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(05/12/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles examining higher education admissions in the wake of last year's University of Michigan Supreme Court decisions. This article examines the role socio-economic class plays in admissions.
(05/11/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles examining higher education admissions in the wake of last year's University of Michigan Supreme Court decisions. This article looks at race preference.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles examining higher education admissions in the wake of last year's University of Michigan Supreme Court decisions. This article looks at legacy preference.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles examining the far-reaching effects of last year's Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action.
(05/04/04 9:00am)
A new Windows computer virus scourging the campus has incapacitated student computers, producing long lines at the Computing Services desk in Baker-Berry Library and frustrating the efforts of at least one professor attempting to teach class.
(04/26/04 9:00am)
NEW YORK -- As picks were made at the NFL Draft at Madison Square Garden Theatre, each player and his school were shown on the big screen. The list read: Louisiana State University, Syracuse, Ohio State ... Dartmouth.
(04/23/04 9:00am)
High school students will come to the Dartmouth campus this summer not just to participate in debate or volleyball programs, but to seek a leg up in the for the increasingly competitive college admissions process.
(04/13/04 9:00am)
In recent weeks, multiple colleges and universities across the nation have implemented a new network filter promoted by the Recording Industry Association of America in its latest attempt to end illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing.
(04/07/04 9:00am)
In an admissions coup taking at least some by surprise in the Ivy League, Yale University came out on top this year as the Ancient Eight's most selective institution. With its all-time low acceptance rate of 9.9 percent of applicants for the Class of 2008, Yale beat out perennial favorite Harvard for the honor for the first time in recent memory.
(04/05/04 9:00am)
The College's admissions office mailed out a staggeringly high number of rejection letters Friday to applicants for the Class of 2008, as only 18.3 percent of the 11,733 students who applied were admitted -- a number almost as impressive as last year's record-low 18.2 percent admission rate.
(04/02/04 10:00am)
Dartmouth's systems experts brought the GreenPrint system back into commission Thursday morning, days after the public printing mechanism's server was hacked into by intruders within the campus network.
(03/31/04 10:00am)
Though many Dartmouth students may beg to differ, the College was not ranked on the Princeton Review's list of top ten U.S. "dream colleges" released earlier this month. New York University topped the list, which was compiled from the surveys of over 3,000 college applicants and 300 parents.
(03/29/04 10:00am)
Some students who checked BlitzMail over interim were unpleasantly surprised by a wide range of problems resulting from server power failures March 19 and 20. Common problems included lost messages, sent messages not being delivered and all messages in the inbox appearing as unread. Some students also found their "Reply To" field set to other BlitzMail users' names.
(03/05/04 11:00am)
Take away campus internet access for four hours and hordes of students go into a desperate panic.
(02/27/04 11:00am)
Overall applications to the Class of 2008 are down nominally to 11,700 -- a decrease of less than 1 percent from last year's record high. Though the majority of these high school seniors will have to wait until April to receive their admissions decision, a few hundred lucky and exceptional students will find out by the end of February that Dartmouth wants them.
(02/25/04 11:00am)
As the fight to get into the nation's top colleges intensifies, high-school students are embracing an unusual tactic to differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack: letting schools know they are interested through regular contact with admissions offices and visits to campus.
(02/20/04 11:00am)
A student-run magazine featuring pictures of undergraduates is a possibility at Dartmouth, according to some members of the College's Council on Student Organizations.
(02/20/04 11:00am)
Applications to most Ivy League institutions dropped for the Class of 2008 after last year's applicant pools for the Class of 2007 set several record highs. Dartmouth was no exception: The total number of applications, both regular and early-decision, dropped less than one percent from last year's record number of applicants.
(02/13/04 11:00am)
Winter in Hanover " it's cold, long and dismal. But for one weekend, it is embraced and celebrated by virtually everyone on campus. This was the vision of Dartmouth Outing Club founder Fred Harris '11, and it has become a reality.
(02/10/04 11:00am)
Shakespeare's heralded writings wouldn't be sufficient to get him into Dartmouth or any other Ivy League institution -- at least not according to the Princeton Review. The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, on the other hand, would have his pick of the Ancient Eight.