What about the peer recommendation? What is it?
The peer recommendation is a required part of the Dartmouth application.
We ask every student applying to Dartmouth to get a letter of recommendation
from a “peer” (who we define loosely as someone your age who knows you
well). Your brother, sister, best friend, cousin, or classmate can all
write a peer recommendation, as long as it is someone about your age. We
use the peer recommendation to learn more about you as a person. What are
your interests? What are your personality traits? What do you do
for fun? How are you as a friend? All of this information is
important to us because it helps us to see how you would add to the Dartmouth
community.
