Dartmouth is now need blind to internationals

[JiaZheng]

Just thought I should share this with you:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/01/22.html

Too bad it doesn't apply to earlier classes.

[Leen]

Hmm.. what makes them do that?

Too much funding? Better publicity image? To increase the school's ranking and reputation? To attract more international students?

or to genuinely help those who need the financial aid? :lol:

It's just ever since I worked with the Alumni House, I have learned so much more about fundings and how they can drastically influence a lot of other things.

[JiaZheng]

HI LEEN!!! HOW ARE YA!???

It's because the international students here have been campaigning for the change. Though I do not doubt that there's that reputation reason and all, I don't think Dartmouth is obsessed with rankings and prestige. Students here are really laid back and down to earth. If it were looking for reputation that desperately (especially to international students), it would have expanded its graduate programs a long time ago.

[bush]

New Hampshire is as bad as Vermont....yucks....

[JiaZheng]

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Hanover is kinda different though: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0707/gallery.BPTL_top_100.moneymag/2.html

It's cold, it's quiet, it's hard to access, but we pride ourselves in those things. Plus, the air here is very clean! My allergies have gone away since I came here!

[Appolo]

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Hanover is kinda different though: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0707/gallery.BPTL_top_100.moneymag/2.html

It's cold, it's quiet, it's hard to access, but we pride ourselves in those things. Plus, the air here is very clean! My allergies have gone away since I came here!

You've got allergies? That comes to be a surprise since I never knew that you have one.Or are you refering to hay fever?

So, can i know how many international students are currently studying there and the mean in terms of their family income?

[JiaZheng]

I don't know what allergy actually. My nose and throat get irritated a lot when I go outside. I'm sure it's not hay fever.

In my year there are 10% internationals. I'm guessing 50% of them receive financial aid, the others are family supported or on scholarships or some other means.

[vseehua]

I don't know what allergy actually. My nose and throat get irritated a lot when I go outside. I'm sure it's not hay fever.Same with me here as well... I am betting that it is because of the air that we are breathing in Malaysia, esp in KL...

[bush]

=(

Hanover is kinda different though: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0707/gallery.BPTL_top_100.moneymag/2.html

It's cold, it's quiet, it's hard to access, but we pride ourselves in those things. Plus, the air here is very clean! My allergies have gone away since I came here!

It's the same.....That part of the world is really really dead. The largest city around the border region is Montreal and it's not too big of a city at all.

Gosh, Peterborough Ontario is bigger than Hanover....even Chateauguay Quebec is bigger than Hanover.

[JiaZheng]

It's the same.....That part of the world is really really dead. The largest city around the border region is Montreal and it's not too big of a city at all.

Gosh, Peterborough Ontario is bigger than Hanover....even Chateauguay Quebec is bigger than Hanover.

I disagree. The area around us may be empty, but Hanover is anything but really really dead. In fact, being a relatively huge community in a secluded region has turned Hanover into a focal point. Presidential candidates gather in Hanover for the primaries, world conferences take place here, dance troupes and theater companies perform here so very frequently, speakers and celebrities in search of NH/VT audiences find this the best location, and the list goes on.

Hanover is small all right, but almost everyone here would agree that its benefits outweigh its disadvantages. Yeah sure, we don't have the same opportunities that Columbia and NYU students do, but I cannot even begin telling you just how much the seclusion has fostered an amazing school spirit. You don't know just how gorgeous it is to watch a bunch of strangers you're stuck with in the New Hampshire wilderness turn into your best friends, to sing Christmas carols on a freezing night with your professors, to run around a bonfire with 70-y/o alumni cheering for you. If you don't trust me, I guess I'll just have to give you some boring solid facts like Dartmouth's ranking second highest on alumni-giving rate.

[bush]

You are free to disagree and that is your opinion.

But at the end of the day, it is a small town and because it is small and forsaken, people tend to look at the better side of a small town just so one's time spent there won't be so dreadful.

And yeah....that part of the world is dead.....whether you like it or not.

[JiaZheng]

Riigggghhtt. Have you been in Hanover, by the way?

[bush]

Small towns in Quebec and Northern New England......you bet I did......the only good thing is that there are multiple bestbuys where the prices are lower than the ones north of the border.

[JiaZheng]

So you came to Hanover and the only thing you liked was the bestbuy. Gotcha.