Meet the Admissions Team
The Tufts Admissions team travels across the United States and around the world each year to meet with prospective students, school counselors, and college access advisors in service of sharing what makes Tufts such a distinctive university and community. We look forward to getting to know you throughout your college search process.
To ensure that your questions are directed to the appropriate staff member, please contact the Admissions Office directly at undergraduate.admissions@tufts.edu. If you have questions about applying as a transfer student, contact transfer.admissions@tufts.edu instead.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Indigenous Center
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
“A party without cake is just a meeting.” - Julia Child
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey
Elephants create their own sunscreen by using mud and wet sand to protect their skin from the sun!
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world” -Mahatma Gandhi
The Tisch Library rooftop
Screen printing studio at SMFA
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Elephants perceive humans in the same way that humans can perceive cats and dogs (the same areas in the brain can be activated when they see humans they're familiar with). In other words, elephants can find us cute!
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. It takes a really interesting and uplifting perspective on tackling mental illness and approaching the world from a place of joy and positivity despite adversity.
Gaming Hub Room at Hayes House (A space I helped get funding for when I was an undergrad!)
History 54: Europe since 1815 (Again because I love Professor Proctor and it is what made me become a history major)
Bendetson Hall – it’s where I get to partner with an extraordinary team of colleagues to read the applications (and stories, and aspirations, and journeys, and worldviews) of some of the nation’s, and the world’s, most promising and compelling students as we build each incoming class.
If I had to pick just one: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. But with books, you never have to pick just one, so some close seconds include: The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
Julia Dudley-Kramer
Senior Assistant Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers julia.dudley_kramer@tufts.eduWomen of Paris: The Circus Lover by James Jacques Joseph Tissot is one of my favorite lesser-known paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection.
Dumbo was recognized as Time Magazine’s “Mammal of the Year” in December 1941.
Roussel, Walser, Proust, Stein, Lispector, Michaux, Huysmans, Artaud, Pynchon, Borges, Sterne, Rabelais, Kharms, Vvedensky, Pizarnik, Seneca, Sun Ra, Trakl, Carrington, Mallarmé, Bataille, Celan, Howe, Sarraute, Zürn, any book that has a lot of long lists in it, etc.
Laura Owens, Glenn Ligon, James Ensor, Sigmar Polke, Mike Kelley, Fischli+Weiss, Theaster Gates, Tauba Auerbach, Hanne Darboven, John Rafman, Charline von Heyl, Christian Marclay, Isa Genzken, Guy de Cointet, Ree Morton, R.H. Quaytman, Dieter Roth, Adolf Wölfli, Rachel Harrison (did I mention that I’m enthusiastic about a lot of things?)
I have always loved Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. In a more academic context, my favorites are When Should Law Forgive by Martha Minow, The Privileged Poor by Anthony A. Jack, and The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood by Nancy E. Hill and Alexis Redding.
My favorite works of art are Portrait of Madame X and Lake O’Hara by Sargent, Gloucester Harbor at Sunset by Lane, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight in the Fog by Monet, Winter Sunshine by King, and Leander’s Tower on the Bosporus by Gilford.
Painting the cannon because not only does it allow students to express themselves, but needing to guard it until sunrise adds a bit of a fun challenge
"Don’t believe in yourself. Believe in me. Believe in the me who believes in you."
Elephants “talk” to each other using low-frequency sounds that humans cannot hear.
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Elephants have excellent memories and are known to hold long-term grudges against other elephants and even humans!
Elephant herds are matriarchal (female-led).
Pumpkining: On Halloween Day, pumpkins *mysteriously* appear all over campus. If you were to walk around, you'd find pumpkins on lampposts, roofs, and in all sorts of places!
Recently: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. All time: Persuasion by Jane Austen or The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
The benches at the top of the President’s lawn -- you get a great view of the Boston skyline and see lots of students around enjoying the outdoor space.
In addition to the familiar trumpet blast sound they're known for, elephants also purr much like cats do.
MUS-44: History of Rock 'n Roll...again
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The midnight organ concert on Halloween!
The SMFA Welding Shop
The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Elephants can drink up to 50 gallons of water in a day, and can hold 2.5 gallons in their trunk. That’s one heck of a water bottle!
Bendetson Hall. This is not only where I get to meet students on paper in their applications, but also where I connect with them in person once they are on campus!
Painting the cannon, because it gives students an outlet to express themselves in a creative and nontraditional way.
Misery by Stephen King
Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (It’s in the MFA collection!)
Upstairs in the Campus Center (couches, pool tables, and The Sink)!
Not stepping on the Jumbo logo in the lobby of the athletic center
Elephants are very collaborative and compassionate animals. The herd will work together to protect and nurture the young, find food, and defend against predators. They don’t just help other elephants; they also help other species, too!
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Elephants can swim! They use their trunk like a snorkel.
Educated by Tara Westover or The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The top floor of the Campus Center