<p>Sybbie,</p>
<p>I think you misunderstand this thread. This thread isn't about why people in the middle of nowhere don't know Dartmouth, or its prestige relative to Penn; its why people apply to very similar schools to Dartmouth yet sometimes skip Dartmouth. I really dont understand how someone could apply to Amherst, Princeton, and Stanford and skip Dartmouth which is right in the middle of all of these in terms of size, student body, etc. I still havent figured it out and no one has really addressed this. My opinion is that its sort of out of the way on college trips. Clearly dartmouth doesnt have a huge problem - we attract 12000 applicants every year - but its interesting nonetheless. Personally I skipped it on my high school search - largely because of the greek system. Only after visiting did I realize it isnt nearly as exclusionary as at other schools.</p>