Dartmouth Interview Blog

Welcome to my blog on my second interview ever, from Dartmouth College! When I received that email from a Dartmouth senior, I was overjoyed because not only from an Ivy-league institution, it was LITERALLY from Dartmouth! I quickly accepted the offer and did my research.

I found out about the Baker Berry Library, Rauner Library (which I was awe-struck by at my Dartmouth tour), and the sophmore summers. I made sure to talk about my Dartmouth tour and the freshman first-year trips I heard about in it. I spend hours scanning the website and taking notes on things to tell my interviewer in this once in a lifetime moment.

I wasn't too stressed because I already have been through a situation like this. Time passed so quickly and I was already wearing my Dartmouth crewneck staring at the time in the right corner of my laptop waiting for my interviewer to add me to log me into the Zoom Call.

Then it happened. I was in the Zoom Meeting talking to a Dartmouth senior face to face (well, pretty much face to face). He was very chill and composed. He asked me a lot of questions about my personal life (triplets) and other random informal ones like what position in basketball I played. We talked all about Dartmouth from the first-year trips to the D-Plan. It was very conversation-style and not to much like an interview. Since he was a senior, he ltierally showed me his dorm and later told me what were his favortie study spots. He told about the Collis Cafe and how students can casually go for a swim in the Connecticut River. He said that Dartmouth had a huge undergraduate forcus and a lot of the classes were like a seminar (which I thrive in). After an hour (yes, I know, we talked for a long time), he ended the call. That was when I knew Dartmouth was the college for me. Everything just clicked. I sent a thank-you email and he warmly send back a reply stating to ask more questions and how he loved talking with me. This fall, I would absolutely love to attend.