Top 5 Reasons Why You Probably Wouldn’t Get into Dartmouth 50 Years from Now
By The Dartmouth Mirror Staff
Published on Friday, April 27, 2012
- There’s a ’14 who harnessed the wind and a ’15 who won an Olympic medal. Inevitably, there will be a ’16 who cured cancer, a ’17 who won the Nobel Prize and an ’18 that foiled a plot to assassinate the U.S. president. Need I go on?
- In 50 years, the SAT will probably be out of 3200, and your 2350 will mean nothing.
- Legacies: still a thing in the future, but way bigger thanks to the fact that apparently 1 in 10 Dartmouth alumni marry each other now.
- Dartmouth will finally make rugby a varsity sport, and you will lose your spot to 40 burly men.
- Andrew Lohse’s memoir somehow gets chosen by Oprah’s Book Club. Applications to the College skyrocket.
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Um, not to burst your angst bubble about being inferior to the future, but how about the fact that your parents won’t have the money to send you?
(Current increase over last year) multiplied by itself fifty times multiplied by the current room/board/tuition:
(1.049)50 * $43,782
= $478,000
So yeah – don’t worry about the skiiers and SATs of the future. Worry about who’s going to be able to afford Dartmouth.
By Bazinga on Apr 27 | 10:05 am
Bazinga, ever heard of inflation? Today’s price would seem absurd to people 50 years ago, too, if they didn’t take inflation into account either. Take an econ class.
By reality check on Apr 29 | 5:16 pm
The cost of attending Dartmouth has risen way more than the inflation rate over the last fifty years. There is no reason not to expect this trend to continue. Colleges with big endowments might be able to continue to offer big financial aid packages, but most won’t. Someone will finally figure out how to be more efficient and then things will change. My guess is that Dartmouth will become a theme park for retired alumni with many buildings turned into luxury condos in fifty years.
By DartBored on Apr 29 | 8:30 pm