<p>what departments at Dartmouth are lacking, and are looking to attract more students?</p>
<p>Definitely not social sciences (econ and gov. are the two biggest majors). I have run into a lot of people, at least planning, on majoring in bio. I’ve only run into one person planning on majoring in physics, and not too many planning on majoring in math. Other than that, basically any other department that is small is looking to attract students, and those departments are easy to spot if you look at a course guide online, they’re pretty much the standard smaller departments at any school. But a caution: don’t think that by putting down that you want to be a physics major on your app, that it will help you. The school looks for a commitment to that through your extracurriculars, so you would need to back it up.</p>