<p>slipper,
I'm a little surprised by your numbers for Vanderbilt's minority enrollment (22%). What ethnic groups are you counting as minorities? For a school that has an enrollment 50% larger than Dartmouth (6400 vs 4110), that means that they actually have more minority students walking their campus. Frankly, that surprises me. If accurate, that school has really changed from its history which was similar to Davidson and W&L in terms of the types of students that it attracted. Still, while it might be in the same academic realm as Dartmouth, it is on the outskirts of a major city and plays big-time sports. I would say that in terms of the campus and the rural nature of the school, Davidson and, to a lesser extent W&L, are more similar to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>unregistered, I got the 29% Amherst number from Princeton Review. The number they have for Vanderbilt is 19%.</p>
<p>Yeah I made the mistake unregistered did. Overall Vandy is 19%.</p>
<p>I wonder how much these numbers will shift four years from now. Do most schools have such a disparity between minority enrollment for the class of 2010 vs. the entire school?</p>
<p>I have noticed that Ledzep has made several disparaging comments about Dartmouth and I'd like to point out that I HIGHLY DOUBT that he is even a Dartmouth student.</p>
<p>Ledzep mentions that Anthropology 427 only has 6 students -- ANY Darmouth student knows that the highest course number in any department is only in the 80s. </p>
<p>Even though Dartmouth has its flaws, it is a wonderful school and its undergrad focus has in no way decreased over the years.</p>
<p>While I think Princeton and Dartmouth are the best overall undergrad experiences in the country, I don't know if I would go so far to say that undergrad focus has not decreased at Dartmouth. A lot of the concerns I see in the alumni newsletters I get revolve around large class sizes and difficulty of getting classes in comparison to other schools as well as concerns about strengthening research efforts, especially as Dartmouth lags substantially in many international rankings publications (which I think are meaningless, not that USNWR is much better) because of this, but nevertheless, some people care about and make decisions based on them.</p>