How prestigous is Tufts compared to elite schools?

bluirinka
Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:42:35 +0000

Yes, I absolutely LOVED that post, jjsmom. It made me so proud to be joining the community all over again lol.

I mean, because I’m such an overachieving loser, I sometimes forget that Tufts really IS snapworthy. For example, I was writing my wait-list letter to Dartmouth, and accidentally left the copy in my English classroom’s printer. Later my teacher - a wonderful man who retired this year after 40 years - caught up with me and gave it to me, saying that he went through it and found a typo. “But where are you going if not to Dartmouth?” he asked. I told him I had chosen Tufts - he looked at me as if I were insane before saying, “TUFTS?! Then why are you bothering with DARTMOUTH, jeez, Tufts is an amazing school! I think you’d be even happier there, Renee, in all honesty.” Basically, like jjsmom said, Tufts is highly respected where it counts. And even though us overachieving losers kind of wish regular people would recognize what an achievement getting into Tufts is, it doesn’t matter, because our future EMPLOYERS will recognize and appreciate it, and that’s all that matters.