<p>I have nothing to do with Swat and had promised myself never to post on a Swat board again, but fools rush in…</p>
<p>I do not believe that Swat has Tufts syndrome, and I am not convinced that Tufts does either.</p>
<p>Schools look for fit as much as students do.</p>
<p>Swat has a healthy respect for itself I’m sure as well it should, and I don’t think the Adcom would automatically assume that a highly qualified candidate would choose an Ivy over Swat.</p>
<p>I think they want to ensure that their resources are utilized in the best way possible according to their own mission statement.</p>
<p>As has been noted on other threads, there are students accepted to Harvard who are wait listed at Sarah Lawrence. We might say, “Tufts Syndrome,” or we might say that those students haven’t demonstrated that they would particularly benefit from SL’s unique pedagogy.</p>
<p>There a young man this year who was wait listed at five elite LAC’s and rejected at one and accepted at Harvard. Now if he hadn’t gotten that acceptance to H, he would have been left without a college, and the LAC’s were in no position to know that he wouldn’t be attending.</p>
<p>Something in his application said he wasn’t suited to their schools.</p>
<p>I do think it’s lovely that holistic admissions policies don’t just skim the students with the highest stats. That way, schools maintain some individual personality and students have other ways to show that they would be an asset to the community of a particular school.</p>