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<p>Sometimes college housing does not include apartments or greek housing correct?</p>

<p>Tufts is making an exception to Boston natives for freshman and sophomore year on campus requirement (I believe Rice gives similar exception but they still encourage students to stay on campus). So a high percentage of freshmen should stay on campus?</p>

<p>If I was cheekymonkey, I would have probably said, well my kid was so dumb he could only make it tufts. If he was any brighter, he could have gone to a community college which is a fullfledged commuter school and saved me money.</p>

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<p>Your relative is not alone. This happens right here on CC all the time.</p>

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<p>Nope. Stanford was a four year university right from the start. It opened its doors in 1891 and awarded its first bachelors degrees four years later.</p>

<p>People sometimes assume it must have once been a Jr. college because of its official name: “Leland Stanford Junior University.” But that’s so named because Leland Stanford Sr. named the school after his dead son Leland Stanford Jr.</p>

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<p>Tufts is more like a metropolitan school. It can be fun on Friday night when all the students pile into the Red Line T. Party Train.</p>

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<p>Tufts simply isn’t a commuter school. Whether it ever was one, I don’t know.</p>

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<p>The appropriate response would have been, “Yes, Tufts did used to be a commuter school, but that changed with the advent of the automobile.”</p>

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<p>As application season gets underway I am seeing some of my students being bombarded with these types of questions. Since I remember laughing out loud back in May when I read some responses I am tagging this post so I can share it with my students. It still amazes how competitive people get around application season.</p>

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<p>I have been having the same problems. I think she should try to avoid the conversations now. That is what we are trying next. When people ask, we are saying “we are still considering options” and then changing the subject. If that does not work, excusing ourselves to go to the bathroom.</p>

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<p>^ lol, imagining the whole Eightisgreat clan stuffed in assorted bathrooms ;)</p>

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<p>“smileandnod U in New South Wales, Australia”</p>

<p>LOL. Smileandnod U has a nice ring to it!</p>