Dartmouth's reputation - Beware.

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Anonymous wrote:30 years on wall street makes you an expert on intellectual capacity?

Yes

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Ahh the myth of the wealthy thinking they're smart.

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Do the Dartmouth frat boys still brand each other?

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Anonymous wrote:Do the Dartmouth frat boys still brand each other?

Any male that went through dartmouth has had a same sex sexual experience especially if in a frat not that there is anything wrong with it

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth’s gross. Always has been. Can’t think of a less relevant, more self-important school.

It always seemed to be to have some similarities to UVA (with the obvious size difference noted). Why are people so quick write off all of Dartmouth off when it has some similar traits that makes UVA attractive to people in Virginia?

UVA is attractive because it's a flagship that costs 35k a year instate. Dartmouth's cost to attend is 77k

Yep. UVA’s allure is all about the cost for in state residents.

It has always had a “douche” reputation.

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Apparently, many students would like to obtain douche status since applications to Big Green rose by over 30% to ~28,000.

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It is my kid’s top choice (changed from then ED-deferred choice). This thread certainly gives me pause, but will let kid decide if admitted.

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Anonymous wrote:Do the Dartmouth frat boys still brand each other?

Any male that went through dartmouth has had [s]a same sex[/s] lots of sexual experience with chicks especially if in a frat not that there is anything wrong with it

Fixed it for you.

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Anonymous wrote:It is my kid’s top choice (changed from then ED-deferred choice). This thread certainly gives me pause, but will let kid decide if admitted.

This thread is an exercise in stereotyping. Take a look at the AAU Campus Climate Surveys for Dartmouth and other schools, and you will see that it has very similar numbers on sexual assault to other schools. This is not to excuse it. The numbers are far too high. But they are not out of line with similar schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I had always been aware of Dartmouth having a fratty reputation, and I know it's had several scandals, but this document which has been making the rounds in some groups my DC is in has me concerned.

https://www.scribd.com/document/489853960/The-Case-Against-Dartmouth

I've read through parts of this and some other reddit threads on this exact issue at Dartmouth, and the biggest rebuttal I've seen from Dartmouth grads is simply along the lines of "well it happens at other schools, too."

A friend of mine went to Dartmouth in the late 1970s. It was just like this back then. She transferred to UPenn after a year. She HATED Dartmouth. She's a brainiac, hippy type, and she loved UPenn. Found her niche there. She said Dartmouth was full of loudmouth drunken athletes, mostly white, who had no intellectual curiosity, but had rich parents who got them tutors and private schools so they had the grades to get accepted at Dartmouth. This was more than 40 years ago. Sounds like it hasn't changed a bit. The women were smarter than the men at Dartmouth, she told me. That hasn't change either, it seems.

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Anonymous wrote:Do the Dartmouth frat boys still brand each other?

Any male that went through dartmouth has had [s]a same sex[/s] lots of sexual experience with chicks especially if in a frat not that there is anything wrong with it

Fixed it for you.

What an excellent case for Dartmouth! Said no one ever.

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Which of the lower tier ivies would you prefer if you are going in as an undecided but probably will be in a social science field, Dartmouth, Brown or Cornell?

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Anonymous wrote:Which of the lower tier ivies would you prefer if you are going in as an undecided but probably will be in a social science field, Dartmouth, Brown or Cornell?

For social sciences, probably Cornell. For other humanities, Brown is the way to go.

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About ten years ago, some people ran independent(not the board nominee) campaigns to be on the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth, which is unusual in giving alumni a 50-50 share of seats. They wanted to change things up, though I'm not sure if this was on their agenda. After a few of these independents won, Dartmouth changed its policies to take away the 50-50 alumni ratio. This led to a lawsuit, but then Dartmouth arranged for their preferred people to win leadership of the alumni group, very easy since they had access to the contact info, and then when their guys won the lawsuit was dropped, and the leadership is no longer threatened.

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This isn't a difficult problem, if you are fearful of your child's well being at Dartmouth just don't apply.