<p>Angry? Comment on this thread.
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This guy is saying Dartmouth is harder to get into, I told him there's no way, but then realized I have no reason to be defending Penn. You guys do though...</p>
<p>thanks, but no thanks.
i don't really see the point of defending or comparing ivies..
plus, they're too different of schools. penn is the 2nd biggest ivy and is in the city. dartmouth is the smallest and is in the middle of nowhere.
admission rate isn't everything anyway.
we know penn is great, so we don't need to "defend" it. thanks for the concern though.</p>
<p>I really don't think he's attacking any singular institution, Pineapple...</p>
<p>Thank you for your opinion, Pineapple.</p>
<p>it is harder to get into dartmouth in terms of admissions rate and stats, although none of this should concern anyone anyway</p>
<p>Where's muerte?</p>
<p>dartmouth has gotten more selective lately. i would agree that it is a tad more selective than penn, but mostly because of its small size. penn has a lot more seats to fill. in any case, i'm splitting hairs here, because the two schools are still very close in selectivity.</p>
<p>Whether one is more "selective" or not is not very relevant. Penn just has better academic resources all-around and is stronger in a greater number of fields. The quality of the student body is already good enough at both schools.</p>
<p>Both schools are great; both schools have top notch students; both schools have great resources-but they are quite different. Apples and oranges, I would say.</p>
<p>Rudess...it's relevant to the thread. you could argue that the thread as a whole is irrelevant, but then I could counter by saying that no one is stopping you from ignoring it.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is is the middle of no where frozen NH(3 hours from Boston) and their D plan is no fun with 10 week semesters and having to go to school summer of sophmore year. I really don't care about the selectivity, they can keep it.</p>
<p>Wharton is probably harder to get into.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is MUCH MUCH harder to get into than Penn</p>
<p>No takers nsrjsyt...but thanks for trolling.</p>
<p>Very different feel and vibe...both great schools....not going to argue numbers...these are facts.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is definitely harder to get into than Penn, but I am still very very happy that I go to this school. I am not a Dartmouth student so I cannot say for sure of course, but I picked Penn over schools like Dartmouth and Cornell because I would much rather be in Philly than in Hanover or Ithaca.</p>
<p>The quality of students at Dartmouth is pretty much the same as the quality of students at Penn. Dartmouth just has fewer spots to fill, so they don't have to take as many people as Penn. Just because Dartmouth rejects a few more people than Penn doesn't make it a better academic institution.</p>
<p>ChoklitRain, I am expressing the point that arguing over selectivity of a school without even defining what selectivity means is a pretty stupid debate. In any case, since this is being posted in the Penn board, some people are trying to point out that there is no need to debate things like this, especially when thread titles like this subconsciously claim that Dartmouth>Penn. Like CrystalPineapple says, we don't need to defend Penn. And yes I can argue that the thread is irrelevant, which does not necessarily imply that I'm going to ignore it, and if you were to make the claim that no one is stopping me from ignoring it, then I could counter by saying, as I am now, that if a thread is irrelevant, then it is appropriate to say that it is.</p>
<p>^ i don't have anything against penn. my dad went to wharton i probably will too. but when we define selectivity as "difficulty of getting accepted" which takes into account acceptance rate and the quality of the applicant pool, i have to say dartmouth. not only does D have a lower acceptance rate, but its applicant pool is extremely self selective. people who apply to an ivy on a whim don't choose D.</p>
<p>^ Cool :) 10 chars</p>
<p>I had no interest in Dartmouth, and I still don't. Sure they may have 2 treasury secretaries back to back, but I'd hardly call either of them a cause for celebration...</p>
<p>I don't want to go to a school in the middle of nowhere, and apparently, neither do some Dartmouth faculty that go to Penn:</p>
<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | College faces hurdles in retaining researchers</p>
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In her landmark stem cell study published online last month in Nature, Nancy Speck reports on research she performed at Dartmouth Medical School with fellow Dartmouth researchers. While Speck ensured that the article mentions her connection to the College, it also lists the institution with which she is currently affiliated — the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Speck, who started at Penn in September, is one of three high-profile science faculty members who have left the College recently for larger institutions in the last several years, often to pursue expanded research opportunities...
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