I haven't visited- matter?

Greensleeves1028
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:05:21 +0000

Most importantly, you need to be sure that you want to be there (here?, I’m a current student). My friends and I were talking about this earlier. Dartmouth has an amazing “pride” thing. Just about everyone here bleeds green. You have to, the Upper Valley of New Hampshire is very isolated. Everything that you do for the next four years will be tied up in this school. If you like the idea of having random alum talk to you in the airport because you’re wearing your Dartmouth sweatshirt, then that’s great. Also, the D-plan makes Dartmouth a little weird. Talking to students about how that REALLY works is helpful (I just finished my FSP application, fingers crossed). Dartmouth is not the kind of school that should be taken sight-unseen.

I personally decided to apply to D based on my campus visit. Sometimes I think that we all were born bleeding green, that this has always been our home, we just didn’t know it. And this seems to be the way most students feel. Not that we’re homogenous or anything, but we all LOVE our school. LOVE it. Sometimes quite frighteningly. Have you heard about H-Cru? They are these crazy upperclassmen who greet you when you first arrive at school. At first, you think “wow, those kids are dressed weird… they must be REALLY strange.” Then, you find out that half the student body applies to be involved in the Freshmen Trips. That definitely sets the tone for the entire school.