Editing Dartmouth College (section)

=== Admissions ===
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|year               = 2023 (Fall)
|ref                = {{nbsp}}for admissions and GPA;<ref name="CDS"/> 2020 (Fall) entering class for SAT/ACT, the most recent time it was required<ref name="CDS2021">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2020–2021 |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/oir/pdfs/cds_2020-2021.pdf |website=Dartmouth College |access-date=January 18, 2024}}</ref>
|admit rate         = Overall: 6.23%<br />[[Early decision|ED]]: 19.9%<br />{{abbr|RD|Regular decision}}: 4.6%
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|SAT EBRW           = 710–770
|SAT EBRW change    = 
|SAT Math           = 730–790
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|ACT                = 32–35<!-- use an en-dash (–) -->
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|top decile         = 94.5%
|top decile change  = 
|top quarter        = 98.3%
|top quarter change = 
|top half           = 99.8%
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Undergraduate admission to Dartmouth College is characterized by the Carnegie Foundation and ''U.S. News & World Report'' as "most selective".<ref name="Dartmouth U.S. News & World Report Summary">{{cite magazine|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/dartmouth-college-2573 |title=Dartmouth College |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 13, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917133820/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/dartmouth-college-2573 |archive-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: Four-year, full-time, most selective, lower transfer-in (2015) {{!}} Carnegie Classification |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22ugprfile2005_ids%22%3A%2214%22%7D |access-date=May 14, 2016 |archive-date=May 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527104955/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22ugprfile2005_ids%22%3A%2214%22%7D |url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[Princeton Review]]'', in its 2024 edition, gave the university an admissions selectivity rating of 99 out of 99.<ref name="Princeton Review Admissions Profile">{{cite web |title=Dartmouth College |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college/dartmouth-college-1023117 |access-date=July 8, 2023 |publisher=The Princeton Review}}</ref>
[[File:Dartmouth College campus 2007-06-23 McNutt Hall 01.JPG|thumb|left|McNutt Hall, home to the Dartmouth Office of Undergraduate Admissions]]
For the freshman class entering Fall 2023, Dartmouth received a record 28,841 applications of which 6.2% were accepted, consistent with the prior two years; approximately 67% of those accepted are expected to matriculate. Of those admitted students who reported class rank, 444 were ranked first or second in their class, while 96% ranked in the top decile. The admitted students' academic profile showed an all-time high SAT average score of 1501, while the average composite ACT score remained at 33.<ref name="dartmouth6">{{cite web|url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/03/dartmouth-offers-admission-exceptional-class-2024|title=Dartmouth admits 8.8 percent of applicants to Class of 2024|website=The Dartmouth|date=March 26, 2020 |access-date=April 14, 2020|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810092357/https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/03/dartmouth-offers-admission-exceptional-class-2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

Additionally, for the 2016–2017 academic year, Dartmouth received 685 transfer applications of which 5.1% were accepted, with an average SAT composite score of 1490, average composite ACT score of 34, and average college GPA of about 3.85.<ref name="dartmouth.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2016_2017.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219115338/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2016_2017.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-19 |url-status=live |title= Data set |website=Dartmouth College}}</ref> Dartmouth meets 100% of students' demonstrated financial need in order to attend the college, and currently admits all students, including internationals, on a [[Need-blind admission|need-blind basis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedartmouth.com/2015/09/18/college-ends-need-blind-admission-for-international-students/ |title=College ends need-blind admission for international students |access-date=September 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929223025/https://thedartmouth.com/2015/09/18/college-ends-need-blind-admission-for-international-students/ |archive-date=September 29, 2015}}</ref>

In 2020, Dartmouth made it optional for students applying to the college to submit their [[SAT]] scores due to the [[Covid-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Dartmouth will again require SAT, ACT scores. Other colleges won't necessarily follow |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/05/1229223433/sat-act-diversity-dartmouth-college-admissions |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, the college became the first Ivy League school to announce that it would once again require applicants to submit their test scores.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leonhardt |first=David |date=2024-02-05 |title=A Top College Reinstates the SAT |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/briefing/dartmouth-sat.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>