<p>I applied to Tufts ED almost 40 years ago. When I got there, I was disappointed to meet a lot of Harvard rejects. But there were also a lot of us who had rejected Harvard by applying only to Tufts. We wanted the closer contacts with professors and greater emphasis on undergrads.</p>
<p>Since then, I’ve learned that there are a lot of Princeton rejects at Harvard. And Yale rejects at Princeton…you get the picture.</p>
<p>And the truth is that despite my ongoing association with Tufts, I never heard the term “Tufts syndrome” until I read it on CC.</p>