<p>I am looking to major in economics and cant seem to find any solid safeties to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>if you want to major in econ, you should look at other undergraduate colleges. Econ is stronger elsewhere (williams, princeton, yale, chicago, swat, )</p>
<p>What are you talking about</p>
<p>Not to mention that you didn't even bother to answer his question, as clearly you know better than he does what his question is. Way to go!</p>
<p>Well, I was under the impression that econ was fairly strong at dartmouth. That in mind, I am looking to go into finance after college.</p>
<p>son (08) did dart Ed
had cornell, duke and emory ready to mail if ed was a no
and the state school univ of florida for backup</p>
<p>trinity or conn college</p>
<p>Dartmouth really does have a strong econ department, with professors that are well-known in both the academic field and on Wall Street (Meir Kohn, for example, is highly regarded among Wall Street firms and taking Econ 26 with him can apparently make an internship application), and numerous alumni going on to succesful careers as econ professors and in the business world. Dartmouth is also well-connected to other strong econ schools. For example, one of the brothers at my frat who is an econ major took a couple of courses this past summer with a visiting econ professor from U Chicago who also happened to be a Dartmouth '87.</p>
<p>Anyway, I would suggest Middlebury. I can't vouch for their econ program, but it's similar to Dartmouth's general profile.</p>
<p>Are you serious? Dartmouth is one of the top 7 schools when it comes to recruiting, the options for someone going into finance are few and far between. </p>
<p>As for safeties, I used Northwestern as a high match and I think Middlebury is a great idea for a match. Michigan was my safety.</p>
<p>Well, if you want to go to D, that's fine. Economics at D is heavily quantitative. My PhD is in Econ and I'd choose a different college for undergraduate work, one that gives a broader perspecitve on theory, application, etc. </p>
<p>Here's someone else's list of top undergraduate econ departments. Some good safeties here:</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Harvard University
Masachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>GROUP V:
Boston University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Although not listed above, many LACs also have excellent Econ departments. Chief among them are:
Amherst College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Dartmouth College (not quite a LAC, but it does not offer graduate degrees in Econ either)
Denison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>A) Now you are admitting that this is just your preference and not any sort of objective reflection of Dartmouth's econ department.</p>
<p>B) I believe this is Alexandre's list, and like he says IN your cut and paste, and elsewhere, that Dartmouth can't be compared directly to other schools because of things like it doesn't have a graduate econ program, etc. Also, like he notes, Dartmouth, while not a LAC, doesn't divide itself into sub-divisions like Penn, Cornell, Wash U, or others. So its like comparing apples to oranges. Bottom line, Dartmouth econ is very highly regarded.</p>
<p>Actually Dartmouth econ is highly theoretical. Rhino, I think you need to better understand Dartmouth's programs.</p>
<p>Middlebury, Colgate, Colby, Hamilton, Bucknell.</p>
<p>hm..are you guys talking about good econs program or safeties? if all those schools listed are your safeties, respect peeps:))</p>
<p>I wouldn't consider a college that admits less than 25% of applicants to be a safety for anyone. Middlebury might be a match, but not a safety.</p>
<p>I agree with arcadia, I would not consider most of the schools listed as safeties, for some people they may be matches or match/reach but definitely not safeties.</p>
<p>Hmm i got great matches in case my Dartmouth strategy doesnt work out</p>
<p>Matches:</p>
<p>~Bowdoin
~Williams
~Colby
~Middlebury</p>
<p>Just Applying:</p>
<p>~Duke</p>
<p>~Yale - lol kind of a reach but w/e
~Rutgers - Booyah fo ma homebois in NJ</p>
<p>Williams is definitely not a match but pretty much a reach for everyone who applies.</p>
<p>not match in the sense of a "target school"
i mean match as in the same kindof school </p>
<p>XD</p>