<p>Well if it’s going to come back up, I guess I should say that in my freshman year people do talk about where they applied and the decision they got a lot. However, I’ve had the same conversation with people while visiting friends at Yale and Harvard. The conversations haven’t been about any bitterness about rejections. It’s just an interesting topic of conversation. I have met plenty of people who turned down U Penn, Brown, JHU, Stanford, MIT and the like, and a lot of people who have turned down Cornell. I have friends who even turned down HYP schools and one who turned down all three of them. Fact is, it’s a rising school that draws a certain crowd. Students seem a lot more interested in how much they actually like their school and how good that school is in helping them do what they want to do nowadays.</p>
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<p>What planet are you from?? Your post is way off base. In 2007, Newsweek Magazine listed schools that have the academic prowess to be listed as New Ivies. Tufts, of course, was listed. Not BU. Not NYU.(maybe NYU, don’t remember)</p>
<p>My S1 looked at academic EQUALS to Tufts, including Cornell, UPenn, JHU, UChicago, Northwestern and CMU. He chose to apply ED to TUFTS! His GPA was over the moon. Yet he chose Tufts over any other choice.</p>
<p>BU & NYU were not even in the running. You have posted before under different names. What gives? Why the need to bash Tufts? I agree with classclown: must have been denied, huh? Is that why you ressurected this thread?</p>
<p>It’s pretty easy to find that list of 25 “New Ivies” (hint: Google is your friend)</p>
<p>They were:</p>
<p>In the Northeast
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
New York University, New York City, New York
Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Massachusetts
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusett
In the south:
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
In the Midwest:
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
In the West:
Claremont Colleges: Harvey Mudd and Pomona, Claremont, California
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California</p>
<p>NYU was indeed on the list. I remember this list well since it cause RPI to go from something like a 65% acceptance rate to a 40% rate, the year it was supposed to my older son’s safety. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think that a college having a lot of rejects from another college is so terrible. A very large portion of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science were rejects from MIT, it didn’t make it second rate at all.</p>
<p>^^As much as I love Tufts (and a number of other schools on that last), I don’t buy either that most of these schools are worthy of being called “New Ivies” (e.g., Skidmore - give me a break), or that the schools listed within each region are on the same level of excellence as each other (e.g., in the Northeast: Bowdoin, Tufts and Olin are much harder to get into and are more respected than Skidmore, Rochester, NYU, and Colby; in the Midwest, Wash U is well above Kenyon (and Northwestern is probably better than all the schools listed) ; and in the West, Pomona and Harvey Mudd are better than UCLA (especially since the U.C. schools suffered massive budget cuts, which hurt the quality of education).</p>
<p>I agree that Tufts is a wonderful school and anyone would be lucky to attend. However there are 7 Ivies. That is what makes the list so exclusive. There are about 25 New Ivies. Now that’s just silly.</p>
<p>To TUFTS Supporters, We don’t need to participate in the stupid New Ivy debate. Tufts numbers speak for themselves-class rank, SAT scores, admissions selectivity. These lists are random and poorly researched. We should certainly not trash other schools. Why compare Wash U and Kenyon? They are different types of schools. I’ve been calling out the Tufts haters/ Tufts rejects for obsessively putting down Tufts so let’s not play that game. We’re good because we’re good not because we’re better than another school.When we participate in that garbage we give Tufts haters another opportunity to get revenge.</p>
<p>I don’t really see why it would matter</p>
<p>Exactly. Who cares which schools are on the list. Just makes Tufts looks worse to have its supporters putting down other schools. And at a time when top candidates are deciding where to go to college, better to keep the debate about why Tufts is good, not about why other schools aren’t as good.</p>