<p>I posted a thread in the Wash U board asking how Wash U students (or anybody) compared its prestige to the prestige of other schools, e.g. NU, Tufts, Emory. I'd be interested to know what Tufts students think about their school and/or how they compare Tufts to other schools. I know it sometimes depends on the program (like Tufts has a fabulous international relations major) but I'm looking for a general feel. All opinions would be helpful! Thanks!</p>
<p>Anybody? I just want to know how Tufts students/non-students feel about their school</p>
<p>I'd say Tufts is about equal to Northwestern and Emory.</p>
<p>I think no one is responding on this board precisely because no one here cares about perceived prestige and instead cares about quality of academics and student life.</p>
<p>The academics and student life, by the way, are excellent.</p>
<p>what you do with your time in college is more important than the prestiege of the college you go to.</p>
<p>if us news has anything to do with it, Tufts is a peer of NYU, Rochester, UNC, and USC. It's PA score is below a 4.0. You can't call it a peer of any school that has a PA above a 4.2. The recruitment is not so good either. Do Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, or Morgan Stanley even recruit there? No. How can that be considering that Tufts is located in the NE? Idk. It is a great school. But is more of a peer of Emory and Vandy than a Northwestern. NU's SAT average this year was a 1423, confirmed by multiple university sources. Tufts is no where near that. NU has historically been ranked much higher than Tufts and if you look at Tufts' admissions stats in the last 10 years, you will see that before the last 2-3 years, it lagged a lot behind other top 15 schools in terms of sat scores.....</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan (of which a Tufts grad, Jamie Dimon, is CEO), and Morgan Stanely do recruit at Tufts. Perhaps not as extensively as a pre-professional program like Wharton, but about as much as any top liberal arts school or similarly competitive non-business undergrad program.</p>
<p>Peer assessment for Tufts is an anomaly. It's also the most unscientific part of the whole flawed USNWR ranking. If you look at the achievements (stats, scores, GPAs, class rank, etc.) of Tufts classes they're notably higher than the schools the rankings would put them as on par with. If you believe that you can tell a school's quality by rankings, then I just won't argue with you because I hold a different opinion. </p>
<p>The average SAT for the ENROLLED class of 2011 this year was 1405—the admitted class' should necessarily have been higher. (Source: <a href="http://admissions.tufts.edu/?pid=196%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.tufts.edu/?pid=196</a>) Furthermore, it was the same average last year—while NU's jumped 22 points this year, which means their 2010 class' SAT average was lower than Tufts' 2010 class. I mean this is all negligible. They're both fine, quite comparable institutions that attract many cross-applicants, and have different strengths and weaknesses.</p>
<p>A parent's point of view- In Sophmore and Jr year of HS our son was somewhat focused on prestige, and utilized US News, but more for research into specific categories than for rankings. By senior year ranking and prestige dropped lower on the list of priorities, since by then he knew more specifics of what he was looking for. That said, if he was interested in Wall St, which he is not, he probably would have looked at Penn, Dartmouth, or other colleges that have business schools.</p>
<p>Tufts seems to have a reputation for attracting idealistic students with very diverse, global interests. It may be a generalization, but it seems to fit. It's probably not the kind of campus where you're going to find kids who worry a lot about prestige or ranking. His professors are enthusiastic and accessible. He has dormmates from all over the US and world. We are really impressed with the school so far and think it was a great choice. </p>
<p>He researched carefully enough that the schools that looked best for him on paper also turned out to be the ones he liked best, and Tufts was at the top of his list, even after visiting "higher ranked" schools. Fit is very important and everyone is different.</p>
<p>From my experience, I have never seen Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, or Morgan Stanley holding on-campus recruiting events at Tufts.</p>
<p>For tech companies, companies such as Google, Microsoft, Pixar, and Facebook do not have recruiting events at Tufts, while they do at other universities close by.</p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>I know many recent Tufts grads who were recruited by GS, JPMorgan, Bear Stearns, and other Wall St. companies.</p>
<p>I also know several recent Tufts grads who work at Google; also lots of recent grads at big defense contractor companies from Boston to Seattle. Quite a few who work at NASA in Texas and Florida, too. I'm not the best person to give an opinion here though because most my friends weren't engineers.</p>
<p>I'm not saying it's not possible to get jobs at those great companies. I'm just saying I've never seen those companies hold recruiting events on the Tufts campus.</p>
<p>I saw several of the companies you mentioned during career fairs my senior year. </p>
<p>You are corrected.</p>
<p>I did see Microsoft on the list for the career fair that happened last Wednesday, although they weren't on campus when I was a student. I didn't see any of the other companies I listed though.</p>
<p><a href="http://careers.tufts.edu/cf07.htm%5B/url%5D">http://careers.tufts.edu/cf07.htm</a></p>
<p>Care to elaborate?</p>
<p>i believe that the link you sent is just one of many career fairs each year. i also think that Goldman, for example, recruits on a day just for them.</p>
<p>not going to lie, that career day was not too impressive. I don't think I saw more than one or two top companies on there. By the way, the fact that you know Tufts alums that work at those companies do not mean that these companies actively recruit students from Tufts. I know people from local state schools that got jobs at Jp Morgan despite the fact that JP morgan doesn't actively recruit from them. If you want to see where we are coming from, just look at the campus calendars for JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers. Tufts just has a resume drop for JP Morgan but no on campus interviews like other top schools.</p>
<p>I've never seen Goldman holding any recruiting events at Tufts. I believe Tufts has 2 big career fairs each year. I remember there was also one for engineering companies only. A lot of the top tech and finance companies don't show up.</p>
<p>I would also caution against anecdotal accounts of XYZ person securing a job at Google after graduation...the same could be said for literally any school in the US, and in each case the stories would be just as misleading and unrepresentative.</p>
<p>As for reputation/prestige, its certainly true that many students are perfectly happy with Tufts and eschew rankings altogether. But other widespread trends among the Tufts student body suggest otherwise: take a look at this article decrying the Ivy envy students harbor upon being rejected by Ivy League schools and coming to Tufts instead <a href="http://www.tuftsobserver.org/opinion/20051015/ivy_envy.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.tuftsobserver.org/opinion/20051015/ivy_envy.html</a></p>
<p>Also take a look at this editorial lambasting career services at Tufts
<a href="http://www.tuftsobserver.org/editorial/20070413/career_services_call_to_d.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.tuftsobserver.org/editorial/20070413/career_services_call_to_d.html</a></p>
<p>Again, these are grievances taken straight from Tufts students, not recruiting brochures. It's a good idea to browse publications at a school to find the current tensions/opinions of the student body, whether it's at Harvard, Brown, Tufts, or any other school.</p>
<p>We can also ask whether or not "top company" recruiting is a definite sign of school quality. I sometimes get the feeling that top companies just recruit at certain places out of habit more than anything.</p>
<p>And take it from someone who's worked a bit-- "Big" is not always better.</p>