<p>So, in the event that I'm accepted i would like to know how the social scene is. Clubs, sports, food, town, all of that good stuff. I've been a varsity athlete for my whole highschool career and would love to continue. However, I would like to experience everything college life has to offer. Would doing club sports take up too much time? too also say join a fraternity study abroad and do well pretty much anything I want? or should I just stick to IM sports? Tell me all about dartmouth social life.</p>
<p>based on what my interviewers told me, social life is completely taken over by frats etc but if you don’t want to join any of them, you can still goto parties etc and from it seemed Dartmouth is not a place where someone could get left alone.</p>
<p>I’m more worried about whether or not there is enough to time to do everything and still get good grades. Sports clubs frats hanging out with friends relaxing all that good stuff.</p>
<p>Yes. But, you’ll have to learn to manage your time. You can play a sport, join a frat/sorority, go on an FSP, carry a regular load of courses, and still have time for other stuff. D does all that, with a job as well. I sometimes think she has one of those mago]ic clocks that Hermione used to be in two places at once.</p>
<p>I live in the middle of nowhere and I just want to get the most experience I can.</p>
<p>hey Starter, I’m currently a student at Dartmouth and from my experiences so far it is very doable to juggle all the different activities you want. That being said, you have to be good at managing your time otherwise you risk being swamped by all the the things there are to do here. Sports are pretty big since about a quarter of the student body is on some varsity sport and everyone usually participates at least on the IM level for PE credit at some point. I know coaches are generally pretty accommodating with studying abroad so it shouldn’t be a problem – heck, I was on crew for a while and there’s even a program for rowers to study abroad in Spain while competing on a Spanish crew team. And as for the 800-pound gorilla in the room, frats are indeed the dominant force in the social scene but from what I’ve seen they are nothing like what the notorious Rolling Stone article portrays them to be. Most frats have an open door policy so anyone can go in regardless of your affiliation/lack thereof and usually there’s at least a few games of pong going on as well as a couple dance parties every weekend. I hope this helps and if you have any other questions feel free to pm me.</p>
<p>@ragekage, I am from Los Angeles just like to know What make you choose Dartmouth over other school ?</p>
<p>@drgreenhead, it essentially came down to how well Dartmouth suited me. In all honesty, I applied to Dartmouth just because there wasn’t really a supplement but after I visited the campus for Dimensions I knew it was the school for me. The people here are amazing but they’re still down to earth and from my experiences so far I’ve seen little of the “Ivy League snobbery” which I’ve seen at some other schools. Also, the campus has a rugged charm which I really enjoyed after living out my entire childhood in Los Angeles. It’s different for every person though, so if you get the opportunity to come out and visit Hanover I would strongly recommend it so you can experience Dartmouth for yourself.</p>
<p>I wasn’t scared of the fraternities. I know that what was portrayed in that article wasn’t really the most honest.</p>
<p>thanks @ragekage, hope to see you in fall 2013 !</p>
<p>@drgreenhead, best of luck and hope to see you here in the fall too.
@Starter, sorry CC won’t let me respond to your message so I hope you don’t mind if I answer here. Yes I was a lightweight rower for a while but I ultimately left to pursue my other interests. I am currently in Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering where we develop projects like hydropower, biofuels, and biogas for our traveling team to implement in Tanzania and Rwanda (we also get to play with plasma torches, which is another plus) as well as a hip-hop dance group. I am not affiliated at the moment but I will most likely be rushing in the fall, so we’ll see how that goes. All in all, Dartmouth is definitely a fun place if you put yourself out there and try everything it has to offer. Granted, it is an Ivy League school so you will have to pull more than a few all-nighters and you’ll learn to love KAF coffee but as corny as it sounds, I wouldn’t trade my experience here for anything.</p>
<p>Thank you ragekage, hope to see you there next year ahah</p>