What to take from the fact that Dartmouth isn’t releasing 2029 class profile ?

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is the most conservative among ivies. The only possible reason for not releasing is that their BIPOC percentage reached a new low.

Or it reached a high for that class. Like "too many" South Asians were admitted but they don't necessarily want more of them in future years (maybe they want to remain white)?Alum M Kaling donated $ for a theater or something. Did they bring in more S Asians after that donation?

Is this in support or in opposition to what her brother did: https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/living/feat-mindy-kaling-brother-affirmative-action

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Anonymous wrote:I think you are reading too much I to that wording. They aren’t ready to release it. You don’t know why.

You are naive

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is the most conservative among ivies. The only possible reason for not releasing is that their BIPOC percentage reached a new low.

Do you think it’s meaningfully more conservative that a place like middlebury. Or a place like Michigan? I think their admin is willing w play along w Trump, which is nuts. But is the student body conservative?

You can't compare Dartmouth to Michigan or any other Big Ten school not named Northwestern. They are nothing alike in prestige, selectivity, social scene, etc.

I mean, she’s asking to compare only on one aspect: conservative make up of the study body. I’d say each example she gave is similar: has a sizable number of conservative students but is majority left. It’s more like those schools that the similarly selective Bowdoin say. And more like middlebury and MI - politically - then similarly sized Yale

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I have a freshman in this class and I think it's quirkier and more liberal than classes before. My kid doesn't know any conservatives and he/she is in all political-related
extracurriculars and classes. There are a decent number of Asians and south Asians and what feels like very few URM outside of internationals from South and Central America.

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Not enough URM's score high enough on the SAT to fill its class...

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Which ever PP mentioned the Trump thing is correct. The school is trying very hard to stay under the radar and coast on its reputation as a “conservative” ivy to avoid $60 million settlements, etc. I think the new president is managing this ridiculous climate very well and doing a good job of keeping the school from being targeted. My assumption would be that’s why they are keeping the stats hidden.

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Anonymous wrote:Which ever PP mentioned the Trump thing is correct. The school is trying very hard to stay under the radar and coast on its reputation as a “conservative” ivy to avoid $60 million settlements, etc. I think the new president is managing this ridiculous climate very well and doing a good job of keeping the school from being targeted. My assumption would be that’s why they are keeping the stats hidden.

I think they’re playing both sides. I suspect their URM numbers are poor. Trump and co would be happy w that (merit bs). But the now-annual NYT article of schools losing Black students isn’t an article schools want to be a part of

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Did t's apply and not get into DART ?

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I suspect it’s because they don’t love the numbers.

Either black/hispanic too low. Or Asian too high. Some 20% change from year prior

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is the most conservative among ivies. The only possible reason for not releasing is that their BIPOC percentage reached a new low.

Do you think it’s meaningfully more conservative that a place like middlebury. Or a place like Michigan? I think their admin is willing w play along w Trump, which is nuts. But is the student body conservative?

You can't compare Dartmouth to Michigan or any other Big Ten school not named Northwestern. They are nothing alike in prestige, selectivity, social scene, etc.

Exactly. Dartmouth is a small school in the North Woods that gets their white students from basically eight exclusive private schools. Then they get some East and South Asians from public schools to get their academic creds up. Throw in some internationals. Add some athletes. Mix with some FGLI. And there's Dartmouth.

It doesn't compare with real universities like Michigan and Northwestern and the Big Ten. Valid point.

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Dartmouth really hares our private feeder HS.

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hates

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is the most conservative among ivies. The only possible reason for not releasing is that their BIPOC percentage reached a new low.

Do you think it’s meaningfully more conservative that a place like middlebury. Or a place like Michigan? I think their admin is willing w play along w Trump, which is nuts. But is the student body conservative?

You can't compare Dartmouth to Michigan or any other Big Ten school not named Northwestern. They are nothing alike in prestige, selectivity, social scene, etc.

Exactly. Dartmouth is a small school in the North Woods that gets their white students from basically eight exclusive private schools. Then they get some East and South Asians from public schools to get their academic creds up. Throw in some internationals. Add some athletes. Mix with some FGLI. And there's Dartmouth.

It doesn't compare with real universities like Michigan and Northwestern and the Big Ten. Valid point.

which eight?

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It’s a student newspaper. Get real. The office isn’t obliged to release anything to anyone until it’s ready, much less a student newspaper. Thus is a non-story

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a student newspaper. Get real. The office isn’t obliged to release anything to anyone until it’s ready, much less a student newspaper. Thus is a non-story

I mean, they usually release it in September or October. So a student newspaper asking for it in November is a good question.