Chances for Tufts

SWHarborfan
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:13:43 +0000

Make sure that your essays capture what Tufts offers that UCSB doesn’t. As well, diplomatically, mention what doesn’t work for you at UCSB that you anticipate, based on your rigorous inventory-taking of Tufts, will be resolved by being a student at Tufts. Because one thing is very true of 4-year universities/colleges who take transfer students, the first spots are given over to exceptional performance students from junior colleges who have nowhere to go. Students coming from 4-year universities don’t as acutely need to transfer as the JCers, so make a strong case for yourself. And be sure that your recs don’t merely mention your academic strengths but what your personal mettle is like.

Good luck to you–my daughter got in ED1 and is headed to Tufts for the class of 2015, after she does a Gap year. It’s a very special place, although I think that UCSB can be idyllic for the right student, too.