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.