<p>If you saw one of the rooms at the River, ie three-room doubles or singles, and you consider how much further than 10 minutes, max, away dorms are at some larger schools, you will realize that while freshmen dorm rooms run the gamut and are not the uniformly best rooms, none of the options are bad.</p>
<p>How is Dartmouth’s engineering department and Thayer School of Engineering?</p>
<p>Yes, Xanatos, I heard it from a '10. Basically she said freshmen get the nicest, then sophomores get crappy housing, and it gets a little better from there up.</p>
<p>Is there a lot of racial and/or social class interaction?</p>
<p>Can you elaborate on the winter in Hanover? Is it much different from the rest of New England? Keep in mind that I am from a part of Texas where the winter consists of five days of 40 F weather, and summer lasts for roughly nine months. And regardless of the temperature, I need the sun to survive (S.A.D. anyone?).</p>
<p>1) freshman get housing ranging from passable to really super-nice and new. sophomores mostly get passable to reasonably good housing.</p>
<p>2) there’s very little class consciousness here, or class-based self-segregation. there’s not many expensive things to do that some people can’t afford - we have moderately priced restaurants, one or two boutiques, and everything is w/in walking distance. most people i know don’t even carry money around. expensive fashion is not a big deal when everyone walks around wearing a north face half the year anyway.</p>
<p>3) i’m from texas also and i was afraid i’d die during the winter. i will admit, i got a little tired of gloves and hats during winter term, but with a good winter jacket i was fine.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, tilly.</p>
<p>Would anyone happen to know what the studio art classes are like? Hopkins Centre seemed pretty sweet, but I didn’t get a chance to drop in on a class while I was at Dimensions.</p>
<p>There’s studios for everything at the Hop, from painting, to jewelery making, to wood working, etc.</p>
<p>I’ve never taken an art class, so I can’t say much about how the program here is. But I assume it’s pretty good for any college/university without an art college.</p>
<p>How open are Dmouth women to relationships?</p>
<p>Are there gen ed requirements at Dartmouth? If so, are they fairly limited in the courses you can take to fulfill them or will it be easy to find an interesting course to fulfill the requirement? I cannot find any information about gen eds on the Dartmouth website.</p>
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<p>If you want to be an econ major - how hard is it to get classes in finance and banking? The econ site says if there are too many interested - you have to go for agriculture, gov’t etc. Do they determine by GPA? First come first serve? Where does that leave freshman? Or if you see the prof and say you are really want to sign up, will they accomodate those who want in?</p>
<p>There is a pecking order to determining who gets into oversubscribed classes and it goes something like this (this isn’t just for econ, but for everything): majors (seniors then juniors then sophomores) minors (seniors then juniors then sophomores) and then non-major seniors, non-major juniors, non-major sophomores, and finally freshmen. So yeah, freshmen are obviously at the bottom of the pile. But keep in mind, econ has prerequisites that you have to take before you can get into the serious stuff, so you wouldn’t just be taking the high-level classes freshman fall anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah, econ classes tend to be oversubscribed. It’s one of the most popular majors and there are always lots of people signing up for those classes. The administration is pretty clueless in this as in other matters and so they haven’t hired nearly enough professors. Ultimately, you’ll definitely be able to take all the classes that you want, but you may not be able to get a spot in them the first time you try to sign up for them.</p>
<p>Others reading this should note that it isn’t nearly as bad in other departments.</p>
<p>lol at blitz’s post. girls here whine all the time about how no guys want to have relationships…its not that difficult, and it happens quite a bit…a huge portion of dmouth kids end up marrying other alums</p>
<p>Thanks, Xantos.</p>
<p>Girls whine about everything.</p>
<p>if i PM you my stats etc, can you give me general chances? Ive been doing college research for 6 years…and Dartmouth is my dream school. I am one of those special cases who you never know if will get in or not, im looking for your honest opinion, im also not going to pm you it before asking, because thats just rude.</p>
<p>and im looking for verrry general chances.</p>
<p>If I don’t do well on an AP that Dartmouth doesn’t take, does that hurt anything (other than my pride that is)?</p>
<p>How many classes can you take pass/fail outside your major?</p>
<p>amber - no. APs only matter for credit and placement purposes. If you do well enough you can get credit or place into a higher level of the class but if you don’t then nothing happens; you don’t get bumped down or anything. So even if you don’t do well on an AP that Dartmouth DOES take, it still isn’t a big deal. Basically, APs can only help.</p>
<p>addy - very few classes are available pass/fail, and I’m not sure what the limit is because most people don’t take them because there are so few of them. Dartmouth has an alternate and more readily available way of taking classes harmlessly called the Non-Recording Option (NRO). If you elect to use an NRO for a class, that basically means that you specify a grade, and if you get that grade or above it just counts normally and no one even knows that you set an NRO, but if you get below the grade (as long as you don’t fail) it just shows up in your transcript as having received credit but it doesn’t show the grade you got nor does it affect your GPA. You’re basically setting the grade that you would be satisfied with. So, using an NRO is good if you want to take a class that you find interesting but that might be in a subject that you don’t think you’ll be very good at. You can only have 3 NROs, but they only count towards the limit if you actually get below the grade you set for yourself. So if you get above what you set, the NRO will in essence be cancelled, but if get below it and the NRO actually triggers, you will then have one less NRO to use.</p>
<p>What is the campus like? What are the people like? Whats the party scene? How’s the weather? :D</p>
<p>Nice. Good. Cold.</p>