Hey guys! My name is Laura and I applied Early Decision II to Tufts. This is a thread where all of us EDIIers can get to know each other and support each other for the next agonizing 40 days.
My name's Dahlin who is also applying EDII. Also, when do decisions come out? The two dates that I see most are February 1st and February 15th. Hopefully its the former.
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Ahhh!! I know...we EDII people do have a crazy 40 (well, 39 now) days ahead of us. And @DJacks it's February 15th when we get our online TAMS decisions. YIKES. I know I'm going to be hyperventilating every second on that day (Hell, I'm even hyperventilating now, just thinking about it! )
I hope the Tufts Admissions Office likes the fact that my full name is REALLY long and weird...is that a hook?
Good luck to all of us! Fingers crossed that we all become Jumbos!
Any other prospective EDII Jumbos willing to say something?
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You're welcome @DJacks and I know, Feb. 1st is way sooner and it would be nice to know earlier. To the OP: Double major in biochem & political science.
Bump! Anyone else?
I'm an EDIIer as well! IR major. Most likely no shot, to be honest, but I do hope I get in. Now just worrying about my second term grades :/ (such as my Euro paper due in approximately 7 hours... yikes!)
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@diana2012 I'm sure you have a great chance. Don't worry!
Anyone else? I'm getting so anxious...only 31 days now before the TAMS decision!! This is getting nerve-wracking.
To the EDIIers, what made you love Tufts? Let's all post our reasons here!
My turn: I like Tufts because of it's active citizenship doctrine, and the campus is simply warm, supportive, close-knit and gorgeous. It has a wonderful combination of a great biochemistry department and a "feel-at-home" atmosphere. Sigh....
I absolutely loved Tufts by the time i was approximately 15 minutes into the Engineering open house. What really struck me was how much everyone on the campus obviously loved Tufts and how supportive they were of each other. It didn't have the cut-throatedness that one would expect from a school of its caliber. In fact, one of my tour guides was a BME major and said that since there were only 15 a year, her entire year would get together and study. That's the sort of environment I want in a college.
Laura-- same! Tufts has the best atmosphere, and everyone just seems so excited. That's sort of what I wrote about in my why Tufts.
Where else did you guys apply? I'm desperately working (read: procrastinating) on some last minute Jan 15 ones right now. I think my second choice is Brandeis.
The schools that I am applying to,from 2nd choice to 9th choice, are UM, UCLA, UCSD, University of Richmond, UF, UCF, USF, and FSU. I like both Tufts and UM equally its just Tufts gives way better financial aid benefits whereas UM is mostly merit-based.
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My other choices are BC, NYU, Brandeis (Same with Diana on Brandeis being my second choice), RPI, Mount Holyoke and MIT (LOL about this one...worth a try anyway!!) I already got into UVM as a safety (But I really don't want to go...:/)
I'm doing lucky 13: (in rough order of preference)
Tufts
Brandeis
Barnard
BU (hopefully honors college?)
GWU
BC
Mount Holyoke
Bryn Mawr
Smith
American
Northeastern
UVM (accepted)
UMass (accepted...ugh please god, no)
Laura-- totally agree, money is going to be the deciding factor for me. I'm so stressed about paying
Desi-- hahaha we have so much overlap! I wasn't sure about Mount Holyoke (or any of the other women's colleges) but they were free to apply to, so I went for it.
how late did you guys submit? I'm quite a bad procrastinator... Brandeis went in at exactly 11:59 last night, not one of my finer moments :P
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