NYU or Tufts?

Mastadon
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:03:07 +0000

Time to clear up some misinformation.

Tufts students are quite diverse. Some are “city types” some are “outdoorsy types”.
Many are in between, and some are both.
The “city types” are in Boston - a lot, starting freshman year
The “in betweeners” usually end up increasing their time in Boston over the course of 4 years
The “outdoorsy” types tend to head to the MIddlesex Fells Reservation or to Tufts’s lodge in the White Mountains
The campus of Tufts’ Museum School (SFMA) is downtown next to Northeastern.
Tufts has a joint degree program with the NEC which is downtown - on the other side of Northeastern.
There is a regular (free) shuttle running between the Medford/Somerville campus and the Museum School.
Tufts art and music students go downtown frequently when they take classes at the SMFA and NEC.
A small number of students cross enroll in classes at BU - which is downtown.
Internships are popular at Tufts. and 90% of Tufts students have at least one internship.
Some degree programs require internships and many encourage them.
Tufts will give academic credit for some internships, Career Center credit for others.
Tufts has a program where they pay a stipend for unpaid summer internships.
It is pretty common for Tufts students to have internships during the semester, often in Cambridge or Boston
Research is popular at Tufts. Probably 60-70% of Tufts students do research, some of it in Cambridge & Boston
Club sports teams will play Boston based schools and other clubs will schedule activities in Boston

My daughter had:
Two summer internships
two in-semester internships (one working in Boston for 20 hours per week and one working remotely for a company in New York City)
A “winternship” working for a company in New York City over winter break
She worked over two winter breaks at the same company she had a summer internship.
She received academic credit for one of her in-semester internships by writing a paper about it and defending it before a committee.
She also spent a summer plus a semester abroad.

She did not do research.

She visited the Medford Hillside, the various squares in Somerville and Cambridge as well as Boston often.
She would periodically “escape” by hiking in the Middlesex Fells or going to Walden Pond.
She went to Cape Cod, the North Shore and the South Shore, but did not make it to the Harbor Islands.
She made it to New York City a couple of times.

In contrast, some of her classmates rarely ventured beyond the various squares in Somerville and Medford.

The amount of time you spend in Boston depends on what you like to do and whether or not that type of activity is more readily available in Somerville and Cambridge - which some people actually prefer to Boston.