I’m literally making the same decision right now. There’s an 80% chance I’m going to choose Notre Dame. I’ll just talk about the things I’ve been thinking about deciding.
I love sports so Notre Dame clearly won in that area, academics really aren’t that different at either but Notre Dame’s alumni network is one of the best in the country.
Location for me isn’t a big deciding factor. Tufts has a more vibrant city relatively nearby, Boston. Compared to clearly not as exciting South Bend, Indiana. I don’t see location as much of an issue as there is more than enough to do on campus.
Social life is the most confusing aspects for me as you can never truly know until you actually go to school. Parietals, which at first would be very annoying but I have heard from current students that they really aren’t that big of a deal as long as you’re clearly not roaming the halls. Tufts gives the most conflicting answers in terms of social life, some say it is amazing and some say it is completely dead.
As a POC I looked a lot at the diversity of the student body, the admitted class of 2024 is 57% white with 6% international, half of which are probably also white, 36.6% U.S. students of colours. https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/04/university-admits-3507-students-in-the-class-of-2024/) It doesn’t seem to be as bad people make it out to be.
I can help anymore if you want, then again I don’ t go to either school and just know what I have seen from the LARGE amount of time quarantine has given me to research. I could be completely wrong.