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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".[/quote]
Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC.  At all.[/quote]
We toured Dartmouth this summer. The AO and tour guides repeatedly referred to Dartmouth as a "liberal arts college," and never as a "university."[/quote]

Dartmouth is caught in between the two. It is a mid-to-bottom tier R1 institution research wise and has a few great grad programs (Tuck being one). It is also a little too big to have the SLAC feel. It is amazing for people who want that mid-size experience with more focus on undergraduate teaching.
Dartmouth is the Ivy that should actually have a fair amount of overlap with Swarthmore, Amherst, and Williams. [/quote]

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