I think you have just as equal chance for UConn as for BU, and Tufts, with BU may be easier to get into. With UConn, it is even better. If you do as you say on your DATs, AND express your desire to go to UConn, you are good. In my opinion, as well as in one of friends from college who looked at BU and Tufts, Tufts is better than BU, more humane treatment towards the students (not that BU is not - just my opinion). My friend from college, being accepted at both BU and Tufts, after all the questions to both of the schools, decidedly went to Tufts. I, on the other hand, would still prefer UConn, esp that i was accepted there!!🙂 i always wanted to live in Boston, but that can wait a bit.
One thing, don't apply JUST to these schools. Since I already went through this, I know that whether it is a better or worse school in relation to your stats, you might not get interviews at the worse stat schools - sometimes seems like interviews are out of the hat - and if you want to be out of the hat, u need to be more PROACTIVE.
What does that mean? Not necessarily calling the school up every time, but may be send an e-mail or one call, after you think they received the app. (~2 weeks after AADSAS sent it out) to verify that they have everything, and (preferably in writing) state that you are very much interested in their school (I e-mailed only 3 schools that I was very interested in -out of 15). Also, may be some other things may be applicable to you, as one thing was for me. I draw and also carve a little as my hobbies. So since that is an example of hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity, I asked those 3 schools whether I can send them the printouts of my drawings (from digital camera). This was a way for supporting my application, esp. that question about manual dexterity in the AADSAS. I don't know whether that helped me to be accepted, because I got interviews to those schools before I did that (or UConn just e-mailed me back and said that I can attach pictures in the e-mail and notified me right then that he reveiwed my application and the interview letter will be arriving shortly. This is just my experience. I know people, who i talked to at my college from years before, have sent their photography work, and pictures of sculptures that they did in photography and sculpture courses. How professionally you do this is up to you; what you send and not send is also up to you, just as question of doing something like this at all. Hopefully, this helps. GL
