<p>haha, ouch @ WUStL :P</p>
<p>^ yeah... it seems that overall, schools like WUSTL, Northwestern, and Chicago lose a lot of their students who end up wanting to stay in the northeast.</p>
<p>Amherst
Boston College (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Brandeis
Brown (2)
CalTech
Carleton (2)
(University of) Chicago (9)
Colgate
Columbia (4)
Cornell (8)
Duke (5)
Emory (3)
Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (4)
McGill (4)
Michigan (3)
Middlebury (2)
MIT
Northwestern (8)
Notre Dame
NYU (2)
Pomona (3)
Princeton (2)
Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (5)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (2)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (3)</p>
<p>Amherst, American U, Duke, U at Buffalo, Clarkson, Princeton, Yale, Arizona State, U of Michigan, and Columbia. It was the hardest decision of my life choosing between Columbia and Dartmouth... Columbia had been my dream school for a while, and I wrote a lengthy explanation on my will not attend form. </p>
<p>Amherst (2)
American
Arizona State University
Boston College (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Brandeis
Brown (2)
CalTech
Carleton (2)
(University of) Chicago (9)
Clarkson
Colgate
Columbia (5)
Cornell (8)
Duke (6)
Emory (3)
Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (4)
McGill (4)
Michigan (4)
Middlebury (2)
MIT
Northwestern (8)
Notre Dame
NYU (2)
Pomona (3)
Princeton (3)
Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UBuffalo
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (5)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (2)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (4)</p>
<p>I don't understand why someone would choose Dartmouth over Princeton...Princeton has all the strengths that Dartmouth has. (small teacher-student ratio, undergraduate emphasis etc.) Yet Princeton has much more research opportunities, better recruitment etc.</p>
<p>^ Dartmouth is very relaxed. Perhaps that was the environment they were looking for?</p>
<p>I visited Princeton and didn't even consider applying. It just felt cold, and the students I talked to were not nearly as enthusiastic about their school. I feel that a #1 USN&WR ranking is a negative, because it lends itself to an increase in the douchebaggery of the students. My suspicions were confirmed when a friend (who turned down Princeton for Dartmouth) sent me a link to the Princeton 2012 Facebook group where the biggest announcement on the page said something like "Yup, we're #1 AGAIN!". My other concerns about the school was that many students seemed to take themselves too seriously. I could see how many students would choose Dartmouth over HYP after seeing the Dartmouth Dimensions show (where just the opposite is proved about the students).</p>
<p>Btw, I know of 2 additional students choosing Dartmouth over Princeton who I am confident aren't on CC, and didn't already post on that thread.</p>
<p>Amherst (2)
American
Arizona State University
Boston College (4)
Bowdoin (2)
Brandeis
Brown (2)
CalTech
Carleton (2)
(University of) Chicago (9)
Clarkson
Colgate
Columbia (5)
Cornell (8)
Duke (6)
Emory (3)
Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (5)
McGill (4)
Michigan (4)
Middlebury (2)
MIT
Northwestern (8)
Notre Dame
NYU (3)
Pomona (3)
Princeton (3)
Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UBuffalo
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (6)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (2)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar (1)
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (4)</p>
<p>I already posted on this thread, but somebody forgot to put my other school that I put and I personally didn't include others. </p>
<p>Adding Brandeis, UWashington- Seattle (honors, BTW), and UArizona (honors as well) </p>
<p>Amherst (2)
American
Arizona State University
Boston College (4)
Bowdoin (2)
Brandeis (2)
Brown (2)
CalTech
Carleton (2)
(University of) Chicago (9)
Clarkson
Colgate
Columbia (5)
Cornell (8)
Duke (6)
Emory (3)
Harvard (3)
Georgetown (4)
Johns Hopkins (5)
McGill (4)
Michigan (4)
Middlebury (2)
MIT
Northwestern (8)
Notre Dame
NYU (3)
Pomona (3)
Princeton (3)
Rice (3)
Stanford (2)
Swarthmore (3)
Tulane
UArizona
UBuffalo
UCBerkeley (4)
UCLA (2)
UCSD
UPenn (3)
UPenn, Wharton (4)
URochester (6)
UVA (5)
UWash-Seattle (3)
UWisc-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar (1)
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William&Mary
Williams (6)
WUStL (10)
Yale (4)</p>
<p>Amongst us, these are the schools we most frequently passed on: </p>
<p>WUStL (11)
Chicago (9)
Northwestern (8)
Cornell (8)
UPenn (7)
Duke (6)
Rochester (6)
Williams (6)
Columbia (5)
Johns Hopkins (5)</p>
<p>There are no real suprises here. I would have expected to have seen Brown on the list, despite the fact that Brown is winning out a bit in head to head competition with D. </p>
<p>I would also love to know what schools we would have chosen over Dartmouth from those we applied to had we gotten accepted to them. My guess is that there are only a handful and they include:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Brown (slightly)
Penn (occasionally)
Columbia (occasionally)
Duke (occasionally)</p>
<p>I am aware of the College Preference study, but I am curious as to our class.</p>
<p>Where did you NOT get in to that you would have gone to over Dartmouth?</p>
<p>In response to post #72</p>
<p>UPenn-Wharton (Early'd to Huntsman; deferred, rejected)
Harvard
Yale</p>
<p>Also in response to post #72</p>
<p>Cornell (ew.)
Tufts
Though if I had been accepted and got some good financial aid from Yale, I probably would have gone there over D.</p>
<p>rather than Dartmouth:</p>
<p>Alpha order</p>
<p>Cornell
Harvard
Penn - Wharton
Tufts
Yale (2)</p>
<p>Princeton. That's it. And it would be a maybe.</p>
<p>I would have gone to ---- if I had gotten in rather than Dartmouth:</p>
<p>Alpha order</p>
<p>Cornell
Harvard
Penn - Wharton
Princeton
Tufts
Yale (2)</p>
<p>Atrophic Whisper... you got into Dartmouth but not Cornell or Tufts?</p>
<p>Dartmouth was my first choice. I would only consider HYP if they somehow could give Merit Aid.</p>
<p>Nowhere, that's why I applied ED. I understood the original part of the thread (A little show-offy, but interesting to read), but why bother with this new deal? Rarely does a Dartmouth student end up regretting his/her decision, and if cc can be used to show off Dartmouth's greatness, then why do we need this public shame?<br>
Also, Tufts would probably be excited to see someone from Dartmouth want to transfer there.</p>
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<p>Yeah. When I realized it, I thought, "Wait. I got into an Ivy League school, but not the WANNABE IVY?" </p>
<p>It just kind of proves how fit is a factor for college admissions. I think Cornell pretty much knew I didn't like the school after a while......</p>
<p>^ BalletGirl, eliminate my Cornell and Tufts. I would have chosen D over those two (I was replying to your very last question.) Keep Yale though.</p>
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<p>This is retarded. Maybe that is the reason you got rejected from Cornell, not researching and knowing enough about the school as to assert that it is not a member of Ivy league. i don't think there is much difference at all between dartmouth and cornell in rankings, academic programs, caliber of student body, and even acceptance rate by which I presumably assume that you are making this statement out of. Dartmouth's CAS acceptance rate is around 15%. Cornell's CAS is around 18%. Comparing apples to apples, not comparing Dartmouth's CAS/engineering to Cornell's hotel, architecture schools, there isn't much difference. Even if we were talking about overall acceptance rate differences however misleading that may be, we are talking about 5-6%, is this that significant? Also, Dmouth is ranked 11 and cornell is ranked 12 according to u.s. news. (although i don't like rankings, you guys seem very keen about it) I would have given you or others like slipper the benefit of doubt if you were comparing HYP to Cornell and noting a rather noticeable academic difference between the two. Sorry, I don't buy that Dartmouth is superior to cornell.</p>
<p>Also, you should know better about Cornell b4 making a statement like that. Cornell is not elitist like other ivies. It is eglitarian. It isn't worried about shrinking its acceptance rates and boosting its perception among misinformed high school applicants. What other school amongst ivies educates future lawyers, scientists, doctors, engineers, architects, farmers, human resource managers, and even hotel managers?</p>