<p>Is there any particular reason why of all Ivy League schools, Dartmouth talks dirty about all others?</p>
<p>Wow, I'm sorry it's come across that way. If you have been hearing Dartmouth students bad mouth other colleges, then it's probably just playful banter. Every college does it.</p>
<p>And don't base your experience on this board. First of all, this is Dartmouth students-to-be, not Dartmouth students (some of whom were just rejected/waitlisted at other schools). Second of all, its an online website with a limited pool. I hope you've gone to Dartmouth and spoken to a lot of students about other schools before making this observation.</p>
<p>And as for the Ivy's, we all make fun of each other. I mean, Columbia wrote a hilarious article in the Fall badmouthing Dartmouth. If you can't make fun of the competition then it just becomes a heated, hateful rivarly.</p>
<p>Yale disses Harvard all the time...</p>
<p>-the person who did not just badmouth Yale</p>
<p>i dont think dartmouth actually has anything against the other ivies at all...although there is a stronger sense of community, i don't think it has a particular rival and the school's students seems to be nicer than most. i really liked it but i eventually realized that i would benefit more from a different kind of school. the reason you get that feeling is probably due to slipper1234 spending remarkable amounts of time and energy explaining how she transferred out of columbia for dartmouth and posting several hundred posts to this effect. no offense to you slipper, but it's a little bit overkill sometimes. columbia and dartmouth are such different schools with such different strengths that you don't need to bash columbia every chance you get. to put it as nicely as possible, i think it sends the wrong message to people, a message that i don't think you're intending to send.</p>
<p>op: based on what....I haven't seen it.</p>
<p>Any school-bashing is certainly not limited to the Dartmouth board. I'm sure every Top 20 school has badmouthed every other Top 20 school multiple times...</p>
<p>I just want to point out that I thought the term "Dartmouthers badmouth" was very funny, with the whole mouth thing and ya.....I know this post was kind of pointless but I have to get up to 300 before I can cease being a "junior" member.</p>
<p>It's the duty of every great school to bash every other great school.</p>
<p>I imagine everyone here at Penn could write a thesis-sized essay bashing other schools (and vice versa)</p>
<p>"Other" school bashing is completely OKAY.</p>
<p>When it's taken to the extreme, though, it's indicative of an inferiority complex. IMHO.</p>
<p>possibly because other schools suck</p>
<p>i thought slipper was a guy?</p>
<p>and i can't blame him (her?) people should know what they're getting into with Dartmouth, and the contrast he (she?) paints between these two diametrically opposed schools shows people that just because they're both Ivy League doesn't mean they're all that similar.</p>
<p>Haha, yea I am a guy. Most of my comments come when people are choosing between these two. Having the benefit of having gone to both I feel like I can help people understand the differences...</p>
<p>yeah seriously - and i'm sure that had someone gone originally to D and then transferred to Columbia, they'd be singing an entirely different tune. I think you're just pointing out the differences between the two, and what type of person would be better suited to each school. it's not so much badmouthing as lending your personal experience for the benefit of us CC-dwelling loser children :-D</p>
<p>Dartmouth doesn't really badmouth "other schools" so much... just Harvard (& that's kind of immature.)</p>
<p>Yes, how none-PC of anyone to take pride in their school and prefer it to another--and then have the audacity to say so! </p>
<p>Schools, like students, are all so very special and they should be honored, nurtured and praised, not critiqued and compared. How immature indeed.
My crocodile tears are staining my sleeves
but Ill get over it. </p>
<p>What a world!</p>