<p>The Dartmouth Transfer thread got closed somehow so I thought I would post a new thread to share the excitement and the nervousness, and maybe some information regarding the transfer process, for those of us who were accepted and who are set on enrolling.</p>
<p>So... does anyone know how housing, course registration, orientations, etc. work for transfers? When are we getting our @dartmouth.edu e-mail address? Also the D-plan thing... On the website it says the default D-Plan for us would be staying all throughout sophomore year and then taking off Fall and Summer of Junior year.. we can change that right? I kind of want to go to Sochi in the winter to see the Olympics and hope it will be possible to arrange my D-Plan accordingly.</p>
<p>Any input from Dartmouth transfers from former years are very welcome! and if you were accepted to Dartmouth as a transfer this year and plan on attending and can't find our group on facebook (yes, it exists!), please PM me or visitor message me!</p>
<p>Go Big Green!</p>
<p>Woohoo! I’m still waiting to hear from UPenn to see what kind of financial aid I received, but it would have to be significantly better than my Dartmouth aid for me to consider going to UPenn over the Big Green!</p>
<p>Yay! 
Thanks for making this…I think for the D Plan, it is tentative based on not having any transfer credit and that changes after you speak with your advisor based on what transfers and your academic plans…please feel free to correct me on this but that is how I understood it.</p>
<p>How many people are confirmed in the FB and going for sure? Give waitlisters a chance haha</p>
<p>@Toofast
There’s only three of us in the facebook group. I think people are not being able to find the group on facebook at this point… Or maybe not many haven’t decided/plan to enroll, in which case waitlists will have a better chance at ultimately getting accepted!</p>
<p>Also, for waitlisters, it’s regarded as pretty low to enroll at a school with the intention of going somewhere else. How would a waitlist at (insert a T20 acceptance here) feel if I decided to enroll there and hold on to my waitlist at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Just something to keep in mind, whether you’re enrolling at Dartmouth while waiting on JHU, or enrolling at Wharton while waiting on Dartmouth. Leaving a school that you paid the enrollment deposit in late May or early June can’t look too good…</p>
<p>*With that being said (theoretically) if you’re applying from a community college and you didn’t get in anywhere but Awful University, by all means stay on the Dartmouth waitlist while enrolling. Other than that, don’t use prestige as a means of causing months of undue anxiety to someone who is set on going to Dartmouth and has no other choices, or who said no to the other schools they got into to go to Dartmouth. </p>
<p>^I had a long convo with my guidance counselor (who is outrageously good, and very much on the same wavelength as Dartmouth’s and other tops school’s admissions officials) and this is what I came away with as the lesson of our meeting. Feel free to chime in with any arguments. I know this came off as blunt, but I hope the message made sense.</p>
<p>Freefly716, I’m not waitlisted at UPenn, I’m waiting on financial aid from UPenn. Dartmouth transfer students have to accept or decline their offer by Tuesday. That being said, if UPenn doesn’t offer me any financial aid by Tuesday, I’m enrolling at Dartmouth and not looking back. I’m not about to enroll at Dartmouth then back out later and screw over waitlisters.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the chances of coming off the wait list at this point? Ugh, Dartmouth is a dream. I am thinking they would accept at MOST 1-2 kids off the wait list if they even decided to take people off the wait list this year</p>
<p>Well, looking at the stats from last year, 30 were admitted and 18 enrolled. In 2009, though, 38 were admitted and 27 enrolled. 2010, 25 were admitted and 15 enrolled. What this tells me is that the enrollment number varies and probably depends on freshman retainment. From that, I guess that they probably admit about 25 students and expect 15 to enroll, but if 15 don’t enroll, they start taking from the wait list. Your chances could be much higher if this year is like 2009 and a lot of freshmen leave, who knows. Maybe these sexual assault cases and hazing incidents will discourage accepted people from attending. My guess is that at least the top 5 from the wait list will be admitted. What do I know, this is all speculation.</p>
<p>I wasn’t saying that towards anyone in particular haha just a gen statement. The Wharton example was specific to me, I didn’t even read your comment.</p>
<p>The waitlist is not ranked. They will just look at all the applicants again.</p>
<p>I would say, stay on the waitlist if Dartmouth is REALLY your dream.
Say you go to Sewanee, and you applied to Wake, UNC, Dartmouth, and Yale. If Yale was your first choice (be honest), and you only want to go to Dartmouth more than UNC (where you got in) because of prestige, do yourself a favor and go to UNC. 2cents. They can probably tell you just want it for the prestige. I had a convo with the office, and was using them as a sounding board for my decision to reject my offer to go to another ivy in favor of waiting on Dartmouth. Their answer persuaded me, and I hope that I was able to convey it accordingly.</p>
<p>freefly716,</p>
<p>You got into Cornell I remember, and Wharton? Do you want to attend Dartmouth over those? And it says that approximately 30 students are wait listed for transfer so that means us waitlisters have a decent shot if it is actually 5-7 students. Did you guys send updates of recent accomplishments/etc.</p>
<p>@Toofast Yes, definitely. Not even a question, I said no to both already. Praying for the best.</p>
<p>The recent accomplishments is completely unnecessary unless you recently did something significant (as in, won a national award or won student body president) or if your GPA was a 3.6 and you got a 4.0 second semester (which would mean you only got waitlisted because of something completely unrelated to your application). It only annoys them, from what I was told. What about you?</p>
<p>A general good guideline is the one for sending updates during the admissions cycle - only if it is significant enough to change your decision from a no/borderline to a yes. A small writing award probably isn’t it, but who am I to judge? I did something, but not saying what.</p>
<p>@Toofast, why not BC? I have a very vague understanding of the school, so I’m curious. Is it FA holding you back, or did something change between the time to applied and the time you got in?</p>
<p>Oh, you want to break into IB. Sorry, just stalked you a bit. I have a lot of background in BB IBD, and I explicitly asked an MD at each of the top 3 BBs about target schools. Dartmouth is NOT a target school (I can send you the exact responses via PM) for any top BB. UVA is. BC, of course, is not. I want to get into GS IBD/BR PE post grad, but I chose Dartmouth as a) I have the network already and don’t need a prep school and b) I want a liberal arts background. If you don’t already have a background in IBD (top prep school/transferring from a core recruiting school), then Dartmouth may not be the right choice. Are you very preppy? Fraternities, from what I have been told, are key to recruiting.</p>
<p>Just things to think about, all of those things DREW me to Dartmouth instead of away. You should make an educated decision, any more questions PM me and I can ask people for you :)</p>
<p>@freefly716, I wish I knew what all those acronyms meant. Hell, I don’t even know what a target school is. And what’s this about recruiting? Is this relevant to me or just our buddy @toofast?</p>
<p>anyone who has questions about ibanking can PM me. everything I learned is from asking lots of questions to my network, and if I don’t know I’ll ask people for you toofast, like me, is choosing schools so I thought he was the most relevant, I didn’t even know you wanted to do ibd. ask away :)</p>
<p>@freefly716</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. Sounds like you did your research, all I really wanted to know was if they were taking kids off the wait list and while none of us know for sure it sounds like they might take a lucky few. Best of luck in your future endeavors, I am sure you have a good chance if you already got into Wharton and Cornell :)</p>
<p>Also I’ve seen a couple of your posts and you mentioned prep school and being from the mid Atlantic, did you attend St Albans by any chance?</p>
<p>Definitely not St Albans…haha. I hope I get in, I staked it all on it. I hope (and believe, if you do some basic statistical analysis of the last 4 years) that around 20% of the waitlist will get off. 6/30 in a year when they want to enroll 20-30 students, given the underenrollment of the class of 2016 AND the present severe underenrollment of the class of 2017, combined with the stated policy of under-accepting and then picking off the waitlist, seems about right. Maybe a bit low, but that sounds about right.</p>