<p>I don’t see how my wanting to transfer is going to exacerbate the bias anymore than you loving Tufts. I also don’t see how any bias on either side is going to change the fact that Tufts simply is not at top 40 in terms of numbers and definately not even a top 50 in terms of percentage, when it comes to producing students who go into the top graduate programs in Medicine, Law and Business. You can’t argue with that. I’m not hiding anything here, I’ll openly admit that I’m dissapointed. </p>
<p>I have a 3.2 in a Philosophy/Econ major. I’ve taken many math and science courses, not to mention difficult upper-level philosophy courses and I don’t cop out of requirements by taking courses like “quantitative thinking” and “optics”…I go out of my way to take the most difficult courses possible so don’t try and ad hominem my argument with the “subpar student” smokescreen. Math is not easy, Phenomenology is not easy, Physics is not easy… </p>
<p>My GPA is hardly amazing, but it’s far from “sub-par” considering the course load I’ve taken. I’m not an IR major or Political Sciene or English so you know, I’ve had to take some pretty difficult courses.</p>
<p>Regardless, where did I EVER EVEN ONCE say that the education here is subpar? SHOW ME WHERE I SAID THAT. A more thorough misunderstanding of a point I have yet to see. </p>
<p>I think undoubtably you can get a great education here. My whole thing is that it’s not worth $40,000 and that as the rankings/numbers show Tufts is not especially spectacular when it comes to producing students in the top grad school programs. I’m also dissapointed about the TA situation in the Philosophy and Economics departments, but such is life.</p>
<p>Really, don’t make it out like I’m some bitter failure here at Tufts. It’s a great school, I just don’t feel that I’ve gotten the value that I’m paying for and the fact that the Tufts name isn’t nearly as prestigous as most of you make it out to be is testament to that fact.</p>