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Posted 09/24/01
This fall, Dartmouth welcomed a variety of new students to its campus. The New England autumn, with foliage ablaze in brilliant oranges, reds and yellows, provided a beautiful reception for the diverse newcomers.
The undergraduate class of 2005 is the largest entering class in Dartmouth's history, with about 1,137 new students. These young women and men came to Dartmouth from 48 states and 25 countries. Students of color accounted for nearly 29 percent of the first-year class, and international students made up a record 6 percent. The sciences were the discipline of choice, with forty percent saying they plan to major in the area of physical science and twenty-nine percent in the area of social science. Well over sixteen percent of the class said they want to major in the humanities, and the remaining fifteen percent plan to study an interdisciplinary program or were undecided. The class of 2005 was exceedingly strong academically, with over eighty-six percent graduating in the top ten percent of their high school class, and nearly one third of those as valedictorians and salutatorians.
Dartmouth Medical School drew more than 5,500 applications to fill about 80 first-year places for the fall 2001 entering class. The new students included 61 new M.D. students in the 4-year track, and five new M.D./Ph.D. students. There were also 15 new people enrolled in the Dartmouth-Brown program. These new students came from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. One spent this past summer working as a cook in an Alaskan fishing village, another spent last winter coaching high school girls' basketball, yet another was an undergraduate swimming champ, and a few report their anticipated first-time walk through snow this winter.
There are 93 new students at the Thayer School of Engineering, all enrolled in one of four degree programs covering nine areas of engineering interest. Thirty-nine will pursue Bachelor of Engineering degrees, 23 will study to earn a Master of Engineering Management degree, ten will pursue a Master of Science in Engineering, and 21 will pursue a Ph.D. Forty-one percent of the students represent 17 countries. The average age of these budding engineers is 24; the youngest is 21 and the oldest is 50.
The Arts and Sciences Graduate Program greeted 210 new students pursuing advanced degrees in numerous fields. Men and women were represented equally, and the average age is 27. The Masters in Liberal Studies, the most popular program with 53 new students, offers interdisciplinary study in the liberal arts. Other favorite fields of study included molecular and cellular biology, evaluative clinical sciences, computer sciences and chemistry.
Tuck welcomed 224 new students for the class of 2003, bringing the total Tuck student body to 437. There are 171 men and 53 women in this incoming class of future MBAs with an average age of 28.
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