<p>can anyone give me a brief Dartmouth intro? Hows the science/economics program at Dartmouth? are the students there more interested in learning for the sake of learning or are the students more interested in getting a job when they're out of college?
how does Dartmouth's science program compare with cornell's, upenn's, and columbia's?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>^^ a great question for the dartmouth-specific college forum, too!</p>
<p>i would say dartmouth is seen as pre-professional quite a bit. students are very motivated to get the best internship or the best grad school. </p>
<p>i would say its science programs are weaker than the 3 schools you mentioned since dartmouth is just plain smaller and is more liberal arts. columbia, penn, and cornell all have separate engineering schools along with the liberal arts college, whereas dartmouth just has an engineering major.</p>
<p>Dartmoutn econ, in terms of graduate and professional placement, is easily among the top few schools in the country. Dartmouth sciences, similarly place very well into graduate programs. Overall, however, Dartmouth is more pre-professional than some other top schools.</p>
<p>what exactly is a "liberal arts" education? Is it better to have a liberal arts + engineering education than to just have an engineering education?
for top schools, would it be easier to get into a school's graduate program if you're an undergrad there? </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I want to know that too.</p>
<p>Liberal arts essentially means that one completes a certain number of courses in a variety of fields (science, math, literature, anthropology, etc. etc.) After undergoing a liberal arts education, one is meant to be more well-rounded and be able to draw from those numerous fields in addition to one's intended major (in this case engineering.) At other schools, such as UMich, engineering majors are put into a different college in the university and focus very heavily on engineering. One may be less well-rounded, but he will have lots of preparation. </p>
<p>Oh, and graduate schools admit students from not as competitive schools. More important are one's GPA and GRE scores. Simply being an undergrad at that particular school doesn't give somebody a real "boost."</p>
<p>Thanks :) So it's ok to do engineering at dartmouth, as an advantage would be the high focus on undergrads.</p>