Dartmouth College Top Questions

It is a wonderful place to be if you are good at finding the beauty around you; students are intelligent, enthusiastic, laid-back, friendly, and generally very happy. However, if you take the wrong attitude towards the place, it's pretty easy to wake up and really mope about the cold, or the isolation. I think one of the really essential things that comes out of living here, though, is that you find yourself really learning to actively engage in life - I come from california, and my friends and I sat down freshman year saying "you know what, we want to love the cold winters, we need to go learn some snow sport instead of feeling depressed about being stuck inside all of the time." And because of that attitude, I have heard of only a few people in my time here who claimed to be anything less than delighted with the school. So many people love D that it's hard not to catch on and feel proud of the campus. On my freshman tour around the campus, an upperclassmen stopped and told us, "You guys are incredibly lucky you've still got four years here. Enjoy it."

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The first two are definitely not accurate at all. The reputation as a "boys" school still carries a little weight in my opinion, but it is getting more and more woman friendly every year. I felt repected and valued as a woman there. The third stereotype is definitely true, though not EVERYONE drinks.

There are some people who are indeed "granola-y" and yes there is a population that parties very hard.

yes, I would say this is the baseline, but it's better to assume that most people are reaching beyond this baseline as most students are and do achieve something very different from the norm here. This is a diverse campus in that regard, with many pocket communities.

For a large majority of the student population it's accurate.

Dartmouth students do not fit any stereotypes. I thought that I went to a diverse high school, but I was blown away by the varied, diverse nature of the student body here. There is really no 'stereotypical Dartmouth Student.'

Not true. The social scene is at the Frats but you don't have ta sip ta be kewl.

Although Greek life is huge at Dartmouth and many students do drink and party, many students also choose not to drink or drink in moderation. The party scene here is what you make of it.