<p>Hi guys, I'm hoping to transfer in the fall and right now Tufts is my top choice, but I have some questions about the school. Can someone who goes there/knows stuff about the school help me out? I'd really appreciate it.</p>
<p>-- How hard is it to do a double major and a minor? I'd be looking at Psych and Community Health majors with a Media/Mass Communication minor. Is that a little overambitious?</p>
<p>-- What are the intramural sports like? I'll be playing a varsity sport but in the off season there is an intramural that I've always wanted to try. Do people take them super seriously or would I be able to just kind of have fun/learn to play?</p>
<p>-- How hard is it to get a job if you don't have work study? That's one of the things that ****es me off about my current school, if you don't have work study it's practically impossible to work on campus.</p>
<p>-- Is there anything you wish you'd known/taken into consideration before going to Tufts?</p>
<p>Thank you so much and I hope to see all you Jumbo's in the fall!</p>
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<li><p>It really depends on how much cross-over there is between your majors and minor. For example, an IR-econ and economics double major with a minor in entrepreneurial leadership is completely different from an IR-international security and art history double major and a minor in like math.
However, if you’re a transfer, you’ll probably need to plan your courses VERY carefully and not take random classes. be ready to take 5 classes per semester or take summer courses to fulfill your requirements.</p></li>
<li><p>Not sure. I don’t play.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s very easy to get a job from dining service, and if you hold out or apply early in the year, you could even get an office job. if you have great computer skills or accounting experience etc, there are better paid ones available.</p></li>
<li><p>I didn’t realize how much I’d love this school. seriously.</p></li>
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<li><p>The Intramurals actually got shut down due to lack of interest, but they may be back now. I played one, and it was what you make of it. I did a sport I’m not good at and it was plenty of fun for me, but there will also be competitive people as always.</p></li>
<li><p>I got a job off campus easily, Tufts has a website for finding jobs that worked very well for me. </p></li>
<li><p>The campus and the weather. The campus doesn’t feel like a typical “college campus” to me. It is also very cold here, so make sure you’re prepared for that.</p></li>
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<li><p>Depends, especially for transfers, but since there are virtually no classes designated as being open to only a specific major, it’s exceedingly easy to take a lot of courses in all three of those areas, even if locking in a specific “minor” is too ambitious.</p></li>
<li><p>It was just the winter intramurals that got shut down. The other seasons are still go.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for all the feedback! I have a few more questions, these ones mostly about housing</p>
<p>1) Is it possible to get a single as a sophomore transfer? I understand I’d be at the absolute bottom of the housing totem pole and just get stuck wherever there’s space but my only worry is about the personality/habits of a person who couldn’t get someone to live with them willingly…</p>
<p>2) About junior housing, what percentage of juniors get to stay on campus? Do juniors move off campus by choice or because they can’t get rooms? What kind of lottery number would you need to get to stay on campus? Again, I’m just kind of apprehensive about the idea of finding off campus housing when I don’t know anybody/the area very well, because I’m assuming that as a transfer I’d get a pretty crappy lottery number (or is it truly random and has nothing to do with semesters on campus?)</p>
<p>3) Are there options for off campus housing (if lottery doesn’t work out jr year)? At my current school there are like 2 houses anywhere near campus and the rest is about a 10/15 minute drive away. Since so many juniors live off campus, are there places where they often live that are close?</p>
<p>THANK YOU! Everything you guys tell me is helping me make my decision a little more!</p>
<p>Parent not a student so I do not know about the lottery. In terms of junior year - I believe many juniors live off campus particularly since so many study abroad for one or two semesters of the junior year. There is plenty of housing walking distance to Tufts. Mostly apartments in multi-unit houses. It is apparently relatively easy to sublet from other juniors traveling for a semester. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Currently a freshman at Tufts…Thoughts on housing:
For junior year, you can definitely live off campus. Tons of houses surrounding Tufts. Remember that about 50-60% of the junior class will go abroad, so a lot of people will sublet a half of a year or even live in a single in a nicer dorm or school run apartment. I don’t know what kind of housing you would get as far as a sophomore transfer.</p>
<p>I transferred into Tufts this year as a sophomore. Most of the other transfers I know ended up in singles — I think it was really just luck of the draw. I think junior transfers were favored for singles, but I know some sophomore transfers who got singles as well, but I did not. I don’t know anyone with any housing disasters, though. I’ve heard that housing for junior year is a bit of a toss-up. Transfers actually don’t have a disadvantage in the housing lottery, it really is random, but I got screwed with a really terrible number for next year, so I’ve already begun making plans to live off-campus. According to the housing office, most years they’re able to house everyone who wants on-campus housing, but it’s not a sure thing. Going off-campus is pretty common. Some of the off-campus houses are literally a few feet off-campus, and most are a short walk away.</p>
<p>1) Doing a double major is definitely doable and very common at Tufts, a minor might be hard just because there are so many great classes but you could do it</p>
<p>2) In all honesty I think intramurals are kind of a joke here and not incredibly well organized</p>
<p>3) If you are looking for work on campus I would highly recommend applying to be a tutor, it pays really well, anyone can apply and you get to set your own hours</p>
<p>4) I love Tufts so much, I’m abroad right now and all I can think of is how excited I am to be returning! :)</p>
<p>5) I’d say most Juniors voluntarily choose to live off campus. After two years in dorms it is just soooo nice to have your own kitchen, your own space and be able to study or throw parties at your leisure, most housing is really close to campus</p>
<p>As far as your housing questions-
I transferred in as a sophomore and was put in a double in one of the better dorms on campus. It’s not that my roommate couldn’t find someone to live with - the guy he was going to live with ended up transferring out so I ended up taking his spot. Junior year, some people go abroad for one semester, and live off campus for the other. Many stay for the entire junior year. Living on or off campus shouldn’t be a problem, and if you need to live off campus, it really wouldn’t be too hard (check out <a href=“https://www.tuftslife.com/announcements?category=Apartments[/url]”>https://www.tuftslife.com/announcements?category=Apartments</a>). I plan on living in an “on-campus” house - a house owned by Tufts just off campus.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the helpful info!
I have one more question, and this one is kind of subjective but I was hoping to maybe get a bunch of different perspectives and kind of get a general idea?</p>
<p>About the people at Tufts - what are they like in general? I’m not too-cool-for-school-keggers-all-the-time but at the same time I’m not silent-chess-and-D&D-on-Friday-nights, is there a decent kind of middle-of-the-road (wow so many hyphens! sorry!) population at Tufts? I know there are all kinds but I’m just worried about finding friends like the ones I have here, who have no problem going out if it’s like once a weekend and there’s something fun going on, but also have no problem not going out at all over a weekend. Like last night for example we just kind of sat around, watched hockey, looked at funny youtube videos, watched billy madison, and kind of just talked and had fun. We had the door open so we people watched all the crowds going out but everyone was just tired and not in the mood so we didn’t try to force it. I feel like a lot of the people here feel the pressure to go out every night even if they don’t feel up to it - is there that same pressure at Tufts? And on the other end of the spectrum, are the people who don’t go out your stereotypical “geeks”? I have nothing against that but I just kind of see myself/my friends like I said, just kind of middle-of-the-road. 3 or 4 of us play varsity sports, one’s in a capella, one’s learning to play the guitar, and we all bonded over the fact that sometimes we just want to have a chill but still fun time. From how I see it, we’re pretty cool for acknowledging that/not giving in to peer pressure =P</p>
<p>So I guess the Sparknotes version of this post is, I know that there are going to be hard partyers, I know there are going to be those who want to study and play WoW on the weekend nights, but, at Tufts, about how sizeable is the population that falls between these extremes? Are the people who don’t go out just your stereotypical super nerd, or are there some “cool” kids too who don’t want to get blasted off their face every night?</p>
<p>And I realize this post could come off offensive to some groups but I really really don’t mean it that way, I’m just genuinely concerned about trying to find a social group that’s as good as the one I have here should I decide to transfer (hopefully to Tufts!)</p>
<p>That middle-of-the-road attitude describes my friends and I exactly, as well as the majority of the Tufts population. Sure, there are people who will go out 3/4 nights every week and then some who won’t go out at all, but most people are in between. During midterms/finals, the library is more happening than most parties.</p>
<p>I’d say my kid is pretty middle of the road. As far as I know he doesn’t drink (at least not with his parents), but when he’s home he’s off hanging with friends. He was a smart slacker in high school. He’s played chess and the like in his day, but not recently. He’s working more than I would have expected at Tufts, but I don’t think he’s nerding out completely. His friends have always been very varied, lots of musicians (both rockers and orchestra geeks), but also science nerds and jocks.</p>