@potentialtransfer2018 look at this thread from 12 years ago http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/35609-ranking.html when Tufts was actually ranked higher (in the upper 20s and 22 in 1994) and this thread from 2009 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/390170-tufts-reputation-p12.html where a poster can be quoted saying “Tufts’ reputation from what I can tell and hear from different people has greatly risen in the past few years and is still on the rise.”
Has Tufts risen really? People have been talking about Tufts rising 5 and 10 years ago while now, 5 or 10 years afterwards, Tufts has actually dropped in rankings. I wonder what is happening. Sure, Tufts has new buildings and better test scores (that happens like every year. First time I visited Tufts as a high school sophomore in 2014, there were some construction projects going on campus and they had that record low 16% admit rate then), but will this improve anything, such as peer reputation?
I know rankings do not matter much, but it is what the common folk and everyone who doesn’t know about Tufts looks at. Though schools are supposedly “not-for profit”, every university is like an business and the ones that do not meet popular demand (higher rankings) will ultimately fail. As a Tufts student, though I love love the school and the atmosphere (I chose it over 2 “higher ranked” schools so I’m not ranking obsessed), I just want Tufts to be more highly ranked, better than how its only like 5 ranks above BU and BC. (CM’s admit rate is 21.7% (not 13.7% on google) as reported on its latest common data set and I got in CM but chose Tufts).