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Dispelling Myths
Admissions officers answer lots of questions. It’s part of the job description. And many students ask us similar versions of the same questions. The blogosphere is filled with viral rumors about college admissions, about what “counts” and what doesn’t and why. These ideas fester in high school cafeterias and cyber spots like “College Confidential” and Facebook, among others, so we want to use this corner of the Internet to clear the air. In random order, here are some of the myths we hear every day:
破除谣言
作为招生工作的一部分，招生人员会回答很多问题。许多学生问我们类似的问题。博客圈里充斥着关于大学录取的谣言，关于什么是“重要”，什么是“不”和“为什么”。这些想法在高校食堂和“大学机密”和Facebook等网站上滋生，因此我们希望利用互联网的这个角落来净化空气。随机顺序，以下是我们每天听到的一些谣言:
It's better to get a lower grade in a harder course than it is to get a higher grade in an easier course
Well, yes and no. Part of our academic assessment of your application is a consideration of curricular rigor. We determine the availability of advanced coursework at your school (AP, IB, honors, etc.) and evaluate your transcript on a scale from “most demanding available” to “below average.” Your GPA is evaluated in that context, so yes, sometimes the "lower grade in the harder course" is "better" than the "higher grade in an easier course." But that doesn't mean that a transcript full of Cs in AP classes is better than straight As in classes a step down. Know yourself and put together a schedule that will challenge and engage you but not cause you to flounder academically.
1、在比较简单的课程中获得更高的成绩要比较低的成绩要好一些。
嗯，是的，没有。我们对您的申请的学术评估的一部分是对课程严谨性的考虑。我们确定您所在学校的高级课程(AP，IB，荣誉等)的可用性，并从“最苛刻的可用”到“低于平均水平”的评估评估您的成绩单。您的GPA在这种情况下进行评估，那么是的，有时“更难的课程”的“较低年级”比“更简单的课程更高等级”更好。但这并不意味着，在AP课程中，一份完整的c语言成绩比在课堂上的成绩要好。了解你自己，制定一个计划来挑战和吸引你，但不会让你在学术上受到别人的嘲笑。
If my test scores are below a certain number, I won't get in
Nope. We use no score cutoffs when we read of applications. Academic strength can be measured in lots of ways, and testing is an imperfect metric for determining the preparedness of every student for college. That's why we combine all the work you've done in the classroom by looking at your GPA and the rigor of your curriculum alongside your testing to determine your overall academic strength. So while we do use your test scores as one predictor of academic success at Tufts, we think about those scores in context and in conjunction with so many other factors. We simply cannot have a test score "cutoff." The only exception is with the TOEFL and IELTS, for which we do have minimum scores. You can read about that here.
2、如果我的考试成绩低于某个分数，我就不会不录取了。
不。当我们考察申请人的申请时申请时，我们不会将任何分数考虑在内。学术力量可以用很多方法来衡量，而测试用来确定每个学生的准备情况是一个不完美的指标。这就是为什么我们把你在课堂上做的所有工作都结合在一起，看你的GPA和你的课程测试的严密性，来决定你的整体学术实力。所以，当我们把你的考试成绩作为塔夫茨大学学术成就的一个预测指标时，我们会考虑这些分数所在的具体环境，以及与许多其他因素的结合。我们不能有一个绝对的最低考试分数。“唯一的例外是托福和雅思，我们确实有最低分。”你们可以在这里读到。
Anything that's "optional" on a college application is actually secretly "required"
The “optional” sections of an application are not covert opportunities to trip you up. Seriously. If an essay or a standardized test or an interview is labeled “optional,” there is truth to that blessed adjective. The college has given you a choice. Use it or dispose of it as you see fit. Don’t over-analyze it. It’s not a trick question, and you won’t be “penalized” if you skip it. That’s why it’s “optional.” If it says something is “recommended,” well, that’s a different conversation…
3、任何在大学申请中“可选”的东西实际上都是秘密“需要的”。
认真的说，申请的“可选”部分并不是一个绊倒你的部分。如果一篇论文或标准化考试或面试被贴上“可选”的标签，那么这个神圣的次是又真理的。学院给了你一个选择，你可以在你认为合适的时候利用这个选择。不要过分解读。这不是一个小问题，如果你跳过它，你不会被“处罚”。这就是为什么它的“可选的。如果一些事情是我们“推荐的”，那么，这是另一种不同的对话。
It looks bad if I take the SAT (or the ACT) too many times
Taking a certain test "too many times" is a very subjective, nebulous concept, and it doesn't hurt your application - we do not penalize students who take the same test multiple times. For your own sanity, however, you should retake your SAT or ACT purposefully. Taking the same test five times is a strain on you and your family - both financially and, let's face it, when it comes to everyone's happiness. And the reward is often at that point not worth the sacrifice. If you feel that taking a certain test a second or third time will improve your score to one with which you'll feel happy, that is an excellent reason to take the test again. Otherwise, let yourself be done.
4、如果我考了许多次的SAT(或ACT)，那对我的申请不利。
多次考试是一个非常主观的、模糊的概念，它不会对你的申请造成不利影响——我们不会对多次参加相同考试的学生进行惩罚。然而，明智的做法是，你应该有目的进行SAT考试。对你和你的家人来说，无论是在经济上还是其他方面，做五次同样的测试是一种压力，在涉及到每个人的幸福时，让我们面对现实吧。而奖励往往不值得在那个时候牺牲。如果你觉得第二次或第三次参加某个测试会提高你的分数，你会感到高兴，这是再次参加测试的一个很好的理由。否则，还是做你自己吧。
I have a better chance of getting in if I go meet my admission officer, send them emails, and get an interview with them
While we welcome your questions and you should feel free to reach out to us with specific concerns, this type of contact with us is not going to “help” your application. We don’t offer interviews with our admissions staff as part of our process, and you don’t need to meet with the admissions officer who reads for your territory on your campus visit – in fact, you shouldn’t. The individual presenting at your information session is happy to answer questions and has the same knowledge and expertise as the person who will eventually read your file.
The lesson here is don’t send emails or request meetings just for the sake of it. There are better ways to show us “demonstrated interest.” If you can visit campus, meet us if we visit your high school or come say hello at a college fair, we will appreciate the fact that you are making the effort to get to know Tufts and assess whether it is a good fit for you. If you write fabulous, specific responses to our supplemental questions (particularly “Why Tufts?”) based on research you did online, we notice, and it helps. So when thinking about showing demonstrated interest, please be purposeful.
5、如果我去见我的录取官，给他们发邮件，和他们面谈，我就有更好的机会。
当我们欢迎您的提问时，您可以自由地向我们提出具体的问题，与我们的这种联系不会对您的申请有帮助。我们的招生人员不会在面试过程中给提供面试机会。事实上你也不需要和去拜访到我校到你们学校的招生人员。在你的信息会话中展示的个人很乐意回答问题，并且你可向你申请的招生人员展示出你的最终提交的文件中的知识和实践经历。
这里的教训是，不要为了申请而发送电子邮件或请求面试。有更好的方式向我们展示“展示出的兴趣”。“如果你可以参观校园，如果我们参观了你的高中，或者在大学校园里跟我们打招呼，我们会很感激你正在努力去了解塔夫茨大学，并评估它是否适合你。”如果你对我们的补充问题(特别是“为什么塔夫茨”)写了精彩的、具体的回答，我们会注意到，这是有帮助的。所以，当你想要表现出有兴趣的时候，请有目的性。
I need to be the president of every club I'm in to be competitive in my college application
Picture this: 12 people who were president of the mock trial team in high school join mock trial at Tufts. What happens? Most likely you have a room full of people yelling at each other. The success of any club depends on leaders but also listeners, decision-makers but also peacekeepers, doers but also thinkers... you get the idea.
Of course, extracurricular engagement is one of the areas we consider when evaluating applications, and leadership roles demonstrate outstanding commitment to an activity. But so do things like consistent and extended involvement and personal contributions. Use the space you're given in the Activities section to explain your official or unofficial role on the team was so we can begin to picture your role in your extracurriculars in college.
6、我需要成为每个俱乐部的主席这在我的大学申请中具有竞争力。
想象一下:在塔夫茨大学，有12个人是模拟审判小组的主席，参加模拟审判。会发生什么呢?最有可能的是，你的房间里挤满了人。任何俱乐部的成功都取决于领导者，但也包括听众，决策者，还有维和人员，实干家，还有思想家。你懂的。
当然，在评估申请时，课外活动是我们考虑的一个领域，而领导角色表现出对活动的杰出承诺。但是，同样的事情，比如持续的，不断的参与和个人的贡献。你可以简述你在团队中的正式或非正式的角色，这样我们就可以开始想象你在大学里的角色。
It's easier to get in Early Decision
Not true. The students we accept in Early Decision are of the same high quality as the students we accept in Regular Decision - on average they have the same grades, scores, extracurricular commitments and vibrant qualities that make our applicants qualified. You should never apply to a school Early Decision for strategic purposes - Early Decision is an opportunity to apply if you know that you would choose Tufts over any other school on your list.
To be honest, though, this particular myth requires a response that's a little more nuanced than that. So we had Associate Director of Admissions Meghan Dangremond write a blog about it. You can check that out here!
7、越早做出决定就越容易被录取。
不正确的。我们在早期决定中接受的学生和我们在常规决策中接受的学生是一样考量的——我们同样会考虑他们的成绩、分数、课外活动和充满活力的素质的平均值，这些品质使我们确定是否申请者具备资格。你不应该为了战略目的而过早的申请学校——如果你知道你会选择塔夫茨大学而不是你的名单上的其他学校，那么你可以这样做。
不过，说实话，这个特殊的神话需要一个比这更微妙的回应。所以我们有招生副主任梅根。丹德蒙德写了一篇关于此事的博客。你可以在这里查看一下!
I won't get in if I didn't do community service
Community service is a great thing, and it's something that really matters to Tufts (we do have an entire college of Civic Life for a reason). But, there is no requirement for acceptance that says you have to do community service to get accepted, and plenty of the students we accept haven't done any. We generally prefer that the activities you do are things that are meaningful to you. And that goes for everything, not just community service! So you should try community service (and athletics, and music, and anything that you think you might love) - if you really like it and end up doing a lot, great! If not, spend that time doing something else productive (sorry, watching Friends re-runs on Netflix doesn't count as productive). Start a band, join mock trial, play a sport, or write short stories - whatever makes you happy. Your application will be much stronger if you follow your passions rather than spending your time checking off boxes for admission officers.
8、如果我不做社区服务我就不会被录取。
社区服务是一件伟大的事情，它是塔夫茨大学真正重要的东西(我们有一个完整的公民生活学院是有原因的)。但是，没有要求你必须接受社区服务才能被录取，而我们所接受的很多学生都没有做过任何事情。我们通常更喜欢你做的事情是对你有意义的事情。这一切都是为了一切，而不仅仅是社区服务!因此，你应该尝试社区服务(包括体育、音乐和任何你认为你可能会喜欢的东西)——如果你真的喜欢它，最后会做很多，很好!如果没有，那就把时间花在做其他有意义的事情上(不好意思，跟朋友们在Netflix看重播并不算有成效)。开始一个乐队，加入模拟试验，玩一项运动，或者写一些简短的故事——任何让你开心的事情。如果你追随你的激情，而不是花时间去考虑招生人员的想法，你的申请将会更加有力。
Sending 8 letters of recommendation and an additional essay will give me a better chance of getting in
This is one of those scenarios in which "less is more" is generally true. We require each item in our application for a reason, and an application with too many "extras" can actually dilute your message and take attention away from the salient points we asked for. It is actually more helpful to send us two recommendations from teachers telling us distinctly different things about you than it is to send us six recommendations from teachers saying the same wonderful things about you.
9、发送8封推荐信和一篇额外的文章会让我有更好的机会被录取
这是一种“少即多”的情况通常是正确的。我们要求申请中的每一项都是有原因的，而一个有太多“附加”功能的申请实际上会稀释您的信息，并将注意力从我们所要求的突出点上转移开。实际上，向我们发送两份来自老师的推荐信会更有帮助，它告诉我们的是截然不同的事情，而不是向我们发送来自老师的六份推荐信，这些建议都是对您十分有益的建议。
If 30 people apply from my high school to one college, it's harder for me to get into that school
We read files by school so that we can better understand your success in the context of your environment. For that reason, we do evaluate your application in the context of the other students in your class. This helps us put your performance into perspective, especially as it pertains to the rigor of your curriculum. But there is no quota from each school. If 10 students apply from your high school and all 10 students impress us, it’s possible that everyone could be accepted. The best advice we can give is don’t worry about who else is applying from your school. Give us your best effort.
10、如果有30个人从我的高中申请到一所大学，我很难进入那所学校。
我们在学校里阅读文件，这样我们就能更好地理解你在环境中的成功。出于这个原因，我们会在你的班级的其他同学的背景下评估你的申请。这有助于我们通过某个角度来评价你的表现，特别是它与你的课程的严密性有关。但是每个学校都没有配额。如果10个学生从你的高中申请，10个学生给我们留下深刻印象，那么每个人都有可能被录取。我们能给你的最好的建议就是不要担心你的学校里还有谁在申请。进你最大的努力。
If I get into college Early Decision, I don't have to worry about working the rest of the year
All of the students we admit in Early Decision (and in Regular Decision) are notified in their acceptance letter that we expect them to “maintain the level of academic and personal excellence that distinguished them as an applicant.” In other words, if you slack off later in your senior year, we notice, and it could jeopardize your acceptance.
11、如果我早就被这个大学录取了，那么其余的我就什么都不用考虑了。
所有我们“提前录取”(以及常规的录取)的学生我们都会在录取通知书中上写道：我们希望他们能够“保持学术和个人的卓越水平。”换句话说，如果你在大四的时候偷懒，我们会注意到，这可能会危及你的录取情况。
Admission officers check up on your Facebook accounts
No, we don’t. Seriously (and that goes for Instagram, Twitter, etc.). If this type of inspection would be useful to our decision-making, we would ask you to send us a link to your Facebook page so we could evaluate its content. But there are enough things in your application for us to evaluate and, frankly, there are some things we should not see. Facebook is one of them. (That’s why it’s called “creeping,” isn’t it?) Having said that, Facebook is a public space and a reflective pause before you post is always prudent, especially if it’s on a college’s admissions page.
12、招生人员会查看你的Facebook账户。
不,我们没有。严肃地说(这也适用于Instagram、Twitter等)。如果这种检查对我们的决策有帮助，我们会要求你给我们发送一个链接到你的Facebook页面，这样我们就可以评估它的内容了。但是在你的申请材料中中有足够的东西让我们去评估，坦白地说，有些事情我们不应该去看。Facebook就是其中之一。(这就是为什么它被称为“爬行”，不是吗?)说到这一点，Facebook是一个公共空间，在你发表帖子前反思一下，总是谨慎的，尤其是在大学的招生页面上。
If I send in all of my test scores, admission officers will hold the lower ones against me
Everybody wins when we use your highest test scores. No matter which tests you are submitting to Tufts, we will take the highest scores on each section of that test to evaluate. End of story.
13、如果我把所有的考试成绩都寄给大椎穴，招生人员就会看到我的较低的分数。
当我们使用最高的考试分数时，每个人都会赢。无论你向塔夫茨提交了哪些考试，我们都将在测试的每个部分中获得最高的分数来评估。是的我们一定会这样做。
If a coach calls me it means I'm being recruited
Getting a call from a coach doesn't mean you're getting recruited. It means the coach called you, and may be interested in recruiting you at some point. Once a coach has told you that you have their support, this is not a guarantee of admission. It means that the coach's support will be considered by the admissions office as part of the holistic view of your application (alongside your academic strength, extracurricular achievement, and personal qualities). The coach's support certainly makes an impact, but we'll still be looking for students who are strong academic and personal fits for Tufts, even when evaluating recruited athletes.
14、如果指导教师打电话给我，这就意味着我被录取了。
接到指导教师的电话并不意味着你被录用了。这意味着指导教师给你打电话，可能会有兴趣在某个时候录取你。当指导教师告诉你你得到了他们的支持，但是这就不能保证你会被录取。这意味着指导教师的支持将被招生办公室认为是你申请的整体观点的一部分(与你的学术实力、课外成就和个人素质有关)。指导教师的支持当然会产生影响，但我们仍在寻找那些对塔夫茨大学有很强的学术和个人能力的学生，即使在评估招收的运动员时也是如此。
If anything arrives after the deadline my application will be denied (or looked at more harshly)
Your parts of the application—the Tufts writing supplement and the first half of the Common Application—must be received by the deadline. But, your Secondary School Report, teacher recommendations, alumni interview, and standardized testing can—and often do—arrive after that date. We understand that different high schools are on different schedules, test scores often take a long time to process and send, and teachers are writing many recommendations and often need some additional time to get those in - and that's OK.
15、如果申请日期之后我收到了什么，一定是拒绝函(或者更糟糕)。
您的部分申请——塔夫茨编写补充和申请的前半部分——必须在截止日期前收到。但是，你的中学报告，老师推荐，校友面试，标准化考试，并且经常在那个日期之后到来。我们知道不同的高中在不同的时间安排上，考试成绩通常需要很长时间来处理和发送，老师们写了很多建议，并且经常需要额外的时间来完成这些工作——放心吧，不一定是拒绝函啊。
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