<p>There seems to repeated commentary on college review websites (from both students and otherwise) about Tufts supposed poor class/race relations...that students stick to their racial/ethnic groups or socioeconomic groups and don't really integrate socially.
I would like to hear from anyone about this...both students and staff, or faculty, admissions dept., etc. I'm wondering what your view is about the situation at present. Is Tufts, or has Tufts taken any steps recently to improve the situation? If so, what are those steps and how are they working? I would appreciate your comments.</p>
<p>I’m not a current student, so I don’t want to overstate or anything, but I’m relatively sure Tufts prides itself on it’s diversity and openness. Not even as an institution, as individual students too. I talked to 3 students at different times and they all brought that up when I was on my tour.</p>
<p>But, like I said, I suppose I can’t really say I know</p>
<p>Off topic, but… nice thread title.</p>
<p>See, the thing with college review sites is that those are views from only a really small percentage of the student body. I have never really dealt with poor race relations…I have a very diverse group of friends. I also don’t fully understand the concept of socioeconomic isolations. You can’t really tell what someone’s socioeconomic status by just looking at them…Sure, you can judge by what they wear and what they have, but IMO that is a poor use of judgment.</p>
<p>If you’re looking from the outside in…the college review sites are one of the few ways to get info. in general. It may not be the best way but there does seem to be alot of commentary about this particular subject from different sources, so it leads me to believe there must be something to it. Would like to hear from more of you and glad for those who have commented!</p>
<p>People of the same race/ethnicity generally tend to hang out together anywhere in the world, but I certainly don’t consider it an problem here. Socioeconomic status is a non-issue at Tufts.</p>
<p>Where are you getting your information? Links?</p>
<p>There’s a thread on this very topic in the Tufts Facebook group that’s pretty honest and comprehensive. The Tufts students who posted are students of of a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds and represent the spectrum of on-campus opinions; not all of what they have to say is positive, but all the opinions in the thread are wholly reasonable. If you talk to current students, you’ll quickly realize that many of those guidebooks seem to be unfortunately stuck about 10 years in the past, reprinting what they’ve heard from older editions and other guidebooks instead of reflecting current community values.</p>
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<p>Most telling, I believe, is how comfortable Tufts students are in actually discussing an issue as electrically controversial as race in a constructive way (even when there are disagreements). I’ve been to few communities where such conversations are held openly, without insecurity and judgment.</p>
<p>I’m glad to hear that socioeconomic status is not a big deal at Tufts. It’s a very big deal at my D’s high school and boy are we tired of it. I’ts one of the reasons she’s turning down Boston College- too much like her college-prep high school.</p>
<p>First, I’m really grateful for this dialogue and appreciate hearing from the students as well as Dan in the Admissions office. It was informative to follow the thread on Facebook specifically discussing this topic, thank you. Most interesting to me was the protest letter from the students, and the responses to it. I’m not sure what it means but the fact that there is open dialogue is positive and I do wonder how the letter will be responded to by the administration.</p>
<p>The primary 411 on the subject of poor race/class relations came from <a href="http://www..com%5B/url%5D">www..com</a>, which I believe may be one of the links from the Tufts Facebook Group 2013, though not 100% sure, as there may be more than one student review site, and I found through Google. I read the “positive” reviews (you actually choose positive or negative) and it came up there. I was not so focused on the “negative” reviews as they often represent someone with an axe to grind, though I did read them.
Also, found some other commentary which I can’t seem to recreate the path to.</p>
<p>It appears that college confidential blocks out links of its competitors. Is there anyway someone can repost the link by bypassing the filter? I’m really curious</p>
<p>I got there by googling the following words:
student reviews tufts</p>
<p>the website has the first two words in it plus ends in:
.com</p>
<p>this should help</p>
<p>The only website I’ve found that does a reasonable job of accurately portraying the pros and the cons of schools, while at the same time giving you a flavor of the culture of the place (instead of just who liked it and who didn’t) is <a href=“http://www.u-n-i-g-o.com%5B/url%5D”>www.u-n-i-g-o.com</a>. The reviews there are still hit/miss in terms of quality but when I read the reviews for MANY schools, and thought of my friends and the sorts of things they told me about where they went, U n i g o gets a lot more right than most.</p>
<p>Not an endorsement, exactly, but if I were a looking to choose a school, I’d use that site. The site isn’t anonymous and asks reviewers to say a little about themselves, which is really important context for understanding perspectives and ensuring accuracy. (The spaces and dashes were added since CC is apparently sensitive about its competition).</p>