<p>Is this a joke? Of course Dartmouth has prestige. I saw a chart the other day listing the top placement for jobs in investment banking and hedge funds. Dartmouth was tied with Harvard and Wharton for the top spots, FOLLOWED by Yale, Princeton, Columbia etc.
And if someone can't tell you that Dartmouth is an Ivy league school/has never heard of it, don't sweat it, they definitely don't matter for your career.</p>
<p>I totally agree. It's just that it's a little disconcerting to be ecstatic about getting into/ going to a school that people have hardly heard of. No complaints, though.</p>
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<p>wow...did you really just say that</p>
<p>...Kristina...I've read other posts by you and you seem like a lovely girl...but that's an awful way of judging a school. To be quite honest, there are thousands of other students who would have been absolutely honored to have received a likely letter from Dartmouth. What is "disconcerting" is that such a statement actually came from you.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be too harsh on Katrina, people do have a need for recognition of their accomplishments and its not aweful for someone to want to go to a school people have heard of. The reality is that Dartmouth is very well known among the highly educated public that are going to be impacting your life. I've never not had someone recognize it in a place that mattered, and far more often than not you'll get a pat on the back for Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Maybe trying to talk to girls in cancun I got a few blank states, but where I went to college wasn't really going to help my game in that situation anyway.</p>
<p>Oh wow, that came out really wrong! I didn't mean it was weird to be happy about a place people hadn't heard of; I meant it was weird that people hadn't heard of a place I was so happy about! Sorry for the misunderstanding.</p>
<p>going undergrad to a place that is generally less-known (for me this includes middlebury and pomona especially), doesnt really matter especially if you plan on going to grad school. all of the grad school admissions people know that schools like dartmouth, middlebury, pomona, amherst etc are incredible schools despite the fact that they dont carry the same amount of name brand prestige that HYPS etc. do.</p>