Dartmouth vs Middlebury vs Bowdoin

circuitrider
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:07:41 +0000

@jujunette01 wrote:

There has be to a reason why Dartmouth has one of the strongest alumni networks (even compared to the other Ivy’s) other than the unparalleled academics.

It’s no mystery. Go to any northern New England NESCAC discussion forum and you will see the same arguments: four years at a bucolic, relatively isolated, outdoorsy campus makes for strange bedfellows. The undergraduate alumni giving rates at these places are almost always >50%. It is also worth mentioning that Dartmouth, along with Princeton, are perhaps the two most tradition-bound Ivies which can be a lot of fun, that is, until they bump up against much needed change. They either move glacially, as in the case of Princeton, or provoke insurgent reactions, as was the case at Dartmouth, beginning forty years ago.