<p>If you saw one of the rooms at the River, ie three-room doubles or singles, and you consider how much further than 10 minutes, max, away dorms are at some larger schools, you will realize that while freshmen dorm rooms run the gamut and are not the uniformly best rooms, none of the options are bad.</p>
<p>How is Dartmouth's engineering department and Thayer School of Engineering?</p>
<p>Yes, Xanatos, I heard it from a '10. Basically she said freshmen get the nicest, then sophomores get crappy housing, and it gets a little better from there up.</p>
<p>Is there a lot of racial and/or social class interaction?</p>
<p>Can you elaborate on the winter in Hanover? Is it much different from the rest of New England? Keep in mind that I am from a part of Texas where the winter consists of five days of 40 F weather, and summer lasts for roughly nine months. And regardless of the temperature, I need the sun to survive (S.A.D. anyone?).</p>
<p>1) freshman get housing ranging from passable to really super-nice and new. sophomores mostly get passable to reasonably good housing.</p>
<p>2) there's very little class consciousness here, or class-based self-segregation. there's not many expensive things to do that some people can't afford - we have moderately priced restaurants, one or two boutiques, and everything is w/in walking distance. most people i know don't even carry money around. expensive fashion is not a big deal when everyone walks around wearing a north face half the year anyway.</p>
<p>3) i'm from texas also and i was afraid i'd die during the winter. i will admit, i got a little tired of gloves and hats during winter term, but with a good winter jacket i was fine.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, tilly.</p>
<p>Would anyone happen to know what the studio art classes are like? Hopkins Centre seemed pretty sweet, but I didn't get a chance to drop in on a class while I was at Dimensions.</p>
<p>There's studios for everything at the Hop, from painting, to jewelery making, to wood working, etc.</p>
<p>I've never taken an art class, so I can't say much about how the program here is. But I assume it's pretty good for any college/university without an art college.</p>
<p>How open are Dmouth women to relationships?</p>
<p>Are there gen ed requirements at Dartmouth? If so, are they fairly limited in the courses you can take to fulfill them or will it be easy to find an interesting course to fulfill the requirement? I cannot find any information about gen eds on the Dartmouth website.</p>
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III. A student must pass the following courses, although they may be substituted in part by credits on entrance or by proficiency demonstrated then or later. Either a passing letter grade or a CT (Credit) will suffice. The standing NR assigned under the Non-Recording Option will not serve.</p>
<p>A. *Writing: *Writing 5; Writing 2-3; or a proficiency equivalent to that achieved by Writing 5. Students must complete the requirement by the end of the second term of the first year. Neither Writing 5 nor Writing 2-3 is eligible for use of the Non-Recording Option (pages 72-74).</p>
<p>B. *First-Year Seminar: *One seminar chosen from an approved list which is available on the College website: <a href="http://dartmouth.edu/%7Ereg/fysem.html%5B/url%5D">http://dartmouth.edu/~reg/fysem.html</a>. These seminars, which have Writing 5 (or 2-3) as prerequisite, are designed both to further the student's proficiency in writing and to provide an opportunity for participation in small group study and discussions with an instructor on a subject of mutual interest (page 676). This requirement must be completed during the first year. A First-Year Seminar may satisfy a distributive or world culture requirement if so indicated on the College website at <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Ereg/fysem.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~reg/fysem.html</a>. It is never possible to include a First-Year Seminar as an actual part of a major. No First-Year Seminar may be taken under the Non-Recording Option (pages 72-74).</p>
<p>C. *Language: *Foreign language courses numbered 1, 2, and 3; or proficiency equivalent to three terms of study in one foreign language at the college level, or fluency in some language other than English. A student must demonstrate the ability (1) to read with understanding representative texts in a foreign language; and in the case of a modern foreign language, (2) to understand and use the spoken language in a variety of situations. Every student will take qualifying tests upon entrance. If the student passes these examinations, he or she will have fulfilled the Foreign Language Requirement. Where no department or program exists to determine a student's fluency in a language, the Associate Dean of Faculty for the Humanities shall make whatever arrangements are necessary for such a determination.</p>
<p>Unless exempted, as above, a student must normally complete the requirement before the end of the seventh term, either in a language offered for admission or in another language begun at Dartmouth. There are two options: (1) study on the Dartmouth campus in any of the languages offered, or (2) participation in one of Dartmouth's Language Study Abroad (D.L.S.A.) programs offered in several of these languages (pages 86-88 and 462).</p>
<p>Language courses numbered 1, 2, or 3 and other beginning language courses (e.g., Greek 11, 12, and 13) may not serve under any circumstance in partial satisfaction of the General Education requirement. They may not be taken under the Non-Recording Option (pages 72-74) until the Foreign Language Requirement has been satisfied in another language (and then only if the department so authorizes); no course studied off-campus may be taken under the Option.</p>
<p>The language requirement may be waived under certain special circumstances: see pages 54-55.</p>
<p>D. General Education Requirements (Class of 2008 and later classes): There are two separate requirements under this heading: World Culture Requirement, and Distributive Requirement. These requirements are outlined below, and are explained in detail (including the codes used to designate which courses fall into which categories) beginning on page 55.</p>
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<li><p>World Culture Requirement. Each student must take and pass one course in each of three areas: Western Cultures, Non-Western Cultures, and Culture and Identity.</p></li>
<li><p>Distributive Requirement. Each student must take and pass ten courses, as follows:</p></li>
</ol>
<p>one in the Arts;</p>
<p>one in Literature;</p>
<p>one in Systems and Traditions of Thought, Meaning, and Value;</p>
<p>one in International or Comparative Study;</p>
<p>two in Social Analysis;</p>
<p>one in Quantitative and Deductive Sciences;</p>
<p>two in the Natural Sciences;</p>
<p>one in Technology or Applied Science.</p>
<p>One of the courses in the Natural Science or Technology categories must have a laboratory, field, or experimental component.</p>
<p>A course may satisfy categories in two of these requirements. For example, a course might satisfy the Western category in the World Culture requirement and the Literature category in the Distributive requirement. Consequently, by careful choice of courses, it is possible to satisfy all of these requirements with just ten courses. Note also that the fact that a course falls within the student's major department or program does not invalidate its use toward meeting these requirements.</p>
<p>Courses satisfying distributive requirements *must be taken subsequent to college matriculation. *Credits received prior to matriculation, even for courses which would qualify for one or more of these requirements if taken after matriculation, do not count, even though they receive course credit or advanced placement credit. Also, courses satisfying these requirements must be passed with a regular letter grade or CT (Credit); courses which are failed, or for which the regular grade has been replaced by NR due to the student's election of the Non-Recording Option, do not satisfy these requirements. Graduate courses (those numbered 100 or higher) never serve in satisfaction of any part of these requirements.
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<p>If you want to be an econ major - how hard is it to get classes in finance and banking? The econ site says if there are too many interested - you have to go for agriculture, gov't etc. Do they determine by GPA? First come first serve? Where does that leave freshman? Or if you see the prof and say you are really want to sign up, will they accomodate those who want in?</p>
<p>There is a pecking order to determining who gets into oversubscribed classes and it goes something like this (this isn't just for econ, but for everything): majors (seniors then juniors then sophomores) minors (seniors then juniors then sophomores) and then non-major seniors, non-major juniors, non-major sophomores, and finally freshmen. So yeah, freshmen are obviously at the bottom of the pile. But keep in mind, econ has prerequisites that you have to take before you can get into the serious stuff, so you wouldn't just be taking the high-level classes freshman fall anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah, econ classes tend to be oversubscribed. It's one of the most popular majors and there are always lots of people signing up for those classes. The administration is pretty clueless in this as in other matters and so they haven't hired nearly enough professors. Ultimately, you'll definitely be able to take all the classes that you want, but you may not be able to get a spot in them the first time you try to sign up for them.</p>
<p>Others reading this should note that it isn't nearly as bad in other departments.</p>
<p>lol at blitz's post. girls here whine all the time about how no guys want to have relationships...its not that difficult, and it happens quite a bit....a huge portion of dmouth kids end up marrying other alums</p>
<p>Thanks, Xantos.</p>
<p>Girls whine about everything.</p>
<p>if i PM you my stats etc, can you give me general chances? Ive been doing college research for 6 years...and Dartmouth is my dream school. I am one of those special cases who you never know if will get in or not, im looking for your honest opinion, im also not going to pm you it before asking, because thats just rude.</p>
<p>and im looking for verrry general chances.</p>
<p>If I don't do well on an AP that Dartmouth doesn't take, does that hurt anything (other than my pride that is)?</p>
<p>How many classes can you take pass/fail outside your major?</p>
<p>amber - no. APs only matter for credit and placement purposes. If you do well enough you can get credit or place into a higher level of the class but if you don't then nothing happens; you don't get bumped down or anything. So even if you don't do well on an AP that Dartmouth DOES take, it still isn't a big deal. Basically, APs can only help.</p>
<p>addy - very few classes are available pass/fail, and I'm not sure what the limit is because most people don't take them because there are so few of them. Dartmouth has an alternate and more readily available way of taking classes harmlessly called the Non-Recording Option (NRO). If you elect to use an NRO for a class, that basically means that you specify a grade, and if you get that grade or above it just counts normally and no one even knows that you set an NRO, but if you get below the grade (as long as you don't fail) it just shows up in your transcript as having received credit but it doesn't show the grade you got nor does it affect your GPA. You're basically setting the grade that you would be satisfied with. So, using an NRO is good if you want to take a class that you find interesting but that might be in a subject that you don't think you'll be very good at. You can only have 3 NROs, but they only count towards the limit if you actually get below the grade you set for yourself. So if you get above what you set, the NRO will in essence be cancelled, but if get below it and the NRO actually triggers, you will then have one less NRO to use.</p>
<p>What is the campus like? What are the people like? Whats the party scene? How's the weather? :D</p>
<p>Nice. Good. Cold.</p>