<p>What is the "Tuft's Syndrome"?</p>
<p>Tuft's is a school that is usually seen as a fallback school if one doesn't recieve acceptance into the the ivy leagues. If one is good enough for the Ivy leagues and will almost certainly gain acceptance into schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. Then this person if he applied to Tufts will get rejected at the school because they feel the person won't use their offer. this is a common saying.</p>
<p>In another word, overqualification=rejection at Tuft?</p>
<p>Basically. </p>
<p>The UC's seem kind of random at times.</p>
<p>Ahhh, i see.</p>
<p>Does any UC have this what you so called "Tuft's Syndrome" ... if so, is it called "UC[a particular UC]'s Syndrome" ?</p>
<p>This is a rather random question, but do you guys get turned off by underachievers (slackers)? Do you feel that befriending a "slacker" would in some way be a threat to your academic performance?</p>
<p>I am pretty sure they don't have a UC syndrome. either the applicant is missing something or they just made a mistake. Like i said i know a few transfer applicants who got into UCSB with 3.7-4.0 gpa's and went onto study at UCLA or UCB.</p>
<p>Some slackers I like but when they start cheating on your own work during exams, it becomes kind of annoying. I don't think befriending a slacker will be a threat unless you allow it to be one. I think it will make you want to put more effort in your studies. I mean for example I got some pretty good scores on some of my exams at my school but i would never say hey i got a 95 and you didn't. I would usually always look around the classroom to see others graded tests and tell them how well they did and how with a little more work they could have done better. I don't know what it is, but I feel that helping others in turn helps you.</p>
<p>What a good question you mentioned, I think I have met many different kinds of students: The ones who are absent from schools all the times and got GPA around 2.0 GPA (they just go to college without knowing what they are doing, just take class and try to pass them), another kind are the ones who study really hard and extremely motivated and got GPA around 3.5; the ones who don't study but ace many courses with decent GPA around 3.5 too (I have seen a few and I'm impressed... they sleep, do other hw in class, don't pay attention to the professors or sometimes not even showing up but they ace their tests all the times and even got perfect scores; that makes me feel kind of stupid because I have to study so much to ace the tests :( ) </p>
<p>I observed that I see more slackers when I take the GEs courses like history, intro-biology... </p>
<p>However, I barely see any slacker in math or physics or even chemistry (even if they register the courses, they normally just drop it within a few weeks; that is why sometimes the curve in these courses is bad because some geniuses just ruin the freaking curve (Particularly in my first physics course, I got a B because some geniuses just ruin the curve (they almost always get close to perfect scores on everything) and even though I have A average before taking the final but I got a B on the final (25%); my grade was very close to 90% but I ended up with a B <<< pretty sad story)</p>
<p>Anyways, seeing more slackers make me wanna follow them too and that is why I sign up for hard professors because fewer slackers sign up for those challenging professors' courses. The pros is you can learn more and prepare for the university; the cons is just what i mentioned earlier--competition so it is much harder to get A.</p>
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<p>I try to form study groups whenever possible that way everyone will be motivated to learn, whether they be a "slacker" or an "overachiever." Everyone is just as capable as everyone else of getting into Stanford, Yale, Harvard, etc. it's just that they choose different paths. I find that some of these paths involve friends who are a bad influence. I can argue for this point though because 2 of my good friends who I have known since junior high are "slackers." One of them got into CSUF, but since then he's been failing out of all of his classes and retaking the same classes for 2 years now. My other friend is 22 y/o and is just now about to xfer to a 4-year (that is if he doesn't live in Japan). I hope no one takes offense to my second friend since I used his age as a basis for his failure.</p>
<p>Curves in my classes are only to help you.</p>
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<p>Same here, however, the physical science courses are a different story.</p>
<p>ahahaha I like curve in some GEs courses, for example, in my introduction biology, currently we have about 80 students and of course there are some slackers there so the professor is so nice to curve it; I got 98%, 106% and 102% for my first 3 exams... the fourth test is coming soon...</p>
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<p>Dude! Same here! You don't happen to go to IVC, do you? Haha. Overall, I got over 100% in my Bio1 class.</p>
<p>ahahhahaha... man.. serious?
What is IVC though?</p>
<p>irvine valley college</p>
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<p>I hear you. I chose not to stay at IVC because I thought it would be harder to transfer into UCLA. Although this is not necessarily true, the damage is done. I think I've made the right choice though because I've met some amazing people here at SMC that I wouldn't dream of taking back. I'm glad that I came up to LA to finish off my last years at a CC.</p>
<p>There are 3.8, etc. students who end up going to UCs other than UCLA and UCB (for various reasons); there is no "Tuft's Syndrome" with the UCs. The other UCs want those students to come and have many measures to encourage them.</p>
<p>There's no reason for any state-funded school to have Tuft's syndrome.</p>