<p>I really love Dartmouth, but if I don't get in, then I'd like to go to a school similar to it. Can you guys recommend similar schools?</p>
<p>brown
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<p>Williams, Middlebury, Colgate, Bowdoin, Bucknell, Washington & Lee, Colby, Hamilton, Lafayette, Union.</p>
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<p>Many Dartmouth applicants also apply to northeastern liberal arts colleges like Colgate, Middlebury, Williams, and Colby. All of these schools are relatively small, are located in small towns in isolated corners of New England or upstate New York, and tend to appeal to outdoorsy, athletic students. </p>
<p>However, these schools differ from Dartmouth in other respects. For example, none of them have significant graduate or professional programs, and none (except Colgate) have Division I athletics. So it might be helpful if you were more specific about the exact "similarities" you are looking for.</p>
<p>Second Corbett... what is it that you like about Dartmouth and what is it that attracts you to the school?</p>
<p>What is it specifically that interests you so much about Dartmo?</p>
<p>Generally, I agree with everyone else: Brown and the large, selective Northeastern LACs.</p>
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<p>Brown, Princeton, and LACs like Middlebury.</p>
<p>If you're questioning getting into Dartmouth, Brown and especially Princeton are pretty unlikely.</p>
<p>Wake Forest is a very good match for Dartmouth on many counts - both academically and socially - at a lower selectivity level. It would be a great back-up for Dartmouth if you can handle the northern vs. southern tradeoff.</p>
<p>williams is close</p>
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Wake Forest is a very good match for Dartmouth on many counts - both academically and socially - at a lower selectivity level. It would be a great back-up for Dartmouth if you can handle the northern vs. southern tradeoff.
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Except Wake Forest is in North Carolina, which is on the other end of the geographic spectrum from Hanover, NH.</p>
<p>Colgate, Lafayette and Bucknell have Division I athletics--members of the Patriot League. Great athletic competition by top academic schools</p>
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<p>How about a Dartmouth with less of a frat focus(yes I am threadjacking, but only a little)?</p>
<p>I really like the outdoorsy, athletic, somewhat LAC, etc. thing. I know that Williams and Middlebury are the obvious ones, and if I wasn't anti-Frat Colgate. But otherwise? And how frat based is Colgate really?</p>
<p>Sorry if I'm redirecting this too much.</p>
<p>well the movie animal house was based off of dartmouth :)</p>
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<p>I don't think Wake is that similar. Its similar in terms of a smaller grad population and undergrad focus, but its much less diverse than Dartmouth and more conservative. Also Dartmouth is more socially active, and there are many more age old traditions.</p>
<p>I am a Dartmouth alum and I've always liked Brown, Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Penn, Northwestern, Emory, Georgetown, Amherst, Williams, and Middlebury (not thinking about selectivity.)</p>
<p>I'm not questioning getting into Dartmouth. I just want backup choices that offer just as much Dartmouth does. I like their academic focus and their curriculum. Best of all, majority of the classes are very small. I like the location, and I like the feel of the place. Judging by talks with other people who know about Dartmouth, it seems that I should be able to find my group easily. The place just seems to click, and the Ivy membership isn't a bad thing either.</p>
<p>Dartmouth's biggest non-Ivy competitor in sports is Holy Cross-over 100 year old rivalry. Dartmouth and HC play each other in most sports and both schools have very strong alumni networks with alumni giving rates of 50%. Colgate's Ivy rival is nearby Cornell while Bucknell and Lafayette have no long time Ivy rivals. Each year HC plays 3-4 Ivies in football with the oldest series with Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale-quite impressive for a Jesuit school.</p>
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I just want backup choices that offer just as much Dartmouth does. I like their academic focus and their curriculum. Best of all, majority of the classes are very small.
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If I were you I would think before making these assumptions. Although Dartmouth traditionally has these, it is getting to be less and less true; the focus is increasingly switching to the graduate schools, and even though I'm sure Anthropology 427 has 6 students, all the main classes (core and most popular majors, esp econ & poli sci) are in lecture hall type settings.</p>
<p>Of course it is still a great school, but if what undergraduate focus and small classes is really important to you I would look very closely at LACs, because Dartmouth is NOT what it was.</p>
<p>Holy Cross really doesn't play the Ivys in football any more than Colgate or Bucknell if you look back at the last 20 years and think that the latter two are more similar to Dartmouth in terms of student selectivity, campus environment, social scene, but would agree that many use Holy Cross as a backup for Dartmouth, although think Colgate and Bucknell are a closer fit. </p>
<p>I think Colgate has gone from having a little more of a frat influence in the '90's than Dartmouth (65% in Greek system) to somewhat less influence than Dartmouth Greek system (down to 44%) this decade. A car accident at Colgate that killed four students in 2000 was one primary cause for this as was the institution of sophomore rush starting with the class of '98. However, Dartmouth switched to sophomore rush starting with the class of '92, so this shouldn't be a differentiating factor. Also, from what I've seen having been at both, even though Hamilton, NY is much smaller than Hanover, NH, the downtown scene just seems to attract more students at Colgate than it does at Dartmouth for whatever reason.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what Ledzip is talking about...Dartmouth has a 8-1 student/ faculty ratio, a number that has IMPROVED over the last 5 years. Most of these faculty are exclusively focused on teaching undergrads. Dartmouth spends CONSIDERABLY more on advising and undergrad related activities (career services, etc) than any other Ivy. Its a LAC in its undergrad focus. </p>
<p>Ledzip has no idea what he/ she is talking about. Dartmouth has only increased its undergrad focus if anything.</p>
<p>I don;t see how bucknell and Holy Cross are anything like Dartmouth. Most Dartmouth students I know applied to schools in two camps:</p>
<p>1) The NE "LAC" kids who also liked Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, and maybe a couple others like Colgate and Wellesley</p>
<p>2) The "fun, smart school" kids who also liked Brown, Duke, Stanford, Penn, Northwestern, and Emory.</p>