Tufts and Affirmative Action

iwant2go2college
Wed, 10 May 2006 16:55:14 +0000

McDonalds77- Yes, I have thought about MIT, (the other schools are too far), and I do plan to apply there.

fingerscrossed- I never said it as a fact, I said it “seems”… that’s the whole point of this post, to see what you guys, that know more about Tufts than I do, have to say.

Snuffles- Yeah, I know that race isn’t a HUGE plus factor, and I know that it wouldn’t be fair for a wealthy black/Hispanic person to get in b/c of AA, because to me that defies the whole purpose of AA.
I am however an extremely poor Hispanic person, that’s why when I read the topic of one of Tufts’ required short-essays, it put a smile on my face.

Cami215- I feel this way because of trends I’ve noticed in the college app of people in my school, for instance Hispanics/Blacks getting into ivies and not Tufts, in more than one occasion.