<p>You are certainly correct in thinking that no one in this forum has suggested that there is anything wrong with any other Ivies. If they have I haven't seen it. </p>
<p>Nor have I noticed Dartmouth students (or hopefuls) posting their advise on any of the other Ivy forums. As you say, each school has its . . . own culture. Every school demonstrate a great many things which schould be of concern to themselves.
It seems more a preoccupation of certain others--filled with certainty--who feel the need to instruct Dartmouth on what should concern it. I'm sure we are all warmed and charmed by their concern.</p>
<p>The issue, rather, has to do with the character of devoted research-schools vs liberal arts styled schools. People pick Dartmouth because it is what it is, not because they hope to reform it based on what it is not. It's like marrying someone for what you want them to be rather than what they are, or to extend the metaphor to non-Dartmouth people, wanting the spouse of a friend (or brother) to be other than what they are according to your expert analysis rather than by their own desires and dreams. </p>
<p>I'm sure you are a nice person. I mean no insult in saying that most people on this forum will not be swayed into thinking that Dartmouth, afted 200 odd years of successful stewardship, now needs to be instructed and reformed by anyone posting on cc. It is niether the forum nor the time for such serious analysis.</p>
<p>I understand you graduated from Brown--you should be proud of that and I'm sure you are, I would be. I hope to do the same at Dartmouth, because it is what I want, not because its better than Brown. I'm sure your brother's choice was for the same reason, not because he thought Dartmouth was better than Brown but because he desired it and maybe for no other reason than that he desired it. We don't always require a reason to love what we love; although, there are many reasons to dislike what we don't want.</p>
<p>keeping it real</p>