<p>I've heard of many information that Amherst tend to recruit students with high SAT and Dartmouth would like to consider a student sythetically.But the statistic numbers on Princeton Reviews indicates that Dart's sat is higher than Amherst meanwhile Amherst students' ranking are lower than dart in general.</p>
<p>so could anybody tells me which college judges a person as a whole instead of focus on merely one or two sides ?</p>
<p>I think both have very similar admissions strategies. Both want good stats - but also are looking to create interesting, diverse, classes.</p>
<p>(not here bragging about my test scores) but i got a 2400 and almost perfect sat IIs and rejected by amherst but accepted by dartmouth. i would say amherst looks at applicants just as holistically. to be honest my extracurriculars were a little on the thin side which was probably why i got rejected by amherst and several other top tier schools. i would say virtually all top tier schools, including both dartmouth and amherst, judge students holistically. if you still have enough time to pad up your resume i would strongly advise doing so. and i might add that, at least from my own experience, expressing interest to the right people in the dartmouth adcom helps a lot too.</p>
<p>I think both, like the vast majority of colleges, look at rank/SAT before anything else matters.</p>
<p>I think they’re looking for very similar things. Both accepted me. None of my other reach schools did.</p>
<p>If you have really strong SATs, both Amherst and Dartmouth will judge you holistically. If you have mediocre SATs, they will judge you on stats.</p>