DARTMOUTH COLLEGE R OWING 2007-08 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 encounters that flavor everyday life at Dartmouth. The Dartmouth Experience comes in the classroom and late-night study ses- sions 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. 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 TABLE OF CONTENTS wardrobe of sweatshirts and sweaters gradually is transformed into one predominant color - Dartmouth green. The Dartmouth Experience . .1 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 This is Dartmouth College . ..2 spine and the feeling of pride that overwhelms you during the singing of the Alma Mater. Advice to High School Rowers . .3 It's walking to class and knowing nine of the ten people you meet along the The D-Plan . .4 way. It's manipulating satellite images for a geography class, studying Beethoven or flipping a frisbee around the Green on a warm spring afternoon. Training Calendar . .5 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 sum- Men's Heavyweight Rowing . .6-9 mer. It's understanding the devotion of alumni who make the pilgrimage to the Women's Rowing . .10-13 Hanover Plain and revel in Dartmouth Night festivities. It's all this and more. The Dartmouth Experience is what you choose to make Men’s Lightweight Rowing . .14-17 it. The opportunities and possibilities are endless. Rowing Internationally . .18 Location/Administration . .19 Support Staff . .20 WWW.DARTMOUTHSPORTS.COM 1 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE R OWING 2007-08 THIS IS DARTMOUTH COLLEGE DESCRIPTION: The nation’s ninth oldest college and a ANNUAL ENROLLMENT: (Fall 2006) Undergraduate- member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth is a private, four- 4,085. Graduate-1,668: Arts & Sciences-605; Medical year, liberal arts, coeducational college with schools of School-378; Thayer-182; Tuck-503. business, engineering and medicine as well as 18 grad- uate programs in the arts and sciences. Its 200-acre FINANCIAL AID: Need-based; total awards 2006 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, BE); accessible by bus and by Amtrak rail service master’s (AM, MALS, MBA, ME, MS, MPH); from New York and Washington, D.C. to White 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 the Tribes ... English Youth and others.” Coeducational 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 in deserto” (“a voice crying out in the wilderness”). the fall of 2003, local and long-distance telephone calling was enabled over the campus network using “software phones” PRESIDENT: James Wright ’64a, noted historian and specialist on and VoIP software. Ownership of a computer has been required of the American West, inaugurated 16th Dartmouth president in September, undergraduates since 1991. 1998; a member of Dartmouth’s history department since 1969; former Dartmouth Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences; graduate of ATHLETICS: 34 intercollegiate varsity sports (16 women's, 16 men's, two Wisconsin State University (1964) with master’s and doctorate degrees from coed); 17 club sports; 24 intramural sports. Three-quarters of Dartmouth 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 calen- dar 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 R OWING 2007-08 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 will First of all, the work you do in the classroom will have the greatest bearing last a lifetime. The friendships forged through hard work and sweat, the les- on whether or not you are admitted, so keep studying. Be sure to plan ahead sons of connection between hard work and achievement and the feeling of as you prepare your application. Talk with your teachers about your inter- empowerment derived from accomplishing the impossible stay with rowers ests and strengths. They have seen a lot of students and heard about a lot of forever. The confidence and self discovery they gain help them in other colleges’ different programs and can help you start in the right direction. 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 ques- ever, the Ivy League has developed more of an academic identity, due to its tions about visiting and other opportunities to learn more about the school commitment to academic excellence. While being a student at one of the 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 for and around campus, not just at the boathouse. The goal is for athletics to the rest of your life, and you don’t want to rush into any decisions. If you help students gain a broad undergraduate experience and to become well- save your college search for your senior year, you may find that taking rounded individuals. The training volume will vary throughout the year, for SATs, improving on your academic record, writing applications and being a instance around two hours a day, with a day off per week in season and less leader on your team can make traveling difficult. Once you have your 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 Another rule within the Ivy League dictates that there are no merit-based IMPORTANT DEADLINES scholarships.