P-Pac, my son is doing fabulously at Dartmouth these days. (Thanks for asking.) He holds a 3.8 GPA in his major (Engineering) and a 3.6 GPA over all (he will have a minor in Economics). His years at Hotchkiss were most helpful in achieving academic success in college. Although he has always been a bright kid (much brighter than his father, I promise you), his three years at Hotchkiss, as he has often told me, taught him to focus and understand a subject in great detail rather than, as had been his practice in school prior to THS, to consume vast quantities of random material only to regurgitate such pottage quickly and then forget it. He learned to study and learn smarter, not harder, at Hotchkiss. Upon graduation, he plans to be a mechanical engineer. He is now exploring his options, which experience is always both a thrill and a chill for the young student crashing into the world of the employed. 