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Anonymous

04/02/2015 08:12 Subject: Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

Lovely

Don't stand under any balconies.

http://time.com/3759236/dartmouth-frat-branding-pledges/

Anonymous

04/02/2015 07:14 Subject: Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

Anonymous wrote:I just checked to see if the absolutely amazing kid I interviewed for Dartmouth got in, and saw that this student was denied. 20,500 applicants and an admit rate of 10.5 percent. So OP, save the hand-wringing for when your kid actually gets in. You probably have nothing to worry about.

I just had that same experience--I have interviewed dozens over the years and so very few get in, and those are usually exceptional candidates who ALSO apply early decision. I am sure that is typical for many competitive schools these days.

Anonymous

04/02/2015 06:23 Subject: Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

Anonymous wrote:I just checked to see if the absolutely amazing kid I interviewed for Dartmouth got in, and saw that this student was denied. 20,500 applicants and an admit rate of 10.5 percent. So OP, save the hand-wringing for when your kid actually gets in. You probably have nothing to worry about.

Binge drinking, white privilege, misogyny . . . and mean girls -- Dartmouth: it just gets better and better!

Anonymous

04/01/2015 17:08 Subject: Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

I just checked to see if the absolutely amazing kid I interviewed for Dartmouth got in, and saw that this student was denied. 20,500 applicants and an admit rate of 10.5 percent. So OP, save the hand-wringing for when your kid actually gets in. You probably have nothing to worry about.

Anonymous

03/30/2015 20:47 Subject: Re:Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted to Dartmouth for the fall and i looks like that is where she is going. She loved the campus (so did we) and will do very well there.

I am not worried at all.

Dear Poster...you are just caught up in the "Ivy"

I would be worried if it were my DD.

Anonymous

03/30/2015 20:02 Subject: Re:Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

Dartmouth in the winter

Anonymous

03/30/2015 19:47 Subject: Re:Son visited Dartmouth with a friend and his family last weekend and loved it....I am not enthralled

Son of a good friend left after his freshman year after pledging to one of the party frats, it was too much for him but thankfully he had the insight and maturity to recognize it. He knew quitting the fraternity was social suicide in such a small school so he transferred and is much happier at his new school.

This is utterly untrue. Unless this was decades ago. You have not been able to pledge a house until after your first year is over for decades. Rush is now sophomore fall, but for a while it was even pushed back to sophomore winter before you could rush.