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THE IVY LEAGUE. THE UPPER VALLEY.

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth is the smallest Ivy, a college of about 4,700 undergraduates on a walkable 269-acre campus in Hanover, New Hampshire. It founded the first collegiate ski team in 1909 and owns its home hill, the Dartmouth Skiway, fifteen miles up the road in Lyme. The team races the EISA carnival circuit and the NCAA Championships while students move through four 10-week terms on the D-Plan.

Hanover, NH

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NCAA divisionEISA · NCAA skiing
D1
UndergraduatesFall 2025
4,715
Acceptance rateClass of 2030
5.8%
Tuition (three terms)2026-27
$71,697
Campus to Dartmouth SkiwayLyme, NH
15 mi
Student-faculty ratioFall 2025
7.9:1
Roster athletes2026-27
21
NCAA power rankscore 32.73
#5

Why Dartmouth?

An outdoor life.An intellectual one, too.

Dartmouth's scale and setting concentrate college life around the Green, while skiing and the Outing Club reach into the Upper Valley. Both halves shape a racer's four years here.

  • Wood-panelled Tower Room with reading tables inside Baker Memorial Library

    A campus you can walk

    The 269-acre campus gathers a liberal arts college, medical, engineering and business schools, athletics and arts into one walkable community next to downtown Hanover.(admissions.dartmouth.edu)

  • McLane ski lodge at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, New Hampshire, in winter

    A college that owns its hill

    The Skiway, fifteen miles from campus, has been the team's primary training site since 1957 and hosts the Dartmouth Carnival on FIS-approved slalom and giant slalom trails.(dartmouthsports.com)

  • Historic Dartmouth Winter Carnival posters displayed in the Collis Center

    The oldest ski tradition in the country

    Dartmouth founded the first collegiate ski team in 1909, raced McGill in the first intercollegiate competition in 1914 and has had students or alumni at every Winter Olympics since 1924.(dartmouthsports.com)

  • Baker Memorial Library seen across the Dartmouth Green in summer

    A calendar you build yourself

    The D-Plan is four 10-week terms a year; first-year fall, winter and spring are required residence terms, and later leave terms can be scheduled around research, internships or training.(admissions.dartmouth.edu)

About the school

The honest version.

What the school is, what it is known for, and what a family should weigh before committing.

Dartmouth is the smallest Ivy, a private college of about 4,700 undergraduates in Hanover, New Hampshire, a small town on the Connecticut River roughly two hours from Boston. It is a liberal arts college with a research university attached, strong in economics, government, engineering and the sciences, and it runs on a quarter-based D-Plan that lets students shuffle terms on and off campus. Life revolves around the Green, the Dartmouth Outing Club and a large Greek scene; winter is embraced rather than endured. For a ski racer this is the deepest tradition in American college skiing. The college founded the first collegiate ski team in 1909, has had someone at every Winter Olympics since 1924, and owns its own mountain: the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, 14 miles and about 20 minutes from campus, with 31 trails and 968 feet of vertical. The team races in the EISA and at the NCAA Championships, which it hosted in 2025. Admission is the hard part: 6 percent, and aid is need-based only.

Know before you commit

  • Extremely selective: a 5.8% acceptance rate for the Class of 2030, and standardized testing is required again.(admissions.dartmouth.edu)
  • No athletic scholarships: as an Ivy, all Dartmouth aid is need-based, so a racer's package depends entirely on family finances against a $98,427 sticker price.(admissions.dartmouth.edu)
  • The first-year winter is a required residence term, so a racer carries a full 10-week course load through the carnival season with no option to take that term off.(admissions.dartmouth.edu)

Feel the campus

From first tracks to final exams.

Credited archive photographs of the campus, the town and the hill; not current team photography.

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Ski team experience

Big Green.Serious alpine racing.

Dartmouth skiing is one team across four disciplines, each with its own head coach: men's and women's alpine train at the Skiway, nordic at Oak Hill. The program races the EISA carnival circuit from mid-January through February and the NCAA Championships in March, and it provides competitive opportunities for up to 55 skiers a season.

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Team athletes
21
Men / women
8 / 13
International athletes
7
NCAA team titles (1958, 1976, 2007)
3
Conference
EISA
Alpine disciplines
SL + GS

Where Campbell fits today

Not a selection or admission prediction.

  • SLNo comparison
    — · —

    Scoring line 32.42.

  • GSNo comparison
    — · —

    Scoring line 33.21.

  • SGNo comparison
    — · —

    Scoring line 136.42.

  • DHNo comparison
    — · —

    Scoring line 265.55.

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Academics

What you can study.

Dartmouth runs on four 10-week quarters and students do not declare a major until sophomore year. Fall, winter and spring of the first year are required residence terms, so the winter race season overlaps a full academic term; later years allow leave terms that can be placed around training blocks.

  • 4,715
    Undergraduates
  • 15 mi
    Campus to Dartmouth Skiway
  • 7.9:1
    Student-faculty ratio
  • 95%
    Six-year graduation rate

7 featured fields · full catalog

  • EconomicsSocial science
    One of Dartmouth's largest departments, listed among the college's 60-plus majors.
  • Engineering SciencesEngineering
    The Thayer School's undergraduate engineering major within the liberal arts curriculum.
  • Computer ScienceQuantitative
    Offered as a major and minor alongside Mathematical Data Science.
  • GovernmentSocial science
    A major with a long link to Dartmouth's role in New Hampshire's presidential primary.
  • Environmental StudiesEnvironment
    A major that connects environmental questions to science and policy.
  • NeuroscienceScience
    An interdisciplinary science major listed in the majors and minors catalog.
  • Quantitative Social ScienceQuantitative
    Applies quantitative methods to social questions.
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Source: admissions.dartmouth.edu

Admissions

Your path here.

Application deadline
November 1 (Early Decision); January 2 (Regular Decision)(admissions.dartmouth.edu)
  1. Submit the Common Application (or QuestBridge application) by November 1 for Early Decision or January 2 for Regular Decision.
  2. Complete the Dartmouth Writing Supplement on the applicant portal; Early Decision applicants also sign the Early Decision Agreement.
  3. Send SAT or ACT scores (U.S. high schools); scores are superscored across test dates.
  4. Provide the school report, transcript and recommendations, and consider the optional peer recommendation and alumni interview.
Admissions details

Test scores

What admitted students scored.

Required · enrolled, Fall 2025

  • SAT evidence-based reading and writing720 – 770
  • SAT math720 – 790
  • ACT composite32 – 35

Middle 50%: a quarter scored below the low figure and a quarter above the high one. Source: admissions.dartmouth.edu

Acceptance rate

How selective it is.

5.8%Class of 2030 (28,863 applications, 1,687 admitted)
  • Admitted
  • Not admitted

Admission is the hard part: the acceptance rate has been 6% or lower for six straight years and the SAT or ACT is required again for students at U.S. high schools. Coach interest does not change the admissions standard or guarantee an offer.

Source: admissions.dartmouth.edu

Cost & financial aid

What a year costs.

2026-27 published figures.

Published costs
Tuition (three terms)$71,697
Fees$2,157
Housing$13,032
Food$8,496
Books, supplies and personal expenses$3,045
Total cost of attendance$98,427

Three-term budget; health insurance ($5,216 unless waived), a computer and travel are additional. Dartmouth meets 100% of demonstrated need and all aid is need-based, so there are no athletic or merit scholarships; 46% of the Class of 2029 received a Dartmouth scholarship averaging $74,765.(financialaid.dartmouth.edu)

Financial aid information

Location

Campus, hill, airport.

Dartmouth College, Hanover

A 269-acre campus on the Connecticut River with the Green at its center and downtown Hanover at its edge.

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Baker Memorial Library seen across the Dartmouth Green in summer
Baker Memorial Library across the Green, Hanover, June 2007.

Student life

Beyond the hill.

  • The Outing Club is a quarter of campus

    The Dartmouth Outing Club has over 1,500 student members, about a quarter of the student body, and runs First-Year Trips, cabins and gear for anyone on campus.(outdoors.dartmouth.edu)

  • Six House Communities

    Every student belongs to one of six House Communities; 88-90% of undergraduates live on campus, and Dartmouth houses more than 3,300 students.(students.dartmouth.edu)

  • Winter Carnival and the bonfire

    Winter Carnival began more than a century ago to showcase Dartmouth's winter athletes; the Homecoming bonfire on the Green dates to 1888.(admissions.dartmouth.edu)

Athlete voices

Real stories.

  • “What a way to end my career in college, I'm just super happy.”
    Oscar Zimmer, alpine skier and 2026 NCAA slalom champion · source

Alumni & outcomes

What came next.

Dartmouth-affiliated Winter Olympians since 1924(admissions.dartmouth.edu)
147
NCAA team championships(ncaa.com)
3
Six-year graduation rate (2019 cohort)(dartmouth.edu)
95%
Alpine alumni (Nef '20, Ginnis '20) at the 2026 Winter Olympics(dartmouthsports.com)
2

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Sources, rights and updates

Where this comes from.

Every figure carries its reporting period and a link. Rosters and points come from official rosters and FIS or USCSA results. Photographs are Wikimedia Commons archive images under open licences, credited on each image.

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