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<p>Dartmouth is not conservative.</p>
<p>Some people are too quick to assume that everyone sees schools through the same lens that they do. My S ended up choosing between Dartmouth and the U of C: two very different environments–in some ways. Of the Ivies, he also like Brown and Yale, but not Cornell, Princeton, or Columbia. According to some, the schools he liked didn’t fit together in obvious categories. But he saw things he liked in each of them. I think that the concept of a perfect “fit” can be overblown. Many people will be happy with a range of characteristics.</p>