<p>Kofi000's examples included an explanation that his friends, in ADDITION to being racially diverse, also come from disparate socio-economic backgrounds (ie: his explanation of how thye're all paying different levels of tuition). He also mentioned ABC as an example of bringing people of low socio-economic experiences to Tufts.</p>
<p>I'm glad to hear your friends are very diverse. To most people,that's important. To those that clique with kids similar to them, I mean, that sounds boring and pointless to me, but it's their right to congregate with whomever they like. My hope - as I imagine yours is - is that they will see the virtue someday of being with people different from themselves.</p>
<p>And I'm an international student but am not filthy rich. My father works for a multinational, but is not the owner or anything. He makes a salary and has a boss. Yes, there are several international students who are (I've seen the Porsches around campus...), but having those filthy rich people adds to the diversity as well, for better or worse.</p>
<p>Yeah there are people of different socio economic backgrounds here no doubt. I'd never suggest otherwise. And I agree that having the filthy rich here does add and is a necessary part of the diversity...</p>
<p>I doubt however that there is much intermingling though. I really doubt that. I'd imagine that your family has a considerable amount of money if you're able to attend a university in a completely different country, not saying you're part of the Saudi Royal Family, but realistically I doubt you're middle class either.</p>
<p>My point is that (1) there aren't alot of middle class, lower class students at Tufts (which is going to be the case at any private school) and (2) there isn't alot of intermingling. Thus, as you can see I was addressing the original posters concern about the atmosphere at Tufts. As I said earlier if you're upper middle class from the burbs you'll be all set, but if you're part of the minority that is from a working-lower class background from a rural or inner city area my feeling is that you're going to feel left out in a great number of ways. Thats just the way it is.</p>
<p>I don't know where you get these impressions about "intermingling." I have a core group of 3 friends: one is upper middle class, I'm middle class (according to my sociology textbook's definition, I'm not just saying that cause it's what Americans say), and the other is lower class. We're all on differing levels of financial aid from very different backgrounds economically, socially (i.e. religion, family, ethnicity, etc), and to some extent geographically. Yeah, some people are going to hang around people more like them, but you'll find people like that no matter where you go, and most of the people I've befriended aren't like that at all.</p>