<p>It’s important to understand the flaws of a college…members apart of colleges on this site do not show that enough, and quite frankly there has to be SOMETHING that sucks no matter where you are. </p>
<p>Thank You Aerial Blue for the honesty in your posts.</p>
<p>yeah…thnks !</p>
<p>i want to hear more opinions…is the gov department at dartmouth really that bad?</p>
<p>Someone said that the government department is bad? I thought it was/is excellent. As in one of our top departments.</p>
<p>John Rassias</p>
<p>The government and economics departments at Dartmouth are world-renowned.</p>
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<p>Heh, you’re kidding, right? Okay, our economics department is actually pretty good. But I would say our government department’s biggest strength is in American politics. It’s decent on IR, and quite shabby on comparative politics. I don’t think our government department is particularly well-known outside the US.</p>
<p>As for whether the departments are good or bad, there are a ton of flaws. Both departments have some of the largest classes here, and it can be hard to get in (although the econ department in particular has been working on improving this so you don’t keep getting waitlisted for classes). The profs in my gov classes so far have been excellent, but one of them ignored most of the emails I sent them, which I’ve never had any other prof at Dartmouth do. And administratively, working with these departments in structuring your major, etc. can be a pain because they’re big relative to other departments at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>They’re not terrible by any means, but they’re one of the most obvious areas where Dartmouth could and should clearly improve on.</p>
<p>i want to get in to dartmouth.</p>
<p>There’s actually some sort of ranking out that says Dartmouth is one of the top schools for International Rankings (at the undergrad level)… who knew?</p>
<p>No I wasn’t kidding, johnleemk. Well the Gov profs that I’ve had have been really good, and they respond to my blitzes lol. I actually worked for the dept. and I’d have to say that IR is a strength…</p>
<p>Aerial is REALLY freaking me out</p>
<p>Few questions for current students:</p>
<p>– How active is the Outing Club? How many people are involved?
– Is “undergraduate focus” at Dartmouth cliche or true? </p>
<p>Thank you</p>
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I don’t have numbers but it’s one of the most active groups on campus. The outdoorsiness of Dartmouth is a major selling point, and rightfully so.
It’s by definition true. We’ve got a bit over 5,000 students and 4,000 undergraduates, so unless the allocation of resources is seriously out of whack, the vast majority will always be supporting undergraduate life and education. Dartmouth is probably much closer to a liberal arts college than a typical Ivy League.</p>
<p>Having said that, we’re bigger than many liberal arts colleges – at least two to four times their size – but also smaller than a lot of our peers in the Ivies, so when it comes to student life we have problems which are kind of in the middle. We have a bit of a housing crunch, though not a very severe one. We also have problems with popular classes being oversubscribed, although they’re not quite as bad as some critics make them out to be. But overall I think the undergraduate life here is excellent.</p>