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Why would anyone ever go to Brown or Dartmouth?
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Date: April 21st, 2014 3:45 AM Author: thriller useless brakes double fault Or any other shitty LAC that sounds like a prep school or a shitstain on my underwear? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25418815) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:40 PM Author: Hairraiser stage Subject: Brown I can't speak to Dartmouth, but Brown is credited. There's a reason that it has the happiest students out of any college in the country. Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey(founded by a Brown grad by the way), among others, all recruit there heavily. Med school placement is outstanding, and law and business placement is also excellent. Providence Equity Partners, one of the best PE firms in the country has its headquarters in Providence and scopes Brown grads for analyst and research positions every year. The best looking women in the Ivy league, plenty of Rhodes and Fulbrights, it's just a chill place to go for 4 years. Don't know why the school engenders such hate on this board, but it's unwarranted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483635) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:50 PM Author: cobalt indian lodge alpha lol, I love how you never miss a chance to Brownthread and then disappear for months (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483686) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:16 PM Author: khaki corner who the fuck is this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483810) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 2:14 PM Author: cobalt indian lodge alpha I dunno, for the last 5 years he literally only posts in threads about Brown. I think he used to post actively in the past. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25484158) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:04 PM Author: Stimulating mauve spot OH, THE LAW SCHOOL PLACEMENT! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483750) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 2:53 PM Author: Razzmatazz institution cuckold there were two brown grads in my t30 law school class (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25484428) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 9:28 PM Author: spruce exciting theater stage liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486710) |
Date: April 21st, 2014 3:58 AM Author: Wild startling church a guy from my high school went to brown, it was the best college he was accepted to, as he was rejected from yale, the best he applied to. he graduated from wharton business school and now works in finance. now what, bitch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25418829) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 4:47 AM Author: thriller useless brakes double fault and? all i took away from this was that he was rejected from better schools and had to go to turdstain school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25418861) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 8:45 AM Author: turquoise piazza Seems like a pretty good explanation of why people go to every school besides Harvard and BYU. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25419035) |
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Date: April 30th, 2014 11:59 PM Author: thriller useless brakes double fault i know people who turned down Harvard for MIT/Caltech (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25481584) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:58 PM Author: Scarlet Irradiated School Cafeteria my dad can beat up your dad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483730) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 2:12 PM Author: racy idiot set byu is wtf man. so many mormon bros turn down preftigious acceptances to go there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25484148) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 11:46 AM Author: maroon marvelous heaven mormons are fags who should be hunted down and sold into slavery, not "bros". hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25489690) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 3:59 AM Author: Wild startling church a brother of another friend of mine went to dartmouth for college, and then stanford medical school and is now a rich doctor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25418831) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 4:47 AM Author: thriller useless brakes double fault so he's rich because he went to stanford medical school, not because he went to dartmouth
whats your point |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 10:07 AM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25419245) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 11:28 AM Author: Idiotic public bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25419616) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 7:38 AM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch Because their only other choices were Penn and Cornell? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25418958) |
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Date: April 21st, 2014 11:30 AM Author: Mahogany bespoke brunch Why would you even go to college at all if these were your only choices? Just start working construction or whatever and get a four year head start on the career you are going to end up in anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25419626) |
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Date: April 30th, 2014 11:58 PM Author: thriller useless brakes double fault credited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25481581) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:55 PM Author: Useless cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483709) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:00 AM Author: glassy zippy yarmulke rehab dartmouth, pre shitlibs, was pretty credited. great college town feel, tons of outdoor shit to do, great job placement, etc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25481586) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:01 AM Author: thriller useless brakes double fault what about now? shithole?
i dont think i know a single person who applied there |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:02 AM Author: glassy zippy yarmulke rehab bro im a decade + away from college, i just see all the shitlib stuff there now and am disgusted by it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25481594) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:02 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483740) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 2:09 PM Author: alcoholic diverse philosopher-king TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25484126) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:45 PM Author: Arousing offensive ticket booth scourge upon the earth cuz i didn't get into a higher ranked ivy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483657) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:51 PM Author: bateful lilac weed whacker cuz they are shitlibs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483689) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:52 PM Author: bateful lilac weed whacker Also, brown is not an LAC retard. it is a university. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483691) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:53 PM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch I'd go to either one over the other non HYP ivies. Fuck going to college in MFH or Philly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483701) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:54 PM Author: bateful lilac weed whacker you are forgetting cornell, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483704) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:54 PM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch Thought it went without saying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483706) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:55 PM Author: twinkling abode TBF, Dartmouth actually has a pretty notorious conservative paper, and considering how the news from there is shitlib hysterics about how "awful" it is, maybe it will actually have a greater share of chill fratty bros in forthcoming years.
But in terms of career stuff, yeah, no idea why you'd go there over a state school. |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:01 PM Author: Drab associate for the IB recruiting? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483739) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:06 PM Author: twinkling abode If you're dead-set on IB, there are schools that are both cheaper and easier to get into. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483766) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:02 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483743) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:07 PM Author: twinkling abode Please expound more on your knowledge of how many people read it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483770) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:08 PM Author: Drab associate hearty lol over your bashing a school that you know nothing about and couldn't get into (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483774) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:11 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483791) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:17 PM Author: Drab associate LJL so predictable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483819) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 12:59 PM Author: Excitant bawdyhouse Brown has the hottest Ivy League girls, handssss daown you aspie queer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483735) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:08 PM Author: bat shit crazy aromatic trailer park french chef really? i wouldn't be surprised at sluttiest, but hottest? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483776) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:14 PM Author: Excitant bawdyhouse The girls from my school that went to Brown we're 180, although this is usually bullshit, this article is credited on the subject
http://www.businessinsider.com/ivy-league-schools-hot-to-not-2013-12 |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:04 PM Author: cracking bearded shrine fanboi Always had bad experiences hiring from these two schools (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483755) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 1:10 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25483788) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:19 PM Author: Beady-eyed sanctuary coldplay fan Quick, name a dozen schools better than Dartmouth.
Hey OP, what's your alma mater? |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:21 PM Author: Drab associate Northwestern, Wash U and Emory (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25484878) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:27 PM Author: twinkling abode (enraged Dartmouth grad)
Also,
Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford MIT Caltech Brown Columbia Penn Chicago Rice Northwestern |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:38 PM Author: Beady-eyed sanctuary coldplay fan HYPSMC: Yes Columbia: Probably Chicago/Duke: I don't think so, but you could make a case
The rest range from "Nah" to "Not in a million years" (e.g. egregious Northwestern trolling).
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:41 PM Author: twinkling abode Honestly, I could name more. Plenty of decent schools that are at least top-tier for a particular part of the country (e.g. Emory for Atlanta). Dartmouth is stuck competing in the New England market with completely superior schools while also being in the boonies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485012) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:43 PM Author: bat shit crazy aromatic trailer park french chef brother, please never use the words "top-tier" and "Emory" in the same sentence ever again, unless you are trying to explain to someone how Emory is decidedly not top-tier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485028) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 4:59 PM Author: Beady-eyed sanctuary coldplay fan HYP are not "the New England market." None of the schools I listed above are at all regional. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485157) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:25 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485345) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:15 PM Author: Motley slimy brethren Whatever, dude. I'll give you that Dartmouth is better than Rice. But it's definitely below Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke. Indeed, I would rank it well below Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan as well, not to mention many other top-tier state schools (Washington, Wisconsin, and UNC jump to mind immediately; there are probably others). Dartmouth attracts good undergraduates because they want the Ivy name, but that's pretty much all it has going for itself. Dartmouth's business schools is respectable, but otherwise their faculty/graduate programs are SPS. Really, the only difference between Dartmouth and Northwestern is the fact that Dartmouth attracts better undergraduates as a result of their Ivy League affiliation. Both schools have decent undergraduates and decent business schools and not much else. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485268) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:41 PM Author: Beady-eyed sanctuary coldplay fan I thought we were only talking about UG. Kellogg is better than Tuck but it doesn't make Northwestern UG any better.
I would go to Berkeley/Michigan/UVA etc. over Dartmouth, but that doesn't make them better schools.
Not understanding what metric you could possibly use to put Penn over Dartmouth. |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:41 PM Author: Motley slimy brethren "Undergraduate prestige" is flame. The only people who worry about it are insecure strivers who think that USNWR is an accurate measure of the prestige of a university. Yes, students at Michigan and Berkeley have lower SAT scores than Dartmouth students. That's mainly due to the fact that it's much harder to have a high average SAT score if you admit a freshman class of 7,000 than if you admit a freshman class of 1,000. The USNWR rankings are ridiculously biased in favor of private schools with smaller class sizes.
You measure the prestige of a university by the quality of its faculty, its research productivity, and its graduate programs. By that criteria, Berkeley and Michigan absolutely destroy Dartmouth. As for Penn, not only is Wharton vastly superior to Tuck, but Penn also has one of the top medical schools in the country and numerous other areas of excellence. Dartmouth has absolutely nothing outside of Tuck. That's why Penn is a major research university and Dartmouth is a glorified LAC. |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:44 PM Author: honey-headed prole cr
when OP was asking why anyone would attend a LAC he was clearly meant for grad school |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 9:27 PM Author: Idiotic public bath cr
In fact, everything you've said in this subthread has been 100% spot on. 180 analysis. |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:02 PM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch Bizarre Penn and Chicago trolling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485932) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:42 PM Author: Motley slimy brethren Yeah, who would ever want to attend world-class research universities like Penn and Chicago when they can attend a glorified LAC with dumbass professors who couldn't get a job at a real university? There is a reason that Dartmouth doesn't have a single decent graduate program outside of Tuck. It's because their faculty are mediocre and they survive entirely on their Ivy reputation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486134) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:36 PM Author: Cerise meetinghouse (Guy who has never heard of northwestern med or law) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25611375) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:04 PM Author: Motley slimy brethren Brown/Dartmouth might be credited if you got significant financial aid and didn't get accepted anywhere better. But how often does that happen? Someone who has the credentials to get into either of those schools would probably get a significant scholarship (if not a full-ride) at virtually any flagship state school in the country. And I would take Berkeley/UCLA/Michigan/UVa/UNC (and maybe some other schools) at in-state sticker before I would pay sticker at Brown/Dartmouth. And I'd prefer low/no debt at even a mediocre flagship state over significant debt at Brown/Dartmouth. So maybe Brown/Dartmouth makes sense if your family is poor enough that you get financial aid or rich enough that your parents pay for everything, but otherwise there is no reason to attend either school unless you're an insecure striver who wants to feel prestigious because you went to an "Ivy" (even if it's not a real Ivy). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485199) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:06 PM Author: Motley slimy brethren http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1340373&forum_id=2:#15261931
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1340373&forum_id=2:#15261966 |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:07 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485220) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:21 PM Author: Beady-eyed sanctuary coldplay fan If you're from California, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina, or Georgia, then yeah, I think going state school is TCR. But if you're from New York or Massachusetts or Indiana, the gap between your state school and Brown/Dartmouth might be so big it's worth considering. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485320) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:22 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485326) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:24 PM Author: bat shit crazy aromatic trailer park french chef New York really has shockingly bad state schools for a state of it's caliber and influence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485338) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:44 PM Author: Beady-eyed sanctuary coldplay fan Yeah, somehow Virginia, at 40% of the size, has three public schools better than any in New York. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485471) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 9:31 PM Author: Deep Friendly Grandma Field uva, w&m, and ...? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486735) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 10:30 PM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch Va Tech (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25487073) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:52 PM Author: Balding dopamine filthpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486171) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 9:28 PM Author: Idiotic public bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486707) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 6:22 PM Author: Arousing offensive ticket booth scourge upon the earth i hated dartmouth when i was there, but i have to say if your goal is law or finance, dartmouth would be better than the top state schools or other private schools like chicago/duke etc that people are mentioning above. UG recruiting is very strong into finance in NYC. around 15 dartmouth grads in my law school class which is way higher than cal/mich/uva people. tons of dartmouth grads at GSB/HBS/wharton and i'm sure proportionally a much higher percentage than from the top state schools. the alumni network is tight, which helps quite a bit for job searching.
can't speak for brown firsthand, but i'm sure it's similar or even better than dartmouth given its status for many years as the "hot" ivy. brown grads were all over HYS law schools. they don't seem as hot on finance, but prob b/c they attract more artsy hippies than finance douches which dominate the culture at dartmouth.
anyway, again depends on your career goals, but i've found the name definitely helped my way into HYS law school and the alumni network helped me later on in job searching. |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:49 PM Author: Motley slimy brethren Jesus, this post is a perfect illustration of the qualify of a Dartmouth education. "I knew some Dartmouth people in my law school class so obviously Dartmouth people are more successful on average than Berkeley/Michigan people." I thought an Ivy graduate would be smart enough to realize that anecdotal evidence doesn't prove shit, but apparently not. Two of my buddies and I graduated from a TTT directional state school. We were all accepted to the top-ranked graduate programs in our fields and now have prestigious jobs with zero debt. I guess that proves that my directional TTT is better than Berkeley as well. There is literally nothing that you get at Dartmouth that you couldn't get at any good state school for a fraction of the cost. Nobody goes to Dartmouth other than prestige-obsessed strivers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486161) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 8:28 PM Author: Arousing offensive ticket booth scourge upon the earth you may want re-read my post. illustrating a particular phenomenon with a personal example isn't anecdotal evidence. dartmouth consistently places more people across the board in top law/b-schools than top public schools do. it's also a fact that UG recruiting for finance out of dartmouth blows any top state school out of the water. i'm simply saying there are certain advantage to attending dartmouth (networking, strong reputation in finance/law, very small size resulting in less competition) that result in distinct advantages over attending a top public school for certain fields. none of these advantages have anything to do w/ the quality of education that you get, since that's largely an irrelevant factor in success in your career. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486364) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 9:30 PM Author: Idiotic public bath "very small size resulting in less competition"
Lol excellent point. So much easier to be in the top 10% of your class when you go to a small, highly selective college... oh wait |
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Date: May 14th, 2014 5:38 PM Author: Metal lodge Directional TTT = Northeastern? Can you narrow down the direction a bit? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25562002) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 9:45 AM Author: bat shit crazy aromatic trailer park french chef to be fair, a lot of this can be explained by self-selection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25489175) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 5:09 PM Author: Sinister hideous internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25485230) |
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Date: May 14th, 2014 5:14 PM Author: Saffron Awkward Base "Dartmouth is just a glorified LAC. Now in fairness, most LACs suck today but that's largely an outcome of the students who pick LACs (aka shitlibs)."
I don't think the student bodies of Williams or Amherst are decidedly more liberal than the ones at Harvard or Yale. |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:39 PM Author: Erotic Narrow-minded Principal's Office JFK Jr. went to Brown and from what I understand he used to walk around his dorm/frat/apartment buck naked. So if you went to Brown you could have seen his big wiener and taut, muscular buttocks (probably slightly hairy, like his chest).
He's dead now, though, so... |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:57 PM Author: Drab associate Unnnnnngh I just jizzed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486187) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:41 PM Author: Erotic Narrow-minded Principal's Office Eyal Podell went to Dartmouth and he is hot and was on MTV Undressed. He's married now and has a kid but I would still love to lick his weenie and eat his ass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486130) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 7:58 PM Author: Drab associate I would probably tongue little granules of shit out of his asshole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486189) |
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Date: May 1st, 2014 9:31 PM Author: spruce exciting theater stage liquid oxygen Seems like the best choice if you didn't get into HYP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25486733) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 9:32 AM Author: maize doobsian office The state school and non-ivy trolling on this board is ridiculous. This board wants to shit all over Brown and Dartmouth but in reality both are extremely selective and beat out almost any other non-HYPS university in cross-admits. The average high school valedictorian would jizz his pants to get into either school. You can make vague comments about faculty quality or whatever but it's laughable to put middling state schools like UCLA or Wisconsin in the same sentence with middle ivies where most of the kids are at least pretty smart with a fair amount of geniuses.
If you're looking for a more academic or rigorous undergrad experience, it's a lot more important to be surrounded by smart people (or at least non-retards) than to have a 1/100 shot of having a mentoring relationship with a well-known prof.
Most of Brown and Dartmouth I would classify as smart and there are very few true retards outside of the sports teams; compare that to these state schools where 80% of the class is from in-state and would not be competitive elsewhere.
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 10:07 AM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch mfcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25489245) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 11:31 AM Author: Idiotic public bath (1) Brown and Dartmouth are not "middle ivies." They are undisputed the two worst ivy league schools.
(2) Just because a bunch of dumbass, myopic, prestige-obsessed 18-year-old strivers would rather be at Dartmouth than UCLA doesn't mean that Dartmouth is a better school than UCLA
(3) There are plenty of smart people at schools like UCLA, and if you so desire you can fairly easily associate solely with people of Dartmouth-level intelligence. The upside to being at big state schools is that if you ever get the weird urge to hang out with people who aren't intelligent, uptight assholes, you have that option as well.
Obviously there's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to choosing a college, but I have a sneaking suspicious that bros who do CS at their state school with a full scholly end up having much more fulfilling lives than some striver who does Dartmouth -> GULC -> BIGLAW because he just loves to be "surrounded by smart people" |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 11:34 AM Author: rusted charismatic resort crotch Not sure where you are getting (1) from, it's usually Non-Wharton Penn and Cornell that get that "distinction". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25489628) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 12:31 PM Author: Idiotic public bath LOL excellent point. If you completely factor out Penn's best asset then yes, Brown IS better than Penn. In fact, if you ignore everything about Yale except that it has a school of nursing, Dartmouth would probably win out over Yale too. I dare say, Dartmouth may well be the best school in the nation!
You're not wrong about Cornell, though. You could plausibly argue that they are worse than Brown and Dartmouth. Personally, I've always held Cornell in highest esteem than the other two though, but I'm probably in the minority on that so I won't push it too hard. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:34 PM Author: Cerise meetinghouse (Realistic cornell grad) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25611365) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:29 PM Author: Saffron Awkward Base " Just because a bunch of dumbass, myopic, prestige-obsessed 18-year-old strivers would rather be at Dartmouth than UCLA doesn't mean that Dartmouth is a better school than UCLA"
Good luck trying to convince employers or grad schools of that. I'm sure lots of students are chomping at the bit to go to college for the chance to hang out with people who aren't intelligent. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:30 PM Author: Cerise meetinghouse (Cornell grad) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25611342) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:36 PM Author: Underhanded galvanic dilemma Most credited post ITT. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25611377) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 9:47 AM Author: passionate violet stead Dartmouth is sweet. You have to bear in mind it's basically a LAC. Great college town in a truly beautiful part of the country, tight-knit campus, awesome traditions, incredibly devoted alumni, outdoors shit, skiing, frats, best undergrad teaching. I never had a TA and most of my classes were really small. I go back any chance I get. I fucking love it.
This was not the experience of many of my friends who went to other "top tier" schools, for whatever that's worth. |
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Date: May 14th, 2014 6:38 PM Author: trip bright death wish This. Wish I would have gone there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25562407) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:38 PM Author: Underhanded galvanic dilemma it's kind of funny how you always insinuate that have some kind of prestige or possibly prestigious background when you went to like colorado college and university of iowa law school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25611382) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 5:31 PM Author: Underhanded galvanic dilemma if you're a fairly beta hairy little jew or indian, but like to get drunk and feel more confident hitting on 3s and 4s, then dartmouth/brown are both paradise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25611346) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2014 10:36 PM Author: Saffron Awkward Base Says someone who knows nothing about the schools and is not remotely good enough to get into them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2548246&forum_id=2#25612951) |