<p>Yeah honestly, it’s just that Tufts doesn’t ONLY look for high scores. Tufts looks for high scores and a very present personality and for students with demonstrated passion (shown in essays/recs/EC’s/subjective areas of the application).</p>
<p>As for the examples on the first page of the thread - those are just a handful of people. If you can show it to me on a large scale, then maybe I’ll agree. Perhaps those kids simply didn’t take their Tufts app very seriously.</p>