<p>I'm interested in pursuing International Relations, and am looking at a few top IR schools (UChicago, and Tufts is my first choice). I really like Tufts' interdisciplinary and realist atmosphere.</p>
<p>I'm a full-IB diploma candidate in a selective-admission public magnet. I play football, but not to a level where I think i can be recruited to Div I.</p>
<p>3.5 UW, 4.2 W
2200 SAT (710 CR, 700 M, 790 W)
retook yesterday, expecting much better.
770 USH, 770 Math II, 730 Lit</p>
<p>I have visited Dartmouth and liked it a bit, but I have many less reachy schools higher on my list.
Dartmouth has a very good IR programme under its PoliSci dept.</p>
<p>I now ask perhaps the daftest question ever to scourge this board.</p>
<p>My mom thinks I should apply because I have a shot at admission and liked the place...
but </p>
<p>Why should I apply to Dartmouth?</p>
<p>especially given that I would take other schools over it in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>if we have to convince you, then don’t apply, we don’t need you.</p>
<p>you sound very cocky and arrogant…</p>
<p>i need a reason other than that it’s an ivy.</p>
<p>if that’s arrogant…</p>
<p>would you be an asset to the football team? I suppose that would be a reason to apply-but if you didn’t fall in love with the beautiful campus, the opportunities for a fine education in small classes with professors teaching, and opportunities to study abroad-then don’t bother.</p>
<p>YOU are asking US to give YOU reasons why YOU should apply to Dartmouth? That makes no sense.</p>
<p>CollegeConfidential =/= You</p>
<p>Don’t apply just because it’s an Ivy League school. If there are places higher on your list that are easier to get into (Tufts, for one) AND you like them more, then why the hell would you apply to Dartmouth in the first place?</p>
<p>Give those who love the place a lot (moi) a better chance of acceptance next year by not applying. kthnx.</p>
<p>well, i was more kinda asking what dartmouth has to offer (esp. in terms of IR/PS) that I wouldn’t be able to find at other places.</p>
<p>i frankly am not inclined to apply. but im trying to figure out if there’s something that I would really really really be missing by not trying (if not succeeding) to put dartmouth on my list of choices next spring. there are other reach-y places I’m applying to that are not at the top of my list (georgetown), but I;m applying because I think that if I’m fortunate enough to be accepted, it is a good thing to have on my list of options. having too many options for college is not exactly an undesirable dilemma. </p>
<p>“but if you didn’t fall in love with the beautiful campus, the opportunities for a fine education in small classes with professors teaching, and opportunities to study abroad”</p>
<p>yeah, that’s the stuff im talking about that im trying to find out. those are reasons that dartmouth is a very good place to go other than the reason that it’s an Ivy, which is, I gather, the reason that at least half the applicants apply (Government, I gather that you are not among that group).</p>
<p>Go ahead. If the application fee doesn’t bother you, and you like it at all, why the heck not add an extra possible option? You don’t even need to have a reason until you’re actually accepted and you have to make a decision, since they don’t even ask why Dartmouth on the app. The application is ridiculously easy anyway, not having any supplements except the optional peer rec.</p>
<p>well, dartmouth is the only Ivy I’m considering…</p>
<p>Just work on your GPA and SAT scores and you may have a decent chqance. Right now, don’t think so.</p>
<p>Foreign Policy has a ranking of IR programs every year. Dartmouth has been in the top 10 at the undergraduate level every year since its inception a few years ago, and is the highest-ranking school that does not have graduate students in the field.</p>
<p>[Foreign</a> Policy: Inside the Ivory Tower](<a href=“http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4685&page=1]Foreign”>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4685&page=1)</p>