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<p>Isn’t anyone bored about reading “chances thread?”</p>

<p>I mean they have 2400., 4.0 GPA, Pulitizer prize winners and wonder if they have a chance! Pleeessse!</p>

<p>Ok, here is the scoop from the little research that I did and based on high school kids that have attended Tufts.</p>

<p>If you have about 2100 SAT or 32 ACT and at least 3.7+ GPA unweighted with mostly honors and AP courses, you should have a good chance. Anything lower than 2100 SAT would require closs to 4.0 GPA and even then it wouldn’t be good. Tufts seems to want high SATs</p>

<p>As far as EC, common ECs that won’t make you stand out are: orchestra and band, even honors orchestra and band, student newspaper, etc.</p>

<p>Good Ecs are varsity athletes and, even better, state wide ranked athlete. Other good ECs are research for several years, if you are going into science. Writing a number of OP Ed pieces for your local newspaper is good as is winning science and writing competitions. In fact, winning any national competition is good. However, unless you have spectacular ECS, you won’t override mediocre SATS and GPAS.</p>

<p>From what I can tell, going to a private school will get you a few extra points than attending a public school. The thinking is that private school kids probably don’t need financial aid.</p>

<p>Apply ED is a real benefit for Tufts. Tufts wants to see kids that really are motivated on attending Tufts. They are tired of being second fiddle to the ivys.</p>

<p>If you have substantially above the 2100 SATs, you might be able to get admitted with a slightly lower GPA such as 3.6. the SATs should be at least 1400 for both math and CR combined.</p>

<p>This should give you a good idea about your admission chances. </p>

<p>Ask yourself this question: would I be a decent candidate for admission to even an ivy school? If yes, you have a good chance at Tufts. Hopefully this will solve the large number of idiotic " what are my chances threads" that keep poping up.</p>

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<p>If you don’t like the chances threads, you can just ignore them. Lighten up.</p>

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<p>I got in with a 3.5-ish uw GPA, but that was offset by my elite boarding school, tough course load, and high standardized testing (34 ACT, 2240 SATs, 790/80/70 SAT2s)</p>

<p>I picked Tufts to ED over all the Ivies on my list.</p>

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<p>I don’t agree with this. I don’t think being an athelete is better than being in the orchestra at all (unless you’re being recruited). What do you base this on, Taxguy? Or are you basing this on those athletes who are being recruited? I can say from personal experience that it’s not so much what you do, but how passionate you are. That can be music, drama, sports, newspaper, MUN, or whatever. You just have to show that you’ve stuck with it for a long time and gave it your all.</p>

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<p>Dsiw, yes, passion is vital as I tried to impart. However, from what I have seen from our high school admissions, athletic EC tend to be more favored than student newspaper and band and orchestra, escept of course if someone is majoring in music.</p>

<p>In fact, there was a big thread on this where a number of other folks noticed this about admits to top schools. Certainly, there isn’t a 100% correlation between athletic ECs and those who got admitted,but there was a noticeably higher percentage of kids that got into top schools like Tufts with athletic ECs in addition to a passion in some area.</p>

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<p>So, by reading a thread somewhere written by some parents you decide to tell people to forget about orchestra and do sports instead? Sorry, I’m not convinced. In fact, my college counselor, who went to Harvard and who worked for BU admissions said sports are not required at all. I think people way overrate the importance of sports in getting into college. I don’t think it’s a good idea to tell people that this is the last word in how to get into a school like Tufts, and to stop asking ‘what are my chances’.</p>

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<p>DSIW, just check out the ECs of people accepted ED to many of the top colleges, Don’t take my word. You will find a large number of them had strong athletic ECs. It is uncanny.</p>

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<p>Maybe they just want to see that people are physically fit, or b/c they know sports take discipline, or they want to see that you can work well on a team? I applied with lots of different ECs and leadership positions, and varsity tennis was just one of my activities, and I felt that it rounded me out from just being a music/dance/literature-centered person.</p>

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<p>The high school you are coming from, or more specifically how many others from your high school are applying, has a big impact on your “chances” at Tufts. For example, about 90 students from Lexington (MA) HS apply each year. The accepted profile for that HS will be very high. Anyone trying to determine “chances” should refer to past records from their own HS of what previous applicants had for GPA/SAT, such as the Naviance data.</p>

<p>Tufts, like all the other NESCAC schools, has “slots” for athletes for the many varsity sports for both men and women. There is no reason to not include those who are recruited for sports since they take up actual spots in the admitted class. If you add up all the slots for all the varsity sports, I believe it will be far larger than the number of bassoon, tuba, cello, and oboe players they attract each year via preferred admissions. Also, when you hear the name Tufts, the music program is not among the first things you think of IMO.</p>

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<p>^ ^ ^ Though that may change with the revamped, state-of-the-art music building that will be unveiled when we get back to campus in January.</p>

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<p>Taxguy, why are you still cruising this site? Your daughter is a freshman now…and not at Tufts. Surely a famous guy like you has other things to do.</p>

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<p>Tuftsdad, actually, my daughter was looking at Tufts when she applied to schools. I just accidently checked this forum. Also, I didn’t think that I had to have a reason. </p>

<p>As for being a famous guy, I had to carry an American Express card since no one knows me. LOL</p>

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<p>I’m certainly glad that taxguy is still perusing the Tufts threads since he came to my aid on a few occasions. ;-)</p>

<p>Taxguy - I hope you don’t mind me asking, but where is your daughter going to school?</p>

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<p>Jacksonmom,I will PM you. I don’t think that my response belongs on this site.</p>

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<p>if i am the only one applying to tufts… and first generation minority… would that help in any way?</p>

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<p>“Only one” meaning in your school? </p>

<p>In any case, it’s not just one or two things that will guarantee you admission. The admissions process is holistic: they’ll be looking at the whole picture: grades, test stats, ECs, GPA, URM/athlete/legacy/other hooks, etc.</p>

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<p>yes probably the only one from my HS to ever apply.</p>

<p>what does URm stand for?</p>

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<p>under-represented minority</p>