Dartmouth Drops Swim Requirement

For over a century, Dartmouth College students have been required to complete a 50-yard swimming test in order to graduate. And it’s not as though Dartmouth was the only highly selective college to require students to know how to swim in order to receive a degree. Cornell University, Columbia University, … 

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Fallout from Dartmouth’s Title IX Error

Back in July, Dartmouth College eliminated its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, its men’s and women’s golf teams, and its men’s lightweight crew team. Then, at the end of January, a bit more than six months later, the school reversed the eliminations and fully reinstated all five varsity … 

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Dartmouth Reinstates Eliminated Athletic Teams

We here at Ivy Coach are celebrating today as, in a dramatic turn of events, Dartmouth College has reinstated its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams along with men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing. Yes, you read that correctly. These teams have all been reinstated. As our … 

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Dartmouth Women’s Swimming Kicks Back

The Dartmouth College women’s swimming and diving team will not go silently into the night. As our readers may remember, Dartmouth eliminated several varsity teams in the spring — including the men’s and women’s swimming and divings teams, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing. But the Dartmouth swimming … 

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Dartmouth Accused of Anti-Asian Bias in Elimination of Varsity Teams

Back in July, we reported that Dartmouth College chose to eliminate certain varsity athletic teams: men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing. Dartmouth was not alone among our nation’s highly selective colleges in choosing to eliminate certain varsity sports during the COVID-19 pandemic … 

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Swimming Adds Diversity to Colleges

A Wall Street Journal article out today shines a lantern on how many of America’s colleges have been cutting country club sports in recent weeks. And while some of these colleges are citing only budgetary constraints, other colleges are being more forthright in citing a combination of budgetary constraints and … 

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Dartmouth Women’s Swimming Team

The Dartmouth women’s swimming and diving team is facing disciplinary action from the college after violating the school’s hazing policy. This past December, according to a report from “The Daily Mail,” members of the team made first-year students “organize and display a sexualized PowerPoint presentation while the group was on … 

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Dartmouth Swimmer

As we report on Ivy League sports on the pages of this college admissions blog, it is with sadness that we report of the death of a Dartmouth College swimmer, Tate Ramsden. Brian of our firm was a member of the Dartmouth College swimming and water polo teams and this … 

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Dartmouth Water Polo

At Ivy Coach, we always appreciate a good underdog story. This past weekend, the Dartmouth College men’s water polo team advanced to the Final Four at National Championships in La Jolla, California. Dartmouth, in the mountains of New Hampshire, isn’t exactly situated in the hotbed of water polo. Water polo … 

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