<p>I have been accepted to Vassar and Tufts and waitlisted at Wesleyan.</p>
<p>Please, PLEASE, anyone who has any advice about which school I should attend, any comparison info, any opinions at all would be appreciated!!
The academics, the campus life, the teachers and students body? What are they like?</p>
<p>Info about me:
Interested in Biology, Psychology and English.
Looking for intellectual community.
Into writing, theatre.
I would like to attend an excellent Grad school, like Yale.</p>
<p>bummmmmpppppp................</p>
<p>They're all excellent institutions. But, like pearls on a string, the closer you look the more obvious the differences between them. To begin with, Vassar and Wesleyan have more in common with each other than with Tufts. Both were preeminent single-sex colleges for most of their histories and became co-ed at about the same time with profound effects on them both. Today, both are known for their liberal, sophisticated student bodies and equal strength in natural science and the arts.</p>
<p>Tufts was a mediocre LAC that grew over the years into an okay, second tier university, probably on the same level as Brandeis or Wake Forest. People go there mainly for its superb preprofessional programs in law, diplomacy, nursing and medicine. It's proximity, however, to so many highly regarded colleges and universities (indeed, it competes in DivIII athletics with the likes of Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan) casts it in the proverbial role of the Ivy-reject school. It's a little unfair, but, the irony is that most Tufts students are too busy climbing that next ladder to success--grad school-- to care.</p>
<p>thanks so much for that great response!!
Anyone else care to share their input?</p>
<p>Anyone, Anyone??.......</p>
<p>I have hung out at all three. Socially Vassar was awesome! I would go there.</p>
<p>Thanks! Anyone else? ...Anyone?</p>