<p>So, I got a letter from Dartmouth College today, and they're telling me they've extended their regular decision deadline to January 15th. </p>
<p>Is this a special exclusion for me and certain people?</p>
<p>Could this indicate I have a higher chance of acceptance?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yea can some1 answer this^</p>
<p>It is a consideration for everyone. THe country has been through a lot this year (Sandy, Sandy Hook, weather conditions that have shut down other parts of the country, etc). This is not the first year that they have extended the deadline (I believe they extended the deadline last year also).</p>
<p>We got the same letter at our house today and I was thinking that they have not had enough qualified applicants and are trying drum up more business. We are not applying as they do not have the necessary major. We have passed up many great schools that have sent application invitations with nice packets, as they don’t have the right major. My thought was…wow…they seem desperate…but what do I know?</p>
<p>I was considering that as well, however, it explicitly states “…we are extending our deadline, for you, until January 15, 2013.” I live in California, so I was not affected by Sandy.
Additionally, Dartmouth’s website still lists January 1 as their regular decision deadline…</p>
<p>So are you saying it’s extended for everyone?</p>
<p>I hesitate to agree with marybee333, but that is the same conclusion that I’m coming to. After a 10+% decrease in ED applications, they might want to attract more applicants by sending this mailing out. After all, if someone receives it, they may think they have a better shot/think Dartmouth wants them and apply when they weren’t going to in the first place.</p>
<p>I got the same letter.
Is Dartmouth good for engineering ?</p>
<p>It’s always hard to read tea leaves, but does it really say: “we are extending our deadline, for you, until January 15, 2013” ? That’s not even proper punctuation. President Hanlon, you cannot start too soon.</p>
<p>This is what it said.
“With the January 1st admissions deadline quickly approaching, I offer you an opportunity to further research Dartmouth and realize its match with your intellectual and personal interests. We are extending our deadline, for you, until January 15, 2013. Hopefully this extension will enable you to gather and submit materials should you decide to apply.”</p>
<p>I got the same letter. I think it is to attract more applicants.</p>
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<p>That is exactly what I am saying. In NYC, schools were closed for a week during hurricane Sandy (downtown schools were closed even longer and many students are still displaced) and many schools extended their ED deadline since the storm hit right at the deadline. In Ct, they just had the last of the services on yesterday and the middle/high schools just recently opened. Would it be fair to extend the deadline to east coast people, midwesterners and some parts of the west and not extend the deadline to others?</p>
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<p>Why would you think that. The regular deadline has not even passed yet, so how would the school determine that there were not “enough” qualified applicants? If that were the case, there were plenty of “qualified” applicants in the ED round who were denied admission. They could have just simply waitlisted those students to have a larger RD pool.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t read too much into the decrease in ED applicants. Keep in mind ED is usually for people who know that the school is overwhelming their first choice and if accepted will attend (the money will usually not be a major issue for this group). Yes, you will have some who did not do their due diligence and work out the money before hand, but they are not the majority of the pool. In our house Dartmouth was my D’s first choice, but we as a family greatly benefitted from our ability to compare packages (something you do not get to do ED) in the RD round.</p>
<p>I do find it interesting that there do not appear to be similar extensions at any of the other Ivies. At least, I can’t see any similar threads at their CC forums or announced changes at the school sites. Extending the ED/EA deadline was common, if not universal; Dartmouth appears to be alone on this one (although I cannot claim to have researched the point exhaustively).</p>
<p>From NACAC</p>
<p>It looks as if a number of schools have extended their deadlines</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/media-center/Documents/HurricaneSandy.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nacacnet.org/media-center/Documents/HurricaneSandy.pdf</a></p>
<p>Sybbie, that appears to be mainly ED/EA information. The Brown/Cornell/Harvard/Princeton websites still show 1/1 or 1/2 as the RD deadline. So does Dartmouth for that matter. This may be a targeted mailing to high-achieving seniors who have not [yet] applied to Dartmouth, as opposed to a general weather-related extension, but I think that the lack of similar discussions at the other Ivies CC forums is not insignificant. Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark in the night? ;)</p>
<p>I got the same letter too, I just sent my SAT scores to Dartmouth a few days before so I’m wondering if that has anything to do with it? I’ve read that a lot of URM’s got this before from Dartmouth. I’m a Bengali-American. Anyone else who received the letter a minority?? I was already applying to Dartmouth so I found it funny that they sent me the letter. Im hoping this bodes well for in admission, but I know its probably just a gimmick. But doesn’t hurt to get the hopes up…</p>
<p>An alum with a good source in admissions says: “It turns out that the Admissions Office sends out these letter every year, and that, in fact, you can apply to Dartmouth at least until the start of February, despite what it written on the College’s website.” So … no big mystery, and I hereby retract all my surmising. :)</p>
<p>^^ This is interesting! Always wondered what happens if you apply late!!</p>
<p>My other thought was this: They want to reject more applications to keep Dartmouth more selective and to affect the yield. My D is a high achiever, but maybe they want to be able to say we received X amount of applicants and we only accepted X many…thus to keep Dartmouth as selective as the other Ivies for this application cycle. Who knows? Maybe Dartmouth is reading this, but I am sure they will not chime in.</p>
<p>It’s a shame that I was deferred ED and now they’re in essence sending out advertisements -_-</p>
<p>Son got the letter. He is a URM. No other ivy sent one like it.</p>