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Six Common Mistakes Students Make on “Why Us?” Essays Mistake #1: Writing about Dartmouth’s size, location, reputation, weather, or ranking. Mistake #2: Simply using emotional language to demonstrate fit. Mistake #3: Screwing up the mascot, stadium, team colors, or names of any important people or places on campus.

Imagine yourself at Dartmouth: Rather than writing, “I hope to participate in the Irving Institute for Energy and Society,” this student uses the present tense (“I’m”) as if she is already at Dartmouth. Paint a picture of yourself on campus: What are you doing?

Applications can be submitted to Dartmouth College through either the Common Application or the Coalition Application. In addition to these general applications, Dartmouth requires two supplemental essays; all applications must submit the first prompt, but may choose from six different options for the second prompt.

Dartmouth’s abundance of trees reminds me of my local arboretum, a refuge which has nurtured my science enthusiasm and encouraged me to branch out into social sciences. In the Biology-Modified major, Disease, The Environment, and Human History will teach me about diet modifications and diseases that have intensified negative environmental changes.