Tufts University Top Questions

Tufts was a greedy, nasty place rampant with favoritism.

Nerdy, Uptight, Too Serious

That we have a lot of international students, are all nerds and don't know how to party / have a good time, and that our sports teams are garbage. Oh, and that it is a saftey school for the kids that didn't get into an Ivy league school.

Brainy and not socially with it

Tufts students are nerdy, liberal Jewish/Asian kids who didn't get into Ivy League schools, and the major extracurricular activity at the school is to whine that you had to settle for the lesser education of Tufts.

An old stereotype that pops up sometimes is that Tufts is home to bitter Ivy League rejects. Others I've heard are that Tufts students are rich, and that we're home to smart, but laid-back/noncompetitive students.

white, privileged, sheltered, affluent, over achievers, idealistic, opinionated, friendly, loud, outgoing, busy, ambitious

Full of JAPS, all disappointed that they couldn't get into Harvard, rich, from NY or NJ. International kids are slutty, party a lot, smoke a lot, are pretentious and wont associate with anyone but themselves.

I read somewhere that a former TUFTS student that transferred said that we were a bunch of hyper-competitive embittered ivy league rejects...I thought that was funny and sort of true.

A very common stereotype about Tufts is that its a school for Ivy-league rejects. Many people assume that Tufts students are smart enough to get into Ivy league schools but are too lazy. Another stereotype is that all students at Tufts are rich and stuck up. Tufts students have a tendency to think they are better than most.

I think the major stereotype about Tufts students is that we are all bitter, pretentious Ivy-League rejects. We are known to be very liberal. Additionally, I've also heard stereotypes that Tufts girls are unattractive, Tufts guys are all nerds, and that a lot of the students are very affluent and have no concept of the value of money.

-kids who did not get into their first choice ivy league college, and are slightly bitter about it -very politically and globally aware students

Jewish, rich, well-traveled, idealistic

I dont know of any really. Very international, lots of MA students, party hard, study hard.

Tufts students are stereotypically smart, but not the absolute smartest (sometimes bitter) and wealthy.

lots of people think every tufts student is an IR major (close to the truth.. we have lots). but really, not true. i'm not. so there. as far as the school itself, people probably think we're all wishing we were at an ivy league school (not true.. i applied ED)

Predominantly Jewish? I have no idea, I really didn't check Tufts out too closely. There might be a stereotype that since we're New Ivy, we have some notion to "prove ourselves" or are somehow less than regular ivy schools.

Unhappy Ivy-league rejects/wannabes or smart slackers.

The stereotypes are that we're bitter Ivy League rejects at their loathsome safety; I've also heard that many people are under the impression that Tufts is as much a Jewish haven as Brandeis. The Princeton Review writes that most of us are North-face, Ugg-wearing preps with no socioeconomic diversity.

In the past, I know that Tufts has been characterized as a back-up school for wealthy East Coast prep school kids who don't get into the Ivies they were shooting for. However, I think that recently Tufts has been able to forge its own identity as a legitimately sound option for a top-notch education.