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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I can gather is people love it because they think it is an attainable Ivy.

My DC hated. They don't like city schools so it was a non-starter, but they also didn't like the culture. There was nothing about it to make DC think twice about city location (and this wasn't true at other schools). [/quote]

So why did you and your DC spend any time even considering it?  My kid wanted an urban campus...so guess what, we didn't visit or consider Dartmouth (along with the hundreds of other rural schools).  Why would we?

As parents, we like the proximity but that didn't matter to much for my kid.  Ours was sold when an email was sent to the department in which my kid was interested, and the Chair of the department (for undergrad) emailed back, invited our kid to campus and spent 1/2 a day giving them a tour of the department and facilities.  I am sure it was probably dumb, blind luck this happened...but the other schools of particular interest certainly didn't respond this way.

It is going well...kid is entrepreneurial and taking full advantage of what the school offers as well as alumni visitors who are in senior positions at large VCs, Tech companies, prominent start-ups, etc.[/quote]

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