Dartmouth Also Has a 3-2 Program. How Does It Compare to Wash.U. and Columbia?.

Here are the differences that stand out to me.

(1) Dartmouth has a list of 19 schools that it participates with.  Wash. U.’s list has 86 and Columbia’s has 102.

(2) Unlike Wash. U. and Columbia, Dartmouth doesn’t seem to guarantee admission.  Wash. U. and Columbia appear to guarantee admission to students with a specified grade average and/or with recommendations.

(3) The schools that Dartmouth lists have a median 75 percentile Math SAT of above 700.  (In my opinion, the schools they work with all seem to have enough talented students to enable them to offer sufficiently rigorous introductory math and science courses.)

(4) Dartmouth seems to have a more restrictive tranfer criteria.

Here is the link to Dartmouth’s 3-2 program page http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/academics/undergraduate/dual/

You can find a list of other 3-2 programs on Lynn O’Shaughnessy’s blog http://www.thecollegesolution.com/