Class Note 1943
Issue
Jul - Aug 2017
There were 20,034 applicants seeking admittance to the class of 2021; 2,092 (10.4 percent) were accepted, with an expectation that about 1,100 of the 2,002 will choose to become members of the class of 2021. Five hundred forty-seven are either valedictorians or salutatorians; 11 percent are foreign students (from 63 countries); mean SAT scores rose 17 percent over those from a year ago; 59 percent are public school graduates; the group represents 50 states and D.C.; 9 percent are alumni legacies; 15 percent are the first in their families to attend college; and 63 percent need financial aid. California, for the sixth year, had the largest number of applicants, followed by New York.
Effective this fall, Dartmouth’s tuition will be increased 2.9 percent, bringing total costs for one year—tuition, room, board and mandated fees—to $68,000. Ten million dollars, joining an earlier $10 million, has been given by Frank Guarini ’46 to support a foreign study program sending Dartmouth students abroad and bringing foreign students to the Dartmouth campus. Five million dollars has been given to Dartmouth by former trustee Ed Halderman ’70 to be used by the director of athletics “to invest in programs and innovations that boost Dartmouth’s competitive advantage and enhance the students’ athletic experience.” The College has sold a 175-acre farm it owned in Etna, New Hampshire, to the Trust for Public Land. The trust will convey the land to the National Park Service, which will add it to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.
Duane Compton ’77, a professor of biology and cell chemistry, has been named dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, having presided over a major reorganization there in 2016. Honors to Louise Erdrich ’76, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel, LaRose, and to Tuck Dean Matthew Slaughter, who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Good news! No obits to report. Eat your Wheaties.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org
Effective this fall, Dartmouth’s tuition will be increased 2.9 percent, bringing total costs for one year—tuition, room, board and mandated fees—to $68,000. Ten million dollars, joining an earlier $10 million, has been given by Frank Guarini ’46 to support a foreign study program sending Dartmouth students abroad and bringing foreign students to the Dartmouth campus. Five million dollars has been given to Dartmouth by former trustee Ed Halderman ’70 to be used by the director of athletics “to invest in programs and innovations that boost Dartmouth’s competitive advantage and enhance the students’ athletic experience.” The College has sold a 175-acre farm it owned in Etna, New Hampshire, to the Trust for Public Land. The trust will convey the land to the National Park Service, which will add it to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.
Duane Compton ’77, a professor of biology and cell chemistry, has been named dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, having presided over a major reorganization there in 2016. Honors to Louise Erdrich ’76, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel, LaRose, and to Tuck Dean Matthew Slaughter, who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Good news! No obits to report. Eat your Wheaties.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org