<p>I understand the sentiment. Tufts does actually have a good academic reputation, so if you plan on going to grad school, you shouldn’t be asking what companies recruit at Tufts, you should be asking where Tufts sends its students for grad school and what companies recruit at those schools. And as I recall, you already asked that. Like I said in the last thread you started about Tufts’ inadequacy, if you go to Tufts thinking you made the wrong choice, you’re not going to like it here.</p>
<p>Tufts is a good school. If you chose it because you felt more comfortable here, trust your instincts. If you’re happier during your education, you’ll be more engaged, you’ll generate better contacts, and you’ll get to know yourself better, figure out what you want to do. Give it a year before you psych yourself out. Spend some time here, talk to professors, meet your fellow students, see with your own eyes what opportunities Tufts has to offer, just see if you like it. Towards the end of your freshman year, if you’re not happy and you still feel like Tufts can’t offer everything you need out of a school, you can transfer. You wouldn’t have much of a problem getting into more brand-name schools like NYU or BU. There’s nothing you can do about your decision now, so instead of getting depressed about your choices, keep an open-mind. Instead of second-guessing yourself, map out your options for what you can do to improve your situation.</p>
<p>The worst thing you could possibly do is to fumble your way half-heartedly through four years at Tufts, complaining the whole time. Do that, and you won’t be engaged in your education, you’ll alienate the people around you, you’ll ensure that you’ll be miserable, and your grades will likely suffer. Be receptive to the idea of having fun and benefiting at Tufts, and if it turns out that Tufts really was the wrong choice, then make some changes and go somewhere else.</p>
<p>but more importantly, I wish I could just be confident that tufts IS a good school, because it would make my logical side much more comfortable. I feel like personality wise tufts was a better fit for me than any of my other schools, I just need reassurance somehow that turning down a better school won’t be the end of my life.</p>
<p>Tufts graduates over a thousand students a year. If they all ended up on the streets, not only would there be a serious public health outcry, but alumnae would probably stop donating (especially as they’d have no money).<br>
We have alumnae at the highest levels of every sector of society. Anywhere you would want to go, if you work hard enough, you can get there from here. This is mostly true of all top schools. So your choice should come down to where you fit best. And it sounds like you made the right one.</p>
<p>thanks, I’m sorry i subject everybody to my immature b*tching, but the internet is such a great outlet…</p>
<p>last sort of negative thing i’ll say, though I don’t mean it to be negative, i thought tufts DOES have a problem with alumni not donating (because so many go into public service/low paying sectors voluntarily), which explains the relatively low endowment?</p>
<p>Where’d you hear that? Tufts alums are pretty solid with donating. Our endowment is relatively low because of history, not because of a lack of giving. We’ve only been a top tier school for the past couple decades. $1.5 billion is a pretty decent endowment, among the top 50 in the nation. Also, our endowment has been either the fastest growing or among the top 5 fastest growing for the past several years. This rapid growth is largely driven by donations.</p>
<p>wow thats awesome, I didn’t realize any of that. I’d actually heard that from a current tufts student, who otherwise was really positive about the school.</p>
I somehow doubt that. My international friends who are entering the workforce certainly are not worried.</p>
<p>Everyone else, OCI for undergraduates is rare for any college. Even the majority of kids at the two elite schools in Cambridge have to actually go out and apply for jobs.</p>