<p>I'd like to say that Tufts is an excellent college choice.</p>
<p>It is small school relative to other "top" universities...so you get a bit more personal attention. Add to that, an excellent Art History program (among others), and you can't go wrong.</p>
<p>This discussion is similar to the LACs vs. Universities debate...supporters of universities often maintain that if a LAC does not enjoy the same level of name recognition that a university does or has few course choices that the LACs can't give students as good of an education as the Universities, whereas LAC supporters maintain that the lack of personal attention and competition for desirable research opportunities sometimes are the marks of an inferior University education.</p>
<p>The truth is that it depends on the fit of the applicant to the school (and visa versa). I'm just surprized that some of the detractors of Tufts are so aggressive about it.</p>
<p>Do what is best for you. If Tufts is a fit, then go for it.</p>
<p>You hear stories that adcoms cruise thru boards like this seeing what's going on. If it's true (and I think it is), I certainly hope the Tufts adcoms find this one because it's going to bring a smile to their faces. Assuming the students ARE genuinely independently voicing their opinion and not doing it as part of their job in the Admissions Office, Tufts can take pride in the turn-around in school spirit shown by these posts.</p>
<p>Students are ready to leap to the defense of Tufts against any slight, real or imagined. So the changes put in by Tufts HAVE worked; they are enrolling kids genuinely proud of their school instead of resentful they didn't get in somewhere else. If this really represents the attitude at Tufts then it's a good thing :)</p>
<p>I certainly don't work for the admissions office. This is not so much a turn-around as much as it is that Tufts students have been happy for awhile. We're #7 in the Princeton Review's top schools where students are happiest.</p>
<p>I fail to understand why "Tufts is a good school" is such a huge point of contention on CC. Is it because so many CCers are uncomfortable with the idea of being happy at a school that isn't HYPS? Tufts one of the best, comprable to Georgetown, JHU, Northwestern, and Cornell in most respects. Its yield rate is low relative to the top ivies, but it's only a couple of points lower than the aforementioned schools, despite the fact that it's poorly-known to the general public outside of the northeast.</p>
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<p>Tufts is definitely a good school. But is it comparable to GTown, JHU, etc.? NO!!!! </p>
<p>And why should Tufts try to compare itself to other "prestigious" private universities? Are the ppl who attend Tufts really this insecure about themselves that they have to seek validation by going to message boards and boasting about how Tufts rivals the most prestigious universities?</p>
<p>If you like Tufts, it served you well, and it enriched you both academically and personally, then that's what matters. I'm sick of all you ppl trying to seek validation on these message boards. You are NEVER gonna please the prestige wh0res. Why do you want approval from these elitist jerks and prestige wh0res? Chances are, most of these elitists who boasts about going to Ivy schools and working in i-banking will eventually be indicted on tax evasion, securities fraud, and other related white-collared crimes. Just take a look at Andrew Fastow....</p>
<p>Ha, Andrew Fastow went to Tufts as an undergrad; then to Northwestern's Kellogg School for his MBA. So he's not an Ivy Leaguer yet he certainly committed top-level white-collar crimes.</p>
<p>It's not that we need to have people know we are like those schools -- trust me, I'm happy to be at Tufts, period. I don't need to make that sentence read "I'm happy to be at Tufts, it's just as good as X, Y, Z schools." But that you say that Tufts is not comparable to Gtown, JHU, Northwestern, Darmouth, Cornell, etc. is ridiculous. I myself turned down those schools, and I know several who turned down several of them and some others, too.</p>
<p>If you look at the stats of admitted students at all of those schools, they're all very, very similar to the admitted students at Tufts. Even the enrolled students' stats are very similar.</p>
<p>Tekno, Tufts does directly compete for applicants with the above-mentioned schools whether you like it or not. It's just that the amount of Tufts-bashing that goes on on this forum is frustrating and aggravating. In the real world I don't care when most people I meet haven't heard of Tufts, cheifly because most people I meet go to schools I've never heard of or know nothing about. </p>
<p>I for one have no interest in i-banking or high-powered corporate law, so I have no need to attend an ivy. </p>
<p>And btw, Tufts is on the same level as or only a few slots below gtown and JHU in most rankings, (though I think USNews, PR, and SJT are all useless and worthless to the point of being silly) and the admissions stats of the three are very close.</p>
<p>So students who apply to Tufts also apply to Georgetown, JHU, etc. So *****ing what? </p>
<p>Why would ppl give a ***** about what "other schools" Tufts' students apply to? </p>
<p>And stop acting like Tufts is the only school that gets bashed in these forums. I've seen EVERY school on these forums get bashed. The only schools that these prestige wh0res and elitist pricks respect are the Ivys and so forth. Unless you go to a Top 25-30 school, or Top 5 LAC, your school is likely to get bashed. </p>
<p>Tufts is a fine institution. It's a great school that DOESN'T need to be compared to JHU, Northwestern, whatever. I'm surprised that many Tufts students here have major chips on their shoulders. Grow up.</p>
<p>We agree this argument is unnecessary, but then again, we didn't start it.</p>
<p>And, Tufts IS a Top 25-30 school, yet it still gets bashed -- that's our point.</p>
<p>And we didn't say that Tufts students also apply to Georgetown, JHU, etc. We said Tufts students also GET IN to those schools. There's the difference.</p>
<p>I agree. Like I said before, if you felt that Tufts has truly enriched you as a person, then that means so much more than any numerical ranking can afford.</p>