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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really surprised by the high number of Dartmouth responders.

Why would you choose it?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

[b]Some schools have earned their reputation.[/quote][/b]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote][/quote]

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