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Like Erica Shipow, A08, who worked in a rural Nicaraguan farming community, and Noah
Spitzer-Williams, A06 and Brian Yun, A07, winners of the 2006 business plan competition
sponsored by the Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies minor program, Tufts students learn
to integrate academics with experience.
when we are touted as a “new Ivy” by Newsweek. And while we may
wrestle each spring with the challenge of reviewing more than 15,000
applications for 1,275 places in the entering class—it is an enviable
struggle. We have, by all measures, arrived.
But being a “hot” school comes with a price. We are now under
greater scrutiny because our applicant pool has higher expectations.
The faculty and students we seek to attract observe and analyze how
we measure up against a new competitive peer group, schools such
as Brown, Georgetown, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, and Washington
University. Comparatively, our resources—including our financial aid
packages, faculty development offerings, and facilities—sometimes
fall short of expectations and needs.
We find ourselves at the threshold of a promising but uncertain
future. Our challenge is to reinforce what Tufts means and to promote
a distinctive Tufts “edge” in ways we have not done before.
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