<p>half_baked,…Sorry, your post is way too long and incoherent to be fully read…I got bored.</p>
<p>Here is my 2 cents:</p>
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<li>Half_Baked represents a group of Dartmouth students</li>
<li>SimpleTruth represents a group of Dartmouth students</li>
<li>My son, who made his list of targeted colleges totally based on financial aid resources, got rejected from one of HYP ED/EA, is attending Dartmouth and is extremely happy now, represents a group of Dartmouth students</li>
<li>… there should be some other groups of Dartmouth students</li>
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<p>I would guess amougst all the groups, students in the first group might, but not necessarily, be less happy than others. In my opinion, however, everyone should be extremely happy with all Dartmouth has to offer.</p>
<p>^I think you’re right. I don’t think anyone here is arguing that they’re not happy with Dartmouth - my time here has been the best time of my life, and I’m quite sure I couldn’t have had as good of a time anywhere else, bar none.</p>
<p>MovieBuff, should I have provided pictures? Perhaps you would have prefered some kind of simplified, polemic argumentation which you obviously find so much more compelling. Speaking of groups, I’m quite sure you reperesent the group of Dartmouth students best identified by your steller ability to ease the curve in any given class for the rest of us.</p>
<p>I second what Half_baked has said on this forum. </p>
<p>There are plenty of HYP rejects here, including myself. I’m happy here, but there are many of us who would’ve picked HYP over Dartmouth had we gotten in. </p>
<p>This isn’t to say that Harvard kids are smarter than Dartmouth kids. I’ve visited Harvard and sat in on classes. There are really smart people there, and some not-so-smart people too. The same goes for Dartmouth. Admissions officers can only guess at a student’s potential in college, so most ivy league schools end up with a mix of really smart and just-above-average kids. </p>
<p>Judging from Simple Truth’s use of Asian stereotypes (“What’s the matter, you paid the wrong Asian kid to take your SAT’s?”), I’m guessing he/she’s one of the ignorant kids who managed to slip through the Adcoms this year. Good job. Now you’ll be one of the students who’ll pull Dartmouth’s average GPA down.</p>
<p>Oh yea, I’m in ec26 too. It’s worth coming to Dartmouth for this class.</p>
<p>Going back the original purpose of the thread,</p>
<p>Come to Dartmouth if you want the one of the best undergraduate experiences available. If the LAC’s are too small for you, and the other research university Ivy’s are too big, than Dartmouth is probably just right for you. </p>
<p>Plus, how many other school’s have their own ski slope, 50,000 acres of land, a horse ranch, an organic farm, a few islands (yes, Dartmouth owns a few small islands with cabins), and TONS of foreign study programs only open to Dartmouth students?<br>
And Dartmouth has top-notch academics, on par with HYP. Heck, if Dartmouth wasn’t located in Hanover, NH, I’m pretty sure it’d be ranked #1.</p>
<p>I’m also in econ 26…</p>
<p>Lol. What a coincidence. Three of the Dartmouth students posting in this thread are in Econ 26. What section are you in? I’m in the 12.</p>
<p>I love Dartmouth, but if I had the chance to go to Harvard, I’d do so. Personally I like cities, and I love Harvard Square. The subway is next door and there are so many cute shops. Also, there are a lot more colleges in Boston. This is just me though. But I have to agree that on the campus, Dartmouth is more fun than H. I don’t like Princeton because it’s pretty isolated and in a HIGHLY affluent town. I don’t think I can keep up with the pace… (didn’t apply.)</p>
<p>fully_baked… You are sooo funny! I am sure you were referring to my STELLAR ability ( STELLER is some German dude…) But I am sorry to burst your bubble about your need of having me attend Dartmouth to ease the curve for you. It is evident you need that…badly…but I am going to choose Brown. By the way, I got into Harvard EA and along the way I changed my mind. I like the feel of Dartmouth and Brown better. I won’t be one of your HYP reject statistics. I am turning down Harvard for either of them.</p>
<p>I hope that eventually you warm up to your future Alma Mater. That will make you much happier in the future !!</p>
<p>“Oh yea, I’m in ec26 too. It’s worth coming to Dartmouth for this class.”
Whats special about it ?</p>
<p>Haha, small world - I’m in the 12 section of ec26 too with Zinman. You could probably spot me by looking for the kid who talks a lot in that class. What do you guys think about that class? We should definitely hang out at some point.</p>
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<p>It’s a really tough course on financial intermediaries and markets, and you’ll be able to impress job recruiters if you do well in the class. You learn a lot in 10 weeks. It’s especially impressive if you have it with Professor Meir Kohn, who wrote the textbook we use. He’s supposedly really well known on Wall St. I’ve heard rumors that recruiters will actually ask which professor you had the class with (I don’t have it with Kohn). Taking it with Kohn supposedly guarantees you an internship. </p>
<p>Dartmouth has other really impressive professors. Another econ professor is away for three years holding a governorship at the Bank of England. I’m not 100% sure of his exact title. If you don’t know, the Bank of England is the equivalent of the U.S.'s Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>Im in the 2 section.</p>
<p>Just an update: Almost everyone I met at dimensions were rejected from HYP. Of those who were accepted, who were very far and few in between at the program , I can tell that most if not all will not be attending dartmouth this fall just from their and evasion and demeanor when they were asked where else they were considering. Reality sucks, but that’s why everyone here chose to move to nowhere, NH I guess</p>
<p>Well you’re free to not attend as well.</p>
<p>yes, please don’t.</p>
<p>Dartmouth loses about 85-90% of HYP cross-admits, just as Penn, Brown, Amherst, Williams, Columbia, and Duke do. Dartmouth plays about 50/50 on average with the group above.</p>
<p>wow, D keep in mind what they say about Karma as you did not feel that way when you were trying to figure out what to do in Hanover at 4:30am and you had no where to go and the school in nowhere NH stepped up for you. Must have fell asleep when they were giving the talks about having a little grace.</p>
<p>Wish you well at you school of choice</p>
<p>Wow, that was just an observation. Please don’t take everything so personally. Sorry if that last sentence came off the wrong way, but I just thought that some of the posts in objection to what half_baked wrote were uncalled for and ignorant, and a lot of kids here, before they arrived, did have another school as their top choice. With that said, a lot of kids did seem to consider themselves fortunate that they decided to attend the program (ie. me). I guess that’s why the yield for those who were at dimensions is so high. BTW I’m a proud member of class of '11… and I can definitely feel the warmth of this family already ;)</p>
<p>d:</p>
<p>nice backtrack, but calling your new family members “ignorant” is not a good way to win friends and influence future class mates. :)</p>