<p>At law school, the environmental law journal.</p>
<p>I don’t feel it was necessary to resort to name calling. Why refer me as some “dumb butt”? The OP had some legitimate concerns about Tufts–it even included a legitimate link referring to the career services office. I just thought I would add my 2 cents based on comments made to me by two former classmates who attend the school.
If you wanted me to feel bad about myself for expressing my views, you didn’t. FYI, I will not be applying to Tufts so unfortunately you will not have the great opportunity of interviewing me. I’ll probably be in Cambridge next year anyway!</p>
<p>BTW, I don’t buy all the hoopla you purportedly get from people when you drop the “Tufts Bomb”.</p>
<p>Then you don’t understand the first thing about Tufts, the calibre of its students, or its relationship to the World. Smart Guy, you’re just sad.</p>
<p>Let’s say you do get into Harvard, as you suggest you think you’re a shoo-in. I’m sure that if they knew you harbored such unfounded, close-minded opinions about Tufts, or any other school for that matter, they wouldn’t want you going to their school either. </p>
<p>All right, I think you can stop posting in the Tufts forum now.</p>
<p>Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions. MIT is also in Cambridge. Okay, I’ll leave the Tufts forum since it seems like my opinions are unwanted. Talk about being closed-minded…</p>
<p>So are Lesley University, the Longy School of Music, and Cambridge College, but I didn’t feel like listing them all. Farewell.</p>
<p>AHAHAHAHAHHA! I’m sorry Smart Guy, I would have taken you seriously and been openminded to your opinions, however, your moniker on College Confidential is SMART GUY. Is that…is that REALLY…okay, never mind. I skipped a grade, too, and my username isn’t exactly MacArthurForSure. Also, if you were simply expressing opinions of other people, you should have said so, instead of acting like the authority on everyone’s Tufts experience based on the complaints of two classmates. It’s sad to me that in all likelihood you look good on paper but that in real life are not the type of person that I, personally, would like to associate with. I’m sure you have lots of friends. I bet mensa and Byerly are among them, lol.</p>
<p>Good luck wherever. Hate Tufts all you want. We don’t want that kind of person here anyway.</p>
<p>Tufts admittedly doesn’t have the same name recognition or “wow factor” that Harvard and MIT do, but most employers and all grad schools will have heard of it, and everyone I’ve met who knows about the school has a high opinion of it.</p>
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LOL! Awesome, Blurinka. :)</p>
<p>When did I say that it’s a Tufts bomb? The “H-bomb” is, in case you missed the memo, considered to be deragotory - “Oh, so and so dropped the H bomb. Oh, aren’t you special.” There are people who are very impressed with Tufts. There are also people who have never heard of Williams - so does that make it a bad school? And you talk to us about assumptions? </p>
<p>If you aren’t applying to Tufts, know jack about it, and hate the school, yeah, you should leave the Tufts forum, because you know nothing about the school. Spend four years there before you trash it. Work alongside (or for 
) the grads before you trash it. </p>
<p>I’ve thoroughly enjoyed interviewing my prospective Jumbos. They are all super-smart, motivated, community-minded, and ambitious. I know this sounds cheesy, but I meet these kids and think, “I don’t worry about the future of this country.” It also makes me so happy that those great kids all really like my alma mater.</p>
<p>Really? See I mention Tufts to people and only rarely do I get the electrifying responses you all seem to be having…maybe it’s just me.</p>
<p>Seriously though, Tufts isn’t even in the top 40 in terms of placement in the elite graduate schools according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s actually at #45 and the rankings are based on the number, not percentage of students attending the top 15 grad schools in medicine, law and business. If it were based on percentage Tufts likely wouldn’t even be in the top 100. Schools 3, 4 and 5 times smaller than Tufts (Bowdoin, Bates, for example) have more of their graduates entering the top programs. </p>
<p>I’m not going to look for the rankings but I remember seeing them on the wiki article for Bowdoin College if you doubt me. I did find this article that at least confirms my #45 statement but I cant seem to find the article with the numbers:</p>
<p><a href=“http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:T90NyUoG8W0J:www.ncf.edu/publicaffairs/documents/Journal.htm+wall+street+journal+45.+tufts&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3[/url]”>http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:T90NyUoG8W0J:www.ncf.edu/publicaffairs/documents/Journal.htm+wall+street+journal+45.+tufts&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3</a></p>
<p>Oh well. But you can see what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>Personally having attended an honors college at a state school in addition to Tufts I’ll say that the state education was equal if not probably also better than that at Tufts. I just don’t see what’s so special here, certainly nowhere in the realm of $40,000+ special, not a chance. C’mon, the biggest major here is IR…says it all right there. </p>
<p>Be realistic guys. Tufts is a good school no question but it’s not in the elite ranks of Harvard, Yale, etc. And it’s not in the ranks even of Bowdoin or that type of school. Sorry.</p>
<p>Rightbackatyou–</p>
<p>For full-disclosure, you should tell people that you want to transfer out of Tufts, as a look at your post history on CC shows. So you are biased in that you are unhappy at Tufts.</p>
<p>Now, your other posts also indicate you have a 3.2 at Tufts. If the education is so sub-par here, then why are you doing sub-par yourself? (The graduating class of 2006’s average GPA was 3.4.) Just because your experience has been less than stellar doesn’t mean this isn’t a great school with a lot to offer most other students.</p>
<p>In terms of full-disclosure, I myself was also a transfer to Tufts (from Georgetown). I love it here and my classes are excellent. I have nothing but amazing things to say about my Tufts education.</p>
<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>
<p>I also like the way everyone ad hominems Smart Guy’s legitimate concerns based only on the fact that he’s (1) in high school and (2) has a user name you don’t like. Real mature guys. Wow, what an adult way to resond back to someones post!!! Yay Tufts, ROTF!!!.</p>
<p>Hey Rightbackatyou:</p>
<p>Which profs have you had in the Phil and Ec depts? I’ve had a great experience in both! I’ve only had one TA in those depts and she was very smart but I still had more contact with the prof. Guaratneed, some are harder to get to than others, but I’ve not run into them yet.</p>
<p>Well I’ll list the professors I’ve been particularly dissapointed with: Smith (PHI), Richards (ECON), White (PHI), McConnell (PHI), Straub (ECON), Link (PHI), Dennett (PHI)…if you need detailed descriptions I’d be willing to express precisely why each of these individuals are a corrosive influence on the experience here at Tufts, but at the moment I’m typing something else…</p>
<p>I will however say that Devigne (Political Theory, basically Philosophy though), Bauer (Philosophy) and Kelly (Philosophy) are some of the best professors one could possible imagine. </p>
<p>I don’t know, I guess I’ve just lucked out and gotten alot of crappy professors :(</p>
<p>Yeah, unfortunately, it’s the luck of the draw sometimes. I went abroad my junior year to Sciences Po, which is supposed to be the best school in France, if not in Europe, for political sci/IR and was very disappointed with the calibre of my professors… but then other Tufts students who’ve gone there have had excellent experiences. I just really got stuck with the less teaching-oriented professors while I was there.</p>
<p>I agree with you about Devigne – what a god of a professor! 
I have had a great experience with Dennett – even got a mention in his new book! (My whole class did.) I’m sorry you didn’t have better luck with him.</p>