Dickinson College

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Anonymous wrote:I was a physics instructor and taught at both Dickinson and Bucknell, and the students at Dickinson were much more with-it and focused.

Interesting. The students we've known who headed off to Bucknell definitely were more academically advanced than those going to Dickinson.

Dickinson is sort of like the Elon of the mid-Atlantic.

PP here again. Well, I taught at both for about 3 years. These were mostly students in pre-med (/pre-health), not hard science majors. Dickinson students outclassed Bucknell students in my experience. That said, I don't doubt there are excellent students at both schools. But just based on my experiences, I'd say the smarter future physicians were at Dickinson.

I know people are going to scoff at this, but the best science students I taught were at Penn State. Not the best all-around students, but a big state school has more funding to attract talented physics and math majors, I suppose.

+1. Another pp here. Some of my classmates were easily Ivy caliber. Everyone I know who was pre-med or aiming for a research position in health or even math and comp sci (both strong depts there) is doing really well now. One big reason I enjoyed Dickinson was the lack of toxic cutthroat competition and having dedicated real profs like you, not 26 year-old TAs or foreign lecturers with poor English and communication skills. All profs are required to have office hours. Most offer them cheerfully as a time to help students brush up on concepts or casually chat about their ambitions and get to know each other better. I had a few instructors that I would genuinely consider as friends that I still keep in touch with almost a decade later.

Those of you who think Amherst is the be all and end all should seriously look into Dickinson and other little gems. It used to be a good school but now its been discovered as a truly great school with major campus improvements and drastically stronger incoming classes over the past 5-10 years.

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Did anyone apply this year? Thoughts?

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Do they have a football team. What Division and League? Do they give football scholarships?

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Anonymous wrote:Do they have a football team. What Division and League? Do they give football scholarships?

You can find this on their website in the athletics section (same goes for all schools). Yes they have a football team. Dickinson is Division 3. The school is in the Centennial League generally but several of the Centennial schools don't have football teams (Swat and Haverford for starters) so not sure about how that impacts football. D3 schools do not do athletic scholarships but do have need based financial aid.