<p>Can anyone comment on internship prog in Tufts? Does the school provide the internship to the students or students find the internship on their own inside or outside the school?</p>
<p>Students find their own internships but career services can be helpful</p>
<p>thanks. How about campus interviews during the senior year? Are there many companies recruiting on campus?</p>
<p>Tons. Another thing is that Tufts has a really good alumni base (from Non-Profit, to Business, to Media and Entertainment). This helps because the school does a good job connecting people with alumni and alumni are very willing to help out and mentor students.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. helps us to have better a pic of the school.
Do you know if student can have computer science as 2nd major? From what I read, it seems can only be minor. There is not much choices as 2nd major, seems many can be minor.</p>
<p>As far as I know, which is pretty far, literally anything can be taken as a 2nd major.</p>
<p>And I’m 100% sure students can double major with Comp Sci - I know several myself. What is your source? I’ll look into correcting it if I can.</p>
<p>Dan, I feel so great and fortunately that you are answering our parent’s questions and concerns. My son is so lucky to have you as an admission officer. </p>
<p>I checked this website:
[Undergraduate</a> Majors & Minors - Arts and Sciences - Tufts University](<a href=“http://as.tufts.edu/academics/majorsminors.htm]Undergraduate”>http://as.tufts.edu/academics/majorsminors.htm)</p>
<p>At the bottom of the page said ‘* Available as a second major’. I did not see computer science has ‘<em>’ next to it in ‘Liberal Arts Majors’. I saw ‘Biomedical Engineering Systems</em>’ and other majors have ‘*’ next to them. </p>
<p>I do see computer science in ‘Liberal Arts Minors:’ section. </p>
<p>Please let us know if computer science can be 2nd major. My son wants to go to the medical school, but he loves computer science as well. It would be great that he can do bio and computer science two majors. As major, he can learn lots of things. </p>
<p>Appreciate!</p>
<p>^On that list, the asterisk really means “ONLY available as a second major,” i.e. the student needs to double major if he/she wants to major in those fields. For example, someone at Tufts cannot major in community health alone, he/she would have to do a double major of community health and another field. I can see how one might find the wording on that link a bit confusing. </p>
<p>As Dan says, pretty much any double major is possible at Tufts (including computer science).</p>
<p>That’s great! thank you so much, CUlater21. ‘ONLY’ is very important in that context.</p>
<p>Do you think the student can handle bio & computer science without killing himself? I know nothing about how heavy the class loads in Tufts.</p>
<p>Essentially any two majors in the School of Arts and Sciences are manageable without an issue. It gets difficult if you’re talking about something like mathematics (starting from calculus I) and international relations (with a brand new language for 8 semester), but even that would be quite possible.</p>
<p>Bio and Compsci is 24 classes: 8 biology, 2 chemistry, 9 compsci, and 3 mathematics. These include the intro classes; it can be low as 19 for both majors depending on what AP credits one is using. You need 34 credits to graduate, so that’s entirely doable.</p>
<p>And, actually, there’s a overlap that’s possible in terms of subject material for those two subjects. The CS department does some fun things with bioinformatics, and I have friends that graduated with CS backgrounds and went ont to work for companies that design drug trials and the software to manage the results. </p>
<p>And, if your child thought, “You know, that actually more work than I’d like,” she or he could always pursue one major over the other and just load up on the classes with the most relevance in the other subject and build for him/herself a backgroup that incorporates both.</p>
<p>I am so grateful that we have such a strong support from all of you. </p>
<p>TuftsStudent, thank you so much! We are so happy that Tufts offer those great programs. It’s impossible to have double majors in UC system. </p>
<p>For comp sci & bio, can those math and chem counts as distribution classes? Or have to take other math and chem/physics as distribution classes?</p>
<p>my son took AP Calc AB (5), Computer Science (Java programming) and Statistic in Community College, Bio AP (5), AP Physics B (taking now), AP Env (taking now). I hope those AP counts some credits.</p>
<p>@fromcalifornia. I suggest you review “the bulletin” that essentially outlines all academic guidelines at Tufts. It should answer a lot of your questions. My daughter will be a freshman at Tufts this Fall, so as an overly active parent I’m doing a lot of research on the school as well. Here is the link: </p>
<p><a href=“The Bulletin | AS&E Students”>The Bulletin | AS&E Students;
<p>We are from Ca too, so very familiar with the UC’s. Great system, but I came to the conclusion with my first child to go to college 2 years ago that for undergrad several E Coast schools were a better option. The fact that Berkeley in state with room and board and no aid came to the same $ as Georgetown with some aid sealed the deal… UC’s are a better option for grad school, but too overcrowded for undergrad despite the schools reputation garnered from their graduate programs. Also, for UC’s don’t forget to calculate how long it actually takes to graduate. Berkeley 4 yr grad rate (last stats from National Center for Educational Statistics) is 66%. UCLA 67%. Irvine 58%. Davis 50%. San Diego 56%.</p>
<p>Hope your son chooses Tufts!</p>
<p>thank you sandad. The bulletin is very helpful. I found out that those required math and chem courses are counted as distribution courses. </p>
<p>My son loves Tufts. We all like the wonderful progs and flexibility in the school. But he does not have financial aid or grant, so it’s $61k out of pocket for us comparing with $30k for UCs. </p>
<p>Do you know when the students start register the courses? During the orientation (that’s how UC works)? If it’s during the orientation, does it means it’s before meeting the adviser?</p>
<p>Dan and TuftsStudent,
one thing about double major in comp sci & bio is that they do not share too many core courses. Is it a big chance that there is lecture time conflicting? How can the student handle it? Since some courses are in the sequence. so student cannot take the next level class.</p>
<p>This might interest you</p>
<p>[BCB</a> Research Group](<a href=“http://bcb.cs.tufts.edu/]BCB”>http://bcb.cs.tufts.edu/)</p>
<p>If you can’t make a double major work for what you want to learn, then highly motivated
students can design their own interdisciplinary major. Tufts is all about interdisciplinary learning, and several of the current interdisciplinary majors were derived from student designed majors.</p>
<p>[Interdisciplinary</a> Studies Major - Center of Interdisciplinary Studies - Tufts University](<a href=“Center for Interdisciplinary Studies | School of Arts and Sciences”>Center for Interdisciplinary Studies | School of Arts and Sciences)</p>
<p>[Interdisciplinary</a> Programs - Center of Interdisciplinary Studies - Tufts University](<a href=“Center for Interdisciplinary Studies | School of Arts and Sciences”>Center for Interdisciplinary Studies | School of Arts and Sciences)</p>
<p>Here are two interesting interdisciplinary compsci/bio courses:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/167/[/url]”>http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/167/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~cowen/classes/2004f/[/url]”>http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~cowen/classes/2004f/</a></p>
<p>Thank you so much, Mastadon! BCB is so interesting. Will pass the info to my son!</p>
<p>I know a few people who double majored in Bio and CS, it’s definitely doable. I think at Tufts pretty much any combination of majors is attainable (except the ones that are only second majors).</p>
<p>For departments that large, especially, there are typically multiple sections of each class, too.</p>