<p>"Re: math, you want the better undergrad experience, regardless of graduate school program rankings, which are what blue85 has posted. Tufts, being smaller and more LAC-like, would offer you more direct access to profs and research opportunities.</p>
<p>Tufts for undergrad and U Michigan for grad. Best of both worlds."</p>
<p>" Sadly, it’s the tone of “categorical, patent superiority” in discussions like this (as reflected in the Michigan boosters here) that raise folks’ hackles unnecessarily."</p>
<p>It seems you suffer from the same issues gondalineNJ. You made an absolute blanket statement about Tufts as compared to Michigan (regarding access and research) and it seems you just expected that your thoughts would not be challenged. The fact is that in math and cs, according to rankings in academe, Michigan IS superior to Tufts. </p>
<p>This is the Michigan board. It is obviously going to be biased towards Michigan, but not without any consideration of others schools. If the OP were considering other top rated math or cs programs, I can assure you the responses would be different. </p>
<p>I went to the Tufts site to see how posters there responded to the same question from the OP. There were no responses, not even from you. </p>