<p>Of course Dartmouth is less prestigious..but if you take it in context..a less prestigious ivy is still frikin prestigious. Thus, at this level it does not really matter :)</p>
<p>i dunno, i wouldn't quite say Brown carries the same weight as Harvard even though they're both in the Ivy League. My name's not Billy btw, and, yeah, I was trying to make a little joke there. Trying to see how this Dartmouth board might react. Jeez, FountainSiren's mean. What if i really was a little slow in the head? I'd be hurt. </p>
<p>And how'd you know i was 17. Cause I'm in college and 18 now, but that's pretty close. Is that info available to the public or something?</p>
<p>Oh, and my name's not Billy (in case anyone's wondering)</p>
<p>lol, that was pretty funny, :P I like Dartmouth, but I would take Harvard over Dartmouth hands down.</p>
<p>iono. i might take princeton or yale (to a lesser degree) over dartmouth. but i wouldn't take harvard over D in a million years.</p>
<p>neither would I</p>
<p>i wouldnt choose H over D.
Maybeeee Princeton over Dartmouth.
Maybeee Yale over Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I'd have to visit the campuses i suppose</p>
<p>i think that would be a beautiful mistake</p>
<p>overseas, harvard is the symbol of higher level of education.
so if you're thinking about international arena, go with harvard. but dartmouth can't be wrong.</p>
<p>at the same time, if you're thinking about the international arena, you're 80% going to grad school....</p>
<p>Unfortunately the Harvard name tends to carry more weight on the most superficial level. If where you went was all someone knew about you, Harvard will get you farther. But, if someone is actually going to be looking at what you did with your time there, either will get you the same distance. And for undergraduate education, there really is no better place than D, it's the Ivy whose emphasis is completely on its undergrads, while the others cater much more towards their graduate schools and students. Save your time at the Institution for grad school and have an incredible first four years on the Connecticut (River) - it's an absolutely amazing place.</p>
<p>It's not just on a superficial level; it's also on a practical level. If you plan on staying in NH or Boston, Harvard isn't going to give you that much more leverage than Dartmouth but everywhere else (esp. overseas) it is. Dartmouth does not carry the same prestige as Harvard, and sadly enough that can make or break you in impressing your interviewer enough to get hired. I'd say, many people that aren't from the northeast know of Dartmouth as some generic fancy northeast school & that's it.</p>
<p>dcd--i'd be surprised if people outside northeast only knew of dartmouth as "oh that school where michael corleone went to"</p>
<p>Harvard is the best school in the WORLD...hmmm isn't that something to consider</p>
<p>best on what standards?</p>
<p>on the standard of beer chugging and pong table flipping, i think dartmouth is absolutely peerless</p>
<p>on the standard of being able to meet the "most 'diverse' group of people, ever", i think purdue is peerless</p>
<p>harvard's a great place with peerless reputation to a random guy on the streets. </p>
<p>to blindly say "is the best school in the WORLD" is very harvard homer-ish (surprisingly few), or a 16 year old with decent GPA and PSAT score with delusions of acceptance into harvard-ish</p>
<p>and as for harvard homerism--the folks i know that are affiliated with harvard (go, went, taught, are teaching, etc) are doubtlessly mostly full of themselves. but they're usually full of themselves because they are the biggest pimps in the world and know it, not because the harvard label validates their pimpness.</p>