Dartmouth is an ivy league college located in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouth is the only Ivy league university to function on the quarter system, which is four 10-week long quarters instead of two semesters. The most popular majors are economics, political science and government, computer science, engineering, and mathematics. Dartmouth specializes in medicine, the arts, engineering, and business. The acceptance rate is about 6.2% and you must have at least a 4.11 GPA to get in. The yearly tuition is about $62,660

Dartmouth was established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock who was a Congregational minister from present day Connecticut. Dartmouth is one of the 9 colonial colleges that were established in America before the Declaration of Independence. These include Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King’s or Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, and Queen’s or Rutgers. Some notable alumni that attended Dartmouth are Dr. Seuss, Robert Frost, Owen Chamberlain, and more. Robert Frost attended Dartmouth although he never graduated. Dr Seuss is known for writing fantastical tales and using unique language in his children’s books. Owen Chamberlain was a physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his revolutionary discovery of the antiproton which is a subatomic particle. He won this prize alongside Emilio Sergè.