I hardly see anyone around me getting RD admission in Columbia or Dartmouth. What does it take for average students to get in?
Can someone provide detail characteristics of the essays that they like to see in the applictaions? I guess at thispoint, that’s the only thing that I can control now. Please… help
<p>Dartmouth takes a very wholistic approach to the admissions process, where your EC's and peer recommendations are just as important as your SAT's scores & grades. Clolumbia as you know has it own application which is very indepth, and if you are any where close in proximity to the school and have made not effort to visit, sit in on a class it is essentially the kiss of death because they do ask you what contact have you had with them.</p>
<p>The enviorment at the two schools are so vastly different I personally cannot see someone loving both schools equally (maybe from a name recognition only standpoint). Columbia prides it self on its core curriculum which maybe about 1/2 of the courses are based in humanities and literature where Dartmouth just has distribution requirements. Columbia is hard core urban living in the city and Dartmouth is about as rural as you can get. The Dartmouth people tend to be a really laid back kind of crowd.</p>
<p>I remember my daughter visiting Columbia and absolutely hating it (even though she loved Barnard) and loving Dartmouth and we are New Yorkers and she has spent a lot of time at Columbia (Aunt is a Columbia graduate, and we have a lot of close friends who teach and work at the university)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, average students do not get into these schools.</p>