<p>I think this is a really dumb move. I'm all for showcasing Dartmouth's considerable intellectual prowess, but not at the expense at the one thing the kids enjoy the most and sets it apart from the other admitted students weekends put on by other schools.</p>
<p>My daughter said when she was at Dimensions she was very impressed that the current students would spend weeks planning, organizing, and rehearsing the Dimensions show - all for them, the prospies.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is filled with very bright students whose intelligence is leaps and bounds beyond that of the typical Dartmouth administrator. Hopefully the new president will set about changing that from the top down.</p>
<p>I’m all for adding the more “intellectual” events but they are making a mistake by dropping the show. It was highly memorable and helped set Dimensions apart from every other college’s admitted students event.</p>
<p>^I really hope they overturn it. So many kids choose to attend Dartmouth in no small part due to this show (and all that it represents about the BEST of Dartmouth). This is a crazy move by admissions, and it will hurt yield for sure. Kids already know it’s a strong academic school. It’s been ranked #1 in undergraduate teaching for years now. I sure hope the new president reaffirms the things that make Dartmouth great (and so different from the other Ivy schools).</p>
I sure hope so but the College does not have a record of admitting mistakes and correcting them even when the basis for a decision is found to be deeply flawed.</p>
<p>OK, AboutTheSame I just sent twitter replies to all my Dartmouth feeds. “Trending now on CC, Bring Back the Dimensions Show or you can kiss my annual gift goodbye!”</p>
<p>I’ll let you know if I get a reply. All those on Twitter, please do the same. Every school on the planet has small group sessions to tout their academic opportunities. Dimensions is pure Dartmouth, and attracts students who want the “sweetness” of Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I doubt you were premature. Sounds to me as though the response surprised them, and they’re looking for an easy out. If acoustics were the problem, why was that not mentioned at the outset? If acoustics were the problem, wouldn’t the intelligent thing to do be to have the replacement venue figured out? I wouldn’t cut the administration any slack on this one until you see IF there’s a Dimensions show and WHERE it gets put. Not to mention when – 8 am on the Green? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.</p>
<p>It looks like Maria Laskaris’s denial that the Dimensions show will be canceled may be technically true but certainly not the whole story. Now she says they are planning to break it into five smaller shows to be staged in the freshman dorm clusters. That sounds like a change so fundamental that it might as well be a cancellation. Apparently it’s all about admissions yield:</p>
<p>Last year, I was a prospective Dartmouth student attending Dimensions. The show (among other things) turned me off from the school. I know Dartmouth is an Ivy league school whose educational offerings are very well-respected, but the show, as the main event of the first day of the visit, just left me feeling like there was an undercurrent of intellectual vapidness. This is going to sound ridiculous, but the first night just seemed… cult-like. I’m very willing to believe that my impression was very extreme and also not a fair judgment of the school as a whole, but that was the impression that I got, and it might be a specific image (think about the Rolling Stones hazing scandal, for instance) that the administration was concerned about.</p>
<p>I was especially bothered by one girl who was talking about how great it was that her father and mother went to Dartmouth, and all her siblings went to Dartmouth, and how it was sooo great when on ski trips other Dartmouth alum would come up to them and talk about how much they love Dartmouth and ask about what year they graduated. It all just screamed to me “WASPs nest”</p>
<p>Moderators, please delete this thread! It appears that the show will be reinstated, but as it is a “secret” Dartmouth tradition, we don’t want this thread to ruin it for all the kids who get accepted at the end of this month and come across this thread!</p>