Dartmouth Deserves Great Press

garnets
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:51:03 +0000

I’m right there with you all. Our daughter had nothing, NOTHING, but positive experiences during her four years at Dartmouth, and though ready to greet the future, she was so sad to leave. She was greeted with joy from the outset and then greeted others in return by participating in orientation and trips, ski patrol, her sorority, senior society, hikes, club teams, etc. Despite its small community, she reveled in meeting new people every term, because of (or in spite of!) the D Plan. She had amazing intern opportunities and traveled to India with a class. She knows that Dartmouth isn’t perfect, or perfect for everyone, but it was for her. We loved visiting; my husband and I would retire to Hanover in a heartbeat if it wasn’t so expensive!

PS Funny story: Our D and I visited Dartmouth the summer before her junior year of high school. We hated it. There were hundreds of people at the info session. The admissions person running the session was, in our opinion, terrible and had a tough time selling the school. The tour was crowded. My daughter stated in the car on the way home that that was one less school to apply to. Fast forward a couple of months. D insisted upon revisiting Dartmouth. She had done a lot of research and visited several forums (including CC!) and said that something must have been wrong with our first visit: all signs pointed to Dartmouth being the perfect school for her because of location, sense of community, non-competitiveness amongst students, etc. So against my better judgment (you can’t visit every school twice!!!) we tried again and fell in love. Applied and accepted ED. The rest is history!