<p>Apply to both and see which one accepts you. Tufts has lower acceptance rate than NYU does.</p>
<p>ClutchBaller, you claim that "At Tufts, you could get similar access and take classes at MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School easily." I would be interested at how the "people" you know who have done it, actually did it. </p>
<p>Harvard Business School only offers non-degree programs at the Master's and PhD level to executives such as self-employed entrepreneurs, senior managers, and middle managers. It's unlikely an undergraduate would be working at the professional excutive level. I don't believe Harvard Extension School offers HBS courses.</p>
<p>MIT Sloan does not accept undergraduate students outside of MIT. You can try to cheat the system by applying as an undergraduate "Special Student" to take a course offered by Sloan to MIT undergraduates. A single course will cost you approx. $6000.</p>
<p>Harvard and MIT have no affiliation with Tufts, so you can't cross-register as an undergrad. Is there a loop-hole somewhere that I don't see?</p>
<p>No you can't cross register at Harvard or MIT. As you said those schools have no affiliation with Tufts. You can cr at BC, BU, Brandeis, and some others but H or MIT? No. You can take classes there that Tufts will grant degree credit for but you'll be paying a very, very, very steep price to do so.</p>
<p>The other thing you really need to think about is "fit". NYU and Tufts are such different types of schools. NYU is very large and essentially has no campus. It provides more of a "New York experience" than a true "college experience". NYU is totally interwoven into New York City. After freshman year, you almost become a commuter with your dorm possibly being a subway ride away. Tufts on the other hand is smaller, more personal and provides a traditional campus scene in addition to the ability to enjoy Boston city life. Don't overlook these differences, they are probably bigger than the differences between the education.</p>
<p>I don't know if Tufts is a traditional type of school to be honest with you. I remember before I left there was alot of talk in the Daily and petitions and whatnot to increase what for lack of a better word could be described as "school spirit." There was even talk of lax restrictions on Greek life and plans to build a pub on campus. I don't know how serious all that tough talk really was but I do know that a good portion if not most of the social events on weekends were off campus. But hey, maybe me and my friends and my friends friends and their friends friends were weirdos...</p>
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<p>Does that mean you're not at Tufts anymore? Where are you now?</p>
<p>Vietnam, California</p>
<p>NYU was my top choice for most of my college-search career.
After a while I kind of had a revelation that college life in NYC isnt going to be all that I thought it would be, and New York would be alot more interesting as an adult with a job and money, and the city would wait
NYU really intrigued me, but the end I decided it was, in fact, a bit overrated and quit my application after eagerly filling in half of it over the summer.</p>
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A friend of mine took courses at MIT and transferred the credits. I'm not sure about the details.</p>
<p>Also I believe that there's a program at Harvard where you could spend 1 semester or 1 year there as a visiting student. Yes, you have to pay to take courses at both universities, but logistically, it's much easier to do so from Tufts.</p>
<p>"New York would be alot more interesting as an adult with a job and money"</p>
<p>Actually New York isn't interesting at all now. Jiulliani was suburbia's revenge on urban America and New York was ruined sometime around mid to late 1995. It's a boring, boring city now that has completely lost it's edge and everything that once made it unique. Manhattan looks like Disney world now.</p>
<p>Go to Chicago, LA, Philly or Boston if you want a city with some shred of character.</p>
<p>I don't think it's possible to take courses at Harvard as a Tufts student unless you take summer or extension courses. You also cannot cross-register at MIT unless you are in the combined degree program. School of the Museum of Fine Arts students can take classes at MIT, although they may be restricted as to what classes they can take. SMFA students can cross register at MIT, Mass College of Art, Berklee and some other schools. Tufts students can cross register at BU, BC and Brandeis.</p>
<p>Which combined degree program allows you to cross-register at MIT?</p>
<p>Students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts can cross-register for classes at MIT. I think that students in the Tufts/SMFA program can therefore cross-register for classes at MIT also.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if students in the Tufts/NEC combined degree program can cross-register at MIT?</p>
<p>I think one big point about tufts would be to mention that there is a focus in internationalism and public service or citizenship. That and the location differences would distinguish the schools, and the prestige/success when you continue on in a certain direction.</p>
<p>(In response to nervous1's comment)
that is exactly the reason why I balked at applying to NYU. I didn't want the open campus experience at all. I wanted more cohesion and more separation from the city itself. I still wanted to have access to all the resources you get from a huge city, which is why I was really attracted to Tufts. Boston is really just a T-ride away but I still get a real college campus.
Some people love that NYU is basically just some buildings in the middle of New York, so to each his own I guess.</p>
<p>Adam, </p>
<p>you're so right about that. We don't talk about Tufts' emphasis on internationalism and civic responsibility enough on this board though it is one of the most unique, defining characteristics about our school.</p>
<p>"Boston is really just a T-ride away"</p>
<p>No, it IS just a T-ride away.</p>
<p>Well, God forbid I speak so colloquially.</p>