To the Editor:
A recent College press release confirms that "members of the class of 2007 were drawn from the largest applicant pool in Dartmouth history: 11, 855." Furthermore, the regional diversity of the class is remarkable: "17.4 percent are from New England, 33.3 percent are from the Mid-Atlantic region, 11 percent from the Mid-West, 13.4 percent from the South, 17.5 percent from the West, while 7.3 percent are from outside the United States." Now, as if to belie these statistics, the arbiters of "excellence" at BuzzFlood assert that Dartmouth is "New England's and one of the nation's best kept secrets." I'd say that the College is as secret as the Colonel's Original Recipe -- truly a national secret -- is delicious.
