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[quote=Anonymous]Dartmouth parent here. People posting here about their high school and college experience from 30 years ago (when they were students at Andover and Harvard, etc) are really not relevant.  The school and student body has changed an incredible amount since then, especially in recent years.

Last year from the DMV there were 45+ high schools represented between the 50 or so matriculants. Charters, Catholics, publics, privates, etc. The private my kid attended had a single admitted kid whereas historically they were known as a "feeder."

Dartmouth remains a very difficult admit and feels like "they don't take kids from our school" because it is super small. The class size is 1100, they have a high yield, they staff 35 varsity athletic rosters (including football) a huge Questbridge cohort and additional FGLI outreach programs so the spots left for kids without one of these hooks is likely less than 500 per admission cycle. It's just a hard admit and no one will know more than a tiny handful from their school or community who get in. [/quote]

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