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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I friends of parents who have children who attend Deerfield and Brunswick Boy school. All I hear them talk about and discuss is Dartmouth and I would just like to know what is special about Dartmouth...all of them want their children to get in Dartmouth[/quote]

It's an ivy, albeit a bottom-3, but that ivy label puts it on target lists for MBB, top banking, and other top jobs, as well as makes it more likely to get into ivy/elite professional/grad school even with a mid-range college gpa of 3.7-3.8.  
Dartmouth is a rural smaller ivy and that combination suits many. 
Dartmouth has smaller class sizes and better chance of getting to know faculty that the public-U-sized other rural ivy(cornell). 
 It has no 4yr Engineering in the classic sense but has a 4+1 that can work and for top-tier E jobs one often needs a phD which you can do from Dartmouth (and top SLACs) with a physics undergrad and some engineering-like courses combined with good summer research internships. For those that are sure about Engineering, the ivies with real engineering would suit better. Engineering/STEM are not as common interests at Deerfield and Brunswick. 
For students who want the ivy prestige or similar elite prestige, but want smaller-end and rural, Dartmouth is the way, or Princeton (small town not rural but probably the most similar to Dartmouth as far as class size and faculty engagement). Dartmouth is easier to get into than Pton from those schools. Only Cornell is easier. Backups with slightly easier admission from Deerfield and Brunswick would be Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin. 
It is a pretty common goal from similar top private high schools. Others want one a different style ivy (Harvard, Penn, Yale: urban-adjacent but not nearly as urban as Columbia) and the backups are Uchicago, washU, maybe Georgetown but not typically SLACs. [/quote]

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