<p>What's your opinion about it? Pros/cons?</p>
<p>There are some old threads on this and you will probably find more opinions about it than you are likely to get during final exams.</p>
<p>standrews, could you possibly give me a link or two to check out?</p>
<p>Do a forum search for threads that contain “D-plan” , quotes included.</p>
<p>I’ve gathered that the D-plan is great for internship/study abroad opportunities (which is a major plus). That fact aside, what is your opinion of the dplan? Any other opinions would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>i, for one, love it.</p>
<p>because people leave at different times soph and jr year, it forces you to meet new people throughout your time at Dartmouth across the classes.</p>
<p>There are many pluses and minuses, and i think the pluses far outweigh the minuses.</p>
<p>rightnotleft, what would you say some of the minuses are?</p>
<p>Inferior depth (less time to take a topic in) for one- not a Dartmouth student though so by all means correct me</p>
<p>some of the minuses are that some people have a hard time making new friends, you might not see your friends for a year-plus (though that’s the same at every school with decent study abroad programs, so i think that’s a really weak argument).</p>
<p>The real issue is the quarter system. Some people just don’t do well learning a few subjects very intensely very quickly. For me, it’s perfect, it’s exactly what I wanted. However … terms are 10 weeks long. That means you’re in midterms after only 3 weeks. If you get sick for a week … you’ve missed 10% of class - that’s a LOT to make up and it’s very hard to come back from. You are expected to learn a full semester’s worth of material in only 10 weeks. Talking to friends who have transferred in, the workload here is higher and the expectations higher as well in terms of sheer volume of information - the depth issue is mainly a learning issue, not a material-covered or expected issue. Dartmouth demands that you either really know how you learn and work best, or you sleep or socialize very little.</p>
<p>Life at Dartmouth is very fast-paced. Most of that is due to the student body - but the term schedule definitely plays into it as well.</p>