For international students: What resources have proved most helpful for you as a Dartmouth student?
Great question! First, I want to highlight that being an international student doesn't significantly impact your daily life at Dartmouth.
Can you be a part of the Dartmouth community without joining Greek life?
Approximately 60% of Dartmouth's students are involved in Greek life, which includes three gender-inclusive chapters, ten sororities, and fourteen fraternities.
What are housing communities at Dartmouth? What's so special about residential life?
Housing at Dartmouth is unique—here are the ends and outs from a first-year student's perspective!
Housing Community Overview
How do campus jobs work?
Whenever students are on campus, the odds are that they have a campus job where they work several hours a week. Almost all of my friends have a job of some sort on campus.
What exactly is the D-plan? What are some intricacies of academic planning at Dartmouth?
With the D-plan, planning your academic journey at Dartmouth becomes a fairly nuanced task. Let's talk about it!
Academic Planning/D-Plan
What does your D-Plan look like?
If you have not heard already, Dartmouth's academic calendar runs on a quarter system called the D-Plan where you take 10 week terms. There are four terms in a year, where you must be enrolled in classes for three of the four terms.
What do students do for fun? Are the events mostly on campus or off campus?
FUN noun
\ ˈfən \
Definition of fun
1: what provides amusement or enjoyment, specifically: playful, often boisterous action or speech
Can you describe what it's like being a Christian at Dartmouth?
"But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin." – 1 John 1:7 NLT
Should I submit a peer recommendation as part of my application to Dartmouth?
Short answer: yes. Long answer: absolutely, totally, certainly, most definitely, resoundingly yes. And here's why.
