<p>Will we receive admission letters from our mail? And will Tufts be sending congratulations emails to those accepted? Or at least send another email to them to set up their accounts and pay enrollment fees and such?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many people were taken from the waiting list last year or how they decide who to choose from the waiting list?</p>
<p>Universities want people who want them but they also want high scorers–Tufts cares about high SAT scores a lot and certainly as much as the next selective college. Tufts highlights the high mean SAT scores of accepted students in all of its admissions materials and admissions people know scores impact national rankings. There is no way Tufts would reject great candidates because they are great. It must be comforting to believe in Tufts syndrome, but btw I happen to know many cases in which middling candidates were accepted to Cornell and Johns Hopkins and not to Tufts. Admissions is a crap shoot and often doesn’t make much sense. Get over yourself. The halls of academia are filled with people who got 2250 on their SATs–i’m one of them. Don’t be like those girls who say “that guy doesn’t like me because he’s intimidated.”</p>
<p>Son accepted. ACT 30 GPA 3.5 from upper echelon New England Prep, recruited athlete</p>
<p>Case in point. Hope he comes to Tufts!!!</p>
<p>He will be attending Tufts…he is psyched to be a Jumbo</p>
<p>Congrats to all of the acceptees!!! If you decide to attend Tufts, please come out to support the Men’s and Women’s soccer teams. They are very exciting and a great way to take a break from studying and meet students, and to enjoy the internationally recognized Beautiful Game. Support the Jumbo Nation!</p>
<p>To those rejected or waitlisted, we wish you the best!!!</p>
<p>Son accepted! Very happy. SAT 2290, ACT 34, SAT subject Chem: 740, Math 2: 740, Bio: 760. 2nd in his graduating class. Will be studing Biology and hopefully going to med school after. Hoping to play hockey too.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!! sorry to all of those who didnt get in, im sure you will all end up at great schools! (sounds like a lot at cornell!)</p>
<p>cant wait to meet those of you who did!</p>
<p>Rejected. Got into Dmouth an hour later. No offense, but I kinda think Tufts Syndrome exists. Everyone here is saying that high stats kids who got rejected were just brats or clearly wouldn’t have fit in at Tufts. Gotta disagree there. I actually really would have considered Tufts, not to mention was accepted to many “quirky kid” schools just like Tufts, a few of which wrote personalized notes in the acceptance packages about the quirks in my application. I had a 2330 SAT, 4.8 GPA, wrote all of my Tufts essays about things that make me different. And got rejected. I know some of you think it is an insult if someone implies that Tufts syndrome exists, but it’s not. It’s merely an observation. And I will admit in most cases Tufts is being logical in thinking about yield. Dartmouth was my first choice and I would not have chosen Tufts over it. However if not accepted to D, I would have definitely considered Tufts, and unfortunately there are many kids who, even if accepted to supposedly “higher ranked” schools would still choose Tufts. Unfortunately, though, many of them will never get the chance because they were not admitted, and if thousands of kids with extremely high stats are rejected each year, it’s not exactly speculation to say that it can be attributed to quote-unquote Tufts Syndrome. Maybe if a few kids a year experienced this, it could be due to a sour grapes attitude. But results from thousands of kids each year don’t lie.</p>
<p>I’m not at all upset, I’m not bitter-- like I said, an hour later I got into the school I could only ever dream of-- just relaying my observations on the matter. Also like I said, in many cases I think it is in Tufts’s best interest to practice “Tufts Syndrome.”</p>
<p>As a way of contextualizing what “holistic” means: it means deny students who have EXTREMELY qualified academic records, and admit some students who fall below our averages. There are a lot of reasons for why this happens both to the top students and the ones we “dip” for (dip is in quotes, because I think these students are still pretty freaking great).</p>
<p>There is a direct correlation between academic strength and admit rate. The stronger your credentials, the most statistically likely you are to get in, and there isn’t a point where a student becomes so strong that academic strength starts working against them. </p>
<p>As our admit rate drops, Tufts will be in a position where we must start denying increasingly large groups of students with the sort or GPA/scores your seeing in this thread. If we don’t, then we’re no longer holistic, and there’s no room left for anyone without those numbers. This isn’t a matter of aspiration, but a matter of fact. </p>
<p>I actually think there’s a fruitful debate to be had on the “fairness” of what I typed above (though I know where I come down on that issue), but Tufts Syndrome, as these boards describe it, does not exist at Tufts. And there’s no way to juggle the stats to make it appear - and I’ve tried.</p>
<p>It must be frustrating Dan. I’ve looked at the last six years of data from our high school and year after year most of the top students get into Tufts despite the fact that many of them choose to go elsewhere. My son was thrilled (2 years ago) to get accepted despite less than perfect stats. He was an interesting kid and had great recommendations and I think he produced engaging essays that were more interesting and funnier than most.</p>
<p>In fact, I was intrigued enough to look and see if there were any schools that seemed to have a consistent pattern of accepting students with slightly less than stellar stats while rejecting top students and there was only one a school that I am told (no idea if it true) cares a lot about demonstrated interest.</p>
<p>DanAdmiss@tufts my D got accepted when we are getting the Financial Aide package?</p>
<p>^ Second that question :-)</p>
<p>Goodness, I hope it’s soon. Generally, the financial aid packages go live on the Monday/Tuesday after we release in admissions. And as always, I’m eager to here about the variety of reactions/experiences related to our financial aid process.</p>
<p>@Mathmom: I’ve learned that Conventional Wisdom is tough to fight, even when there’s no real truth to it. I’m realistic, though, no number of times typing/saying/pleading that Optional is Optional will ever put that to bed. </p>
<p>What’s tough about dispelling “Tufts Syndrome” (what a misnomer), is that once, those students at the top who were getting denied often had a glaring hole - supplemental essays that demonstrated a appalling lack of care, for instance. But, as one can see from this thread, we’re creeping (creeped?) into a level of selectivity where we must turn away highly qualified candidates with thoughtful applications. In the case of born2dance above, demonstrated interest wouldn’t have been an issue, since it sounds like she/he demonstrated quite a bit of interest.</p>
<p>I’m happy to continue this conversation in a different thread, assuming we can talk about something more substantive than Tufts Syndrome.</p>
<p>Accepted to Tufts University!! 
My stats weren’t great, but I think it was my recommendations, extracurriculars, and essays which really pulled me out. Tufts is my top choice for now…let’s just see about FA this week! Congrats to everyone else!</p>
<p>“Tufts Syndrome” (Which really doesn’t exist) is in my opinion, the sad result of people labeling Tufts as a “safety school” – every Ivy applicant throws in Tufts in their list as a “shoo-in” and if they don’t get in, they tend to label it as the fact that they were overqualified and end up being accepted to Harvard and the like. The truth is that Tufts really is not a “safety” school anymore – The sooner people realize that, the sooner “Tufts Syndrome” labeling will cease to exist. I agree with Dan that Tufts has a holistic review process. Grades take you to a certain point at Tufts, but I believe that past that point, it comes down to your interest in learning, passion for the things you do outside of school, and true intellectual curiousity. I have a feeling that Tufts REALLY wants engagement in community and learning, as well as an insight into personality when analyzing one’s application.
There is no “Tufts Syndrome” – Rather, unlike some schools, Tufts goes beyond the grades of an applicant and paints a fuller picture of their potential and fit. </p>
<p>And before I forget, to the Class of 2016, Holla :)…I’m so excited to meet you all in the fall.</p>
<p>My financial aid was posted on TAMS today! I assume many others received theirs as well.</p>
<p>Arg!! Tufts is 1st choice, but Haverford came up with 11K more in grants- no loans! Darn you Tufts- hoping you had best FA! Will be hard to say no to Haverford, but REALLY wanted Tufts!</p>