@PengsPhils what criteria are you using to tier Tufts?
It’s hard to place emphasis on USNWR as it is breaking out LACs from National Universities. Especially since Tufts in particular is somewhat a hybrid between the two categories.
Outside the geography there would seem to be a lot of similarities between Wake Forest and Tufts…
And from the (lack of) economic diversity here are some Tufts peers on this list:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html?_r=0