Dartmouth vs. UC San Diego

Colleges & Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>lol xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</p>

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<p>Wow...let me get this straight...you posted in the Dartmouth forum just so you could try to prove to us how bad a school it is? Wth? Get out of our forum!</p>

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The calendar is not the same, in the way that I was thinking about it. The D-plan is the backbone of a Dartmouth education, and while it may be a quarter system, it's so much more

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<p>Oh, okay. I was just thinking of it as a quarter system. I don't dislike or like the D-plan.</p>

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<p>So california1600, are you still of the opinion that you could never imagine leaving California to go to, say, MIT?</p>

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<p>What Dartmouth Students Say About... </p>

<p>Student Body
Dartmouth students look alike, for reasons that have nothing to do with their backgrounds. "The average Dartmouth student is usually too bundled up in warm clothes to distinguish them from everyone else," undergraduates clarify. However, "once you get past the ten layers of clothing that everyone wears, Dartmouth students are a bunch of extraordinarily bright, sexually charged, procrastinating, sensitive comedians who go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world." They tend to be "outdoorsy people, but there are also those who aren't athletic at all and everyone fits in fine." Dartmouth students "are either very liberal or very conservative." One student adds, "The campus is politically active. When talking to my friends at other schools, they are always amazed to hear how many people at Dartmouth are involved and aware of politics, both national and global." However, they never let political differences spoil the genial atmosphere. Students are "friendly, eloquent, and generally very happy."
(PrincetonReview.com)</p>

<p>man, I'm psyched for the Dartmouth decisions:-P</p>

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<p>Cal1600, when are you going to get off this anti-Ivy platform? Reading many of your posts gives me the feeling your mission in life is to steer people toward UC's. Maybe you are holding a grudge?</p>

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<p>Well, I'll say it one more time. I got into UPenn and Cornell and decided to attend Berkeley. So trust me, it has nothing to do with some vendetta. My mission is to level the playing field of American education, so that there is less emphasis on prestige, and more emphasis on academic excellence. Right now, the lower Ivy League are taking steroids, altering true competition and talent, with students asking " whats the easiest ivy to get into?". Either everyone uses steroids or no one does, so that true talent can be sharpened and increased. Right now, this is not emphasized enough. US Universities are getting too complacent, thinking the best way to increase their ranking is to manipulate yield, send out emails to alumni to increase donation rates, etc... instead of focusing on true academic excellence.</p>

<p>The effect of this negligence of proper philosophy has been the the rest of the world has caught up dramatically with the US in worldwide rankings. Although the US maintains hegemony for the first 20 spots, afterwards, there is a giant fallout. US is losing ground and its losing ground FAST. We have to change the unhealthy obsession with prestige and focus more on academic excellence. Thats my mission.</p>

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<p>"US Universities are getting too complacent, thinking the best way to increase their ranking is to manipulate yield, send out emails to alumni to increase donation rates, etc... instead of focusing on true academic excellence."</p>

<p>is berkeley a part of this group too?</p>

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<p>California, you make one critical mistake. Grad programs have nothing to do with the excellence of an undergraduate college experience. Having committed and well regarded professors invite you to their house for dinner and teaching discussion sections is an amazing thing. As Daniel Webster said, "It is a college sir, and we love it"</p>

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<p>Your mission is to prove that you're an idiot. I'm tired of arguing with you. Shut up and go away.</p>

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<p>And it's funny because one of the schools that my math professor did graduate work in was UC Riverside and yesterday he told me about how terrible he thought that school was.</p>

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<p>Berkeley does not manipulate the yield rate at all. Berkeley thinks its rather silly, and kind of below them to be doing this. Not to sound arrogant, but thats the truth. Its much more important to think who needs the "Berkeley experience" the most. Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Softbank, at one time the richest man in the world (briefly beat out Bill Gates) valued at $76 Billion loved his undergraduate days at Berkeley. Its quite a legacy to live up to for Asians at Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Be healed my son!</p>

<p><em>levitates you into a wheelchair</em></p>

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<p>That is very very cool. A universities prestige takes into account both undergraduate and graduate. Otherwise UCSF would be much better known if it had an undergraduate as well. So would a lot of good colleges, if they had graduate programs. </p>

<p>I agree with you that eating with your professors is a good thing. However, this should be the allure of a school, such as being close to a city you love, intimate talks with professors, proximity to ski resorts, etc... These should be factors when picking schools (maybe a student blossoms in small schools, some students blossom in big schools because they went to a small private high school and want a change of pace, this preference should not already be predetermined in a ranking to favor smaller private schools), not in actual rankings where we are trying to isolate academic excellence.</p>

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<p>California, please just do us a favor and GO AWAY. You have got to be one of the most obnoxious posters I've yet encountered. Obviously no one on this forum is going to want to bash Dartmouth with you- in fact, we all either attend or want to attend, which is why we're here. I've already reported you to the moderators, but apparently they're not yet as fed up with you as I am.</p>

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<p>We don't care about Berkeley or the UC's. Is that so hard to understand? If we did, we would ask you for your opinion, or better yet GO TO THE UC FORUMS. Seeing as how we have not, please take the hint and leave.</p>

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<p>elizabeth22, I hope the moderators do not listen to you. That would be sad if they do because he has done nothing wrong. You guys dont own this forum and cannot control what is said here. To tell you the truth, people have been WAY more rude to him than he has been to other people. I'm surprised the moderators did not repremand Xanatos for referring to him as an idiot. Also, you called him obnoxious. It would be sad if the moderators listened to you and totally ignored the bad things you and others have been doing.</p>

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<p>Shyboy-</p>

<p>Do you not see the problem with coming onto a DARTMOUTH board to bash DARTMOUTH? He hasn't said anything remotely helpful in any of his posts, and was even responsible for starting another thread that was fairly blatantly racist and was subsequently closed by the moderators. He IS obnoxious (I in no way regret saying it), and definitely not an asset to the forum. All we're asking is that he stop posting inflammatory stuff on our otherwise friendly, helpful forum.</p>

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<p>Do I detect hurt feelings again?
It's as if there is a little "A-D-D" dog yapping at our heals and dropping it's dirty little business along our college path. Bad dog! Do your business in your own neighborhood, it's not that we feel the need to rub your nose in it ("bad... bad dog") we just prefer our four legged friends to be house-trained and not just raising their stubby little legs on every ivy adorned tree they see, regarless of whether they really have to releive them-selves or not. Be a good dog or we are going to stop playing fetch with you!</p>

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<p>Hahaha, what a nice little simile.</p>