<p>Hey, I was just wondering, in your opinion, do you think that living close to Tufts (1/2 hour away) and going to a school that Tufts is familiar with, would be an advantage or would it be detrimental because they're looking for geographic diversity? Also, how do you think Tufts compares with schools like Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan especially, and also Duke or Georgetown, in regards to selectivity, academic quality, and atmosphere. thanx a bunch, and sry for long post, felt the urge to ramble...on and on....and on...lol :)</p>
<p>BUMP c'mon someone respond....pleez:(</p>
<p>With selectivity I would put Tufts with Brown and Wesleyan. Duke and Georgetown would be slightly harder to get into. Academic quality is on par with all the others, all offer a great academic experience. Tufts excels in study abroad , diversity, and small classes, personalized attention but has more resources then a LAC. Being from New England will not help in getting in however as there is an abundance of applicants from there thus increasing the competition.</p>
<p>thanx for the response Arizona. Tufts sounds terrific and it seems it's a little underrated, I'll definitely look more into Tufts. Also, I was surprised that Gtown and DUke are harder to get into than Brown, cuz it has lower acceptance rate...thats interesting though. You've been a great help....others go on reply.....</p>
<p>In my opinion Tufts is slightly easier to get into than Duke or Brown, comparable to Georgetown, but is harder than Wesleyan.</p>
<p>Not sure how you can say Tufts is harder to get into than Wesleyan. Their raw stats are comparable: 26-27 % admissions rate; Wesleyan's mid- 50% Verbals (under the old SAT) are way higher: 610 710 for Tufts; 640-740 for Wesleyan.</p>
<p>The 610 710 figures are no longer accurate (I'm assuming you got these from either US news or Princeton Review). Tufts also gets more applicants.</p>
<p>Oh I wouldn't say that being from Mass is bad, given that such a huge percentage of Tufts students are from MA. Mass, Cali, NY, NJ, CT and Texas are, I believe, the best-represented states among the Tufts student body. Some people like to think that those kids from the states mentioned above are going to Tufts because none of the Ivys accepted them b/c they're from those over-represented, over-populated, "successful" states, but I just don't think that's true. There are tons of kids who were accepted to "better" schools but chose Tufts because of any number of factors - location, programs, study abroad, etc.</p>
<p>snuffles - Tufts may have more applicants than Wesleyan, but it also accepts more b/c it's twice the size of Wesleyan.</p>
<p>GreenDay (LOOOVE that band, btw, so excellent in concert) - the schools you listed all had some kind of deal-breaker for me:
1. Brown - I did a summer program there and was enamored with the campus. However, I wasn't sure I liked the completely open curriculum. I feel that I could do so many things, and without requirements, I may miss out on some field that, with a stronger core, I would have found and fallen in love with.
2. Amherst - for me, Amherst seemed too small. I think that Tufts' size - 4000 undergraduates - is small enough so that you actually can run into the same people more than once (which is not the feeling I got from NYU, for example) but big enough so that you can still meet new people virtually every day. And since Amherst is small, its isolation may promote a feel of claustrophobia (which Dartmouth or Cornell, for example, being larger, wouldn't elicit).
3. Wesleyan - Wesleyan looked great on paper, and then I visited it. Again, I felt that 2000ish students was too small, esp. for a more isolated location. Also, I got the feeling that Wesleyan was for a more "outspoken" undergraduate - basically, they were all really liberal and it came across from just walking around campus. The students are very politically involved, basically, and even though, as an international relations/political science major, I also am politically aware, I feel that I wasn't as obsessive as they were. PLEASE UNDERSTAND, this is just MY take on it, I"m sure there are tons of neutral and conservative kids at Wesleyan, but that's just the idea I got. The info session leader was like "We're not just a bunch of hippie liberals dancing in the woods", but then they didn't show me anything to DISprove that stereotype.
4. Georgetown - Like I said, I was very much into international relations so naturally I wanted to apply to G-town's School of Foreign Service (their program and Tufts' program are the best in the country). I didn't like that it was far from home, but the main reason it rubbed me the wrong way was its homogeneousness. I'm Jewish, and felt that a school that centers so much on the "Jesuit tradition" and all that may not give me the diversity I've been looking for. It bothered me that time and again, really qualified Jewish kids from my town were denied acceptance to G-town, but underqualified Christian kids got in. (Again, this is just MY experience, I'm well aware that there are tons of excellent non-Catholics at G-town and also that the Jewish kids from my town may not have been what G-town was looking for). And also, G-town isn't nearly as bad as, say, Holy Cross or BC. But that's the reason I crossed it off my list.</p>
<p>LOL and you think YOU make long posts :-D</p>