<p>So im from Ireland and I've just sort of fell in love with Tufts.<br>
( Disclosure, only investigated it recently, but its just so.. me )</p>
<p>But im wondering about applying ED. SATS 2250. 1/ ( around 100 students ) and projected near perfect end of school exams. I'm involved in lots of ECs and volunteering. But tufts is just me all over. Will ED significantly help my chances, i need financial aid as well. I was thinking that maybe because tufts isn't extremely known to a lot of internationals ( versus yale say, which nearly everyone has heard of ) that less internationals would apply ED and so my chances would go up?</p>
<p>Ah. okay rambling post, thanks if you read it :)</p>
<p>Hey there,</p>
<p>Congratulations on having honed in on the school that feels “so you.” I think rather than asking whether applying ED will improve your chances of acceptance, you should simply recognize that applying ED is showing the school that it is not only “so you” but that it is far and above your first-choice school.</p>
<p>Now, as a secondary matter – yes, ED acceptance rates are slightly higher than RD. So I’d say all systems go, on this one. </p>
<p>(PS: I was an international student – from Brazil – at Tufts, class of 2007. There are a lot of international students at Tufts, part of the reason I was so interested in it over other American universities. I would say that if about 20-30% of each class is international, likely the same relative percentage of ED applicants are also international.)</p>
<p>^^I don’t think the international numbers are as high as 20-30%.
I had heard that of the incoming class, about 6% of the students were non-U.S. citizens coming from abroad.
This apparently does not include students with dual citizenship or foreign nationals who are permanently residing in the U.S., so if you include those two groups and also add U.S. citizens living overseas, I believe the total number usually comes to around 12% of the entering class.</p>
<p>^ Hi there, I think you’d be surprised how many intl students there are at Tufts. I think 25% is pretty accurate when you count all the dual-citizens, etc. In fact I think that’s the number Tufts touts in its admissions material to intl students.</p>
<p>The number we track officially, because we’re asked to, is the number of students without US citizenship or perm-resident status, which usually falls between 6-9%. But there are lots of permutations of what it means to be international. Dual citizens, American Citizens who live abroad, foreign citizens living temporarily in the US, recent green card recipients born and raised outside the US, foreign nationals who actually live overseas. </p>
<p>I’m a dual citizen who lived outside the US before coming to Tufts, and I wouldn’t have been included in that stat. I have no idea what the percentage of students would be if you totaled it all that up; 25% feels a little on the high side but it isn’t that far-fetched a guess.</p>