Interview 160: Lee Coffin on “Understanding Dartmouth”
- Lee explains how Dartmouth is different from other Ivy League schools
- Lee talks about one personal quality that he really looks for when he is reading a file
- Lee talks about why personal qualities (PQs) fly under the radar of the things that are important to an admission officer
- Lee answers a question from a listener, and just like in our first interview when Lee broke some new news by talking about how they went from test-optional to test-recommended, Lee breaks some even bigger news in his detailed answer to the question
- Lee drops a big number on us when he talks about how they use 64 types of data in their initial process
- Lee talks about a brand new process they created to evaluate applicants in a way that no other school that we know of is doing
- Lee answers multiple questions that listeners sent in
- Lee explains why the peer rec may be his favorite part of the application
- Lee answers the question, why are Dartmouth and Davidson colleges the only two colleges that ask for a peer rec
- Julia asks Lee, how does interest in a particular academic interest factors into admission decisions at Dartmouth
- Lee answers the question, “Who is not on your campus that you would like to see more of?” and Lee reveals three of their institutional priorities
- Lee goes on the hot seat and he doesn’t disappoint
