Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"feeder"? Not local, but in the context of the downhill and nordic teams, then definitely places like Burke Mountain Academy, Stratton Mountain School, and Sun Valley Community School.
Locally, Dartmouth is a place that people choose in a deliberate way that they don't necessarily do for other Ivies, so which schools send kids there varies a lot from year to year.
Can you say more about what you mean here? My 11th grader fell in love on a visit last year but hasn't come up with the list of where they'll apply.
It's small. It's in the middle of nowhere. It's inconvenient to get to. Winters are long and mud season feels longer.
There are plenty of kids who apply to Penn + Columbia, or Yale + Princeton, or Yale + Harvard, etc. They can tell themselves that the schools are basically similar even though they're obviously not.
Dartmouth doesn't get the same "well they're both pretty equally elite schools so I could be happy at either." It's more common to apply to Dartmouth + Cornell, or Dartmouth + a similarly preppy, outdoorsy NESCAC school, or Dartmouth and an equally outdoorsy state school like UVM or UCSC. It's quite self-selecting. The numbers suggest that there are people who have graduated from there who applied regular decision, but I've never met them. Everyone seems to want Dartmouth from day 1 and feel really happy to end up there. Including me.
-Dartmouth grad and big fan of the Upper Valley but not so sure about my DH's plan to retire there only because I hate driving from Manchester or Boston at night.