<p>What are some safety schools that Dartmouth applicants apply to? what safety schools are similar to dartmouth (in terms of size, location, campus, any other factors that make great)</p>
<p>any other factors that make Dartmouth great**</p>
<p>colgate is the first that comes to mind. there are also a lot of cross-applicants with some of the 'lower' nescac schools as well, such as bates, colby, connecticut college and hamilton.</p>
<p>that's a good list right there, I know that colgate was the first one in my mind when I saw this topic.</p>
<p>Its a hard call, there are very few campus based schools that are as worldly as Dartmouth. Middlebury might be a Dartmouth match.</p>
<p>slipper where is your D vs Columbia post? :p</p>
<p>Colby as a safety school?</p>
<p>Colby would be a match, if you ask me.</p>
<p>middlebury and bowdoin are similar and somewhat less selective, but nobody's safeties</p>
<p>Some schools that should be applied to are fairly lateral, like Williams. There are Williams students rejected at Dartmouth and Dartmouth students rejected at Williams. S was accepted at Williams and Brown, but rejected at Dartmouth. (He really wanted Williams, so it worked out okay.) It really depends on what you like about Dartmouth. No other school is going to put you in Hanover for the summer, which is the glory of Dartmouth, but Williamstown in summer with theater festival is pretty cool.</p>
<p>For some reason, Dartmouth and Columbia do get a lot of cross applicants, even though they are very different.</p>
<p>All suggestions already are good. Cornell is pretty wordly and in a gorgeous setting. Not much of a safety but it is a bit less selective.</p>
<p>Duke is a safety for a lot of Dartmouth applicants..Very different campus though and Durham...yucks !!</p>
<p>being from florida the top southern private schools are
duke, emory and maybe vanderbilt</p>
<p>emory is in a great part of altanta
atlanta big college town
draws alot of northerners (long islanders)
known for high placement to grad schools
ranked high in usnews, 17th i believe
and has money to give (coca cola) for bright students</p>
<p>my son 08 had dart ed
with cornell, emory. duke applications
ready to go if ed was not to be</p>
<p>duke and emory are safeties to no one, maybe a high match</p>
<p>Amen to that! A safety, according to me, is a school which you perfectly fit, for which your scores are in the high range, and which you LIKE. (last one is what's almost always missing)</p>
<p>Our experience (and that of many we know) is that with the exception of schools with admit rates of above 60% there really are no safeties. However, we found that "good fit" schools were much easier to be accepted to. Apparently the adcoms are not clueless. Both kids got into schools that are more selective and highly ranked and rejected at schools that are less so. Don't just look at numbers and assume you know what an adcome is going to do.</p>
<p>Mine were UChicago and NYU, but many would disagree.</p>
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<p>WHAT? :eek:</p>
<p>Their acceptance rate is like 30% and I kind of knew that I had a lot of things they were looking for. If you like UChicago and you've got the stats and stuff, chances are you'll get in.</p>
<p>But hey, that's just me...</p>
<p>Bucknell. I think someone looking at Dartmouth might also look at Bucknell.</p>
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I kind of knew that I had a lot of things they were looking for.
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<p>This is a joke right?</p>
<p>Yan, at least next time, make a subtle username if you're going to post on a forum. It could help to shield you on campus from the unhealthy doses of 100% USDA approved, vinegar-starched douchebaggery you have displayed.</p>
<p>My D's "safety" was Rhodes College in Memphis. She also applied to and was admitted to big State U, and a small in-state LAC that had rolling admissions and was a safety for her. However, had she not been admitted to any of her more selective schools, she would have probably gone to Rhodes.
She was also interested in Davidson, Amherst, Swarthmore and Carleton Colleges.
For students interested in larger schools - Univ of Chicago is not that far off, also Bucknell, Duke, Furman, Univ of Richmond and Sewanee are schools not yet mentioned that share some characteristics of Dartmouth. Obviously some are safeties and some aren't, and some are closer to Dart than others.</p>
<p>Davidson has been called "the Dartmouth of the South", although I think Duke is actually more like Dart, and Davidson is more like Williams, but that's just me.</p>