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Anonymous wrote: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

Nothing. It is easier to get in than lot of even public schools

Actually, Dartmouth has the opposite problem. If you don't go to certain NYC privates or New England boarding schools, Dartmouth is pretty much an impossible admit, especially for accomplished public school students. My DC was considering Dartmouth for their ED app, but after looking at the data, decided Dartmouth would be a waste of an app. Goes to a higher ranked school today. If you don't go to one of the Dartmouth feeder high schools, it is a pointless application. Before applying, students should really look at their high school's track record with Dartmouth over the past four years. That will tell you what you need to know.

From our VA top private Dartmouth is significantly easier in ED than the other ivies that have ED, and even easier than Duke and Northwestern in ED. It is also easier in RD than every ivy and other T15 but Cornell, deleting any recruited athletes from the mix.

Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Appealing to a certain type of lacrosse bro mindset . Old school, in a toxic masculinity way (think Brent Kavanaugh).

Guess your friends are into that.

This describes every guy I've ever met from Dartmouth. My Harvard roommate was dating a guy from Dartmouth, and he was the most cartoonishly obnoxious moron, just a really disgusting, cocky caveman. We had an apartment off-campus, and the boyfriend would come a lot of weekends, and one hideous summer when we were all in the apartment. His "bros" were in and out all of that summer, and they were all the same. Chummy, childish meatheads who seemed to revel in embodying the Dumb Fratboy Jock stereotype.

How do you know someone went to Harvard? They'll tell you

I LOLed. Does PP think it’s a necessary detail in their little fictional anecdote?

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Anonymous wrote: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

Nothing. It is easier to get in than lot of even public schools

Not true at all. My DS into Duke, Mich, Cornell and more. Rejected from Dartmouth.

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Anonymous wrote:Appealing to a certain type of lacrosse bro mindset . Old school, in a toxic masculinity way (think Brent Kavanaugh).

Guess your friends are into that.

This describes every guy I've ever met from Dartmouth. My Harvard roommate was dating a guy from Dartmouth, and he was the most cartoonishly obnoxious moron, just a really disgusting, cocky caveman. We had an apartment off-campus, and the boyfriend would come a lot of weekends, and one hideous summer when we were all in the apartment. His "bros" were in and out all of that summer, and they were all the same. Chummy, childish meatheads who seemed to revel in embodying the Dumb Fratboy Jock stereotype.

How do you know someone went to Harvard? They'll tell you

Anonymous wrote:Desperately clinging to the bottom of T20 and will be let go shortly. And rightly so.

How did it feel to get rejected by a bottom of T20?🤣

Keggy was, but Keggy 's dead.

What’s special is vast majority of people who want to get in couldn’t.

Place is mesmerizing. Northern NE winters last 5 + months and are shock to those not used to long dark cold.

Anonymous wrote:Desperately clinging to the bottom of T20 and will be let go shortly. And rightly so.

And here we have a butthurt parent whose child was rejected.

Midwits galore.

Desperately clinging to the bottom of T20 and will be let go shortly. And rightly so.

Anonymous wrote:After recent lax bro rape conviction and alcohol related river drowning Dartmouth has attempted to turn the page by emphasizing interest in "middle class" families. But it remains an institution where athletes and legacies + ED = dominate preference.

Dartmouth’s drinking culture is really troubling:

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/04/06/dartmouth-college-fraternity-culture-student-death/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/dartmouth-sued-following-professor-misconduct-allegations

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Anonymous wrote:Appealing to a certain type of lacrosse bro mindset . Old school, in a toxic masculinity way (think Brent Kavanaugh).

Guess your friends are into that.

This describes every guy I've ever met from Dartmouth. My Harvard roommate was dating a guy from Dartmouth, and he was the most cartoonishly obnoxious moron, just a really disgusting, cocky caveman. We had an apartment off-campus, and the boyfriend would come a lot of weekends, and one hideous summer when we were all in the apartment. His "bros" were in and out all of that summer, and they were all the same. Chummy, childish meatheads who seemed to revel in embodying the Dumb Fratboy Jock stereotype.

Sounds like somebody didn’t get as much attention as she wanted.

Anonymous wrote:It's a regional SLAC that happens to be old and in a region with a lot of billionaires.

Exactly.