<p>If you want the opportunities an urban environment offers for your college years, don’t go to Dartmouth.
The reality is that most Dartmouth and other elite school graduates will live their working lives in major cities and their environs. The environment Dartmouth (and Williams, Princeton etc.) offers is a chance to bond with other smart people your age in a concentrated, almost socially insistent way. A bubble, but an amazing one at that. No accident that the mentioned schools have very, very high alumni giving rates.</p>