Tufts or Case Western?

hebrewhammer
Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:10:05 +0000

I don’t think I know how to respond to this but I’ll try…

The Tufts Career Services resources are not great. All the internships that I and others have found and applied to successfully, have all been to our own volition (from personal connections or just applied on our own), Tufts doesn’t really care about your post-BA career and nor does its professors care about your non-academic careers.

While I do agree it can be tough to get an internship (I didn’t get much help from Tufts, although the one I got last summer I had interviewed for on campus), I’m not sure how much they could do. And all of my friends who graduated last year in engineering (and almost all of them in other fields) are now either employed or in graduate/professional school.

The point here is that Tufts automatically assumes that your parents own a Fortune 500 company and can hook you up with a job right after you get out.

That doesn’t make sense and it’s not true.

Tufts doesn’t really have a professional school other than the Medical and Dental School in Chinatown and even for these schools, they mainly pride themselves on research, not practice (as far as my Biomed friends have told me).

Tufts Medical, Dental, and Veterinary schools all perform research but their focus is on producing top-notch doctors, dentists, and veterinarians. I don’t know what you think professional school is - we don’t have a law school or a business school… maybe Fletcher counts? Regardless, this has little impact on the undergraduate experience either way, unless you want to do research at one of these schools (and one of my roommates did get to).

If you want to build up work experience and go to a school with great employment connections—do not go to Tufts! Tufts is a very overpriced school with bad housing and a student body that is fictitiously and mislabeled as liberal (anti-gay free speech incidents, always getting their asses beat by the townies because they look at townies the wrong way at night—believe me, I can truly attest to the latter) because the majority of their student body consists of a silent Republican majority who come from extremely arrogantly wealthy “Old Money” families.

This sentence is absurd. Yes, Tufts is expensive, honestly probably overpriced, but not any more so than any other private school in the Northeast.
As far as housing goes, some of the dorms are lacking but there’s much better housing for upperclassmen than at most schools and even the bad dorms now are mostly all renovated.
Such “free speech incidents” are few and far between, but get a lot of attention because of how liberal the majority of the student body is. I’m not sure how you could possibly get the impression that there’s a Republican majority. Who the hell do you hang out with?
Also, I’m not sure about “getting their asses beat by townies” but it sounds like you did something stupid.

These posh limousine liberals are not active in campus community life, but they still exist nonetheless and they are very influential on campus. I know this rich Republican (probably also a trustee) who met Clinton face to face after just “talking to the President of Tufts”. It doesn’t hurt to have a friend like him though haha, he can truly help you get a lot of financial aid money from the Student Services .

Huh?

If you want a school that costs around the same price as Tufts, pick Northeastern University. I did not apply to Northeastern but I wish I had. I visited some friends there over the years and the dorms there are so nice and clean, and the co-opt program seriously makes NU the best non-Ivy school in the eastern seaboard. The co-opt program at NU will give you a leg up above your peers when you apply to jobs and internships after getting your BA degree.

The Northeastern co-op program is pretty cool, but I know a few people who chose to take a semester off from Tufts (and other liberal arts schools) to pursue a co-op. And while the co-op program is definitely useful, and does a better job than Tufts at placing students in internships (it probably helps that they’re not all competing for the summer), I don’t think anyone really thinks the school itself is academically more rigorous.

Sorry that you regret going to Tufts, but it sounds like your experiences were vastly different from mine.