Fun Facts
This is the color of the Baker tower clock face.
What is lavender?
This is the year Dartmouth was founded?
What is 1769?
This is the percentage of students whose demonstrated financial need is met by Dartmouth.
What is 100%?
This is the most popular major at Dartmouth.
What is economics?
This is the division of Dartmouth varsity sports teams.
What is D1 (Division 1)?
The Hop was designed by the same architect who designed this famous arts building.
What is the Lincoln Center?
These are the three graduate schools at Dartmouth.
What are Geisel School of Medicine, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business?
This was the acceptance rate for the class of 2024 (nearest whole percent).
What is 9.2%?
Name three of our libraries.
What are Baker, Rauner, Kresge, Paddock, Dana, Sherman, Jones, Evans, Feldberg, Matthews-Fuller?
This is the oldest all-female a cappella group at Dartmouth.
Who are the Decibelles?
This is what it means when a building on campus has green shutters.
This is the indigenous group on whose land Dartmouth is built.
Who are the Abenaki?
This is the percentage of international students in the Dartmouth student body (nearest whole percent).
What is 15.5%?
Coeducation at Dartmouth began in this year.
What is 1972?
This is the percentage of students who play a varsity sport.
What is 20%?
Students at the Princeton-Dartmouth home hockey game throw these on the ice in a time-honored tradition.
What are tennis balls?
This is the year Winter Carnival began.
What is 1911?
This is the total number of students in the class of 2024 (within 10).
What is 1058?
This is the number of foreign languages offered at Dartmouth.
What is 13?
This is the number of student groups on campus (within 10).
What is 160?
This is the artist who designed the exterior panels on the Hop facing downtown.
Who is Ellsworth Kelly?
This is the number of alumni who have served in Congress (within 10).
What is 170?
This is the average financial aid scholarship awarded for the 2020-2021 school year.
What is $60,000?
Dartmouth offered their first summer courses in this year.
What is 1942?
Name four of the recognized senior societies.
What are Abaris, Andromeda, Atlas, Casque and Gauntlet, Chimera, Cobra, Dragon, Fire and Skoal, Griffin, Olympus, Palaeopitus, Phoenix, Pyxis, Sphinx, and the Order of the Sirens?