<p>Have I suggested anywhere <em>in this thread</em> that Tufts is unheard of? Nope. But WrathofAchilles sure has! Perhaps your comment should be directed towards WOA?</p>
<p>And please, do not confuse selectivity with quality. I think the poster Mini always points out how one of the most selective colleges anywhere is Middlesex Community College. My only objection here is the assumption made by WOA that "good schools" like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Rice, and Duke rate Tufts highly and administrators at North Dakota State University, UT Arlington, Truman State University, and the University of Northern Iowa rate it lowly. Spin it as you must.</p>
<p>And interestingly enough, Purdue is an internationally renowned, superb school for engineering, so don't just dismiss it because it has relatively easy entrance requirements. Don't think you'll find too many people in the US who would consider Purdue an inferior school to Tufts when it comes to engineering. State otherwise and you're just a fool. Has nothing whatsover to do with Big Ten sports. Just another poorly thought out example from the Tufts crowd.</p>
<p>Tufts is renowned in engineering because of the individual attention offered.
Of course Tufts' peer institutions - Gerogetown, Northwestern, Emory, JHU, etc. etc. would rate the school highly - they are very familiar with it. But does anyone honestly expect the administration of a little school in northern Mississippi to have sufficient knowledge of Tufts (or many other top schools for that matter) to give a truly accurate PR? There have been hundreds of posts highlighting and spelling out the top-quality of Tufts - a reason in part why so many students apply there for so few seats. I (and others) have patiently explained to you, over and over again, the true selectivity of Tufts and its' wonderful reputation. You simply ignore the mountains of evidence, as is justified in your previous thread. In one thread I have provided you with numerable resources that support Duffman, myself, AriesAthena, Bluirinka, snuffles, etc. etc. Either you are a Tufts-reject who is embittered that he was actually denied (OMG), or you have a specific axe to grind with this institution.</p>
<p>LOL. Tufts is about as renowned in engineering as is RETS or ITT Tech or UMontana-Buttholeville or whatever else company it keeps. The "axe to grind", bitter reject argument. How weak. Last refuge. Say uncle, Biotch.</p>
<p>You have once again ignored my patient explanations and the links that I have provided above. You are now sounding petty and peevish. Why don't you actually go speak to a Guidance Counselor about Tufts if you have issues/questions with it, or someone in a professional field?</p>
<p>Sorry, but I see no explanations of anything. Show me where Tufts "so-called peer institutions" rate it highly? For anything? C'mon now. I realize and actually do believe that Tufts is a very good school for a select group of studies. I'm just toying with you for the most part. It's just the assumptions and hypothesizing that torque me off here...Some British study that doesn't actually list the schools and some links from the Tufts papers? Doesn't work for me...</p>
<p>You don't seem to know very much about Tufts. To not even understand who its peer institutions are bothers me considerably.</p>
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<p>If that's all you've got, I guess we'll leave it that...Very well then!</p>
<p>Go read a few of the books that I referenced for you...</p>
<p>and your previous, anti-Tufts slant is well-known. This was from a post of yours from a while back: </p>
<p>"And sad as it is to say, very few (with the obvious exception of Tufts students/alums) in Boston even consider Tufts amongst Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, and NEU. Doesn't mean a thing in the grand scheme of things. I'd consider Tufts as tops in the Boston area, if not the country, for a program like IR but fifth overall in Boston alone, for something like engineering or CS. So like the other schools, it varies. Most Bostonians (rightly or wrongly) think very, very little of Tufts because it doesn't have the size, budget, sports teams or a research focus like the others that tend to get those schools onto the local news/conciousness. Not that that matters or anything...Just sayin"</p>
<p>It has the students, it has the faculty, and it has the research focus. What do you call world-beating veterinary, nutritional, and diplomatic/law graduate research schools that are constantly in the press (hence, the Guardian reference)?</p>
<p>End this silly argument - We know that you just cannot stand Tufts, and that you post in order to arouse argument (as the one I witnessed btw you and WOA).</p>
<p>May we please have peace? This bickering is tiresome. I've been here for far too long and it's just not worth the energy.</p>
<p>Yes...I have asked to end this repeatedly...Eng_dude enjoys picking fights on this forum...I just get tired sometimes of the ant-Tufts bashing and harassment.</p>
<p>If you don't want bickering, don't make unfounded statements and try and twist things around. It's that simple.</p>
<p>For someone to name "big" names and imply that those big names have some type of huge respect for a school like Tufts and then name some no-name schools and imply that they've never heard of the place and that they are essentially ignorant is just inviting skepticism. No one here can say that its the "no name" schools from the midwest, south or west that contribute to Tufts very low peer assessment. And its peer assement rating is really, really low. Like top 40 to 60 low. Old UK publications and Tufts internal publications be damned. And this very low peer assessment is DOCUMENTED, as opposed to the pretty much trollish opinions of the Tufts proponents here. Until someone can show us that such and such school has such and such peer rating of Tufts with any type of authority, shaddup!
Capisce??</p>
<p>Oh, and to WorldBandDX -- "Some folks look for answers, others look for fights"....</p>
<p>Go read the books that I have referenced to you. They should provide you with your sources. And, add the Fiske's Guide 2007 to it. </p>
<p>What is your problem with Tufts? You appear to have serious issues with this school, stretching back months. Just leave this forum.</p>
<p>Eng_dude I think you misunderstood my point about Peer Ranking. Most professionals in Texas and surrounding states have in fact heard of Tufts. That is, they know the name. They just don't know very much about it. The general population has never even heard of it. I assume this would extend to school administrators. "No-name" state schools in TX, MS, and MO will probably not give Tufts high PR rankings because they know nothing about it, even though some may have heard the name. For the record, I think Tufts is also poorly placed to rate these schools. Everyone I've talked to from Georgetown, MIT, BU, BC, Cornell, and Dartmouth knows about Tufts and has a high opinion of it, with the possible exception of certain people on this forum. Also, if you've noticed, Peer Review seems to be biased towards large public schools.</p>
<p>Tufts is extremely well known and well-regarded in roughly the northern quarter of the US, as well as in parts of the west coast. In between, most people don't know about it. </p>
<p>It's obvious that you have issues with Tufts. Would you care to tell us how you came to have such a negative opinion of the school?</p>
<p>although many people in the midwest and texas havent heard of tufts, i can assure you that many people in the northeast have never heard of rice.</p>
<p>^very true. I was just about to make the same point. My friends at Tufts from New York have either never heard of rice or know very little about it.</p>
<p>Eng Dude - "Some folks look for answers, others look for fights".... You can't quote from the Dead and bash away at the same time. It's obvious you've got issues with Tufts. If you didn't, you wouldn't be in this forum trying to stir up stuff. Go catch a Phil and Friends show the next time around and mellow out.</p>
<p>When my Italian born neighbor asked where my son was accepted her response was "Wow Tufts - where is Middlebury? Going to Tufts is like giving him the world."</p>
<p>This fight is the dumbest thing ever. ENOUGH! There are some people who get it and some who don't.</p>