<p>Brown or Amherst or Dartmouth </p>
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<p>hello
I'm a senior agonising over where to ED.
The three schools iv listed above are all amazing, awesome schools and they are all reach schools for me.
People told me to visit them and decide which one to apply but im not in that kinda situation.. also ED is too good to miss so I want to apply one of them.
Which one would I fit in the most??</p>
<p>Brown:
I love everything about brown I can't find any bad things about brown..maybe except the fact that people tend to form cliques. I'd prefer family-like envt. does brown put strong emphasis on writing? I want to improve my writing skill!! but my biggest concern is whether I would get accepted or not. Brown has the lowest ED acceptance rate among the three so...</p>
<p>Amherst:
I also love everything about amherst but it seems to me that the number of students is too small...I mean compared to brown or dartmouth. I want more diverse students. That's the only concern.</p>
<p>Dartmouth:
Dartmouth used to be my first choice but I read many articles/opinions about D plan and I really don't like the D plan. My highschool has quarter system so I know how stressful it is and how time flies so fast. I want a more relaxed envt. </p>
<p>please give me advices</p>
<p>Your gut feel is clearly stated in your last lines: “My highschool has quarter system so I know how stressful it is and how time flies so fast. I want a more relaxed envt.”</p>
<p>But, you should not ED if you really don’t have a STRONG first choice. The benefits for the unhooked ED applicant are real, but not as large as you think. ED includes a lot of recruited athletes, for example, as well as legacies and kids from big donors.</p>
<p>which makes the courses more fast-paced, but you only need to take three courses per quarter, as opposed to four or four+ courses at the same time in most semester-based schools (and some quarter-based schools as well). The time management is easier.</p>
<p>^^On the surface that sounds positive, but I disagree, and pace mostly depends on your intended major. The D-Plan is a compacted quarter system, which means D compacts a years’ worth of curriculum into two quarters. Thus, instead of Frosh Chem (or Frosh Calc) over 37/38 weeks in a semester school, it’s packed into ~19 weeks at D. (The winter quarter is not even 10 full weeks.) Or think of a standard Biology text book for premeds: Campbells. It contains ~56 chapters and ~1400 pages, which means an average of 5/6 chapters per week.</p>
<p>Thus, if you get behind, you really get behind,</p>