<p>For the most heartfelt reasons, my kid chose to apply to Tufts over Brown, ED. This is a stellar student with great “data” who picked up on the ingenuousness and joy at Tufts and that the admissions people (the people who are picking my kid’s peers/class) were sensitive, accessible, smart, impassioned, and attune to some very nuanced things about Tufts.</p>
<p>At Brown, an overly-polished senior girl took over from the (new) admissions person who was ailing with a cold. Neither could answer my child’s two questions–one about study abroad and the other about how college credits and grades impact one’s application. What they did do was redundantly repeat that Brown had an open curriculum (get over it, already, Brown, once can self-design a major at 2/3rds of the country’s colleges/universities), that they were on the top ten list for happiest students, and that they were Ivy league.</p>
<p>I am proud of what I think was an introspective and mature thought process on the part of my kid. And speaking of pride, Cherrycrush should be proud of him/herself for abandoning insecurity re: college rankings over the more meaningful criteria for picking a school.</p>
<p>My son is a sophomore at Tufts. Something intangible attracted him more than any of the other schools to which he applied and was accepted. It was a good choice as he is enjoying, learning and is very happy in the environment.</p>
<p>One of the most memorable o9ccasions for me as a parent was the MAtriculation ceremony. Each year as part of this Dean Coffin ( Dean of Admissions) addresses and discusses the class. For those interested, it tells a lot about the students entering but also about the institution that has chosen them.</p>
<p>^^crazi4uni-
Business and economics are not the same major. Some of the schools offering the best economics majors in the country - from MIT to Northwestern and on - do not have undergrad business majors. Tufts is a fine choice if you want to study economics, but if you have your heart set on an undergrad business degree, it would not be the right choice.</p>
<p>Most colleges in U.S seem to have only developed regional reputation IMHO. I mean yeah most applicants aiming for highly selective schools must have known Tufts, Emory, WU, NU, but if you go and ask a Midwestern high school junior about Tufts, s/he probably will have no idea what you’re talking about. I knew some high school kids in Missouri don’t even know Columbia. So if you want widely recognized reputation I would say only HYPSM might work.</p>
<p>My brother graduated from Tufts in '09 with a major in economics and really seemed to love everything about it. He ended up with a ton of internships and now works in I-banking.</p>
<p>I’ve heard Econ is one of the more popular majors. There is no business program for undergrad (although fletcher has good int’l finance and stuff) and business is such a broad term it’s hard to give an answer for whether or not tufts is a good choice if you want to work in business. Look at the career services site to see the types of companies that come to tufts. Not too many major corps., plenty of government agencies/nonprofits though. Tells you a bit about tufts’ strengths/focuses.</p>
<p>As I’ve written before, my son’s only concern is that it’s all going by too quickly. He’s a junior. I still remember President Bacow’s matriculation address from 2 1/2 years ago - it brought tears to my eyes (and several other parents seated near me) and made me realize - once again - that Tuft’s was a good place for my son to spend 4 years.</p>
<p>That was how our entire family felt when we first visited. To this day, I keep the email message of congratulations that Dean Coffin sent my son (now a Tufts graduate) when he was admitted.</p>
<p>but “justthefacts”, you know very well that, in fact, Tufts is manipulating the SAT data. Therefore how can you lower another university compared to Tufts by using Tufts’ SAT scores?</p>
<p>No. That claim is non-falsfiable. They don’t manipulate their SAT reporting scores. I dare someone to find a credible source of evidence that says otherwise not just for Tufts, but for any other good school.</p>
<p>Just throwing it out there, Fletcher is a Graduate school, and to the best of my knowledge, doesn’t do too much stuff with undergrads.</p>
<p>The impression I’ve gotten from my half-semester at Tufts so far is that it is very much what you make of it. A good number of my peers are doing stuff here they would be able to do just as well at a good state school for a lot less money. But if you want to take advantage of this place, there is just an incredible amount you can do.</p>
<p>I’m currently in Tufts’ Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship programme (EPIIC). It’s a highly rigourous course on a contemporary world issue (this year is Our Nuclear Age: Promise and Peril) in which my classmates are some of the most amazing thinkers at Tufts. Our instruction consists of experts coming in and giving lectures and presentations. It draws some of the world’s foremost minds in the field, and is an absolutely unparalleled experience. Not even Ivy League schools can match the array of brilliant people who we’ve talked to.</p>
<p>Tufts previously reported ACCEPTED undergraduate class statistics when data requested (or was assumed to be) ENROLLED student statistics. Thankfully, on their website now, Tufts does indicate the statistics are for accepted students. As Tufts has always, and will always. be a back up school (nothing wrong with that) for most students (not all students) with a yield that proves it, the ENROLLED student statistics are SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER than the ACCEPTED student statistics. Try to get the enrolled student statistics out of Tufts—it is virtually impossible.</p>
<p>What you said about availability of enrolled student stats is NOT true. All you have to do is go to the admissions page and click on the link to Dean Coffin’s speech about the Class of 2014. </p>
<p>333-Thank you for the reference–it is good to see that the Dean has articulated some of the enrolled student statistics. I stand corrected.</p>
<p>WCASParent-Thank you for the continued name calling–it’s nice to know that I still get your goat. Additionally, please stop providing POOR advice to the prospective students applying to Georgetown and Johns Hopkins–I am an alumni interviewer for both, and you are generally WAY off base and are doing a huge disservice to applicants.</p>