Acceptance rate hits all-time low
With over 14,000 applicants to the class of 2011, Dartmouth posted a record low acceptance rate of 15 percent, accepting only 2,165 applicants.
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With over 14,000 applicants to the class of 2011, Dartmouth posted a record low acceptance rate of 15 percent, accepting only 2,165 applicants.
For most Dartmouth students, the hours spent memorizing vocabulary words, analogies and simple math equations in preparation for the SAT is a thing of the past. This spring, however, students will have the opportunity to put this forgotten knowledge to use by participating in Let's Get Ready, a program that helps local high school students prepare for the SATs and the college application process by pairing them with undergraduates at nearby colleges.
With the current onslaught of websites like MySpace, Facebook, and Bored at Baker, Dartmouth students such as Kolleen Burbank '09 are losing confidence in the Internet's ability to stimulate intellectual discussion.
After spending 16 days in space orbiting the Earth 256 times and over 10 years overseeing the use of high-pressure oxygen at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, former astronaut and current Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey announced Monday that he is considering a Democratic bid to replace Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., in the 2008 Congressional elections.
While many local ski areas are thankful for the recent snowstorm, the excess snow forced high school alpine and Nordic ski teams in the Upper Valley to cancel their championship ski races scheduled for Wednesday, according to an article in the Valley News. One of the canceled races was the New Hampshire Division II Nordic State Championships. Wayne Barlow, assistant coach of the Hanover High Nordic ski team, called the race's postponement ironic because throughout the season, many races have been cancelled due to lack of snow. The Southern Vermont District Championships were also postponed until Friday, though Bill McCollum, who coaches Nordic and alpine teams that were supposed to compete in the race, said the fresh snow could lead to poor visibility and other dangerous skiing conditions.
The Navajo Nation Supreme Court heard the case of Navajo Transport Services, Inc. v. Schroeder in Cook Auditorium Monday afternoon.
Recent snowfall and low temperatures have created enough ice on Occom Pond for the annual Polar Bear Swim to be held as planned.
Dartmouth Medical School was recently awarded $25,000 by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation to help support the medical school's new Urban Health Scholars Program. The program is intended to expand the medical school's ability to treat patients in under-served urban areas, predominantly those around Manchester, N.H., and Boston. "Urban scholars" are identified early in their training and then given the opportunity to work in various settings, including neighborhood clinics, shelters and community centers. The program, which began selecting scholars from first- and second-year medical classes last fall, is geared towards students who are interested in urban healthcare and multicultural health issues, according to the medical school's website.
World-renowned tenor Ian Bostridge will not perform with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at the Hopkins Center on Friday as was originally expected, due to an illness that prevents him from traveling to the United States from London. Instead, American tenor Stanford Olsen will perform Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.
Students eating breakfast in Collis Wednesday and Thursday morning may have noticed atypical visitors: junior high girls. They were congregating in the Common Ground for Sister to Sister, a student-run conference that joins Dartmouth women and middle school girls from the Upper Valley. Through speakers and discussion groups, the girls confronted issues ranging from academics and athletics to peer pressure, self-image and relationships with family and friends.
Trading the sleepy sidewalks of Hanover for the busy streets of New York, 30 Dartmouth women participated in Women in Business's annual "Day at the Bank."
Haines, a former president of Bones Gate fraternity and participant in the Dartmouth Alliance for Children of Color, has returned to campus after six years of absence to complete his music major.
Alicia Moldeen / The Dartmouth The outgoing 2007 Directorate of The Dartmouth announced Saturday that Phil Salinger '08 and Eddie Kalletta '08 will take over as editor-in-chief and publisher of The Dartmouth beginning next winter. Kalletta and Salinger will assume a staff of nearly 200 undergraduate students and self-amassed assets of over $600,000. Salinger, an economics major from Newton, Mass., and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, is currently studying in Rome on an Italian LSA.
Short, silent video clips of debate footage between political candidates are better indicators of election winners than reports of economic conditions, according to a study conducted by Dartmouth, the University of Chicago, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
A California Superior Court judge recently ruled that the Association of American Medical Colleges has 60 days to make its administration of the Medical College Admissions Test more accommodating to students with learning disabilities.
Baroness Caroline Cox, Deputy Speaker of the English House of Lords and founder of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, discussed oppression in the developing world and the need to address this problem in a lecture on Thursday.
In order to talk to people who could give her advice about the economics department, she attended Major Enlightenment on Tuesday. The event, which the Dean's Office Student Consultants organized, was geared toward freshmen and sophomores, and featured students and teachers from every department.
Since 1986, however, when the Friday before Homecoming ceased to be a day off, teachers have had the option of holding classes that day. While some professors choose to move their Friday classes to X-periods, many others still hold class on Friday, much to the dismay of some students.
Dartmouth will celebrate the 18th Annual National Coming Out Day today with a community dinner and speech by Joanne Herman '75, a transgendered alumna.
The event lasted from 7 to 9 p.m., and featured refreshments as well as a wide array of information, music and activities intended to acquaint students with the library and its multitude of resources.