<p>Richmond vs. Tulane vs. Tufts?</p>
<p>TUFTS. Not even close.</p>
<p>NJM, it largely depends on what you’re looking for. Each is quite different from one another. I looked at Tufts, and found that it didn’t do a thing for me. UR had what I was looking for, while TU was not on my list.</p>
<p>Without any more info from the OP though, it’s impossible to discuss meaningfully.</p>
<p>tulane tulane tulane tulane</p>
<p>With an approx. 20% acceptance rate for the Class of 2015, Tulane will once again be one of the most selective universities in the nation, so I hope you were already admitted. Richmond’s acceptance rate is about twice that. Tufts is comparable to Tulane, but if you want to be in the south, the answer is Tulane.</p>
<p>The average SAT score for Tulane’s Class of 2014 was already about 150 points higher compared with Richmonds and Tulanes scores for the Class of 2015 are the highest in their history: ([Tulane</a> University - Class Acts](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/administration/president/tulane_talk/tt_021811.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/administration/president/tulane_talk/tt_021811.cfm)). Some who posted on the Richmond board with 1800 SATs were admitted ED and some with 1900-2000 SATs received academic scholarships. I won’t get into their qualifications, but it is unlikely that they would have been admitted to Tulane.</p>
<p>At Tulane you will get an excellent liberal arts education at a national research university. It is just the right size. Also, Tulane’s campus feels like a great southern campus should. With twice the number of students as Richmond, it has just the right blend of quirkiness and normalness. You can get all the quirkiness you want in the great city of New Orleans and then come home to a normal college environment. Richmond is so small and isolated that it can be dominated by a small group of quirky, correct-thinking people. Open your eyes wide on your next visit. </p>
<p>Also, Richmond felt like a movie set; as if the administration hired Spielberg to create an imaginary Ivy on a plot of land in the south. They love the outside of their buildings, but on our tour they did not take us inside any except for one girl’s dorm and the student center. They even skipped the library. The inside of the dorm and student center were from the 1970s–tired, laminated, dirty, and dark–not “Gothic” at all.</p>
<p>Good luck with your application to Tulane.</p>
<p>Wow - I think someone has something against UR. Tulane is “just the right size” for who? For what? It has a “normal” college environment? By whose standards? UR is dominated by small groups of quirky people? Sure sounds like someone has a beef.</p>
<p>Does a low acceptance rate equate to a superior education? In what field? What if someone doesn’t want to be in a big city? Twice the size of UR is automatically a good thing? The size of UR is one of the things that attracted my daughter to UR.</p>
<p>You know zero about the OP. It’s obvious the purpose of your post is to critcize UR more than offer sound advice on a very vague inquiry.</p>
<p>With your total of 2 posts, I suspect you are actually URDEfect in disguise.</p>
<p>I retract my last sentence. After looking at your one other post, it looks more like sour grapes.</p>
<p>URWHAT, based on your one previous post, it appears as though you were deferred. The above post comes across as being pretty bitter. </p>
<p>After all, UR had to have something going for it for you to want to apply early decision (which is binding)… Perhaps you are miffed that UR’s admissions process is not formulaic, thus your 2000 SAT wasn’t enough to get you in (I’m getting a lot of bitterness from your line about people with 1800-2000 SATs getting in and some getting merit scholarships). </p>
<p>As an alum, I’m thrilled to see my alma mater not admitting kids based on a sliding GPA/SAT scale like some schools. I’d prefer that they bring in kids who are able to handle the coursework, who bring something unique to the university, and have abilities outside the classroom. </p>
<p>Not sure when you visited, but the Commons received a $3.2 million renovation in April of 2009, so I find your comments on it being “tired, dirty and dark” quite amusing, especially since the entire building facing the lake is pretty much nothing but a bank of windows…
<a href=“Student Involvement - University of Richmond”>Student Involvement - University of Richmond;
[Game</a> room opens | University of Richmond Collegian ? University of Richmond News](<a href=“http://thecollegianur.com/2009/04/16/game-room-opens/8078/]Game”>http://thecollegianur.com/2009/04/16/game-room-opens/8078/)</p>
<p>As for the dorms, they’re begun renovations of all them. That said, I didn’t feel like they were any worse than I experienced when looking at other schools. Only school’s dorms that really stood out to me when I was looking was GW since they had purchased some area hotels and turned them into dorms.
If this is a fair representation of Tulane’s dorms, I’d say that UR is on par.
[dorm</a> at tulane | Flickr - Photo Sharing!](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/milphy/46034812/]dorm”>http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/milphy/46034812/)</p>
<p>Tulane’s low acceptance rate is skewed. They aggressively solicit prospective students to apply using a quick application with no fee or essay. The whole thing takes 10 minutes and costs nothing. This gives them a huge number of applications. Hence the low acceptance rate. My S has been accepted to both RU and TU. He would definitely choose Richmond, except he’s decided on U Miami over the other two. </p>
<p>Richmond and Tulane are both excellent schools. It just depends on which environment fits you better.</p>
<p>Saw a thread earlier today which had TU’s yield rate (accepted students going there) at 17% a couple of years back (lowest in the nation for national private universities). </p>
<p>With what you’re saying, that makes complete sense.</p>
<p>It all depends on what you want to study . UR is rated the 11th best business school in the country , so if you are looking to study business Id say UR.</p>
<p>emmacc ^^ 12th in the country for business but thats no big mistake, this towards URWHAT, I wouldnt say Tulane is all that great considering its 51st in the country on USN&WR, you are obviously exaggerating its greatness. Richmond is 32 in liberal arts colleges, 12th in business (businessweek) and 7th in up and coming liberal arts colleges. As USN&WR indicates, acceptance rates are not everything, Richmond ranks on the great schools,great price list but Tulane is no where on that list. I am not saying Richmond is the greatest, just as a recently admitted student I am defending it with just simply facts.</p>
<p>As for me, Richmond is on the top of my list, ahead of wake forest simply for location (unbiased because i am not from either Virginia or NC), because of its commitment to undergraduate education particularly in business.</p>
<p>As for you, do not be bitter. I was rejected from duke with family ties and donations: my sister currently attends, my dad received both his undergraduate degree and his MHA from Duke and grandfather attended as well. I have moved on, and realize I can still achieve great things at any college. Apply yourself to the fullest and it really wont matter where you attended undergraduate school.</p>
<p>Firstly, Tulane and Richmond are very different schools. This is true for Tufts as well. If you’re seeking small classes and a liberal arts atmosphere or a good business program, Richmond would be an obvious choice, however socially it does not feel like a small liberal arts because of its D1 sports which are better than both Tulane’s and Tufts. As to URWHAT, Tulane markets towards students who do not have as good a shot to bolster its “prestige,” and though it seems more exclusive based on that statistic, it’s low national ranking (#51st ) and internal issues seem to indicate otherwise. The number of students, again is a personal preference but the student-teacher interaction is much less at a large school like Tulane than at a liberal arts college such as Richmond. I have nothing against Tulane, if I do not get in ED1 to my top school I’m planning on applying, yet it’s not on the same level as Richmond and Tufts. Tufts is an incredible school but very different to Richmond so in that case it comes to personal preference in individual departments.</p>
<p>OhioMan… why UR over Wake? What did you see as the key differences? D was accepted to both and wonder what you see as key differences?</p>
<p>I got a full ride scholarship to U of Richmond but feel like Vandy and Duke - also accepted - are higher caliber schools and well worth the debt. My parents are really hoping I’ll take the full tuition scholarship, of course, but obviously want me to be happy. I’m just not sure which direction to go in. I’ve worked so hard to get accepted that I want to go to a school where there is diversity, high academics and alot to offer. I’m not sure U of Richmond is the place for me just because it’s free. I hope to study something math/sciencey/engineering and also participate in theater. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>It’s not for you because it’s free? The fact that your parents will not go tens of thousands of dollars in debt for your education makes it a lesser choice?</p>
<p>Everything that you are looking for is at Richmond. I have other thoughts but I will bite my tongue. Have fun at Duke or Vandy.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for engineering, UR isn’t the school for you probably, but then again, I wouldn’t have selected Vandy or Duke either. None are really known for the undergrad engineering programs.</p>
<p>One last thought – it sounds like the programs you’re looking into are going to require grad school as well. Would be a lot of debt to go into for undergrad and grad, especially when you could get out of undergrad debt free.</p>
<p>Just because a college has a longer-established reputation does not make it higher-caliber. Richmond offers every bit the education that Duke or Vandy does, it’s just a slightly newer player on the scene. If by full ride scholarship you mean the Richmond Scholars Program, then I personally know students who turned down acceptances at Princeton and Harvard to be a Richmond Scholar.</p>
<p>Ironically, I was just talking to a friend/Richmond alum who’s finishing her first year in a biochemistry Ph.D program at Vanderbilt. Because of her undergrad research experience she got top pick of the labs at Vandy, and the professor in the lab she chose told her that she was the most well-prepared student he had ever encountered coming out of an undergrad program. As a result, the Vandy professor is encouraging his high school senior daughter, accepted to Richmond and Vandy, to pick Richmond over Vanderbilt for science.</p>
<p>highered, my daughter is a Richmond Scholar also accepted at Vandy. We are struggling to decide whether to accept the scholarship at UR, or pay for Vandy’s prestige. I assume the Vandy prof is encouraging his D to apply for Richmond Scholar since she can attend Vanderbilt at a 70% tuition discount as child of an employee.</p>