DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ROWING 2008-09 The Dartmouth Experience Ask any member of the Dartmouth family to define this phrase, and most will struggle for the precise words. That's because every Dartmouth Experience, like every log in the Homecoming bonfire and every snowflake in the Winter Carnival snow sculpture, is somewhat similar yet distinctly different. The Dartmouth Experience is formed by the College's many traditions, like Dartmouth Outing Club Trips in the New Hampshire wilderness, where the newest members of the Dartmouth community are baptized and bonded through hiking boots, backpacks, trail mix - and friendships. Or when the entire freshman class dons jerseys emblazoned with their class year and stands for an entire football game. It's also the multitude of encoun- ters that flavor everyday life at Dartmouth. The Dartmouth Experience comes in the classroom and late-night study sessions in the '02 Room in Baker Library, when 200 pages of reading suddenly makes perfect sense. It's the camaraderie on the river, in the locker room and on the bus rides back to Hanover after a race. It's thoughtful discussions with some of the nation's brightest minds, who turn out to be peers as well as professors. TABLE OF CONTENTS It's criss-crossing the trails at the Dartmouth Skiway, hiking to the top of Mount Moosilauke or walking along scenic Occom Pond. It's watching as the bulk of your wardrobe of sweatshirts and sweaters gradually is transformed into one predominant The Dartmouth Experience . 1 color - Dartmouth green. This is Dartmouth College . .2 It's pepperoni pizza with dorm mates on Thursday night and all-you-can-eat brunch in Thayer Dining Center on Sunday morning. It's the chill that goes up your spine and the Advice to High School Rowers . 3 feeling of pride that overwhelms you during the singing of the Alma Mater. The D-Plan . 4 It's walking to class and knowing nine of the ten people you meet along the way. It's manipulating satellite images for a geography class, studying Beethoven or flipping a Training Calendar . 5 frisbee around the Green on a warm spring afternoon. Men’s Lightweight Rowing . .6-9 It's the beauty of Baker Tower during a snow storm or the sharp smell of leaves during football season. It's rowing on the Connecticut River during sophomore summer. It's Women’s Rowing . .10-13 understanding the devotion of alumni who make the pilgrimage to the Hanover Plain and Men’s Heavyweight Rowing . .14-17 revel in Dartmouth Night festivities. It's all this and more. The Dartmouth Experience is what you choose to make it. The Rowing Internationally . 18 opportunities and possibilities are endless. Location/Administration . 19 Support Staff . 20 WWW.DARTMOUTHSPORTS.COM 1 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ROWING 2008-09 This Is Dartmouth College DESCRIPTION: The nation’s ninth oldest college and a ANNUAL ENROLLMENT: (Fall 2006) Undergraduate-4,085. member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth is a private, four- Graduate-1,668: Arts & Sciences-605; Medical School-378; year, liberal arts, coeducational college with schools Thayer-182; Tuck-503. of business, engineering and medicine as well as 18 graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Its 200- FINANCIAL AID: Need-based; total awards 2006 acre main campus features state-of-the-art academic — $67 million. Admission to Dartmouth is need- facilities including the Berry Library, the Hood moot. Museum of Art, the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Rauner Special Collections Library. TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK FACULTY: Arts and Sciences-366; Medical LOCATION: Hanover, N.H., on the School-166; Thayer-27; Tuck-38 Total: 597. Connecticut River; two hours northwest of Doctorate or equivalent held by more than 90 Boston, five hours north of New York City; percent of Dartmouth's full-time instructional accessible via Interstates 89 and 91, or air car- faculty. riers to airports in Manchester, N.H. (MHT) and Lebanon, N.H. (LEB). The college is also DEGREES AWARDED: Bachelor’s (AB, accessible by bus and by Amtrak rail service BE); master’s (AM, MALS, MBA, ME, MS, from New York and Washington, D.C. to White MPH); doctorate (PhD, MD); combined degrees River Junction, Vt. (MBA/ME, MBA/MD, MBA/MS, MS/MEM, MD/PhD). HISTORY: Founded 1769 by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock for the education of “youth of the Indian COMPUTING AT DARTMOUTH: One of Tribes ... English Youth and others.” Coeducational the nation’s pioneers in educational computing, since 1972. Nickname: “Big Green.” Colors: Dartmouth’s computing environment includes a wire- Dartmouth Green and White. Motto: “Vox clamantis in less network that covers the entire campus. Beginning deserto” (“a voice crying out in the wilderness”). in the fall of 2003, local and long-distance telephone call- ing was enabled over the campus network using “software PRESIDENT: James Wright ’64a, noted historian and special- phones” and VoIP software. Ownership of a computer has been ist on the American West, inaugurated 16th Dartmouth president in required of undergraduates since 1991. September, 1998; a member of Dartmouth’s history department since 1969; former Dartmouth Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences; ATHLETICS: 34 intercollegiate varsity sports (16 women's, 16 men's, two graduate of Wisconsin State University (1964) with master’s and doctorate coed); 17 club sports; 24 intramural sports. Three-quarters of Dartmouth degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. undergraduates participate in some form of athletics. UNDERGRADUATE ARTS AND SCIENCES: Dartmouth is committed On the Web: www.dartmouth.edu to providing an excellent teaching and research environment for students and faculty. The scale of the College ensures the intimacy of a liberal arts college, while providing research opportunities typically found at much larger institutions. For the Class of 2011, there were 14,176 applications and 2,167 admissions; approximately 1,100 students will enroll. Students come from across the United States and around the world. Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2007-08 is $34,965; total tuition, room and board and fees is $45,483. Admission to the College is need-moot; financial aid in 2005-06 totaled approximately $67 million to 57 percent of undergraduates. The Arts and Sciences consist of 39 academic departments and programs; top majors among 2006 graduates were economics, government, psychological and brain sciences, history and English. The College has about 350 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including the highest percentage of tenured women in the Ivy League. ACADEMIC CALENDAR: The Dartmouth Plan — a year-round calendar of four 10-week terms — allows flexibility in scheduling. Undergraduates must be on campus freshman year, summer before junior year and senior year. 2 WWW.DARTMOUTHSPORTS.COM DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ROWING 2008-09 Advice To High School Rowers ROWING AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE WHAT YOU CAN DO There are many great benefits of rowing at Dartmouth College and most First of all, the work you do in the classroom will have the greatest bearing will last a lifetime. The friendships forged through hard work and sweat, on whether or not you are admitted, so keep studying. Be sure to plan ahead the lessons of connection between hard work and achievement and the feel- as you prepare your application. Talk with your teachers about your inter- ing of empowerment derived from accomplishing the impossible stay with ests and strengths. They have seen a lot of students and heard about a lot of rowers forever. The confidence and self discovery they gain help them in colleges’ different programs and can help you start in the right direction. other endeavors. At practice, rowers work hard and become better people because of it. Make sure that you visit a number of different colleges, and start early because you may be surprised about what you find you like and dislike. Visiting a college is an excellent way to meet professors, talk with students THE IVY LEAGUE AND ATHLETICS and to gain an idea if the school is the right fit for you. It is important for women to register with the NCAA clearinghouse because that is now The Ivy League is the oldest athletic league in the country. Over time, how- required for them to take official visits. Don’t be afraid to ask coaches ever, the Ivy League has developed more of an academic identity, due to its questions about visiting and other opportunities to learn more about the commitment to academic excellence. While being a student at one of the school and program. top colleges in the country, you will find that rowing is by no means your sole identity. You will take pride in your accomplishments in the classroom College is a place where you will spend four years and will identify with and around campus, not just at the boathouse. The goal is for athletics to for the rest of your life, and you don’t want to rush into any decisions. If help students gain a broad undergraduate experience and to become well- you save your college search for your senior year, you may find that taking rounded individuals. The training volume will vary throughout the year, SATs, improving on your academic record, writing applications and being for instance around two hours a day, with a day off per week in season and a leader on your team can make traveling difficult. Once you have your less time in the winter. favorite colleges identified, spend a good deal of time making sure you do an excellent job on your essays and applications. SCHOLARSHIPS Important DEADLINES Another rule within the Ivy League dictates that there are no merit-based Early Decision: scholarships. Schools within the Ivy League can only offer need-based Nov.