How much money do they give out in merit scholarships?
No kidding?!?! o_0they don't give any merit scholarships. It's all need based.
does anyone having any new insight or info concerning whether or not everybody who is not accepted gets waitlisted rather than some rejections?
On my interview day Mr. Welch stated that once the list of "batting averages" is compiled they begin to "accept from the top and reject from the bottom, and construct a waitlist in-between, and at some magic point in March, the three points all come together" and they have acceptances, rejections, and a waitlist.
So yes, they do reject post-interview. Try to remember that student doc is a small sample size (and potentially a little more on the better side when it comes to strength of applicants) and that some people who are here may choose not to post rejections.
I don't mean to be a downer here, but last year, the admissions office confirmed having released wait lists before any rejections were sent out. If the same pattern holds, the fact that some people have gotten waitlisted does not mean that the rest of us who haven't heard back are in the top half.![]()
Waitlisted this mornig as well
#firstworldproblems
#whitetears
How were you all notified? By email?
does anyone having any new insight or info concerning whether or not everybody who is not accepted gets waitlisted rather than some rejections?
Does anyone have travel recommendations for Hanover to Manchester the day of the interview? There isn't a late enough flight so I'm planning on spending a night in either Manchester or Boston. Thanks!
Does anyone have travel recommendations for Hanover to Manchester the day of the interview? There isn't a late enough flight so I'm planning on spending a night in either Manchester or Boston. Thanks!
If their interview day ends at 3pm, the last Dartmouth Coach from Hanover to Boston leaves campus at 5pm and arrives to Boston's South Station at 7:30pm. It costs around $30 one way. From South Station, you can get pretty much anywhere in Boston for $2 using the MBTA (subway). If you continue on the coach you'll get to Boston Logan Airport, and a lot of nearby hotels have airport shuttles if you stay at one of those.
The Dartmouth Coach schedule is available here: http://dartmouthcoach.com/
Basically leaves Hanover 5am, 7am, 9am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm
2 hours 30 minutes to South Station, 2 hours 50 minutes to Boston Logan Airport.
Going from Boston to Manchester (if that's where your flight is out of), there are 2 Greyhounds listed on 2/28, one at 7am and one at 1:30pm. It's a 1 hour commute and costs $14. See http://www.greyhound.com/. I think there's some other bus service (Boston Express?) that has more frequent trips to and from Manchester, but I haven't looked into it carefully before.
Going from Hanover to Manchester, I believe Greyhound only has 1 bus per day; I looked on an arbitrary day (Thursday 2/28) and the one bus that day leaves Hanover at 2pm and arrives to Manchester at 3:40pm. Visit http://www.greyhound.com/ for more information. You'll probably miss this bus though because of the interview.
My two recommendations are:
1) Reserve a flight sometime after 9:15pm out of Boston on your interview day, if they even have flights that late. If you finish before 3pm, you can make the 3pm coach and get to Boston Logan by 5:50pm. If you finish after 3pm, you can make the 5pm coach and be at Boston Logan by 7:50pm.
2) You could stay in Hanover for the night and depart early in the morning and take a morning flight out of Boston the day after your interview.
If you need any more info, please PM me! 🙂
PS- I should've posted that 6 months ago when interviews started, sorry!!!
What day are you interviewing? If its the same as mine, I can drop you off in Manchester on my way home, since it's on my way.
Finally got rejected pre-interview from dartmouth today. Email was worded very nicely though by the director of admissions. Goodbye geisel!
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Thank you so much for this travel info! It looks like there are more options to get from Hanover to Boston than from Hanover to Manchester. I have a flight out of Manchester the day after my interview , but since its with southwest, I can always change it to Boston (its strangely more expensive though..)
I'm interviewing 2/28 Thursday. I might just have to take you up on this offer if we're interviewing the same day!
I interview March 5. Missed you by one interview day!
wish dartmouth would just decide on my file.. need to make travel plans ASAP for two other interviews on the east coast.
FINALLY got my rejection email...thanx for the long wait a**holes...goodbye Dartmouth
feel your pain.. i'm still waiting 🙁
2. PERFORMANCE ON STEP 1 OF THE BOARDS: In March each year, we receive a detailed breakdown of how our students did on Step 1 of the Boards taken during the previous calendar year (2010). Last June, July, and August, all 82 of our students at the end of Year 2 took Step 1, which is based on all of the courses they take during Year 1 (organized by basic science discipline) and Year 2 (organized by organ system). We had great results again this year. 100% of our students passed (versus 91.3% nationally); we scored significantly above the national average on mean overall score, with our second highest class mean score ever (231, vs. a national mean score of 222); and we scored significantly higher than the national average in all 20 areas reported. If you want to see more details, they are included in my annual report 2Does anyone know what Dartmouth's pass rate for step 1 of the board exams is? And how it compares to the national average?
Haven't been able to secure a host for my stay, can anyone recommend a hotel/place to stay the night before?
The Hanover Inn which is a 10 min walk from campus makes for a low stress stay--right on Main Street near a bunch of restaurants and conveniently it's at a stop for both greyhound and upper valley shuttle. Unfortunately it's on the expensive side and there is no complimentary breakfast. Mention you are interviewing at Geisel and you can get a room rate of $159, instead of the usual $210. I ended up getting upgraded to a campus view top floor room with a king size bed so I was pretty happy! I know a lot of people stayed in Lebanon, which is only ~15 min away by car. Good luck! It's an amazing school!