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05-24-2008, 10:59 AM
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#61 | | Senior Member
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| haha, ouch @ WUStL :P | 
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05-24-2008, 12:53 PM
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#62 | | Junior Member
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| ^ yeah... it seems that overall, schools like WUSTL, Northwestern, and Chicago lose a lot of their students who end up wanting to stay in the northeast. | |
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05-27-2008, 02:13 PM
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#63 | | Junior Member
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| Amherst
Boston College (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Brandeis
Brown (2)
CalTech
Carleton (2)
(University of) Chicago (9)
Colgate
Columbia (4)
Cornell (8)
Duke (5)
Emory (3)
Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (4)
McGill (4)
Michigan (3)
Middlebury (2)
MIT
Northwestern (8)
Notre Dame
NYU (2)
Pomona (3)
Princeton (2)
Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (5)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (2)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (3) | |
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05-29-2008, 09:23 PM
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#64 | | New Member
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| Amherst, American U, Duke, U at Buffalo, Clarkson, Princeton, Yale, Arizona State, U of Michigan, and Columbia. It was the hardest decision of my life choosing between Columbia and Dartmouth... Columbia had been my dream school for a while, and I wrote a lengthy explanation on my will not attend form.
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Arizona State University
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CalTech
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(University of) Chicago (9)
Clarkson
Colgate
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Emory (3)
Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (4)
McGill (4)
Michigan (4)
Middlebury (2)
MIT
Northwestern (8)
Notre Dame
NYU (2)
Pomona (3)
Princeton (3)
Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UBuffalo
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (5)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (2)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (4) | |
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05-30-2008, 05:24 PM
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#65 | | Junior Member
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| I don't understand why someone would choose Dartmouth over Princeton...Princeton has all the strengths that Dartmouth has. (small teacher-student ratio, undergraduate emphasis etc.) Yet Princeton has much more research opportunities, better recruitment etc. | |
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05-30-2008, 05:45 PM
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#66 | | Senior Member
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| ^ Dartmouth is very relaxed. Perhaps that was the environment they were looking for? | |
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05-30-2008, 09:34 PM
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#67 | | Junior Member
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| I visited Princeton and didn't even consider applying. It just felt cold, and the students I talked to were not nearly as enthusiastic about their school. I feel that a #1 USN&WR ranking is a negative, because it lends itself to an increase in the ******baggery of the students. My suspicions were confirmed when a friend (who turned down Princeton for Dartmouth) sent me a link to the Princeton 2012 Facebook group where the biggest announcement on the page said something like "Yup, we're #1 AGAIN!". My other concerns about the school was that many students seemed to take themselves too seriously. I could see how many students would choose Dartmouth over HYP after seeing the Dartmouth Dimensions show (where just the opposite is proved about the students).
Btw, I know of 2 additional students choosing Dartmouth over Princeton who I am confident aren't on CC, and didn't already post on that thread. | |
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05-30-2008, 10:32 PM
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#68 | | Junior Member
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Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (5)
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MIT
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Notre Dame
NYU (3)
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Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UBuffalo
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (6)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (2)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar (1)
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (4) | |
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05-31-2008, 01:06 AM
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#69 | | Senior Member
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| I already posted on this thread, but somebody forgot to put my other school that I put and I personally didn't include others.
Adding Brandeis, UWashington- Seattle (honors, BTW), and UArizona (honors as well)
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American
Arizona State University
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Tulane
UArizona
UBuffalo
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UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (6)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (3)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar (1)
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (4) | |
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06-01-2008, 06:03 AM
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#70 | | Member
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| Colleges Most Frequently Passed On For D
Amongst us, these are the schools we most frequently passed on:
WUStL (11)
Chicago (9)
Northwestern (8)
Cornell (8)
UPenn (7)
Duke (6)
Rochester (6)
Williams (6)
Columbia (5)
Johns Hopkins (5)
There are no real suprises here. I would have expected to have seen Brown on the list, despite the fact that Brown is winning out a bit in head to head competition with D.
I would also love to know what schools we would have chosen over Dartmouth from those we applied to had we gotten accepted to them. My guess is that there are only a handful and they include:
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Brown (slightly)
Penn (occasionally)
Columbia (occasionally)
Duke (occasionally)
I am aware of the College Preference study, but I am curious as to our class.
Where did you NOT get in to that you would have gone to over Dartmouth? | |
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06-01-2008, 10:56 AM
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#71 | | Member
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| In response to post #72
UPenn-Wharton (Early'd to Huntsman; deferred, rejected)
Harvard
Yale | |
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06-01-2008, 12:47 PM
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#72 | | Senior Member
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| Also in response to post #72
Cornell (ew.)
Tufts
Though if I had been accepted and got some good financial aid from Yale, I probably would have gone there over D. | |
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06-01-2008, 01:30 PM
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#73 | | Member
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| I would have gone to ---- if I had gotten in ...
rather than Dartmouth:
Alpha order
Cornell
Harvard
Penn - Wharton
Tufts
Yale (2) | |
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06-01-2008, 02:39 PM
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#74 | | Senior Member
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| Princeton. That's it. And it would be a maybe. | |
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06-01-2008, 03:26 PM
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#75 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: MAss
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| I would have gone to ---- if I had gotten in rather than Dartmouth:
Alpha order
Cornell
Harvard
Penn - Wharton
Princeton
Tufts
Yale (2) | |
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