<p>Is it true that Dartmouth places more emphasis on sports than other Ivies, and that non-athlete applicants have less chance to get in?</p>
<p>___________No</p>
<p>If you're talking about adding sports to your resume then yes sports, especially at high levels, will certainly help (as it will anywhere).</p>
<p>Actually Dartmouth places the least emphasis on sports (I know this for a fact). Scores of athletes get into HYP and not Dartmouth every year.</p>
<p>also- after talking with a dartmouth football player, I heard that only 2-3 thousand fans would show up for home football games. even if the university's adcoms like sports, the school itself isn't exactly "sport-obsessed"</p>
<p>um. . . 2-3 thousand is most of our school! we are pretty into showing up at the games and showing spirit.</p>
<p>yes to what dartmouth_guy said, especially hockey.</p>
<p>But, I do not think being a non-athlete will be a detriment to your application.</p>
<p>It is Princeton, in fact, that has the largest focus on sports, with 27% of male undergrads as varsity athletes. The smaller Dartmouth has a lower fraction of varsity athletes in the student body.</p>
<p>actually i think the average attendance for football was more 7000-9000. but keep in mind the stadium held like 20000</p>
<p>Haven't they just reduced the size of the stadium, or planned a reduction?</p>
<p>It really does NOT detract from your application to not play sports, as long as you demonstrate interest/accomplishment in another (or several other) extracurricular(s).</p>
<p>One thing about Dartmouth though, is that there's a really high percentage of students playing intramural sports and participating in sporty things (like DOC trips: hiking, canoeing, etc) for fun. Personally, I think that's awesome - it means there's a lot more participation that's accessible to everyone. It doesn't make the community sports-obsessed... it makes it active. Which is always a good thing.</p>
<p>There is, I believe, an equal percentage at HYP playing intramural and club sports.</p>
<p>sure. but Dartmouth is unique for its really large, active, and involved outing club membership, right? Which is cool. Yay, outdoorsy things!</p>
<p><a href="http://hcs.harvard.edu/%7Eoc/%5B/url%5D">http://hcs.harvard.edu/~oc/</a></p>
<p>Byerly, thanks for the info, but my point still stands. The original poster asked if Dartmouth was sports-obsessed, and I responded with two posts about how I think in actuality Dartmouth has a healthy, fun, and not at all narrowminded or obsessive appreciation of sports and exercise. </p>
<p>I didn't say Dartmouth is overly jocky or ostracizes non-athletes. It's cool that other Ivies have lots of intramurals - that means, for casual sports players, Dartmouth measures up just as well! It's cool that Harvard has an outing club! But why does that make my point about the DOC being a neat institution (even for non-athletic or non-outdoorsy people) invalid?</p>
<p>A college enjoying its sports is not bad. A college obsessing over its sports is bad. I don't think anybody in this thread has portrayed Dartmouth as the latter, so I don't understand your point.</p>
<p>I think Penn and Princeton are sportier places than Dartmouth.</p>
<p>my buddy got a 25 on his ACT, graduated with a 4.0 (weighted), and was ranked 5th in our class and is going to yale next year.... for football.</p>
<p>Having lost to Harvard for 5 straight years - its longest losing streak in the history of this storied rivalry - Yale may be getting a bit desperate!</p>