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>> This year Dartmouth received over 23,000 applications
for the Class of 2016 making it the most competitive year
forever for us.
We spent the past few months reading your applications
pouring over all the information you sent us and thinking
about who would contribute most to the Dartmouth community.
>> And we chose you.
>> Two hundred and ninety-three of you are from California.
>> Four of you are Columbian.
>> Fifty-four of you are from here in New Hampshire.
>> And one of you is from Mongolia.
>> Forty-six percent of you are students of color.
>> Including 76 of you who are Native American.
>> Eleven percent of you will be part of the first generation
in your family to go to college.
>> Like us.
>> Five of you hold multiple patents.
>> And two of you speak at least 7 different languages.
>> One of you designed a blind spot object detection system
based on only a camera and optical flow algorithm.
>> One of you founded a suicide prevention organization
that has presented to over 113 schools in 12 states.
>> One of you entered the global business plan competition
and finished first in the world and one
of you was the first person ever to check
in from the North Pole on Four Square.
>> What everyone at Dartmouth wants
to know is what will you do here?
>> Will you win a national championship?
>> Will you come to Dartmouth to build a tree house with me?
>> Will you invent and test a working prototype in ten weeks?
>> Will you come to Dartmouth
and solve protein structures with me?
>> Will you hike 50 miles with no sleep?
>> In 2011, we won a national championship in Rugby 7.
>> My students in my spring term class always design, analyze
and construct something real for the community.
>> This summer I participated in an event put
on by the Dartmouth outing club called the 50
and I hiked 50 miles from the Dartmouth campus
to Mount Moosilauke.
>> Will you join me this summer at the United Nations Conference
on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
Someone has got to help me save the world; it might just be you.
>> Will you climb Mount Kilimanjaro?
>> Will you spend the summer doing research
on an ice cap in the Andes?
>> Will you [inaudible] an exhibit
at the Hood Museum of Art?
>> Will you help senators and presidential candidates?
>> Will you study abroad four times in four years?
>> Last spring break we climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
to raise awareness for obstetric fistula.
>> As part of a student group, we started Mountain for Moms.
>> During my time at Dartmouth I studied conservation
in New Zealand, geology in Canada, ecology in Costa Rica,
and sustainable development in Madagascar.
>> As part of a class I took during my sophomore summer,
I got to meet and talk with Rudy Giuliani, Senator Jeanne Shaheen
and presidential candidate John Huntsman.
>> You will find a new way to understand music, play music
and get into the rhythm of things.
>> Will you break a Dartmouth track record and then go home
and write a poem about it?
>> Will you come to Dartmouth and help me ensure the privacy
and security of health information
in our health care system?
>> Will you get funded by Dartmouth
to work at the White House?
>> Will you direct and produce a play that will be seen
by over 1,000 members of the Dartmouth community?
>> Will you sing on national television?
>> Will you please immerse yourselves in one
of the greatest experiences that await you?
>> Last spring I broke the record for the 3K Steeple Chase.
>> I directed the Vagina Monologues which featured
over 50 Dartmouth women and was completely sold out.
It was the culminating event of the Victory Over Violence week.
>> I'm doing a creative writing thesis
in poetry making a manuscript of poems about love and happiness.
>> This fall my a capella group The Dartmouth Aires competed
on NBCs Season Three of the Sing Off and we got second place.
>> Last night I performed an improv comedy show
with my improv group here.
So, if you come to Dartmouth, you can do all these things.
>> [Speaking foreign language]
>> Come to Dartmouth.
>> [Speaking foreign language]
>> Come here, my dears.
>> Come to Dartmouth.
>> So come to Dartmouth.
>> Come to Dartmouth.
>> Come to Dartmouth; it worked for me.
>> [Speaking foreign language]
>> Come to Dartmouth.
>> [Speaking foreign language]
>> Come to Dartmouth.
>> [Speaking foreign language]
>> Come to Dartmouth; you'll love it.
What will you do?
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