How hard is it to get in?

WCASParent
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:38:50 +0000

marie03-
You haven’t provided enough information, and frankly I am confused by your description of your GPA. What is your unweighted GPA (forget about things like PhysEd, if that’s graded)? How hard have your courses been relative to the hardest in your school? Where do your board scores fall relative to Tufts’ middle 50%?
Your GPA certainly makes you competitive, depending upon what sort of a curriculum it represents, but that just doesn’t tell enough of the whole story. As for whether you can/should explain your personal situation - yes, you can and should. Tufts will be interested in learning about you as a person, the decisions you make and which formed you, where your priorities lie, what makes you tick, etc.