<p>It’s interesting that you didn’t feel comfortable on campus at Tufts, but liked Brown. I’ll say this from a personal perspective…</p>
<p>Back in the day (I’m a parent, by the way), when I was looking at colleges, I had an older brother who attended Brown. I went to look at Tufts and one thing (of many) that struck me about Tufts was how the campus had similarities to Brown. The size is similar and there is the New England campus but it is not isolated and shops, restaurants, and off campus housing was meshed with the campus and the city center was nearby. I ended up falling in love with Tufts and I went there in fact. </p>
<p>Fast forward to when my oldest daughter was selecting colleges. It turns out that Brown and Tufts were two of her three favorite colleges. She chose to attend Brown and loved it. But she truly loved Tufts as well and considered going when she narrowed it to her final decision making process of all her acceptances. My D was not as into the prestige factor, as you may be it seems. She actually knocked her acceptance to Penn off her list when making her final choices and preferred Tufts to Penn. In any case, Tufts was appealing to someone who loved Brown, and to my knowledge there are cross admits with these schools.</p>
<p>By the way, Vassar has been coed for a long while and is one you should explore. My D did not apply there as it did not meet her other selection criteria which are not selection criteria that you have and so that’s a moot point.</p>