<p>Why do I keep seeing so many people put Dartmouth beneath UPenn, Duke, and Brown.</p>
<p>I thought it was superior to those.</p>
<p>What the heck do “beneath” and “superior” mean?!! How silly.</p>
<p>“Why do I keep seeing so many people put Costa Rica beneath Slovenia, Botswana and Uruguay? I thought it was superior to those.”</p>
<p>Makes about as much sense.</p>
<p>oopz</p>
<p>10charrr</p>
<p>It’s probably because of the recent spate of bad publicity. Dartmouth is not inferior (or superior) to any of those schools. They are all fantastic.</p>
<p>Probably because Dartmouth is sinking relative to all the other Ivy league schools. </p>
<p>[7</a> of 8 Ivy League Schools Report Lower Acceptance Rates - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/ivy-league-college-admission-rates-2013/]7”>7 of 8 Ivy League Schools Report Lower Acceptance Rates - The New York Times)</p>
<p>They are all great schools. I was, though, surprised when reading the 2012 Forbes list of top 100 liberal arts schools to see that Dartmouth ranked at 34 while Williams was at 2 under Princeton but over Harvard which was at 6. If you were just going to apply to colleges based on them being in the top 10 or 15 that would definitely be a very interesting and wide swath of geography and types of schools.</p>
<p>[America’s</a> Top Colleges](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/]America’s”>Forbes America’s Top Colleges List 2022)</p>
<p>They are all great schools. There is no reason for you or anyone else to feel superior or inferior to each other. Clearly, even you think that you are superior so that is being disrespectful to the other kids huh?</p>
<p>I don’t go to Dartmouth dude.</p>
<p>“Why do I keep seeing so many people put Dartmouth beneath UPenn, Duke, and Brown.”</p>
<p>The same reason you see Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Anniston on the tabloids whenever you check out at the grocery store – b/c non-informed busy bodies like to spout off and sound important.</p>
<p>No one who is actually connected with those schools (alumni, students, faculty, hiring managers, grad school admissions officers) listens to that dribble. My question for you is: Why are you listening to it?</p>
<p>Well, I’m not actually connected with any of these schools. So, yeah.</p>
<p>“Dribble” or “drivel”?</p>
<p>Ahhh! Thnx DA: had a senior moment there!</p>
<p>you probably see that because in many ways dartmouth is “inferior” to those schools. First, no ivy league school is truly inferior. But the reason ppl say this is because A) us news ranks penn and duke above dartmouth. As for brown, brown does have a lower admit rate than dartmouth which is the only ivy that actually became less selective. B) dartmouth is in the middle of nowhere and easy to take a jab at. C) Penn and duke, not so much brown, have amazing professional and grad schools which bolster its image. Penn has #4 best med school, penn law is #7, and wharton is consistently ranked #1-#3. Duke likewise has strong post undergrad programs such as their top five med school. Dartmouth on the other hand has no strong professional schools to draw prestige.</p>
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<p>What, no love for Tuck? :D</p>