Welcome to Dartmouth College a private, four year, liberal arts institution that has been at the forefront of American educations.

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Dartmouth is located in the town of Hanover, New Hampshire, ranked second by money magazine's two thousand and seven best places to live. About two hours northwest of Boston and about five hours north of New York City.

Hanover is definitely not a city, it's a small town one with about ten thousand people, but it does provide the campus I think with a wonderful community in which to be located. I think our location also affords students the opportunities to hike, to ski, to canoe, to kayak so I think our natural setting really encourages students in terms of getting outside and really enjoying the area.

Founded in seventeen sixty nine, Dartmouth sits on two hundred and sixty nine pristine acres featuring central green which is surrounded on three sides by academic buildings. Residence halls and administrative buildings are all within walking distance of the green. Dartmouth's two hundred and sixty nine acre campus features a central green with academic building clustered on three sides. Some notable facilities on campus include the Hood Museum of Art, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

I guess what ended up bringing me to Dartmouth was when I came up here to visit as a perspective student and people here were so embracing and so nice that it was almost like ridiculously nice.

Dartmouth enrolls approximately fifty seven hundred students and roughly forty one hundred of those are under graduates. Students come from fifty states and fifty three foreign countries and minorities make up more than twenty seven percent of the under graduate population.

I think that there is just a lot of good energy. There is a lot of positive energy on campus, coming from the campus, coming from the support that you get from your faculty, and coming from the interactions that you will have with administrators. For me Dartmouth is a special place in Hanover, New Hampshire, that I look forward to coming back to and that has all of these special memories for me.

Acceptance into Dartmouth College is extremely selective. Out of more than fourteen thousand applicants to the class of two thousand and eleven, just over twenty one hundred were admitted which is an acceptance rate of fifteen percent.

The typical Dartmouth student is probably hard to describe. A typical Dartmouth student is bright, energetic, has a lot of ideas, is very independent, and has a lot of energy.

Under graduate tuition and fees are just under thirty five thousand dollars per year, including room and board that figure goes up to roughly forty five thousand but about half the students at Dartmouth receive need based financial aid. The average need based financial scholarship award for two thousand and eleven is thirty thousand and five hundred and seventy five dollars.

At Dartmouth what students learn outside the classroom is often as meaningful as what they learn inside. The beamer is a hot spot for water balloon fights, picnics, soccer games, and even weddings.

Dartmouth's under graduate college contains twenty-nine departments and ten interdisciplinary programs, not to mention graduate schools of arts and sciences, medicine, engineering and business.

I was able to travel to the Caribbean this past year to do some work in the Dominican Republic; I was teaching and doing some work in a Haitian migrant community on HIV/AIDS prevention. I was funded by Dartmouth to do that so I have been really able to take my studies inside the classroom, outside the classroom as well. Which has been really exciting.

Some of the colleges most popular majors include economics, government and psychological and brain sciences. Dartmouth features five hundred and ninety seven tenured or tenured tracked professors and ninety percent of them hold a PhD or equivalent degree.

Because my classes are small, I get to know my students pretty well, and I develop good relationships with them. And I like to sit and talk to them.

Undergraduates have lots of access to faculty because all courses are taught by professors and professors are encouraged to involve under grads in their research work.

Like a great athlete, if somebody showed you how to take a little bit of time off of a lap that you do, or to just be able to throw that fast ball just a half a mile an hour faster, even the best students actually benefit from those services. And so I think that we try to make sure that in the first year that we actually sort of drive students toward academic skill center as an opportunity for them to get a chance to sort of work on studying because that is just as much of a part of learning as a calculus formula or a Shakespeare sonnet.

Dartmouth College fields thirty-four varsity athletic teams nick named the big green, which compete at the NCAA division one level in the Ivy League. Sports are an important component of life on campus. Do much so that about three quarters of under grad students participate in some type of athletics.

I had a really great experience my first year I was in a three room double so I had a room and my roommate had her own room, we had a common room that was three times the size of those rooms in between us.

My first year I was living in a first year cluster.

The people on my freshman floor were absolutely my closest friends and a number of them still are my best friends here.

Because everyone just is really excited to be here and just making friends and meeting new people.

There are some great student quarters; there are some great class rooms. This building is not more than six years old and it is just a great example of how, I think, we are changing with the times. We are actually producing a better place for students to learn, a better place for students to live even.

Dartmouth students give back to the community as well, with about sixty percent of them volunteering either on or off campus.

Fall term there is homecoming, we build a huge I think forty foot tall bond fire in the middle of the green. And the incoming class, the freshmen will run around it. In the winter, we have a winter carnival where we sort of embrace how cold it gets up here. So there will be a bunch of skiing, a bunch of ice skating, like it's a bunch of really fun stuff, snow ball fights. In the spring, we have what we call green key; there are a bunch of barbeques, a bunch of pig roasts and more parties. In the summer, something that has just started now is something called field sock where there are a bunch of crazy, silly sort of games, like a greased watermelon toss and that sort of stuff. And that is a new tradition that is starting now. And so the great part is that every turning you have something to look forward to.

Dartmouth has an amazing nine libraries on both their main and medical campuses. In fact, they recently acquired a rare collection of books and art work by Maurice Sendak who is best known for his children's book where the wild things are. Also very famous Dartmouth alum is Dr. Seuss. Look, look, I found a book. Thanks for joining us here in Hanover, New Hampshire on our tour of Dartmouth College. This is Chloe Delandis, see you soon.

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