but they are. At my kids’s W high schoo, the exact same caliber of students apply to all three (and yes all tend to be wealthy but that doesn’t mean they aren’t smart and well qualified).


WashU and Emory have multiples larger endowments, which might help them more.

Or there just better schools...
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:23     Subject: Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Because the name itself is evocative of clumps of pubic hair. How can one respect that?
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:16     Subject: Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
1. Location is meh
2. Endowment per student is small (in the 200,000s, between Ohio Wesleyan and Agnes Scott - seehttps://www.reachhighscholars.org/college_endowments.html )
3. Full of greasy grimy pre -professional kids with no innate love of learning (same thing people hate about Penn and Hopkins)
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:07     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
This thread has devolved to two trolls swatting at each other.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:04     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts is the equivalent of American University.
It is fine but does not stand out in any way.
It is kinda sorta in Boston/Cambridge but in a boring location.
Same as AU which is in DC but close to the edge of it.
Both have mediocre campuses.



AU student quality way lower


Probably the only difference is that AU hasn’t played the college rankings game like Tufts has


These Tufts people are shameless.

Yoeld Protection = Tufts Syndrome

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:03     Subject: Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
I don't hate Tufts. I would have happily sent my DC there but she didn't love the campus. She wanted something more bucolic.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 19:00     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tufts is the equivalent of American University.
It is fine but does not stand out in any way.
It is kinda sorta in Boston/Cambridge but in a boring location.
Same as AU which is in DC but close to the edge of it.
Both have mediocre campuses.



AU student quality way lower


Probably the only difference is that AU hasn’t played the college rankings game like Tufts has
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 18:17     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a great 2nd tier option in Boston area as well as BU, BC, NU after the 1st tier MIT and Harvard.


And yet, if it were in any other city, it would be a first tier option. As such, it is a first tier school surrounded by other fabulous schools.

And stop trying to make NU happen. They have gamed the system more than any other north american institution.



LOL nobody games better than Tufts.

It earned the title of King of Yield Protection.

Yield Protection = Tufts Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_protection

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 18:12     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a great 2nd tier option in Boston area as well as BU, BC, NU after the 1st tier MIT and Harvard.


NU is in IL.


https://www.NU.edu/
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 18:07     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s an overpriced schooling Boston. There are many better options.


It is not in Boston, you schmuck.


Which answers OP’s question. Most schools are rural or urban. Tufts is in suburbia.


Like Stanford or Pomona or Emory or UMD or Annapolis or UVA or...
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 17:56     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s an overpriced schooling Boston. There are many better options.


It is not in Boston, you schmuck.


Which answers OP’s question. Most schools are rural or urban. Tufts is in suburbia.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 17:49     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:General lack of name recognition.


Somewhat like yourself, OP.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 17:48     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
General lack of name recognition.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 17:45     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s an overpriced schooling Boston. There are many better options.


Do you also say BC and Georgetown are overpriced?


OP “hates” (ie:trolls on DCUM) whatever school would not have him.


It’s so obvious
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 17:39     Subject: Re:Why don’t people respect Tufts more?
Anonymous wrote:It’s an overpriced schooling Boston. There are many better options.


It is not in Boston, you schmuck.