<p>Pardon the lack of patience, but I’m tired of having dumb-butt kids trash my alma mater. Employers respect it. Grad schools respect it. Random people that I meet say things like, “Wow, you went there - you’re one of those super-smart people.” Someone once offered me a PhD position when I was 20 because of the work I had done. My top-tier law school has a slew of Tufts grads. </p>
<p>Tufts: top 20 happiest students. Kids who love it. Speakers like Stephen Hawking, Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George HW Bush, Colin Powell - all during my four years! Smallest of the Research I schools. My dad was driving to work one morning and heard about my advisor’s groundbreaking work on AM radio. (He thought, “Hey, my daughter had coffee with him last week.”) A few of my professors have students out to dinner every semester. I took a course at Harvard over the summer and the prof, who had taught there for 40 years, said, “Tufts has an excellent Classics department.” </p>
<p>Accolades from professors at other schools, grad school profs, law profs, employers, and the students. It sometimes hits me how amazing it is to have Tufts as my alma mater. </p>
<p>…yet some snot-nosed 16-year-old thinks that he:
- knows all about the school and it’s crap;
- that the grads are morons; and
- still insists on hanging around the Tufts forum.</p>
<p>I think that a lot of schools are overrated and a waste of money. I don’t spend my time (although I do spend a lot of time on CC) trashing them. The only thing I’ve done is to refer prospective * law students* to US News and their debt & median income tables, but that’s to help them know what their life will be like. I have better things to do with my time than trash schools of which I know nothing about.</p>