<p>..and surprisingly it seemed kind of low on energy, was it a typical day? There were very few people around, completely the opposite of what I expected. I understand that it is a small school, but still, i mean, this place was a deserted town. Is it always like that when classes are in session? Also, at the info session they discussed 'walk-ins' on frat parties, making sure everyone drinking is over 21? Do they actually do that or is it just an empty threat, because that kind of goes against dartmouth's rep.</p>
<p>Well Sundays are usually pretty quiet because everyone is catching up on work or "recovering" from the night before. If you really want to see Dartmouth in action, come on a school day, or Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday night.</p>
<p>And no, they don't check to see if everyone's 21.</p>
<p>They check, they still let you in if you're under 21 but they won't give you a bracelet. It doesn't matter because you can still get alcohol regardless.</p>
<p>Its called post winter carnival weekend - all the weekends after "big weekends" are the lamest of the year. So it doesn't surprise me at all. Trust me you'd want the rest too lol!</p>
<p>As an Indian myself (lol), they aren't rare at all. There are about 300 Indians, so percentage wise its pretty decent. Many of my good friends are Indian from Dartmouth, although its funny because I am friends with them more as people rather than because they are Indian. The Dartmouth Indian kids hang out together on occasion, but its alot less cliquey than other schools. I.e. you most of the Indians of campus but you have tons of other friends too. Personally I liked this alot. </p>
<p>As for Monday, classes might have been in session. Most kids are running between classes during breaks, but otherwise are in class. Lunchtime its more lively, and afternoon/ evening is when people are everywhere. </p>
<p>In the spring/ fall/ summer the Green in packed with people at all times.</p>
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<p>Slipper, </p>
<p>I had to laugh when I read this because my daughter told me the same thing when I spoke to her over the weekend saying that she was just going to have dinner with some friends, go to a meeting at her house and then chill out. I know that she said that some of the houses are busy planning their winter formals which are coming up soon. </p>
<p>I think they are also coming off of the second round of midterms and there are a lot of papers dues as winter term will be wrapping up soon.</p>
<p>My D attends Dartmouth and she came home this past weekend. Even though the students had classes on Monday it seems that a lot of them took off for the weekend. Maybe because they have been back for about six weeks from winter break.</p>
<p>in addition, now that i have your attention of sorts, how does economics rank at dartmouth. how does it compare to its rival schools like penn, brown, princeton, harvard, stanford, etc?</p>
<p>axman319, you should check out the Economics Department Web site (<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eeconomic/)%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~economic/)</a>. If you go under faculty, you can check out the personal Web sites of most of the faculty members. Most post their curriculum vitae, which should give you an idea of their background and interests. Not sure if it will help you to guage any sort of comparative ranking, but it should at least give you an idea of what the professors are like. Some of them have some pretty intresting credentials and research, and there are even a few blogs that you can keep up on (VoxBaby comes to mind).</p>
<p>Anyway, I know that's not a direct answer, but I hope it at least gives you someplace to start. It seems to me that the main thing Dartmouth has to offer is its focus on undergrads, which would give you a chance to participate in some of the research. One of the professors was involved in creating the report for Congress on the impact of the proposed privatized social security accounts, and I saw a few links to articles published in the Wall Street Journal, so Dartmouth definitely gets noticed. No need to worry about that.</p>
<p>EDIT: By the way, I'm new here. I've followed the forums off and on for a bit, but just joined recently. I'm a RD applicant for the Class of 2010. So, hey!</p>
<p>Dartmouth Econ will get you into top jobs if you want that route, and its a great route into grad school. The teaching is excellent. You'll get everything you need. BTW- recruiters could care less how good departmental rankings are - they look at the schools' reputation.</p>