<p>To those who doubt,</p>
<p>Of all states California is, I believe, second in sending students to Dartmouth...I guess they've heard of it, somehow.</p>
<p>Surely you can do a better statistical analysis than that. California has the largest population of any state in the US by far. They're probably the #1 or #2 state at almost every Ivy League school.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply I was giving a statistical analysis; just a simple fact, If Californians haven't heard of Dartmouth, how did all these california students end up at dartmouth. </p>
<p>You didn't claim that californians have not heard of all the ivy league schools, you wrote,
Dartmouth/Upenn/Brown simply do not carry the same name recognition on the West Coast and internationally that the other Ivy League schools do.</p>
<p>I took that to mean they you were certain that all/most Californians have heard of the other Ivies you didnt list--undoubtedly, based on your statistical analysis. Moreover, you may be right, California may represent a large part of their student bodies as well, but according to your post the other Ivies have a reputation in california whereas dartmouth does not. Then, how is it that so many californians end up at dartmouth, being that californians are so unacquainted with Dartmouth. It's very curious indeed.</p>
<p>Who cares? If you're on the East Coast, people know Dartmouth, no worries.</p>
<p>If you're somewhere else, sure it might take you a while to break into things but the elite businesses/firms/hospitals recognize Dartmouth and over time, hopefully you'll prove that a Dartmouth education makes for a hardworking, intelligent employee. Is the wow-factor really that big of a deal to all of us?</p>
<p>Interesting, a few Cornell people from California coming to the dartmouth forum to answer a question about dartmouthand with a rather negative take on the OP as it pertains to dartmouth. Coincidence? hhhmmmm, of course not!
Raspberry, as you said in an earlier post in this thread, it is nice to have some recognition for having been accepted by such an awesome school as dartmouth. And, as a few people on this thread who are from California have said (although, sadly, none of them seem to be from Cornell, as it turns out) dartmouth has a rep in California. Is it as well known as Stanford in Palo Alto: No. Is it known by the people who matter, grad schools and employers? Of course, if they havent heard of dartmouth they cannot be a very established corporation or accredited grad school.</p>
<p>For my money Slipper, a dartmouth alum, made a valid and educated point. He was rudely challenged. Fountain anecdotally confirms the point (dartmouth does have wow factor to people who will matter on the west coast). Likewise, Sybbie has pointed out, Dartmouth draws a very large # of great applicants from California. Fountain drew this fact to its logical conclusion; if Dartmouth is so anonymous on the west coast, how come it keeps drawing so many students from a place where it is supposed to be unknown? Simple, it is known. Nothing more need be said to the slanted spooks who materialize on this forum to blab on otherwise.</p>