Just For Fun: If you could go to any college...

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Scripps

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Anonymous wrote:Colorado College.

Liz is that you??

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FYI inside joke never mind. Great school.

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Anonymous wrote:Really surprised by the high number of Dartmouth responders.

Why would you choose it?

Just a guess as I am not one of the Dartmouth College responders:

1) Love to party;

2) Love to party with other smart rich kids;

3) Love taking just 3 courses per trimester because it gives one lots of time to party (drink) with other rich kids;

4) Love taking just 3 courses per term while partying (drinking) with lots of other rich kids and being rewarded with a lucrative job upon graduation.

Sorry you didn't get a frat bid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really surprised by the high number of Dartmouth responders.

Why would you choose it?

Just a guess as I am not one of the Dartmouth College responders:

1) Love to party;

2) Love to party with other smart rich kids;

3) Love taking just 3 courses per trimester because it gives one lots of time to party (drink) with other rich kids;

4) Love taking just 3 courses per term while partying (drinking) with lots of other rich kids and being rewarded with a lucrative job upon graduation.

Sorry you didn't get a frat bid.

LOL !! Nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really surprised by the high number of Dartmouth responders.

Why would you choose it?

Just a guess as I am not one of the Dartmouth College responders:

1) Love to party;

2) Love to party with other smart rich kids;

3) Love taking just 3 courses per trimester because it gives one lots of time to party (drink) with other rich kids;

4) Love taking just 3 courses per term while partying (drinking) with lots of other rich kids and being rewarded with a lucrative job upon graduation.

This is exactly why I wish I had gone there, if I couldn’t have attended my school.

It is so amusing how some of you people can do the mental gymnastics and find any way possible to denigrate a school.

Some schools have earned their reputation.

Definitely as a top 12 school with great academics and great grad school or job opportunities upon graduation. PP is inferring that the school is filled with underserving alcoholics that coast through their 4 years which is an utterly ridiculous take.

In support of my earlier comments, I will share the Dartmouth College introductions from two college guidebooks 2023 editions:

Fiske Guide To Colleges 2023 introductory paragraph (consists of three sentences):

"Traditionally the most conservative member of the Ivy League, it has steered toward more student diversity and more serious scholars, but long-standing party culture persists."

College Transitions 2023 edition of Colleges Worth Your Money's 3 sentence introduction to Dartmouth College includes the following sentence:

"Dartmouth has long wrestled with its reputation as one of the most conservative (purely in a relative sense) of the Ivy League universities as well as one of the top party schools."

I have decades of consistent second hand knowledge of student experiences at Dartmouth College which affirms the fairly heavy party culture of the school. These include close personal friends who have attended and graduated from Dartmouth College as well as sons & daughters of friends who have attended or currently attend this school.

An interesting book was written about the social life at Dartmouth College. It received a lot of publicity through a Rolling Stones book review. Absolutely disgusting practices. Family friends who attended Dartmouth confirmed that these practices were still ongoing.

Dartmouth College initially was the first choice school for one of ours until a visit & admissions office presentation which praised the country club party atmosphere at Dartmouth College. The antics of the student during a tour did not create a favorable impression.

Our knowledge & experience is in line with the introductory comments made by the two widely used college guidebooks referenced above.

Nevertheless, I have never met a Dartmouth College alum--and several are friends--whom I did not like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colorado College.

Liz is that you??

Not unless Liz is a dying old hippie in her 60’s.

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Serious response to the OP's question if you could go to any college, which school would you choose ?

If limited to selecting among SLACs, my top choices would be Claremont McKenna College or Middlebury College.

If limited to National Universities, the choice is much more difficult because most offer so many options in all facets of college life that my list could include dozens of National Universities. Among National Universities, I would select Northwestern University's SESP or Georgetown's School of Foreign Service if limited to just two options. Truthfully, however, I would be very happy to attend the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, the University of Texas at Austin, University of Georgia Honors College, Harvard, Princeton, University of California at Santa Barbara, and about a dozen other National Universities.

My knowledge and experience has led me to believe that if one is dissatisfied at a large university, it is probably the fault of the individual, while if one is dissatisfied at an LAC, it probably is due to a poor fit.

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Columbia, Penn, Williams, or a huge PAC-12 school like UCLA, the University of Washington, or the University of Utah. Or maybe a southern school in a larger city with a beautiful campus, like SMU. I have a habit of falling in love with a college campus every time I travel for work. I have a lot of work friends from Northwestern which makes me think I would have been happy there, too.

I did my degrees at Dartmouth and then Yale. I know my list is weird, but I would have thrived somewhere way smaller or way larger, or at least in a larger city with more opportunities.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia, Penn, Williams, or a huge PAC-12 school like UCLA, the University of Washington, or the University of Utah. Or maybe a southern school in a larger city with a beautiful campus, like SMU. I have a habit of falling in love with a college campus every time I travel for work. I have a lot of work friends from Northwestern which makes me think I would have been happy there, too.

I did my degrees at Dartmouth and then Yale. I know my list is weird, but I would have thrived somewhere way smaller or way larger, or at least in a larger city with more opportunities.

Do you think that you would have enjoyed earning an MBA at Dartmouth-Tuck ?

Interesting that I, too, am fascinated by SMU, UCLA, Utah, most SEC schools, Pac-12, as well as Williams College.

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OP here. Thanks for responding, and keep them coming!

I posed this question for fun, but I think it's also become interesting for considering new schools for our DC's lists. Great perspectives here.

Please let's try to keep the hate to a minimum. No need to criticize (ha). Different strokes for different folks.

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I went to a SLAC in a small town. I had a lovely experience, but I'd choose a big U to see how it would be different.......probably someplace in California. I was too scared to travel that far from home back then.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for responding, and keep them coming!

I posed this question for fun, but I think it's also become interesting for considering new schools for our DC's lists. Great perspectives here.

Please let's try to keep the hate to a minimum. No need to criticize (ha). Different strokes for different folks.

Agree! Thanks OP for posting, it's fun to let the mind wander and hear from others in a positive way. I appreciate the amount of good information I read on DCUM, and even more when it's supportive and kind. The info is perhaps primary, but the support is for me really nice to have

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for responding, and keep them coming!

I posed this question for fun, but I think it's also become interesting for considering new schools for our DC's lists. Great perspectives here.

Please let's try to keep the hate to a minimum. No need to criticize (ha). Different strokes for different folks.

Agree! Thanks OP for posting, it's fun to let the mind wander and hear from others in a positive way. I appreciate the amount of good information I read on DCUM, and even more when it's supportive and kind. The info is perhaps primary, but the support is for me really nice to have

Fun & interesting thread--especially if posters also share what they did not like about their actual college experience (such as too small, rural, & isolated, too much Greek life & partying, not enough partying, too big, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for responding, and keep them coming!

I posed this question for fun, but I think it's also become interesting for considering new schools for our DC's lists. Great perspectives here.

Please let's try to keep the hate to a minimum. No need to criticize (ha). Different strokes for different folks.

Agree! Thanks OP for posting, it's fun to let the mind wander and hear from others in a positive way. I appreciate the amount of good information I read on DCUM, and even more when it's supportive and kind. The info is perhaps primary, but the support is for me really nice to have

Fun & interesting thread--especially if posters also share what they did not like about their actual college experience (such as too small, rural, & isolated, too much Greek life & partying, not enough partying, too big, etc.).

Totally agree! The posts that say something like: "I thought I would like X, but looking back I'd go for Y because..." are really fascinating and helpful. And fun to read even if not deep.