Help me compare Wesleyan and Tufts

justplayin104
Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:40:17 +0000

If you’re in the position where you have to compare to two and decide, don’t worry about it. I’d spend more time finding a comfort zone within either one, it’s more important and will determine your success moreso than rep or “quality of life” (whatever that’s supposed to mean anyways).

People are always like “well Harvard as this going for it” and “Tufts has a better engineering program” and “Swarthmore has a more involved campus”…

If you don’t like the people you work with or live with or play with, or you don’t like the city you live in or you’re depressed about your body image or can’t study because you can’t focus…and you’re not comfortable with where you are and you just don’t like it… that #1 engineering (or language or whatever) won’t do a bit of good for you. You’ll hate the school and the program that goes with it.

On a similar note, it kinda amazes me how people come back from college visits and were like “the chapel and the architecture were so BEAUTIFUL! I’d love it there!”
I’d hate to be pessimistic, but realistically if you don’t like the school and where you are, you’d be more than happy to crumble the gothic architecture with your own hands.

I’d look more into where your child would be most comfortable… it’s the biggest factor in success, not the superiority of the best arts program in the world.