Tufts vs NYU

kinly07
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:36:28 +0000

If you want to go to law school, I would recommend not coming to Tufts.

I’m currently a freshman majoring in economics and planning to go to law school, and am pretty unhappy with Tufts.

I was in the same situation as you last year, trying to decide between NYU and Tufts. I decided on Tufts because I received significantly more financial aid than I did for NYU, but now I’m regretting it very much. Although I am pretty biased because NYU was my first choice school.

The pre-law resources at Tufts are pretty non-existent. The pre-law adviser doesn’t even help students (or at least me) and will refer you instead to career services if you try to meet with her. The pre-law society is also pretty non existent, and very few law schools come to Tufts to recruit. There were only two this year - Columbia and UConn. In general, prelaw students at Tufts have ridiculously few resources.

Economics at Tufts is just alright. There’s nothing special about it.

Basically what it comes down to is what kind of environment do you excel in?
A fast paced competitive school like NYU or a slow and steady one like Tufts.