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how good are Dartmouth's science departments?? Comparable to Princeton, Stanford? How good are the research options? Or it mainly a social sciences or humanities college?
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try posting this on the Dartmouth forum for better responses.
BUT, the sciences are really good. It honestly depends on what you want to study, "the sciences" are a broad category. From Geology to Physics to Molecular Biology to Environmental Sciences (to name a few), the departments are all pretty strong, but of various sizes. The Psych and Brain Sciences dept has one of the only fMRI machines dedicated solely to research in the country. If you're interested in synthetic organic chemistry ... definitely a good place to be. If you're trying to get into med school ... again, easily comparable to pretty much everywhere.
Basically, it's really easy to get research opportunities because there are so relatively few grad students and professors are always looking for more help. I've had the privilege of working with a few different professors, all who were eager to find some place for me in their work, whether directly in a lab, in the field collecting samples, or helping as an assistant with a grad student or senior thesis candidate.
On the other hand, the social sciences and humanities are very strong as well. The Econ department is probably the most popular on campus, and has a pretty good reputation for churning out successful i-bankers, while the government department is also reputedly pretty good.