Tufts v. NYU for Engineering/CS

momworried
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:52:46 +0000

I have a son in Tufts. Chem major. I myself went to poly for electrical engineering. Before it was nyu Poly. No question in my mind. Tufts all the way. You will have no social life at poly. A lot of professors barely speak English and have a very heavy accent so very difficult to understand. TAs teach a lot of classes and they have really heavy accents. If you’re a guy, there are very few girls at Poly. If you’re a girl, the guys are very nerdy and geeky and don’t know how to behave around girls. It’s true that I went there million years ago. But my cousin’s son just graduated from Poly and he had the same experience.
The only good thing Poly has going for it is it has a great job placement program. Outstanding actually. A lot of companies come to I terview on campus. All my friends had jobs by the time they graduated. Don’t know much about Tufts job placement for engineers. Poly graduates also consistently rank as top engineering starting salaries.

Poly is very preprocessional and Tufts has a liberal arts atmosphere.

Feel free to ask me anything else about Poly. All I can tell you is if I had to do over again I would of chose differently. I didnt have a typical college experience. Lived at home. A very large % of Poly students commute. Don’t know exact number. When I went it was almost everyone. But I had a job when I graduated even though we were in the middle of recession.