<p>my D just received a letter signed by the dean of admissions that “there is no question in my mind that when we make our final decisions at the end of march, you will be offered admissions to the college”.
my question is, is admission for her guaranteed?</p>
<p>DDad, you can rest assured that if your D is a “likely” at Dartmouth, she will have multiple choices in a month or two. Smile and enjoy the ride, you raised her well. For many top candidates, Dartmouth is not always the first choice, but when you look closer at Hanover, the school and its traditions, it looks better all the time. My son chose Dartmouth and I have never seen him happier.</p>
<p>medicaljob1, unless your daughter has a major screw up, she is on her way to Hanover (if she desires to accept the offer of admissions). Congrats.</p>
<p>These letters sound so exciting. Congratuations to the students and parents who received them. Does anyone know what it takes to be sent a letter. I assume most of the students discussed here are not recruited althletes.
Thanks.</p>
<p>medicaljob1: Agree with sybbie719. You can take that letter to the bank.</p>
<p>I think that it is mostly a matter of speculation as to who gets likelies. High-statted URMs may be one group more likely to get a likely. Some recruited athletes who were not part of the ED process. (I think jdjaguar’s son fell into this category, if memory serves.) It is quite probable that WHEN the application is read has something to do with it. The kid could walk on water, but if they are read closer to the end of the process the school might not bother with a likely. Who knows, really. :)</p>
<p>Note: according to rumor, apps may be sorted into different piles at most schools. Maybe some piles are read before other piles. Since D–and other schools–have gone to the length of sending a special invitation to apply to URM candidates who have missed the normal deadline, and extended the deadline specifically for them, it is reasonable to assume that the URM pile gets read earlier, or gets special attention of some sort.</p>
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<p>There’s still a chance a classmate may receive a likely letter. My D was one of three at her school to receive a likely letter. The letters did not arrive at the same time, but over a period of two or three weeks.</p>
<p>I learned that likely letters go out in waves, up to early March.</p>
<p>Hey Dartmouth parents, who is attending Sophomore summer family weekend July 27-29?</p>
<p>Hi Magnum! We are! Actually we are thrilled, as my parents will be joining us, and they have never seen Dartmouth. I am hoping other grandparents will be there also. First year family weekend was so much fun, so I am sure they have a ton of activities planned for the summer. I’m actually going up the last weekend in Feb too, as I have to be in Boston for business, so I thought why not? Hope to see you there this summer!</p>
<p>When you go to Parents Sophomore Summer weekend, be sure to see the Rauner Library rare book tour. I got to hold some of the books in my hands and flip though the pages, including a Shakespeare First Folio, a first edition Pride and Prejudice, and a medieval manuscript that was handwritten in Latin on vellum and beautifully illuminated.</p>
<p>coureur, that’s incredible. I’m going to have to see if I can do it before S graduates! Somehow I’ve always missed it. I highly recommend taking time to view the striking murals on the lower level of Baker. They do have tours on the family weekend, but there’s a brochure you can use for a self-guided tour.</p>
<p>^^Yes, i was astonished that they let us handle the books. I’ve never seen that before with rare book collections.</p>
<p>The librarian said they do not always allow it with every group during the open house. If there are rowdy children or others in the group who look or act like they might be careless with the books, they announce a No Touching rule. But I also found that, even for those groups, if you hang around and chat with the librarian after the show is over and the rowdy people disperse they will let you handle the books then.</p>
<p>coureur, i wish CC had a like button. That sounds like an incredible thing to do.</p>
<p>We did the Rauner rare book tour and it was terrific. I swore we wouldn’t tell if we touched a book or not, but we saw students using rare books in their research. The most popular rare book is (I will let you guess). We also wanted to do the observatory star-gazing, but it was overcast. We missed the Baker tower tour because of the line.</p>
<p>My son will be graduating from high school in 2013 and has placed Dartmouth at the top of his prospective colleges list. He is interested in languages/culture and linguistics. He currently speaks English, Spanish, Japanese and will begin to study Chinese this Summer at the Middlebury College language program in Vermont. Are there any parents here who have kids in any of the language programs? and if so, Do you have feedback on those programs, courses, professors, etc…? I also wondered about advice/feedback with regard to foreign learning as it pertains to the D-Plan. Hopefully I have found the right location for this message. Please let me know if I should post this on a different thread.</p>
<p>My S is majoring in a foreign language, studied 2 foreign languages in HS, has studied 2 languages at D, and has taken a number of linguistics courses. The languages he has studied at D do not overlap with your son’s, though. </p>
<p>The D plan can indeed be a problem when studying languages at D, depending on the department’s course offerings and the level of the student. S started his third foreign language as a first year, but studying abroad fall term of sophomore year made it difficult to continue, since the department in question offers its first two years of the language only in strict sequence F/W/S. He would therefore have to wait until fall term of junior year to take the next course. By then he had lost momentum and was on to other things. If S had waited until junior year to take a term “off” for an internship or study abroad, or done it during a summer term, this would not have been a problem.</p>
<p>But as I said, this really depends on the department, the level of courses, and so forth. S has had no problem at all scheduling courses in his major language, since he was taking more advanced classes from the start. (He had 5s on both the AP Lang and AP Lit exams in the language.) S very much enjoyed the FSA term.</p>
<p>Thank you Consolation for your reply. Dartmouth has so many terrific course offerings and quality opportunities, that I can understand why my son is excited about the College. He also does well in art history, drawing and painting and creative writing. If I had to bet right now, however, I would guess that some form of language study will be putting food on his table in the future. Because of that I wondered about the D-Plan and how that would work around language courses of interest. From what you’ve indicated, it sounds like there are ways to take the language selections you need/want as long as you plan ahead. Thanks again for your insight. It’s much appreciated…</p>
<p>Hi Toothfella. My son is a freshman and is currently taking Japanese at Dartmouth. He studied Japanese for 5 years in middle and high school and selected Dartmouth as one of the few schools where he could major in engineering while also continuing Japanese and study abroad in Japan. He will go this summer with Dartmouth LSA thanks to the Dplan. He did somehow determine from the beginning that, if he didn’t go freshman summer, there might not be another opportunity. He loves his Japanese teacher, the class and says it is so much fun! They do not use AP for placement; students take placement testing at pre-O before they make their first schedule for the fall. He tested into 3rd level but decided to start in level 2 to make sure he would get good grades (hopes to go to med school). The languages do require an extra drill session which is held 4 days/week at 7:45 am before the 9 am class. Time-consuming but fun.</p>
<p>Hi KnowsNothing-
Thank you for your comments and the information. I appreciate your insight as it shows that a student can have multiple subject and career interests and bring them all together within the Dartmouth educational experience. Good luck to your S! On that note, can you tell me if your S met with a counselor to help forge his strategy for classes, internships/time off within the D-Plan, etc? and/or Did he touch base with other students in orientation to get a feel for how to put things together, prior to coming up with his current plan?<br>
I don’t want my S to get too far ahead in his planning as I think it’s important for him to enjoy “the trip”. However, as the days draw closer (I can’t believe his junior year is almost through!) it becomes important to have a clearer path. We are looking forward to visiting the campus at Dartmouth during the June timeframe, so perhaps we can begin to gather ideas then as well…</p>