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    Information Summary

    Ranks 1746th for total enrollment

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    Surrounding communityFringe town (less than 10 mi. from an urban cluster)
    Highest offeringBachelor's degree
    Full-time Enrollment2,311
    Total Enrollment2,352
    Calendar SystemSemester
    Years of college work requiredN/A
    Variable TuitionNo
    Application Fee RequiredYes
    Undergraduate Application Fee$60
    Graduate Application FeeN/A
    First Professional Application FeeN/A

    Demographics Main Campus and Surrounding Areas

    Reported area around or near Carlisle, PA

    Total Population52,064 (32,424 urban / 19,640 rural)
    Households20,441 (2.38 people per house)
    Families13,747 (2.91 people per family)
    Pop. — African American2,067
    Pop. — Asian810
    Pop. — Pacific Islander45
    Pop. — American Indian / Alaskan Native236
    Pop. — White (incl. Hispanic)49,214
    Pop. — Other383

    Carnegie Foundation Classification

    Baccalaureate Colleges — Arts & Sciences

    UndergraduateArts & sciences focus, no graduate coexistence
    GraduateN/A
    Undergraduate PopulationFull-time four-year, more selective, lower transfer-in
    EnrollmentExclusively undergraduate four-year
    Size & SettingSmall four-year, highly residential

    Student Tuition Costs and Fees

    What are the typical tuition costs and fees for attending Dickinson College?

    Ranks 79th for total cost of attendance

      In District In State Out of State
    FT Undergraduate Tuition $33,470 $33,470 $33,470
    FT Undergraduate Required Fees $334 $334 $334
    PT Undergraduate per Credit Hour $1,046 $1,046 $1,046
    FT Graduate Tuition N/A N/A N/A
    FT Graduate Required Fees N/A N/A N/A
    PT Graduate per Credit Hour N/A N/A N/A
    Total Cost of attendance — On-Campus $44,784 $44,784 $44,784
    Total Cost of attendance — Off-Campus w/out Family $34,804 $34,804 $34,804
    Total Cost of attendance — Off-Campus with Family $34,804 $34,804 $34,804

    Student Tuition Cost History and Trends

    Three year history and trends on the cost of attending

      In District In State Out of State
    Published Tuition & Fees $30,300 trend  $33,804 $30,300 trend  $33,804 $30,300 trend  $33,804
      Cost (regardless of residency)
    Books & Supplies $750 trend  $1,000
    On-Campus – Room & Board $7,600 trend  $8,480
    On-Campus – Other Expenses $1,450 trend  $1,500
    Off-Campus w/out Family – Room & Board N/A trend  N/A
    Off-Campus w/out Family – Other Expenses N/A trend  N/A
    Off-Campus with Family – Room & Board N/A trend  N/A

    Admission Details

    Applicants 5,298 (2,141 male / 3,157 female)
    Admitted 2,273 (933 male / 1,340 female)
    Admission rate 43%
    First-time Enrollment 618 (257 male / 361 female)
    FT Enrollment 618 (257 male / 361 female)
    PT Enrollment N/A (N/A male / N/A female)

    Admission Criteria

    What criteria does Dickinson College use for admissions?

    Required = Required, Recommended = Recommended, Neither required nor recommended = Neither required nor recommended
    Open AdmissionsNo
    Secondary School GPA / Rank / RecordRequired / Required / Required
    College Prep. CompletionRecommended
    RecommendationsRequired
    Formal competency demoRecommended
    Admission test scoresN/A
    TOEFLN/A
    Other testsN/A

    Special Learning Opportunities

    Distance LearningNo
    ROTC — Army / Navy / Airforce YesYes / No / No
    Study AbroadYes
    Weekend CollegeNo
    Teacher CertificationYes

    Athletics - Association Memberships

    Sports / Athletic Conference Memberships NCAA
    NCAA / NAIA Football Conference Centennial Conference
    NCAA / NAIA Basketball Conference Centennial Conference
    NCAA / NAIA Baseball Conference Centennial Conference
    NCAA / NAIA Track & Field Conference Centennial Conference

    Admission Credits Accepted

    What types of credits does Dickinson College accept?

    Dual CreditYes
    Life ExperienceNo
    Advanced Placement (AP)Yes

    ACT Test Admission

    Rank 88th for 75pctl scores

    Applicants submitting ACT results 12%
    Verbal scores (25/75 %ile) 26 / 32
    Math scores (25/75 %ile) 25 / 30
    Cumulative scores (25/75 %ile) 26 / 30

    SAT Test Admission

    Rank 109th for 75pctl scores

    Applicants submitting SAT results 67%
    Verbal scores (25/75 %ile) 600 / 690
    Math scores (25/75 %ile) 600 / 680
    Cumulative scores (25/75 %ile) 1200 / 1370

    Student Services

    Remedial ServicesNo
    Academic / Career CounselingYes
    PT Cost-defraying EmploymentYes
    Career PlacementYes
    On-Campus Day CareYes
    Library FacilityYes

    Student Living

    First-time Room / Board RequiredYes
    Dorm Capacity2,037
    Meals per WeekN/A
    Room Fee$4,370
    Board Fee$4,110

    Student Financial Aid Details

    How many students use Financial Aid, and how much do they use?

    Dickinson College ranks 1838th for the average student loan amount.

      Average Users % of Attendees
    Federal Grant Aid $5,022 83 pie   14%
    State & Local Grant Aid $3,227 57 pie   9%
    Institutional Grant Aid $18,272 351 pie   58%
    Student Loan Aid $4,360 296 pie   49%
    Any financial aid type   406 pie   67%

    Student Enrollment Demographics

    How many students are enrolled at Dickinson College?

      Men Women Total
    Non Resident Alien
    6259121
    Black Non-Hispanic
    524597
    Hispanic
    296089
    Asian / Pacific Islander
    3765102
    American Indian / Alaskan Native
    2911
    White Non-Hispanic
    8421,0901,932
    Race Unknown
    N/AN/AN/A
    Total 1,024 1,328 2,352

    Student Completion / Graduation Demographics

    How many students complete Dickinson College?

      Non Resident Alien Black Non-Hispanic Hispanic Asian / Pacific Islander American Indian / Alaskan Native White Non-Hispanic Race Unknown Total
    American/United States Studies/Civilization 2 2 1 15 20
    Anthropology 1 1 7 9
    Archeology 6 6
    Art/Art Studies, General 11 11
    Biochemistry/Biophysics and Molecular Biology 2 1 15 18
    Biology/Biological Sciences, General 1 1 27 29
    Chemistry, General 4 4
    Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General 3 3
    Computer and Information Sciences, General 1 7 8
    Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General 2 2
    East Asian Studies 5 3 8
    Economics, General 19 19
    English Language and Literature, General 1 33 34
    Environmental Studies 18 18
    French Language and Literature 2 6 8
    Geology/Earth Science, General 1 1 7 9
    German Language and Literature 4 4
    History, General 1 1 37 39
    International Business/Trade/Commerce 2 1 2 40 45
    International Relations and Affairs 2 1 16 19
    Italian Language and Literature 2 2
    Jewish/Judaic Studies 3 3
    Mathematics, General 7 7
    Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other 18 18
    Music, General 3 3
    Neuroscience 1 1 2
    Philosophy 1 1 7 9
    Physics, General 6 6
    Political Science and Government, General 3 1 3 46 53
    Psychology, General 2 3 40 45
    Religion/Religious Studies 1 2 4 7
    Russian Language and Literature 2 2
    Sociology 14 14
    Spanish Language and Literature 1 9 10
    Women's Studies 1 5 6
    Total 14 13 23 3 447 500

    Faculty Compensation / Salaries

    Dickinson College ranks 550th for the average full-time faculty salary.

    Tenure system Yes
    Average FT Salary $67,366 ($68,859 male / $65,445 female)
    Number of FT Faculty 192 (108 male / 84 female)
    Total Benefits $3,283,748

    Dickinson College Summary

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    Dickinson College is a private, moderately selective, liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The College’s first building, West College (or, more affectionately, Old West), was built in 1803, burned, and reopened in 1805. Dickinson College is not to be confused with the Dickinson School of Law, which abuts the campus but has not been associated with the college since the late 19th century. The Law school merged with The Pennsylvania State University in 1997, and its students study at both the Carlisle and State College campuses.

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    Dickinson College Academics

    There’s never a reason to feel alone in your studies either, since there are academic support services like Tutoring and Writing Center. Moreover, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Adult (re-entering) student services, Alcohol/Substance Abuse Counseling, Career Counseling, Employment Service, Financial Aid Counseling, Freshman Orientation Program, Health Services, Minority Student Services, On-Campus Daycare, Personal Counseling and Placement Service can help. The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed. Dickinson College is unique in its study options. In particular, the university has a Accelerated Program, Cross-Registration, Double Major, ESL, Independent Study, Internships, Liberal Arts/Career Combination, ROTC, Army, Student-Designed Major, Study Abroad, Teacher Certification, Visiting/Exchange Student Program and Washington Semester.

    The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at Dickinson College.

    Computer Science:
    Computer/Information Sciences – General
    History:
    History – General
    Biological and Biomedical Sciences:
    Biochemistry, Biology
    Mathematics:
    Mathematics – General
    Popular majors:
    twenty-one percent social sciences, eleven percent foreign languages and literature, nine percent biology, nine percent psychology, seven percent business per marketing, seven percent english, seven percent history, five percent area and ethnic studies, five percent physical sciences, five percent visual and performing arts
    Psychology:
    Psychology – General
    Foreign Language and Literature:
    Classics, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
    Multiple or Interdisciplinary:
    Medieval/Renaissance Studies, Neuroscience
    Public Administration and Service:
    Public Policy Analysis
    Business, Management, & Marketing:
    International Business
    Social Sciences:
    Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, International Relations, Political Science/Government, Sociology
    School of Visual and Performing Arts:
    Drama/Theater Arts, Fine/Studio Arts, Music – General
    Philosphy and Religion:
    Jewish/Judaic Studies, Philosophy, Religion/Religious Studies
    English Language and Literature:
    English Language & Literature – General
    Physical Sciences:
    Chemistry, Geology, Physics

    The cost per credit hour (overall) was $1,046 Cost & Savings Calculator Financial Aid International students eligible for need-based aid last fall. Further, for international students, the application fee is 60. Are you an international student? The Fall application deadline for international students is the 1st of February.

    Dickinson College Admissions

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    This school requires an application fee consisting of sixty dollars regular application fee, sixty dollars out-of-state application fee, sixty dollars online application fee and point zero . Transfer student are not ignored. In particular, there were one hundred and seven total number of transfer students who applied and sixteen total number of transfer students who were admitted. Admission policy is currently Percent applicants admitted: 49%. Remember that this can change at any time.

    SAT and ACT score reports are due the 1st of February and Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place. the SAT subject section score is due the 1st of February. For all student applicants, the Fall application deadline is the 1st of February. Regardless of which application you submit, this school will notify you by the 31st of March. If you wish to apply early, your application will be do no later than the 15th of November, of which you should hear back from the university no later than the 15th of December. The regular application is due the 1st of February. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, and make sure they are in by the 1st of February.

    Dickinson College Athletics

    The following sports can be found here:

    • Men’s NCAA Division III and Men’s Intercollegiate Baseball
    • Men’s NCAA Division III, Women’s NCAA Division III, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate and Men’s Intramural Basketball
    • Men’s NCAA Division III, Women’s NCAA Division III, Men’s Intercollegiate and Women’s Intercollegiate Cross_country
    • Men’s NCAA Division III and Men’s Intercollegiate Football
    • Men’s NCAA Division III, Women’s NCAA Division III, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Golf
    • Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Racquetball
    • Men’s NCAA Division III, Women’s NCAA Division III, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Soccer
    • Women’s NCAA Division III, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Softball
    • Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Table_tennis
    • Men’s Intercollegiate and Women’s Intercollegiate Track_and_field
    • Men’s NCAA Division III and Women’s NCAA Division III Track_indoor
    • Men’s NCAA Division III and Women’s NCAA Division III Track_outdoor
    • Women’s NCAA Division III, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Men’s Club Volleyball
    • Men’s Club Wrestling
    The Red Devils are a member of NCAA.

    Dickinson College Financial Aid

    Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school. Financial aid forms are Business/farm supplement, CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE, FAFSA, Noncustodial (divorced/separated) Parents Statement and State aid form. Likewise, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Academics, Alumni Affiliation and Music/Drama. Financial aid distribution is at seventy-five percent scholarships per grants and twenty-five percent loans per jobs. If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics and ROTC.

    Dickinson College Students

    Dickinson College offers Bachelor’s degrees. The school’s size is approximately two thousand, three hundred and one degree-seeking undergrads and six hundred and forty-eight first-time degree-seeking freshmen. Further, the student body consists of twenty-five percent in-state students, seventy-five percent out-of-state students, fifty-five percent women, forty-five percent men, one percent american indian per alaskan native, five percent asian per pacific islander, four percent black per non-hispanic, five percent hispanic, seventy-nine percent white per non-hispanic, six percent non-resident alien, fifty-two percent in top 10th of graduating class, eighty-one percent in top quarter of graduating class and ninety-eight percent in top half of graduating class. In addition, it is part of an Suburban setting, Large town (10,000 – 49,999) and Residential campus. The university is a Private, Liberal Arts College, Four-year, Coed, where 49 percent of the applicants were admitted, Regionally accredited and College Board member.

    Of course, the school is located 100 miles from Philadelphia, 90 miles from Washington, DC.Again, the university has many unique facilites such as arts center, planetarium and multiple telescope observatory, intercontinental satellite communications for study-abroad programs, study of contemporary issues center.. This school features the Suburban setting, Large town (10,000 – 49,999) and Residential campus.

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    Dickinson College Was The Greatest Lie Anyone Ever Told Me Dear Dickinson College Faculty, Staff, Other Employees, ( And Prospective College Students Everywhere, Various Secondary Schools, Journalists and Citizens of All Countries) The greatest lie ever told to me was when Angela Barone (Franandez), an admissions officer at Dickinson College said to me something to the effect of Dickinson is the perfect place for you. Dickinson was so intrigued by my background in military Special Operations and Military Intelligence and Gulf War I, that it gave no thought to my future. Yet, my personal statement, my every motivation and my every word spoken during both my admissions interview and my every moment at Dickinson was persistently about what I wanted for me in my own future. I contributed to class discussions as agreed to by accepting admission and completed all academic assignments. Yet, I received no job skills and no job in return. This was despite having been told that Dickinson College was the perfect place for me to get what I wanted out of life. What Dickinson College did give me was not what I asked for. I never made any claim that I wanted to learn how to be creative or learn how write essay papers, which no one will pay you to do unless you become a professor. Yet, I never said that I wanted to become a professor. When I approached Dickinson College, I did so on the referral of an Insurance Salesman who knew Angela Barone's father and who I met while taking a continuing education class in using Lotus at Penn State Hazleton. I had just gotten out of the Army and mentioned to the individual that I had applied to Lafayette College, which did later offered me admission. I had never before heard of Dickinson College and it was not included in the list of schools that my former military commanders and superior officers and an aunt who was a college professor recommended I apply to. I decided to at least check Dickinson out. When I approached Dickinson, I said this is what I want and Dickinson replied by claiming not only that it could provide it but that it was the perfect place for me to get what I wanted. Yet, upon completing my degree at Dickinson, getting Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Dickinson College failed to follow though and deliver the job that I said I wanted to get and that it claimed it was the perfect place to provide. What is more, Dickinson College was never capable of delivering the job I wanted and persistently failed to recognize that in itself and persistently failed to openly acknowledge its limitations as an institution. Dickinson College was marketing what it wanted to be, rather than what it actually was. It turned out to be no different than any department store or franchise making grand claims about its product or service but after you buy it, it fails to live up to the expectations you forthrightly and openly placed on it at the moment of purchase. When I applied to Dickinson College I expressed clearly in my personal statement and admissions interview what job I wanted and Dickinson accepted me by telling me, falsely, that it was the perfect college for me. If Dickinson was not capable of getting me that job and knew that it couldn't, it should not have taken my GI Bill, Veterans Grants, Pell Grants and student loan money from me. I could have used that money to get trained in something that I could have gotten a job in. You can't admit people because you want to believe that you as an institution are capable of getting someone something. You have to ask how realistic the stated objective is. You also cannot accept someone with the idea that they will learn to be flexible and settle for something else. That is not your call to make, especially with an overbearing sense of institutional authority.. When I was leaving Dickinson, Stuart started to suggest that I look at the Congressional Research Service or at American and George Washington Universities. Yet, I never expressed any interests in any of those things in my personal statement. Stuart failed to understand the purpose for which I was paying tuition and the of the college and his program in that pursuit. Attending a college is a consumer transaction and if you cannot get someone from where they are when they apply to where they want to be when they graduate, you should not take their money. If you do, you are tricking individuals into believing that you are selling them something other than what they agreed to purchase. In my case, you took the only money that I had. That was money that I could have used that to get a job producing degree. Your career services office once told me that I must rely on my connections to get ahead in life. In doing so, Dickinson College failed to realize that if I came from the family background that made it easy to just attend a liberal arts college and then get a job through family connections, I would never have had to serve in the military to get the GI Bill in the fist place. Further, if I had such connections, I would not have wasted time and money getting an education to attain they same paycheck that I could have had without the education. But my well being was not part of the considerations made by Dickinson when it decided to accept the cash from my GI Bill, Pell Grant, Veterans Grant and student loans. The reason you admitted me and took my money was simply because Dickinson's enrollment was down and you wanted to round out your statistics with a well balanced class profile. The emphasis of you admissions decision was on what you felt I would bring to the college, rather than on what your responsibility was to me. You wanted to make the diversity data to look good and vicariously expose the spoiled rich kids to the experience of the working class by having a few in the student body. You liked having someone in the classroom who had real world experience and could talk about how American foreign policy actually played out on the ground because he was there. You placed value and emphasis on giving the rich kids exposure to a working class person who went to school using the GI Bill because as Zwemer once told my classmates and me, part of their learning experience is to learn how to interact with people like me because when they graduate there will be many more. In his mind, my presence was to be for the benefit of the rich kids. I was tolerated but never welcome. Yet, you took my money that I was paying you to get me the job I wanted. I was not paying for, what you deemed as the privilege to be around the rich kids and self proclaimed esteemed faculty like yourselves. You gave no thought to what I was going to get out of the education and every time I tried to point out to Stuart what I wanted and what I saw as the obvious flaw of disorganization in the liberal arts education, he just brushed me off. He did so with an incessant, he knows best attitude but never stopped to ask himself if he actually knows anything at all. I wanted job and prosperity but all you sold me was a useless certificate. Since the moment of the purchase, I have neither encountered any individuals or institutions that have offered me a job because I graduated from Dickinson and the only jobs that have ever been available to me are the very same jobs that I could have had without a Dickinson degree. This renders the degree both useless and of no true tangible or realizable value. It is by no means an investment and its projected benefit in life that was and continues to be advertised by Dickinson College constitutes false advertising. Therefore, you owe me for the full cost of my education at Dickinson, including the opportunity cost and all costs must be brought forward to present value. You must remove my degree from my transcript, annotating that the degree was renounced upon my instruction and you must provide me with the additional replacement funding necessary to retrain into a job producing real labor skill that is of tangible and attainable practical value. You must also compensate me for the fact that employers do not hire liberal arts graduates for technical jobs. Instead, they hire people with either two year tech degrees or no higher education at all before they hire liberal arts majors. My Dickinson degree is a handicap, not an asset. Unlike Scadato suggested, I cannot leave out of my resume the fact that I attended college for those years because it would leave that time unaccounted for. If sever years are unaccounted for, people assume you must have been in prison, on the lamb or deserted from military service. Sean M. Donahue Alumnus Dickinson College, BA 1997 (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) Columbia University MIA, SIPA 2001 MA Statistics 2005 Mandarin Chinese, Middlebury College Levels 3,4,5 Mandarin Chinese Indiana-U, CET Level 1