I heard from my school counselor that they don’t do interviews until mid-February… I guess that means that they don’t really value the interview?
Anyways, does anyone know what date admissions decisions tend to come out? And are they posted on the portal, email, mail…?
@bluenette23 you find out on the portal it shows you have an update and you have to click it to see your decision
They will be up “by April 1st” but they are almost always in late march.
I heard they don’t value the interviews as much as other schools might but it will definitely help you if you have a good interview!
Does anyone want to post stats and ECs and what not? I mean we don’t have to but we can
@kwnstandina sure!
Hello!
My name is Constantina but people call me Nadia!
Tufts is obviously my top school since I Applied ED
I have toured once and have gone for a STEM day.
SATs: 1300
ACTs: Composite 29, English 28, Math 32, Reading 28, Science 27, ELA 25, STEM 30
GPA: 3.81/4 (top 12%)
AP’s: Calc AB (3)
Senior courseload: AP Physics, AP Bio, AP Language and Comp., AP Calc BC, Internship at doctors office, Independent German 3
Awards: National Honors Society, Honor roll, New Hampshire scholar with honors, Intermediate German Award, Questbridge Finalist, silver presidential service award (just found out I’m getting this)
I am 100% fluent in Greek and English. I also speak some German.
First generation College student (actually my mom was born here but finished high school in Greece so I am kinda first generation American as well)
Extra curriculars: Varsity Gymnastics Team, Captain junior and senior year,
I intern with two Orthodontists, they both graduated from Tufts schools and one of them is a professor at Tufts Dental
Recommendations: Guidance councilor 7/10. She knows a little about my life but it was mostly about my school work.
Two teacher recommendations: AP calc teacher 9/10, Bio teacher 9/10
The doctor I intern with wrote me a fantastic 10/10 recommendation about team work and personality. He used to do interviews for tufts and has gone to three of their fantastic schools
Essays: Common App essay: 9/10 I am Greek and I wrote about my personality development when I was sent to Greece for the summer to live with my uncle.
Quest bridge essays: 10/10 Spoke about my fathers drug and alcohol problems and how he was not a real parent to me, and how he was never there for me mentally and physically.
10/10 wrote about my time at the office interning and how it has made me love Orthodontics so much. I also touched upon some achievements and cool projects I have engineered.
Both of these essays were very well written and I had checked over them with multiple teachers and peers
Being a Questbridge Finalist is supposed to help my admissions to their partner schools But I do not know exactly how helpful it is, so thats some what a good thing too. The acceptance rate for QuestBridge applicants in RD is 65% for all the QuestBridge affiliated schools.
No interview.
I might have been deferred because I got an email the day before decisions are out and it said that there was a glitch and they needed my writing supplements. I had already finished them so I immediately sent them in but I feel like this was why I was deferred. Who knows! Haha
@kwnstandina Scores on the low side, but 1st gen should help with that, and the fact that you’re very pointy in your app also should make up for that. And being QB finalist definitely doesn’t hurt.
Haha what do you mean by pointy? @masquerade98
I just woke up so it might come to me in a minute
I’ll follow @kwnstandina but will provide a little more comprehensive breakdown lol.
ACT: 34 (36E 33M 31R 34S) 30W
GPA: 4.0 UW 4.81W
Full course rigor
ECs: freerunning (rank #1 athlete between all freerunning academies in CA), coach (paid), seat on freerunning board for international Olympics committee, student body president (9th grade), rep (10-11), senior leadership president (12th grade obviously), piano, jazz band (piano and vibraphone), photo club (president), improv team (team captain), astronomy club (VP), NHS & Key Club, internships with city newspaper company and environmental science company.
Recs: great based on what my teachers told me about them
Tufts supplements were pretty good; my “what makes you happy?” answer was by far the best supplement I wrote for any of my schools.
I also toured over the summer and loved the campus and surrounding area and I think they track visits for interest.
@kwnstandina There’s usually two types of applications: Round, which means that you are good at a lot of things and there’s no real weakness to your app. The other type is pointy, where there might be a side of your app (ex: essays, scores, etc) where you’re not as competitive, but you make up for it by focusing the entire app on a passion, orthodontics in your case.
Ohh ok thanks haha I was aiming for that I guess I just didn’t know the terminology @masquerade98
hi everyone! @kwnstandina i figured you were at least half-greek from your name! i’m a greek RD applicant as well!
OMG YESSSS!!! @neuromaniac we both need to get in!!! I want to make all the Greek people on campus hang out :)) my family is from Epirus it’s the area around ioannina!
that’s so cool!! i hope we all get in!!!
any other deferred students in here??
When they say it’s optional and not considered, they really mean it! I almost died a few years back when my son blithely reported that he had checked the “decline” box for an interview. He is currently a junior…
@Wizardingage, they also say you don’t need to visit to demonstrate interest. What’s your take on that? My son couldn’t take an official tour but had a few hours on a Sunday to walk around and talk to students. I regret not making him stay in Boston to register for a tour. That school week was full of tests, though. He loved it and was really impressed with the students he met. He came home pretty stoked but again, it would be hard for admissions to tell his interest was genuine.
@binky17 I doubt they care at all, since they have to keep in mind that some students don’t have the financial means to visit, especially if it’s far away for them.
Thanks @masquerade98
Some schools definitely care about demonstrated interest. Wash U is rumored to care a great deal. (At our high school a number of kids who had visited were admitted while kids with more “impressive” numbers and such were routinely turned down if they hadn’t visited.) I honestly believe that if a school thinks you have the means to visit, and you don’t, it can be held against you.
@NESCACDAD The Common Data Set for Tufts lists level of interest as “considered”, which means its also in the same category as having alumni, being first gen, etc. So they definitely take note, but I don’t think it can make or break your app.