<p>people say prestige doesnt matter. and i am like, WHAAAAAA? O.o
i dont want to come off as arrogant, but i come from a country (or atleast the region i live in) that puts prestige over everything! :3</p>
<p>Prestige matters… but it isn’t the most important thing.
Like I think if I only get accepted to Rice and my safety (Steven’s)… I might just choose Steven’s because of the offer and that I don’t feel I’ll be happy at Rice… however Duke, Dartmouth, maybe even Cornell I might choose more highly as they are better known</p>
<p>I’d rather go to a uni that I loved than a uni that my parents/school/the rest of the world loved…</p>
<p>I pretty much agree with you there… it is like finding a job you love doing so you never really work a day in your life! :)</p>
<p>So true lemming. That is the most down to earth statement on here…</p>
<p>You guys and your Harvard business!</p>
<p>Brown is definitely my #1… followed by Yale and Columbia. Then I guess I’d throw Harvard in there. Penn and Dartmouth are tied, and Princeton comes last for sure.</p>
<p>Yes, I’d like to go somewhere I’d be happy - but I’d be lying if I said prestige didn’t matter at all.</p>
<p>^
Just curious… why would you put Princeton last? Is it because of their majors? location, stigma associated to it, eating clubs being like frats/soros, frats and soros?</p>
<p>Curious is all :)</p>
<p>I got a weird vibe from my interview - which I know shouldn’t be a definitive interpretation of the school, but whatever - and I’m not super pumped about the whole prep school kids/eating clubs business. </p>
<p>I’ll admit that there are some things that draw me to it (arch sings, math dept, etc), but… meh. If by some chance I’m accepted, I’ll visit and reassess.</p>
<p>@Sdorkyi
I know a couple people who seem concerned about the prep kids and eating clubs.
The eating clubs serve a couple purposes: they are were the Juniors/Seniors go to eat better meals, they make up the majority of the party scene (Feels like a mixture between a house party and a night club… or at least Cap and Gown and TI do)
The prep school kids go everywhere xP they just have that stereotype… apparently once you are there everyone lightens up a lot more :)</p>
<p>Can’t say anything about the interview 
I really enjoyed mine</p>
<p>Prestige matters I guess. Not in the eyes of friends/family, but in the eyes of companies, grad schools, etc!! :)</p>
<p>Meaning, I won’t “not” go to Dartmouth just because my friends haven’t heard of it but I may “not” go to Dartmouth because a Cornell engineering undergrad degree has more prestige than a Dartmouth engineering undergrad degree!! :)</p>
<p>@Raith - The only thing that worries me about Dartmouth is its 5yr BE program compared to the 4yrs at other colleges. You CAN squeeze the the 5yrs into 4yrs but that would be at the expense of minors/dual majors?</p>
<p>@Rishav
The 5 years does make me feel a little unsettled… I would push it to 4 years… and I’d try place into higher courses (gaining course credit… or however it would be described) to hopefully miss a lot of the first year maths, physics and chem courses… my French from A Levels might help with foreign language prereqs… I want to come out having learnt as much as possible! :D</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Williams & Amherst</li>
<li>UCLA & Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>UC Berkeley & USC</li>
</ol>
<p>There is a way you might be able to check your application status now. I posted it under the financial aid thread. I figured that if all your financial aid documents are received and satisfied, you are most likely in the final stage. If your financial aid documents are still in received-review in progress, I would think you should cool yourself down. Check my posts under financial aid threads. You can check such status on Darthmouth application portal. Good luck.</p>
<p>^mine are still in the “review in progress” stage, yet I am in. I wouldn’t say that’s a cut and dry indicator by any means.</p>
<p>I just got worried after going through johnyenglish’s post. Two of my FA documents are in “received - review in progress” state. My CSS Profile is the only “received and satisfied” doc.</p>
<p>@hoping, johnyenglish is just speculating. I really don’t think your FA status is an indicator of admission - it’d be way too obvious, and all the evidence people have collected is confusing and contradictory. Let’s just wait until the 28th, okay?</p>
<p>I agree. Dartmouth would never make decisions so obvious.</p>
<p>Agreed. Too much stress, honestly.</p>
<p>I now join this “AGREED” union!! Anyways, thanks for that **stupiddorkyidiot<a href=“idiot:p”>/b</a></p>
<p>When you read your science and math textbook, everything is so obvious. If you were in stone age, you would believe that textbooks were written by speculators.</p>