<p>The Tufts Syndrome will continue to exist as long as Tufts dreaded yield problem exists:</p>
<p>[The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html]The”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)</p>
<p>Tufts, sadly, remains not high on the preference list of top students for whom it competes. This creates an on-going issue for the admissions committee to manage, given Tufts concerns about its relatively low ranking in silly places like US News & World Report, where yield is an important variable in the calculation. It’s a weird vicious circle that Tufts has been in for years. </p>
<p>As to whether the Tufts Syndrome carries over to students and how they view their Tufts experience once there, I tend to agree with The OldProf --I imagine its pretty limited.</p>