Tufts and Affirmative Action

snuffles
Wed, 10 May 2006 11:02:16 +0000

Harvard doens’t even have a undergrad engineering school



Actually it does.

http://www.deas.harvard.edu/undergradstudy/

Our engineering program is quite good in what it offers - the low ranking is attributed to a number of factors, mainly the same reason why liberal arts schools aren’t widely acclaimed for their science education: graduate research output and recognition. Now I’ll tell you that the harvard school of engineering isn’t in the top 10 (in the top 30 I believe, it was 30 a few years ago), but it’s harvard! Why? No one knows about it, but rates it well on peer assessment because it’s harvard. Tufts suffers from its small program. It is simultaneously its strength as well as its weakness.

To answer your question, Tufts does practice affirmative action, but it’s not an extremely significant factor in admissions decisions as it’s highly contextual and probably more focused on financial background.