Dartmouth College

🎓 Academic Program

Economics with accounting electives. Tuck Business Bridge Program for seniors.

🎯 Admissions

📊 Exam Requirements

📅 Deadlines

💰 Financial Aid & Scholarships

📑 Scholarship requirements

• CSS Profile submission
• International family financial documents
• Need-blind since 2022 for international
• No-loan aid for everyone

🔄 Scholarship maintenance

Annual financial aid renewal. Resubmit family financial documents annually.

⚠️ Conditions & restrictions

• No loans — replaced with grants
• Aid changes with family income
• Outside scholarships affect aid mix

📝 Application requirements

• 2 teacher recommendations
• Counselor recommendation
• Common App essay
• Dartmouth supplement (1 short + 2 long)
• Optional alumni interview (encouraged for international)

✍️ Supplemental essay prompts (2025-2026)

1. As you seek admission to Dartmouth's Class of 2030, what aspects of the college's academic program, community, and/or campus environment attract your interest? How is Dartmouth a good fit for you? (100 words)
2. Choose 1 of these (250 words): (a) "Let your life speak." Describe the environment in which you were raised and the impact it has had on you. (b) "Be yourself," said Oscar Wilde. Introduce yourself.
3. Choose 1 of these (250 words): (a) Labor leader Dolores Huerta recommended a life of purpose. Use your life to make the world better. (b) The Mindy Kaling Theater Lab. Share a story of failure, trial runs, revamping, reworking, or journeying from bad to good. (c) Channel Dame Jane Goodall: Tell us about a difficult conversation. (d) "It's not easy being green." How has difference been a part of your life? (e) "What excites you?" prompt about intellectual curiosity. (f) D-Plan calendar prompt about flexible terms.

⭐ "Why Us?" — Essay hooks & school personality

D-Plan (unique quarter system — students can take off-terms). Dartmouth Outing Club (oldest outdoor club). Winter Carnival. Hanover Inn. Close-knit community feel. Tuck Business Bridge for seniors. Strong undergraduate focus despite Ivy status.

🏆 Unique advantages

Most Ivy emphasis on undergrads. Smallest Ivy (4,500). Tuck graduate school resources for undergrads in senior year. Rural setting attracts outdoorsy types. D-Plan creates flexibility.

💼 Career outlook

Strong Wall Street recruitment. Consulting pipeline. Tuck Business Bridge prepares for finance careers. Median starting salary $80,000.

⏰ Work while studying

F-1: 20 hrs/week on-campus. Federal work-study available. Tutoring, library, lab work. Dartmouth Outing Club paid positions.

🎯 Backup plans

• Apply ED I (3-4x acceptance boost)
• ED II if RD denied
• Other need-blind Ivies as alternatives
• Gap year to strengthen application

🔗 Official sources

• admissions.dartmouth.edu
• home.dartmouth.edu/financial-aid