<p>Anyways back to the original question, Dartmouth and Penn are tied for my top choice. No likely letter here but hopefully I'll get into at least one.</p>
<p>I'd like to receive one, too. But I think that Dartmouth is the only school that I applied to that sends them out.</p>
<p>Best I drop this....Yes, too young...</p>
<p>lol calidan...maybe this is a good time to inform you that i'm pregnant with your son. we'll name him Dartmouth!</p>
<p>does anyone else kind of feel sorry for mensa? i mean, i hang around these boards because i find out new things about schools I applied to, the admissions process, and cool new people to bounce my craziness off of. mensa is an underclassman with nothing better to do than flaunt his lack of intellect on a college forum. we should try to be nice to him lol</p>
<p>Mensa,</p>
<p>I think everyones being a little rough on you. If I recall correctly from other posts you're a junior in highschool. All teasing aside, you have--mostly on other forums--made some pretty intelligent points. Give it a year, loose the silly sn and come back. Honestly, they name just provokes insults.</p>
<p>good luck</p>
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<p>Yes, clearly the fact that I attend Dartmouth and that I have "no inkling of the truth" implies that I am married to a cow, a cunning quip by an equally cunning linguist. Mensa, you have the social skills of a rabid racoon. Have fun getting frat doors slammed in your face starting in two years.</p>
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More love, brother...</p>
<p>lol well social skills of a rabid raccoon actually follows. you need more of a non sequitur...like, "mensa, because of the types of replies you are making, i've reached the necessary conclusion that you're a fire truck"</p>
<p>Truce. I like to poke fun at Dartmouth, but I admit I know almost nothing about it, other than that it is a prestigious Ivy. If I end up there, I can promise you I will not go by Mensa160.</p>
<p>Way to go Mensa. That was classy.:)</p>
<p>haha yes, well done</p>
<p>Well, we figured you didn't know anything about Dartmouth because of the cow comments. There are no cows in Hanover. They're all in Vermont getting milked for fresh Ben and Jerry's ice cream. : )</p>
<p>maybe i'm making this up, but i remember reading something about how Dartmouth used to have a huuuuge cow problem, and eventually had to build a fence to keep the town's cows out? and it was a huge source of town-gown tension?</p>
<p>Yes--I think that may have been true in the 1800s. Later on the fence became the senior fence and only seniors were allowed to sit on it, and part of the fence is still there, but now we have benches, lol.</p>
<p>Somebody here wanna explain that Dartmouth is NOT in the middle of nowhere? Hanover itself is an upper middle class ex-burb community of highly educated professionals. Hanover High is a very respected high school throughout New England. Across the river is Norwich, more of the same: "gentlemens' "country" " Many of the surrounding towns are admittedly more demographically/socioeconomically true-backwoods (e.g., Thetford, Etna) but Hanover is a well-known country-chic exburb of Boston. No one in Hanover marries cows. As for "nothing to do" (!), you're in the middle of the northeast's best skiing, for heaven sake! Admittedly, you need a car---or a friend with one---but Killington, Stowe, Mad River, Stratton are all at your fingertips, esp. with a student pass---the deal of a lifetime. (Don't go to D and think the Dartmouth Skiway is your entire skiing experience---get out there ---you'll never ski New England for this near-free price again in your lives!) New England is very cool, if you bother to lose the stereotype and get out there. It is a mystery how anyone can go to D from elsewhere in the country and not enjoy all New England has to offer. Within 2 hours you've got cities, mountains, lakes and oceans. I remember reading some post by kids who "walked across the river to Norwich" and "visited the general store" as if it were a field trip. Lose the sterotype, folks. Look at the average education level of Hanover and Norwich. It ain't just trees and cows. I guess I ought to start a Dartmouth promotional campaign, huh?</p>
<p>hee. <3 Dartmouth. and Killington</p>
<p>Knowing D from my Dad's experience at Tuck, I have to tell you I don't see how anyone could stand it if they do not like the outdoors. Convesely, anyone mildly interested in skiing/boarding/hiking/rowing,etc. would love it. D is not for everybody; the winters are long and intolerable if you do not like winter!!!</p>
<p>I think it starts out with half the class loving the outdoors and half the class not realizing what a big part of life the outdoors is.... by graduation everyone has at least come to appreciate it.</p>
<p>Great post Raspberry.</p>
<p>I think it is also knowing you can learn something from the "Great-outdoors" (nature) and not just the classroom.</p>
<p>Remember, Thoreau felt that all colleges should be so lucky as to be surrounded by (at the foot of) mountains (he was talking about Williams, but lets not put a microscope on it).</p>
<p>Lets hear it for Dartmouth and the great-outdoors!</p>