<p>How smart are Tufts students?</p>
<p>Typically not your average Ivy League student but overall very intelligent.</p>
<p>Tufts students are in general intelligent. Top 30 to 35 universities usually all have intelligent student bodies. So do the lower ranked ones… but top 30 for sure.</p>
<p>Tufts undergrads are all a little quirky and a little dorky in their own way, but most students were at the top of their high school class academically.</p>
<p>SAT Critical Reading: 670 - 750
SAT Math: 670 - 740</p>
<p>Average SAT of the 2007 entering student body: ~1415</p>
<p>This equates to an IQ of ~139, the 99th percentile of the population in general and(marginally) higher than Cornell’s entering student body.</p>
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<p>Not from the comparable schools at Cornell (A&S and Engineering) it doesn’t. I think that the avg SAT of those two schools is 1435. Not that 20 points in SAT avg is necessarily enough to distinuish between schools.</p>
<p>If the Ivy League went to 12 members, Tufts would probably be one of the four newbies.</p>
<p>From another post…to put this in prspective, there are THOUSANDS of colleges and universities in the country and there is only 1 standardized measure of student aptitude, the SAT. OK, there are 2, the SAT and ACT. Here is where Tuffts stands in the pecking order.
California Institute of Technology 1470 1580
Harvey Mudd College 1430 1560
Harvard University 1400 1590
Yale University 1390 1580
Princeton University 1390 1580
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1380 1560
Pomona College 1380 1530
Washington University in St Louis 1370 1530
Dartmouth College 1350 1550
Swarthmore College 1360 1540
Stanford University 1340 1550
Columbia University in the City of New York 1330 1540
Duke University 1330 1540
Cornell - Arts & Sci and Engineering 1335 1525
Amherst College 1330 1530
Brown University 1330 1530
University of Chicago 1320 1530
University of Pennsylvania 1330 1520
Williams College 1320 1520
Tufts University 1340 1490</p>
<p>Northwestern is the next in the list.</p>
<p>^Northwesten’s range for class of 2011 is 1350-1520. The average score of students enrolled in the college of arts and sciences is 1436 for class of 2011(likely above 1440 for class of 2012 as the overall average is 6 points higher than that for class of 2011). Also, Northwestern’s ACT range is in the top-10 (maybe even top-5) in the nation.</p>
<p>gellino,</p>
<p>I don’t mean to split hairs but I did the calculation and I remember I got 1431, not 1435 (need to take the different sizes between arts&sci and engineering into account and take the “weighted” average of those upper and lower ends of mid-50% ranges). But the way, that’s the estimated median, not mean and median is usually somewhat higher than the arithmetic mean for top colleges. I think the mean is therefore more like 1420-25. So the difference is more like 5-10 points.</p>
<p>The SAT numbers in post #8 are somewhat incorrect–possibly due to being out-of-date. Ranking the mid-50% SAT scores of accepted students for the class entering college in Fall, 2007:
CalTech 1470 (25th%)–as the strongest measure, in my opinion, of each incoming class
Harvey Mudd 1430
Harvard 1400
Yale 1400
Princeton 1390
M.I.T. 1380
Pomona 1380
Columbia 1360
Swarthmore 1360
Nothwestern 1350
Stanford 1340
Duke 1340
Williams 1340
Tufts 1340
Dartmouth 1330
Penn 1330
Chicago 1330
Brown 1330
Amherst 1330
Rice 1310
Carleton college 1310
Claremont McKenna 1310
Vassar 1310
Wash.& Lee 1310
Notre Dame 1300
Georgetown 1300
Emory 1300
Vanderbilt 1300
Middlebury, Wesleyan & Wellesley 1300</p>
<p>Bowdoin reports 1300,but is SAT optional.
Bard reports 1320, but is SAT optional.
Reed reports 1310, but uses a different reporting method to USNews.
These are the only National Universities & LACs reporting 1300+ 25th percentile SAT scores for accepted students.</p>
<p>I was just taking the numbers supplied on one of these spreads and took the midpoint. I certainly wasn’t looking to weight the averages by the total number of students in each school, which I guess I assumed was part of the original range in the first place.</p>
<p>Mid-points of the average “accepted” students are:</p>
<p>CalTech 1525
Harvey Mudd 1510
Harvard 1495
Yale 1495
Princeton 1485
M.I.T. 1470
Pomona 1455
Wash.U.St.L. 1450 (although I am a bit skeptical of this #)
Columbia 1450
Swarthmore 1450
Stanford 1445
Duke 1440
Dartmouth 1440
Northwestern 1435
Williams 1430
Amherst 1430
Penn 1430
Chicago 1430
Brown 1430
Rice 1420
Tufts 1415
Notre Dame 1405
Carleton College 1400
Johns Hopkins 1395
Cornell 1395
Georgetown 1395
Middlebury 1395
Wesleyan 1395
Carnegie Mellon, Haverford, Wellesley, Vanderbilt & Reed 1390
Emory, Vassar & Wash.& Lee 1385 (Also SAT optional Bowdoin)</p>
<p>Tufts ranks at a very impressive #21 out of the top 527 Nat’L Univs. & LACs in the country with respect to SAT scores of admitted students. Tufts is even more impressive when examining locations & average class sizes.</p>
<p>SAT does not measure intelligence IMO. I’ve met some Tufts students and live close enough to campus (in fact took a class there) and they’ve all been very smart, unique people. It is a top university and you wouldn’t expect average students to be there.</p>
<p>How many Tufts students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?</p>
<p>gellino,</p>
<p>what you got is from collegehelp, i believe. he/she got the two ranges for arts&sci and engineering and took the simple average. but doing so implicitly assumes the two schools are of equal size. so i got those two ranges from him/her and calculated the weighted average instead.</p>
<p>i went to an engineering school…it’s the nerd in me. :D</p>
<p>Tufts, BTW, has some of the most unique viewbook and PR pieces I’ve seen. They focus on cool, hands-on, world-changing experiences of their students. From those publications, it would appear to me that it’s their goal to attract not only bright students, but very active, engaged ones.</p>
<p>Tufts students are pretty smart. There are both sides of the spectrum I guess. I don’t want to bash Tufts as a whole but some of the students I know of aren’t that particularly bright, they were especially well accomplished during hs, in terms of their involvement and engagement of EC activities goes. Things IMO fall apart after there in terms of discipline, hard work ethics, and just getting the grades as concerned.</p>
<p>To the OP: How smart are Tufts students?</p>
<p>An example:
SAT I: 740 CR, 770 Math, 800 Writing
SAT II: Math II 750, Math I 710, Spanish Lang 740, Chem 710
AP’s: Spanish, Bio, Chem, English Lang, Calc BC, all 5’s
Physics, US History 4
GPA: 3.9 uw; 4.83 w</p>
<p>Extensive EC’s and leadership positions throughout high school.
All-State/All-East musician in voice and instrument.</p>
<p>Obviously all accomplished with no work ethic or discipline whatsoever, Phead 128!</p>
<p>^All schools have smart students. A much truer measure of the school to me is what the average or below-average student is like.</p>
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<p>I’m not going to fret over whether the avg SAT at Cornell is 1435 or 1431; plus, I looked later and the midpoint he provided was actually 1430; not to mention that the ratio of A&S to Engineering students is going to change every year anyway.</p>
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<p>Thank you, That one single example could be replicated here at any other of the top 35 schools.</p>
<p>I know 5-6 students at Tufts from my graduating class at HS that are no where near that single example you have provided.</p>
<p>In fact, that point reinforces my original statement that the Tufts student body lies on both sides of the spectrum. If you read my post, I never bashed the entire Tufts student body. I’m commenting from my experience with Tufts friends that I know that all.</p>