As a graduating senior I can confidently say this school sucks. They make it seem like it’s some magical liberal arts place but the school is the most greedy corporation I’ve seen. During my time they have increased tuition at least 4% every year since 2015 going from 50k to 70k. From what I’ve seen this money isn’t going toward students at all. In my time here they have taken away many benefits/perks. The food quality has gotten consistently worse over the years and has gotten more expensive. Freshmen year going to the dinning hall without meal swipes costed around 14.63$ for dinner. Now it’s almost 21$. They force freshmen to buy unlimited meal swipes for the first year totaling around 400 swipes per semester and only give them 6 guest swipes for their friends. It’s is almost impossible to go through them all because they limit the amount you can use. And all dining halls close at 9 but really 8:30. The only other place you can get food on campus after these times is at the cafe that doesn’t take meal swipes.
Don’t even get me started about the dorms. This year there has been mold in most dorms. I’m on an athletic team here and several of my underclassmen teammates have had to move out and go to other dorms. They haven’t done shit about this and residential life was extremely slow in moving people out. It took one of my teammates two weeks to hear back from them and another week to finally move into a new place. They lived in a mold infested room for almost a month.
The only thing that matters here is your grade and there is rampant cheating in every class I’ve been in. I have taken many classes and gone to the front of the room to ask a question during a test and the amount of phones I’ve seen under desks is insane. I estimate about half of the students here have cheated in someway. Teachers are also almost never in there office unless it’s during their required 1 hour of office hours a week. (Shoutout to Proctor who was always there and would help every student).
I can go on and on about several things but as someone who genuinely enjoyed learning before this school it has completely killed my motivation to put an effort into my classes. Every semester I dreaded coming back and I’m so glad I’m getting out.
I’m sure this was not everyone’s experience don’t get me wrong the people here are great and I have many life long friends. But this happens at every school. I would not subject anyone to this torture.
I know I was kinda late and many people made their college decisions yesterday but seeing people make posts about where they are going reminded me about when I first got in here and my dreams and ambitions got killed by this school.
If this helps even one person not come here I’m glad. Screw tufts.
(Made on mobile sorry if formatting was bad)
(Also made on my throw away)