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<p>All I remember was that my number was 4 points lower than his number, whatever that was. He provided the link that had not only the SAT ranges but also the number of student in each school.</p>
<p>The smart Tufts ones will be just as smart as the Harvard ones. The difference is how quickly the distribution starts sloping downward…</p>
<p>^It seems like kids who are going to Tufts from my HS are on the whole smarter than the ones going to Harvard (most of them having a hook like basketball but not top tier of class)</p>
<p>Gotta agree with you, Leprostaist. The kids from our northeast, suburban high school going to Tufts are in the top 5 % of their class with corresponding test scores and EC’s versus the only kids we have ever gotten into Ivies: recruited athletes with lower scores, GPA’s, etc.</p>
<p>Tufts is traditionally known as an ivy backup school, there’s also the term “Tuft’s Syndrome” typically referring to the school’s recognition of itself as a backup school to many ivies and rejecting students who are clearly too qualified to enroll, this is a form of yield protection, Tufts has one of the lowest yields among the top tier Universities. </p>
<p>The University enjoys a very good reputation in the northeast, but it doesn’t have a great reputation outside of the region, most probably because it’s a small school relatively speaking.</p>
<p>Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the sitcom Seinfeld, mentions that she attended Tufts, and that it was her “safety school”.</p>
<p>It’s a small school with a good rep in the Northeast, that has been gradually moving toward a stronger emphasis on research over the last several years (since Bacow took over as president).</p>
<p>I’m a part-time certificate student at Tufts, and got my undergrad at MIT. It’s a heck of a cultural clash, but the Tufts students don’t seem dumb or anything (keeping in mind that I’ve only met the ones in CS, and a couple in EE). The school definitely doesn’t tend to be full of techies on the whole, though. :)</p>
<p>Are the academics (classes) more difficult than ivy league schools? (like harder to get an A)</p>
<p>I know it doesn’t have grade inflation</p>
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<p>I saw a movie once called, “The Perfect Wife” or something like that where the guy is wearing a Yale sweatshirt and says he can’t marry his girlfriend because she went to a safety school and the camera then pans up to a Tufts pennant hanging on the wall.</p>
<p>Princeton Review’s Academic Rating for Tufts is 91 so not too intense.</p>
<p>The Princeton Review book I have is from 2007, The Best 361 Colleges. It gives Tufts an “Academic Rating” of 94 (I am assuming out of 100?) and an “Admissions Selectivity Rating” of 98 (again, I am assuming out of 100). That’s if you like to go by rankings, review books and numbers!</p>
<p>PR “academic rating” has almost nothing to do with rigor/intensity. It’s more a function of “% profs that students think are interesting…”.</p>
<p>^ Sam, am I assuming correctly that PR “academic rating” rated NU lower than Tufts?</p>
<p>Yea. But then this is the same PR that rated NU #1 in academics back in 2002. NU has gone downhill without me being on campus, according to them apparently… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Academic Ratings and Selectivity Ratings are all available on-line free for the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review. Just go to [Test</a> Prep: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, SAT, ACT, and More | The Princeton Review](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com%5DTest”>http://www.princetonreview.com)</p>
<p>"Tufts is traditionally known as an ivy backup school, there’s also the term “Tuft’s Syndrome” typically referring to the school’s recognition of itself as a backup school to many ivies and rejecting students who are clearly too qualified to enroll, this is a form of yield protection, Tufts has one of the lowest yields among the top tier Universities. "</p>
<p>I can’t believe smart people post this kind of information. Tufts is a great school and it has been a top shcool for a while. Its students are motivated, classes are small and students get to meet and still be friends with their professors on every level. The size of the school and the atmosphere makes it perfect for undergraduates, maybe better than any Ivy league school with tons of students in a classroom.</p>
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<p>While Tufts is a little smaller (and also a great school!) let’s not pretend that the Ivies are huge state schools. Yale, Princeton, and Brown (possibly others?) all have fewer than 6000 undergrads, for instance. I think two of those three have fewer undergrads than Tufts.</p>
<p>Tufts Syndrome has been well documented. A lot of schools out there are excellent including Tufts, but the OP asked what people thought about Tufts students, and that’s part of its reputation. There’s no need for everyone of us to praise Tufts.</p>
<p>Tufts is a very decent school. I would consider it an “also-ran”</p>