Lots of overlap between tufts, williams & Amherst applicants and those admitted. Their high school stats are indistinguishable, and all are highly selective. You’ll be among smart peers at all these schools. What’s different is campus culture, student population size and campus size, and location. My son did a summer program at Amherst and after that realized that a remote, small town, small campus wasn’t for him. Even having just one dining hall that closed early bugged him.
He’s loved tufts and is doing a paid internship for the in-house, tufts general counsel. He’s actually doing more substantial work for them than he’d probably be doing at a law firm as a paralegal. Because he’s still not sure he wants to be lawyer vs going into consulting, he’s interviewing at Bain right now for a fall internship in Boston, another benefit to being at Tufts, or really any college near or in a city (already has a different internship lined up for summer). He’s an English major/Econ minor.
Really, you can’t make a mistake choosing either of these schools. Go for fit. If you think you’d prefer a small LAC in a small, cute town, go to Amherst. If you’d rather live on a campus that’s an easy commute to Cambridge, Somerville and Boston, and want a mid-size research university, go to Tufts. Either will get you to law school as long as you perform well academically and on the LSAT.