Submit Stories

Ever wondered how and why some current Tufts students decided to hit submit? The Freshman Communications Board reflect on their decision to apply and on what made them hit submit.

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Maya Zeigler '16           I hit submit the way that I do almost everything: on the Atlanta, Georgia           cusp of disaster, only minutes from catastrophe... As a Major: International     procrastinator. Yes I was one of those kids that waited Relations                     until the last possible moment...Read More HERE

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Imogen Browder '16     To be brutally honest, Tufts was the very last application Calabasas, CA              I filled out... on purpose. My mum really loved Tufts and Major: Can I major       wanted me to apply, but I wasn't particularly sure that it in everything?              was the place for me...Read More HERE

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Nikhil Shinday '16       My parents are first-generation immigrants, born,   Santa Barbara, CA       brought up and educated in India and America for my Major: Mechanical       father, and India, Tanzania, and England for my mother. Engineering                 If there's one thing they instilled...Read More HERE

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Josh Grelle '16             To be honest, I don't really have an interesting story of Plano, TX                     why I clicked submit. Tufts was just on my list of    Major: International     colleges I was applying to. Not to say that I didn't want Relations/Chinese       to apply to Tufts, I loved...Read More HERE

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Natasha Lee '16          My dad has always encouraged me to consider going to Singapore                    college in the United States simply because it was an Major: Political Sci.     opportunity he never had. I only began to give his          or Economics              suggestion serious consideration... Read More HERE

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Nick Whitney '16         I completed the Common App in alphabetical order, Albany, NY                 which made Tufts the very last school to which I applied. Major: English or        By then it was so late in the process and I was so burnt Sociology                    out by AP Calculus and...Read More HERE

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Mary Cross '16            I have always loved Tufts. Really, I have, the first time I Center City, MN          stepped on campus and had my tour I could just feel the Major: Proudly            energy and excitement, and how much people loved living Undecided                  and learning here...Read More HERE