<p>i read somehwere that dartmouth accepted 26% of EDers and deferred 9% everyone else got a flat out no. i also got deferred and i'm not sure where i should go now or what my chances of getting into other competitve schools would be.</p>
<p>I would have thought so, hmom, but perhaps football is a special situation! :)</p>
<p>It seems that they did a lot more rejecting this year. Assuming they hold the # of deferred---> acceptances constant, the % who get in <em>could</em> increase...</p>
<p>any news on RD apps? midd's already reporting they are down some</p>
<p>Was midd up ED?</p>
<p>yep, like everywhere it seems! sounds like a trend of up ED and down RD...seems weird to me but hey. any knowledge on how that applies to dartmouth?</p>
<p>Wow, only 9% deferred? I thought it was more like 30, I feel way less dumb now.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I was surprised too... they really changed their %ages this year.</p>
<p>Last year, they accepted 28%, deferred 37%, and rejected 33%. (2% were incomplete)</p>
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<p>Big Green = Dartmouth</p>
<p>Buddy = Football Coach Buddy Teevens</p>
<p>interesting change in percentages? they rejected a ton more this year! do we think they'll keep that 10% acceptance of deferred applicants steady? or will it go up due to the decrease in number of kids deferred?</p>
<p>and yeah, same here, i thought around 30% too! made me feel a lot better :)</p>
<p>Nah, it's definitely more like 25% deferred....</p>
<p>I'm a deferred second-gen legacy =/ I have stats easily in Dartmouth's range but my grandpa doesn't want anything to do with Dartmouth anymore, even though he had donated every year since graduation. I'm trying to talk him into pushing it, and he said he definitely doesn't want to donate anymore... I'm not sure how much influence he would have though...I don't know! We'll see in April.</p>
<p>I think the new Dir of Admissions is taking the Stanford approach--cut most loose rather than deferring them. There are still many they will defer--legacies, kids from schools they have deep relationships with, kids from schools they want more applications from, those important alum wrote letters for and other friends of the school, but it seems clear Ms. Laskaris has a different approach.</p>
<p>Sherlock, your deferral, in my mind, was the most surprising. Have you at least had your counselor call for an idea of what happened? Are you talking big donations? Did you clearly flag the relationship?</p>
<p>"I'm a deferred second-gen legacy"</p>
<p>Sherlock,</p>
<p>Unfortunately, in the eyes of Dartmouth you are not a legacy--a grandparent doesn't count. My son, who would have been a third generation legacy had he been accepted, was also deferred. His stats were very similar to yours. My husband has also donated every year since graduation but plans to cut back and only give a token amount yearly.</p>
<p>i thought the % deferred was much greater as well...although i'm still upset over deferral that definitely makes me feel a LOT better!</p>
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<p>Are you sure about that? I'm pretty they do have a space to write if your grandparents went to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Dartmouth College only considers parents who graduated with a BA from the College as undergrads as legacies. If both of your parents attended dartmouth is no extra benefit for "double-legacies."</p>
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<p>In Hanover, a legacy is considered “a son or daughter of anyone with a B.A. from Dartmouth College,” said Furstenberg. No other relation to Dartmouth makes a student eligible for legacy. Likewise, there is not an extra benefit to having had both parents graduate from Dartmouth — sometimes called a double-legacy — or being a multi-generational legacy.</p>
<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | For legacies, age-old perks in admissions are still in swing</p>
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<p>But both a parent AND a grandparent count, big time.</p>
<p>Cross-posted with Sybbie, who -- as usual -- has done her research. I retract my comment.</p>
<p>Interesting... thanks Sybbie.</p>
<p>Well that makes more sense. Hard to believe they would be rejecting legacies with strong grades and 2250s. OK Sherlock, your best bet now is development, tell your grandfather the best inheritance he can give you is a large donation to Dartmouth right now;)</p>