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| Overall Score (about) | 97.7 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $74,359 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 35 / 1560 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 11 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 97% / N/A |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 6,572 |
Academics
Despite three top-notch professional schools (the Dartmouth Medical School, The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and the Thayer School of Engineering), as well as twenty-five other graduate programs in the arts and sciences, the college prides itself on what seems to be an almost singular focus on undergraduates. Consequently, students have a unique advantage. All classes are taught by professors and not graduate students. Not surprisingly, the college consistently gets high rankings for its quality of teaching, as well as for the level of interaction between faculty and students.
The Dartmouth Plan
The college functions on a unique year-round calendar. An academic year is divided into four ten-week quarters (called fall term, winter term, etc.), and students typically take three classes in each. This schedule works particularly well because not only is it difficult to get bored after a mere ten weeks, but students enjoy being able to focus on just three subjects at a time.
For the logistics of this to work out, students are required to spend at least nine terms on campus, including fall, winter, and spring of their freshman and senior years, as well as the summer between sophomore and junior year. Often a favorite term,
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Once accepted, students and their families receive one of the most comprehensive financial aid packages in the Ivy League. Roughly half of all students are eligible for need-based scholarships from the college.
The school recently announced a number of exciting new enhancements to the financial aid program for current and prospective students. This latest initiative provides free tuition for students who come from families with annual incomes below $75,000 with typical assets, replaces loans with scholarships for all scholarship recipients, assures need-blind admission for all students, and replaces one
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Students
With everybody going to and fro so often, it might seem that the college would have a hard time fostering a sense of community on campus. Ironically, the opposite is true. Bonding begins early, in fact, before students even officially matriculate. Over ninety percent of the incoming class elects to participate in a first-year trip sponsored by the Dartmouth Outing Club. Each group of eight to fifteen
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Athletics
More than seventy-five percent of the campus participate in either intercollegiate, club, or intramural sports programs. The athletic center
Alumni
Dartmouth churns out large numbers of graduates headed for lucrative jobs in investment banking and consulting; hundreds of companies have gone “headhunting” at the college, looking to recruit prospective employees.
Of course, not everyone from the school heads off to the world of big business. Medical school and law school are both popular options for many recent grads, as are M.A.- or Ph.D.-tracked graduate programs. In a recent year, about twenty-five percent of the senior class was headed right back into school. Additionally, by the time they
Faculty
It’s an understatement to say that the college has an incredibly strong faculty. Likewise, student-faculty relationships are excellent, and classes for the most part are small. Also, the most popular departments at the school tend to be the strongest, so you can expect to find a lot of history, English, government, chemistry, and language majors.
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