The Dartmouth Experience
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The Dartmouth Experience UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FACTS For the class of 2011, there were 14,176 applica- • Founded in 1769 tions and 2,167 admissions; approximately 1,100 • Four-year private liberal arts college students will enroll . Students come from across the • Main campus is located on 200 acres in United States and around the world . Undergraduate Hanover, N .H . tuition and fees for 2007-08 is $34,965; total tuition, • Division I athletics, affiliated with the Ivy room and board and fees are $45,483 . Admission League to the college is need-moot; financial aid in 2005-06 • 4,200 undergraduates, 1,600 graduates totaled approximately $67 million; 57 percent of • Undergraduate college has 29 departments undergraduates received financial aid. and 10 interdisciplinary programs Dartmouth is committed to providing an excel- • Graduate schools of business, medicine, lent teaching and research environment for students engineering, and arts and sciences and faculty . The scale of the college ensures the • Motto is “Vox clamantis in deserto” (“a intimacy of a liberal arts college while providing voice crying in the wilderness”) research opportunities typically found at much larger • Academic calendar is four terms, year-round institutions . DMS encompasses 16 clinical and basic science de- UNDERGRADUATE ARTS & SCIENCES partments, and draws on the resources of Dartmouth The Arts and Sciences consist of 39 academic College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center . departments and programs; top majors among 2006 It features interdisciplinary research programs in graduates were economics, government, psychologi- cancer, infectious diseases, cell and molecular biol- cal and brain sciences, history and English . The ogy, genetics, immunology, ethics, neurosciences, college has more than 350 tenured and tenure-track cardiovascular disease, public health, and medical faculty, including the highest percentage of tenured outcomes . DMS has approximately 700 full-time women in the Ivy League . faculty and an additional 1,600 part-time faculty and researchers . It receives 5,000 applications yearly to RTS CIENCES RADUATE ROGRAMS fill 82 places in the entering medical class and enrolls A & S G P more than 550 medical and graduate students . Dean: The first Dartmouth PhD was awarded in the Stephen P . Spielberg, M .D ., Ph .D . classics in 1885, and the first modern doctoral pro- grams began in the 1960s . More than 600 students are enrolled in 19 graduate programs, including THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, cogni- Founded in 1867, Thayer School comprises both the tive neuroscience, comparative literature, computer undergraduate Department of Engineering Sciences science, earth sciences, electro-acoustic music, and a professional school with degrees through the engineering, evaluative clinical sciences, experimental doctorate (BE, MEM, MS, PhD). Forty-five full-time molecular medicine, genetics, liberal studies, math- faculty members serve approximately 600 under- ematics, microbiology and immunology, pharmacolo- graduate students and 180 graduate students . Dean: gree programs including the Tuck Business Bridge gy and toxicology, physics and astronomy, physiology, Joseph J . Helble . Program(r), a LEAD summer business institute, and and psychological and brain sciences . Dean: Charles a series of programs for minority business executives . Barlowe . TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS The school has 46 full-time faculty members and Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of approximately 480 MBA students, representing more DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL management and consistently ranks among the top than 30 nationalities . Dean: Paul Danos . Founded in 1797, Dartmouth Medical School business schools worldwide . Tuck offers the full-time (DMS), is the nation’s fourth-oldest medical school . MBA as well as executive education and nonde- DEVELOPMENT To advance leading-edge teaching and scholar- ship, enhance residential and campus life, and honor its commitment to making education accessible, Dart- mouth announced in November, 2004, the largest fund-raising effort in its history . With a $1 .3 billion goal, the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience is seeking investment in dozens of initiatives across the institution - for the undergraduate college, its graduate programs in the arts and sciences, and three professional schools of business, engineering, and medicine . LIBRARIES The Dartmouth College Library includes nine libraries on the College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center campuses . Dartmouth’s “open stack” libraries provide access to 2 .5 million volumes, 21,000 current periodicals, 6 million pages of manuscripts and other materials . The Digital Library at Dartmouth is the gateway to more than 30,000 e-journals, 100,000 e-books, 800 research databases, and other online resources and provides access to the reference, document delivery and other services the library provides . 2008-09 Big Green Men’s Basketball www.DartmouthSports.com The Dartmouth Experience The Dartmouth Experience COMPUTING AT DARTMOUTH Dartmouth’s computing environment includes a wireless network that covers the entire campus with more than 1,400 access points . Local and long-dis- tance telephone calling is over the campus network using “software phones” and VoIP software . Public terminals with free access to the Internet are avail- able in most public areas including the library, Collis Center, dining halls, and Alumni Gym . ATHLETICS There are 34 intercollegiate varsity sports (16 women’s, 16 men’s, two coed), 17 club sports and 24 intramural sports . Three-quarters of Dartmouth undergraduates participate in some form of athletics . TUCKER FOUNDATION Community Service — Approximately 60 percent of Dartmouth undergraduates volunteer on-campus, locally and worldwide through Tucker Foundation programs and partnerships . Religious Life — One college chaplain and 25 student religious organizations. Affiliated facilities and groups include Rollins Chapel (interfaith), the Roth Center for Jewish Life, Aquinas House (Roman Catholic), Edgerton House (Episcopal), the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College (United Church of Christ), Baptist Student Fellowship, the Lutheran Church and Student Center (ELCA Lutheran), Al-Nur (Muslim Student Fellowship), Shanti (Hindu Student Fellowship), Baha’i, Quaker Student Fellow- ship, Mormon Student Fellowship, Christian Science Organization, Meditation Society and others . OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAMS Dartmouth undergraduates have the opportunity to study in 42 off-campus programs in 22 countries . www.DartmouthSports.com 2008-09 Big Green Men’s Basketball The D-Plan The D-Plan refers to a student’s enrollment pat- During advising ses- tern — which term(s) s/he will be on campus, which sions (especially during term(s) s/he will be doing an off-campus program the winter term), students THE D-PLAN (i .e ., registered for classes but not in Hanover), and should be invited to think A TYPICAL RESIDENT PATTERN which term(s) will be off . about when they want to Fall Winter Spring Summer A student is required to be on campus fall, winter, be off campus, and what Freshman On Campus On Campus On Campus — and spring of the first year, their sophomore sum- they might want to do Sophomore LSA/FSP On Campus On Campus On Campus mer, and fall, winter and spring of their senior year . during that time . Advisors Junior Off (Internship) On Campus On Campus — Typically a student will be “off ” (i .e ., not registered) should discuss this explic- Senior On Campus On Campus On Campus — for one term during their sophomore or junior year . itly with their advisees A student may also be off-campus but registered, during the winter term LSA — Language Study Abroad participating in either Dartmouth’s Language Study meeting in advance of FSP — Foreign Study Program Abroad (LSA) or Foreigh Study Program (FSP), or Spring course selection . doing one of the 12-college exchanges . First-year students must register a plan with the Registrar’s Office in the spring of the first year (April 16 for ‘12s) . D-Plans can be changed as a student’s plans change, though a student is strongly encour- aged to register changes two terms in advance of when those changes would come into effect . Students do not always get their first choice because of space constraints on campus (particularly winter term), and thus students are asked to submit first, second, and third choices . The “off-term” represents one of Dartmouth’s unique opportunities, and students should be encour- aged to begin thinking about how they might make use of it during their first year. They should be en- couraged to use Career Services to explore some of the thousands of internships available to them . They may be unaware that various offices here at Dart- mouth also sponsor internships and offer competitive grants to support students during their off terms, in- cluding the office of the Dean of Faculty, the Dickey Center, the Ethics Institute, Outdoor Programs, the Rockefeller Center, and the Tucker Foundation . For a list of these opportunities, see http://www .dart- mouth .edu/~ugar/undergrad/other .html . FITZGERALD IN BERLIN Dartmouth junior center Elgin Fitzgerald spent this past summer studying German in Berlin thanks to the Language Study Abroad program . “The D-Plan at Dartmouth worked out great for me this past summer because it enabled me to study German in Germany where I could be immersed in the language . Without the D-Plan, I would not have