How good is Tufts??

College Search & Selection
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<p>This fall I will be a high
school senior. I've been doing lots of
research on colleges
and discovered Tufts. It seems great but I was wondering if it has a good campus
life and if
people are overall happy going there? I would want to major in international relations and possibly double
major.</p>

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<p>3 top schools in Boston. Harvard recruits type A students. MIT draws math and science crowd. Tufts has shown they attracts the creative and quirky students.
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<p>search for Tufts on this forum. You’ll get a few tips about admissions – what they look for, etc.</p>

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<p>awful school, I’d rather go to a community college.</p>

<p>Just kidding, Tufts is a very good school.</p>

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<p>Tufts is a good school. It’s markedly better than BC and Brandeis but markedly worse than Harvard and MIT.</p>

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Brandeis and BC are not as hard to get into as Tufts, but that’s not because Tufts is better, it’s because Tufts is so overrated.</p>

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<p>oh well ok then</p>

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<p>The Tufts application definitely had quirky questions, but I’m not convinced their student body is all quirky and creative! I hear about alot of Type A kids there.</p>

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<p>There will be Type A kids at all the top tier schools.</p>

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<p>^^LOL, how about Harvard takes highly competitive, ambitious, aggressive, workaholics type A ativitists :)</p>

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<p>^^ Not always… I’m about as chilled out as you can get</p>

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<p>Tufts is a great school, located in a safe neighborhood a few miles north of Boston. By the way, I would put it on a par with BC and Brandeis, as would USNWR. Tufts is ranked 28, Brandeis 31, BC 34 in terms of national universities. Each attracts a different student body.</p>

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<p>When I looked at Tufts this year (I’m a junior, soon senior) I found the facilities very run down. Also, the dean that did the info session COMPLETELY turned me off from the school. Citing that he didn’t want Tufts students to seem like “those stupid Americans” when studying abroad, etc. etc. But, depending on your own values and ideals it could be the perfect place.</p>

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<p>Princeton Review Academic Rating for greater Boston metropolitan area colleges:</p>

<p>Harvard 99
College of the Holy Cross 98
Boston College 87
Tufts 89
Brandeis 88
MIT 97
Boston Univ 84
Northeastern 79</p>

<p>Source(s):
[Test</a> Prep: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, SAT, ACT, and More](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com%5DTest”>http://www.princetonreview.com)</p>

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<p>well Holy Cross isn’t exactly in the greater Boston area</p>

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<p>I take it that the “Princeton Review Academic Rating” for Greater Boston was written by a Holy Cross grad!</p>

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<p>Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the “Inner Core” surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. It includes America’s eleventh-largest metropolitan area, home to over 4.4 million people, and is part of a wider region that includes the metropolitan areas of Providence, Manchester and Worcester, with a total population of 7.4 million.</p>

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<p>I certainly do not consider Worcester to be part of Boston.</p>

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<p>It isn’t part of Boston. It is part of what is called “Greater Boston” by the statisticians who do this for a living.</p>

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<p>Worcester is kind of far from Boston.</p>