Class Note 1943
Issue
Can you believe the incredible statistics for the class of 2014? Wow!
A total of 2,165 students were accepted out of 18,778 applicants for the lowest ever acceptance rate of 11.5 percent. Of those accepted, 44 percent are students of color; 11 percent are the first in their family to go to college; 9 percent are children of alumni; 7 percent are international students. And 95.3 percent of the accepted students were in the top 10 percent of their secondary school’s graduating class, 39.9 percent were valedictorians, 11.9 percent salutatorians. The mean SAT scores are 733 critical reasoning, 741 math, 740 writing.
Last Olympic report: The media trumpets Dartmouth as the “Top Ivy League Producer of Olympic Talent.” This last Olympics boasted nine Dartmouth contestants who won two gold and one bronze medal.
There are now more than 30 Dartmouth graduates in Obama’s government. They include assistant secretaries, under secretaries, ambassadors, legal advisors, all kinds of special advisors and, most visibly, the Secretary of the Treasury.
A story about Smed Ward and his granddaughter appeared as a front-page top story in the Hanover area Valley News on April 1. It was no April fool—Smed was concerned because his obviously well-qualified granddaughter didn’t make it into the class of 2014. Not only is she an honor student from Montana, she’s also a descendant of John Ledyard. Our sympathies. We told you getting into Dartmouth was nearly impossible (see the second paragraph).
Our winter was a failure—our snowfall was 26 inches below normal. Now the grass is green, flowers are in bloom—all ahead of schedule.
I’m sorry to report the deaths of Frank H. West, Dick Livingston and Alec Nagle’s wife, Mary.
—John Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 371, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@valley.net
July - Aug 2010
Can you believe the incredible statistics for the class of 2014? Wow!
A total of 2,165 students were accepted out of 18,778 applicants for the lowest ever acceptance rate of 11.5 percent. Of those accepted, 44 percent are students of color; 11 percent are the first in their family to go to college; 9 percent are children of alumni; 7 percent are international students. And 95.3 percent of the accepted students were in the top 10 percent of their secondary school’s graduating class, 39.9 percent were valedictorians, 11.9 percent salutatorians. The mean SAT scores are 733 critical reasoning, 741 math, 740 writing.
Last Olympic report: The media trumpets Dartmouth as the “Top Ivy League Producer of Olympic Talent.” This last Olympics boasted nine Dartmouth contestants who won two gold and one bronze medal.
There are now more than 30 Dartmouth graduates in Obama’s government. They include assistant secretaries, under secretaries, ambassadors, legal advisors, all kinds of special advisors and, most visibly, the Secretary of the Treasury.
A story about Smed Ward and his granddaughter appeared as a front-page top story in the Hanover area Valley News on April 1. It was no April fool—Smed was concerned because his obviously well-qualified granddaughter didn’t make it into the class of 2014. Not only is she an honor student from Montana, she’s also a descendant of John Ledyard. Our sympathies. We told you getting into Dartmouth was nearly impossible (see the second paragraph).
Our winter was a failure—our snowfall was 26 inches below normal. Now the grass is green, flowers are in bloom—all ahead of schedule.
I’m sorry to report the deaths of Frank H. West, Dick Livingston and Alec Nagle’s wife, Mary.
—John Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 371, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@valley.net