You know, Tufts is a great school, like its peers (more or less) in NESCAC. But nationally, it simply doesn’t have the stature, and certainly not the name recognition, of Penn (or Penn State, for name recognition at least). It has a lot of regional appeal. It has some real strengths, and there might be many reasons that a student would choose it over Penn (or Wesleyan). But if a student is undecided about majors, and has no strong reason to prefer Tufts to Penn, I still think Penn is likely to be a better choice. This should not be interpreted as a slam on Tufts.
I was just suggesting, somewhat facetiously, that deciding not to attend Penn because people might confuse it with Penn State would be silly if that was what was pointing to Tufts as the alternative.