<p>Once again...</p>
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Politics – Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley
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<p>Georgetown perhaps?</p>
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And Mangredman is right that most average people associate Princeton’s name with the totally different Princeton Seminary School.
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<p>Never heard of such confusion...</p>
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Never heard of such confusion...
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<p>What does seminary school even mean</p>
<p>Isn't a seminary school for priests???? Maybe I'm way off, oh well.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Theological_Seminary%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Theological_Seminary</a> </p>
<p>The Seminary's beginnings are in the early 19th century, when higher-level professional education was beginning to be separated from the general education given at many universities in the United States. The Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, was established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1812, with the support of the directors of nearby College of New Jersey (later to be re-named Princeton University), as the first graduate theological school in the United States.</p>
<p>"kk- It has to do with Tufts' larger alumni network on the East Coast, plus its affiliation with some non-collegiate things, like its medical and IR schools- so there are a lot of people on Tufts Health Plan, have doctors educated there, and a lot of foreign dignitaries go and speak at Tufts, and its reputation is consequently inflated among easterners."</p>
<p>"Also, people who apply to Ivies will apply to Tufts as a safety despite "Tufts Syndrome," and its grouping among their choices affects people's perceptions of it."</p>
<p>to begin with, Tufts reputation is underrated, if anything. Go take a look at the SAT scores of entering students on CollegeBoard. They're identical to that of G-town and JHU. Also, "Tufts Syndrome" does not exist, at least at Tufts, and if you call Tufts a safety, than G-town, JHU, and Northwestern must be called safeties. Please don't further this perceived rumour of Tufts as a "Safety" -- the 2010 admit rate (overall) was 26% - much lower if you applied RD. Northwestern may achieve more name recognition b/c of its sports, but Tufts achieves its' excellent reputation among academia et al b/c of the types of students who enter and those that it produces.</p>
<p>"Northwestern may achieve more name recognition b/c of its sports, but Tufts achieves its' excellent reputation among academia et al b/c of the types of students who enter and those that it produces."</p>
<p>-Yea, I'm sure it's the sports that does it for Northwestern..... Get over yourself. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>haha northwestern known for sports??</p>
<p>I know Northwestern's an excellent school (ignore my sports comment) but my point is, do not criticise an institution using out-of-date rumours and internet-based crackpot theories -- if you look at the numbers, you'll see why Tufts is easily with NU, G-town, and JHU. Tufts just doesn't have the same instantaneous name recognition that the other schools have. For instance, NU is not very well known in New England, but that doesn't mean that it isn't an superb academic university. The same applies to Tufts and its' lack of general name recogntion in the mid-west and portions of the west coast (CA would be the exception, IMO). One the principal difficulties on CC (i'm not stating this towards you two, just in general) is the idea that a school's name recognition among the general populous is the most important qualification - this is what drives (in part) USNews rankings, etc. IMO, it is the selectivity of an institution, combined with its' expertise in a number of programmes and the qualifications of incoming and exiting students (and professors) that define an institution and support its' alumni, not merely endowment. Both Northwestern and Tufts Universities shine highly in this light.</p>
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-Yea, I'm sure it's the sports that does it for Northwestern..... Get over yourself.
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<p>Northwestern in Big Ten = instant name boost.</p>
<p>yeah...I don't know many people who think of Northwestern because of its sports...anyways, many more people go "oh, cool" when you say Northwestern than Tufts, its just a bigger school so it has more name recognition because of that</p>
<p>I doubt a few D1 football games a year would significantly impact that</p>
<p>"Northwestern in Big Ten = instant name boost."</p>
<p>Thats ridiculous. First off, Northwestern is a charter member of the Big 10, so any possible name boost it gets, it helped create! Its just like claming Harvard gets a name boost from being in the Ivy League- ridiculous. Secondly, Michigan State University is also in the Big 10, and we all know what a big name university that is.</p>
<p>I swear, people and their bs comments .</p>
<p>Princeton
Harvard/Yale
MIT/Stanford
Columbia
Upenn
Cal Tech
Dartmouth/Brown
Duke
Chicago
UWash
Cornell
NW
Berkley
UVA/WM/Georgetown
JHU
Rice/Wake forest</p>
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"Northwestern in Big Ten = instant name boost."</p>
<p>That’s ridiculous. First off, Northwestern is a charter member of the Big 10, so any possible “name boost” it gets, it helped create! It’s just like claming Harvard gets a name boost from being in the Ivy League- ridiculous. Secondly, Michigan State University is also in the Big 10, and we all know what a “big name” university that is.</p>
<p>I swear, people and their bs comments….
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<p>Wow. You, my friend, are the ridiculous one. The name recognition with the average American is greatly swayed by sports. Obviously NWU isn't an amazing sports school, but being competitve against huge sports schools does help the name recognition around the country. It especially helps in the states of other big 10 teams. I'm not talking about prestige; I'm talking about the popularity of the name. I never heard of Tufts before this year, but I had heard of NWU several times.</p>
<p>You don't really listen to what people have to say. You just defend NWU against non-existant threat comments.</p>
<p>By the way, I applied to both NWU and Tufts and was accepted to both. So it's not like I'm biased.</p>
<p>H,Y,P,S,MIT, Duke.</p>
<p>"The name recognition with the average American is greatly swayed by sports. Obviously NWU isn't an amazing sports school, but being competitve against huge sports schools does help the name recognition around the country."</p>
<p>The same can be said for just about any sports conference. It is ridiculous to say that this is specific to one school, or even to a group of schools for that matter.</p>
<p>"You don't really listen to what people have to say. You just defend NWU against non-existant threat comments."</p>
<p>-Whatever you say... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>"By the way, I applied to both NWU and Tufts and was accepted to both. So it's not like I'm biased."</p>
<p>-How convenient....</p>
<p>Do you know what sports conference Tufts is in? Because I have no idea, and I'm sure that most Americans don't.</p>
<p>It's called BIG TEN for a reason.</p>
<p>Have some wildcat pride!!!</p>
<p>They play sports at Tufts?</p>
<p>“Do you know what sports conference Tufts is in? Because I have no idea, and I'm sure that most Americans don't.”</p>
<p>It's called BIG TEN for a reason.</p>
<p>Have some wildcat pride!!!</p>
<p>I don’t know which divisions many schools are in. I couldn’t name the Big 12 schools if I tried. But do I make silly claims about what all of America knows based on that fact… nope.. that’s ridiculous. As for: “have some wildcat pride” Uh, thanks for the validation. Now I can finally be happy with my life.</p>