<p>Let’s have some good stories, folks. Like, Calidan, I’d be interested to know how you decided to apply to D “on a whim.”</p>
<p>For example, I heard of Dartmouth when I saw the diploma in my orthodontist’s office in sixth grade and I thought the name “Dart-MOUTH” looked funny. My orthodontist was less than amused.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize it (or any school besides Harvard and Yale) were Ivy League until around eighth or ninth grade when I got into this big fight with a kid in my class about whether or not Duke was Ivy League. Finally, this jock lacrosse player ended up setting the record straight. He just got into Harvard ED for lacrosse!</p>
<p>I heard of Dartmouth when I was 6 and my mother took me up there to do research for her book. One of my earliest memories is me walking on the stone bridge that leads to nowhere. so sentimental!</p>
<p>I first heard of Dartmouth in an old, old, old friend’s basement when I was maybe 7 - we were running around making a fake magazine, and suddenly I was like “Hey Jess, where’s your sister?” Jess was like “She’s in college. She goes to Dartmouth.” For the longest time, based on her pronunciation, I thought the school was called Dartmiff lol.</p>
<p>I applied “on a whim” too. Two days before my apps were due to guidance, my mom was like “Why don’t you apply to Dartmouth?” I hadn’t been considering it b/c it was outside my distance limit, but I realized that G-town was just as far away. So then I harassed some good friends until they gave me a peer rec, sent in my crap…and THEN fell in love with it lol</p>
<p>i heard about Dartmouth like a year ago. I know, I know…it sounds so ignorant. But I first heard about it when I got an award from the Dartmouth Alumni Club last year…</p>
<p>I was and still am so ashamed that I hadn’t heard of Dartmouth before.</p>
<p>I heard of Dartmouth a long time ago, but never considered it seriously until a girl I met during the summer told me she was going to apply ED (along with all the cool DM stuff I had never heard of). She’s now one of my best friends (she’s so awesome), so when she urged me to apply RD, I did. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have applied and would have missed an incredible, incredible opportunity!</p>
<p>i first heard of dartmouth when someone told me they were trying to recruit a girl from my school for xc and track since junior year. i didnt really care for the school because of that. and then on this board when asking people where i should apply, slipper told me dartmouth, and decided to apply. i read about it and liked it, but ever since my interview ive been obsessed with the school. now i am going to be crushed if i get a thin envelope in april…</p>
<p>I first heard of Dartmouth from a family friend who went there. She always extolled Dartmouth and how awesome it is, but I never made anything of it.</p>
<p>When college application season came around, she asked if I had applied and if I wanted an alumni recommendation. I said that I hadn’t applied, but that I would look into it.</p>
<p>So I go on my way, forgetting about Dartmouth almost completely, and I soon hear from Georgetown EA (accepted). After this, I renovated my college list to include Brown and Penn (while eliminating all the other colleges except the UCs).</p>
<p>I soon found an old college list on which I had written about Dartmouth. I didn’t research it, but just decided to apply because it was on the common app. All this was about 2 weeks away from the deadline. So I frantically search for a friend who is willing to do the peer rec, and I finally find one. My teacher recs, transcripts, and SSR get sent in at the last second.</p>
<p>After applying, Dartmouth once again was pushed out of my mind, until the family friend calls up asking about the alumni rec. I say sure, that would be great, and then I end up talking with her for about 1.5 hours about Dartmouth. After that enlightening conversation, I decide to finally research it, and I find out just how perfect it is. I then started posting on the Dartmouth board, and I’ve never left! </p>
<p>Dartmouth is now undeniably near (if not at) the top of my list.</p>
<p>While I didn’t apply on a whim, I visited on a whim. . .I’d heard about the school, of course, but didn’t realize it was an Ivy until freshman year or so. . .and had absolutely no interest in it, B/C it was an Ivy (and I had always heard those stereotypical notions about Ivy schools…). Then, the day we were leaving on a big college-visit trip last year, I got a mailing from Dartmouth. As silly as I know it sounds, knowing how propaganda-ish those things always are, I really liked what I read. So much so, that I convinced my parents to take a “detour” to New Hampshire :-). It took about 5 minutes on the campus to decide that this was where I wanted to be for college, and everything I read, saw and heard afterwards only reinforced that original intuition.</p>
<p>I first heard about Dartmouth during my sophomore year of high school, when my friends decided to apply to Dartmouth’s summer debate program. Although I won’t be applying to Dartmouth next year, I still feel ashamed that I didn’t know about Dartmouth before.</p>
<p>I don’t have an interesting personal connection like a lot of you do . . . I just made a list of all the colleges I might possibly be interested in and found reasons to cross most of the rest of them off. I guess I first ‘heard’ of Dartmouth somewhere on the internet after I decided I should start thinking about colleges. I don’t know how people did or knew anything before the internet…</p>
<p>hi-
i’m new to this forum, and this seems as good of a place to introduce myself as any…
however, i didn’t really stumble upon dartmouth as both my parents are proud (very proud) alums, and so i’ve grown up singing the alma mater. i know that must sound cliched, but i actually remember being on a school hike in new hampshire in third (?) grade and singing ‘and the granite of new hampshire, in our muscles and our brains…’
i do remember, though, that those words were all i knew of the song…
so my ‘bumping into dartmouth’ is more of a growing up with dartmouth. but my perception of the school has changed (along with my mispronounciations of the name), and after growing away from the school i’ve fallen back in love this year. (partly due to a young alum teacher who takes us on camping trips to the doc cabins, sledding in hanover on the way to a ski trip, etc)</p>
so sentimental!</p>
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