Coffin said that while the admissions office expects the entire Class of 2012 to be admitted on a need-blind basis, the university has not yet been able to project when a sustainable need-blind policy ...

Tufts University has retained an external law firm to investigate claims of alleged bias and discrimination against Joseph “JT” Duck, the dean of admissions for the School of Arts and Sciences and the ...

The Voices of Tufts Diversity Experience, a two-day program designed to introduce high school seniors to diversity and community at Tufts University, was hosted via Zoom on Oct. 16–17.. According to ...

For most of this year's applicants to Tufts University, the answer was neither. Instead, the important news arrived with a sharp ding or a cheery "You've Got Mail!" For the first time, Tufts ...

The faculty senate at Tufts University is calling on the institution to end consideration of legacy status in admissions after passing a resolution this week. In recent years there has been a ...

Prospective Tufts University students who are tired of writing essay after essay can now use YouTube to showcase their qualifications. Students who applied to Tufts class of 2014 had the option of ...

Tufts University, outside Boston, is one of the first higher-learning institutions to provide an option on its official admissions application for students to submit a video essay if they choose to.

For Tufts, the videos have been a delightful way to get to know the applicants. “At heart, this is all about a conversation between a kid and an admissions officer,” Mr. Coffin said.

Tufts University will formally install Sunil Kumar, ... Johns Hopkins stopped advantaging the children of alumni in its admissions process in 2014, two years before Kumar joined the school.

While high school seniors are months away from submitting their college applications, the perennial debate over the role of standardized testing in college admissions is raging hotter than ever thanks ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Natasha Warikoo, professor of sociology at Tufts University, about ways schools can diversify after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions.