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05-16-2012, 04:15 PM
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#76 | | Super Moderator
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| Housing - Students - Tufts University
It sounds like Tufts has a requirement to stay on campus unless you have a home in Boston. So how many people live at home that commute to Tufts?
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05-16-2012, 04:18 PM
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We tried to soften the blow for our nephew by pointing out that one of the Us where he was rejected from has also rejected NMFs and that he is going to a GREAT school with an amazing merit package so he'll have more money from grad/med school. He did choose a lot of very good schools and is happy with his acceptances and the U he'll be attending.
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05-16-2012, 04:18 PM
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Not a clue. They do have reasonably a strict requirement that freshmen and sophs must live on campus for the first two yrs. For all i know, Tufts juniors and seniors do live off campus and "commute" to school. However, it wasn't the comment. It was the implication that my kid was not going a "good" university. That he could/ should have " done better." LOL.
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05-16-2012, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by texaspg It sounds like Tufts has a requirement to stay on campus unless you have a home in Boston. So how many people live at home that commute to Tufts? | According to Collegeboard, 64% of all Tufts undergrads live in college housing. Compared to HYPSYM's (more like 98%), it's lower, compared to places like Penn State (37%), it's higher.
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05-16-2012, 11:35 PM
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I was so happy and excited when my son got into Tufts ED. Six weeks later we went out to dinner with some friends and he said with a completely straight face "Congratulations, but you know you're sending your son to a commuter school".
| This is priceless. It would be like hearing someone say about Stanford that it's OK for a junior college (which it was, once upon a time), or that USC was OK for those who don't have the grades to get into UCLA (also true, once upon a time...and yeah, us UCLA partisans still want to say it  ). In other words, it's someone just revealing that their knowledge on the subject is waaaaaaay out of date. How did you keep from laughing?
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05-16-2012, 11:46 PM
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Sometimes college housing does not include apartments or greek housing correct?
Tufts is making an exception to Boston natives for freshman and sophomore year on campus requirement (I believe Rice gives similar exception but they still encourage students to stay on campus). So a high percentage of freshmen should stay on campus?
If I was cheekymonkey, I would have probably said, well my kid was so dumb he could only make it tufts. If he was any brighter, he could have gone to a community college which is a fullfledged commuter school and saved me money.
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05-16-2012, 11:55 PM
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>>Another relative tried to steer her to a school that makes absolutely no sense for her.<<
Your relative is not alone. This happens right here on CC all the time.
Last edited by coureur; 05-17-2012 at 12:13 AM.
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05-17-2012, 12:12 AM
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>>This is priceless. It would be like hearing someone say about Stanford that it's OK for a junior college (which it was, once upon a time),<<
Nope. Stanford was a four year university right from the start. It opened its doors in 1891 and awarded its first bachelors degrees four years later.
People sometimes assume it must have once been a Jr. college because of its official name: "Leland Stanford Junior University." But that's so named because Leland Stanford Sr. named the school after his dead son Leland Stanford Jr.
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05-17-2012, 03:32 AM
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Tufts is more like a metropolitan school. It can be fun on Friday night when all the students pile into the Red Line T. Party Train.
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05-17-2012, 10:31 AM
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Tufts simply isn't a commuter school. Whether it ever was one, I don't know.
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05-17-2012, 10:34 AM
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The appropriate response would have been, "Yes, Tufts did used to be a commuter school, but that changed with the advent of the automobile."
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07-16-2012, 10:05 PM
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As application season gets underway I am seeing some of my students being bombarded with these types of questions. Since I remember laughing out loud back in May when I read some responses I am tagging this post so I can share it with my students. It still amazes how competitive people get around application season.
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07-16-2012, 11:07 PM
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I have been having the same problems. I think she should try to avoid the conversations now. That is what we are trying next. When people ask, we are saying "we are still considering options" and then changing the subject. If that does not work, excusing ourselves to go to the bathroom.
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07-16-2012, 11:28 PM
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^ lol, imagining the whole Eightisgreat clan stuffed in assorted bathrooms | |
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07-17-2012, 07:08 AM
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"smileandnod U in New South Wales, Australia"
LOL. Smileandnod U has a nice ring to it!
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