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>> [Background talking] Okay, can you say your name and your hometown?
>> Yes. Lois Martinez, and that will be Marigold, Mississippi.
>> My name is [inaudible].
I'm from Kenya.
>> I'm Tyler and I'm from Seattle, Washington.
>> My name is [inaudible], I am 16, who-hoo.
I am from Carina, California.
That's a suburb 30 minutes away from Los Angeles, so So-Cal.
>> My name is Joanne Zell, and I'm from Edison, New Jersey.
>> [Inaudible] and I'm from south Florida.
>> I'm Amy Chang and I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
>> My name's Alexander Zarbos [assumed spelling],
and I'm from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
>> My name is [inaudible].
I'm from Dumfries, Virginia.
>> I am Paul Chong from Crossville, Tennessee.
>> I'm Lilly Gordon.
I'm from Concord, Massachusetts.
>> I'm Diana.
I'm from London.
I'm 21. I'm so excited to be here, [Background music] I could burst.
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>> [Background noises] [Background music] I live in the swamp in Mississippi,
and my family's dedicated to rice fields and controlling the population
of the alligators in Mississippi.
>> I come from Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, and it's a beautiful city.
There's lots of wildlife, and it has the only national [inaudible] city in the world.
>> I guess it's like where the American Revolution started,
"The shot heard around the world."
>> So cool.
>> I went to the high school that was next to the high school where The Hills was shot.
>> It's a military town.
It's weird where it's large enough where we can't really walk anywhere
and small enough where there's nothing to do.
So, yeah, there's not much to do there, small town.
>> The Olympics just happened there, and it's a really cool city,
and it doesn't rain all the time actually.
>> We have really, really nice seafood in Maine.
>> We have bad sports teams, bad weather, but I do live 15 minutes away
from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
>> I'm pretty sure we are home to the first street that was lit by electricity.
>> The actor who played the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz lived in my house.
>> Contrary to popular belief, Ohio is not just cows and farmers [chuckles].
I lived in the suburb and we did a lot of the same things we do here kind of.
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>> [Background noises] My favorite high school experience was a track meet where I got first
in my event, [Background music] and then got first
out of the whole state .It was actually at Dartmouth.
So it was a high school experience but it was shared
with the college, which is kind of neat for me.
>> Let's see.
For me, my favorite memory from high school is there's this huge hill next to,
like, our school.
So, like, in the winter, we pretty much save, like, pizza boxes and just, like,
slide down the hill just during lunch, just because.
Yeah, it's pretty fun.
>> I was first place in my event for MPLA, which is a group, house president,
and so that was really kind of my pride and my joy.
>> My favorite high school experience was probably arguing with seniors.
It's just something that was fun and it was enjoyable.
I mean, I had some good senior friends that would just pal around during lunch
and just argue about the most randomest [sic] things.
>> My favorite part about high school was the day we welded a car around a flagpole
and I couldn't figure out how to get it off.
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>> [Background noises] [Background music] So my brother was in '11, and so when I came
to his graduation to visit, I decided that I really wanted here after seeing the campus.
>> I came to the Dartmouth Bound Summer Program in August of junior year, and it was --
it just blew me away, how, like, the community feeling of the university.
>> Being right next to Harvard, a lot of my interviewers were of Harvard grad students,
so a lot of them had this very -- they were very self-aware of themselves,
and they loved to tell me about themselves.
And I really like that my Dartmouth alumni interview,
he was probably the first person I met.
I even told him this afterwards,
that he actually seemed very down-to-earth and I just really enjoyed that.
And I just like that down-to-earth feel.
>> Yes, Dimensions, I went there and I met a lot of cool people.
I stayed with some people that I knew here, and, all in all, it was an amazing experience
that definitely influenced my decision.
>> My mother was the second class of women, and she's very involved
with the college, and I love New England.
I love the mountains.
I couldn't imagine a better place to be.
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>> [Background music] I mean, it's overwhelming, but in a good way.
>> People who really like the college students just walk around because
of the students were very polite, so that's how I really like.
>> [Background talking] I just feel as though Dartmouth has
such a school spirit that I'm really happy to see.
>> [Background music] I love the campus.
It's beautiful.
I love all of the people here.
They're so friendly and so nice, and it's amazing to see so many different people coming
from so many different backgrounds to such a great school.
>> The first time I saw it, it was with the DOC
and they do a little dance thing which is pretty awesome.
>> It's weird now that we're back on campus that people aren't jumping out and singing at us.
>> [Background talking] Dartmouth is just wonderful.
That's the only way I can sum up everything here because there's so much and there's
so many opportunities, and it's all good things, so I'm really happy
and grateful to be here [laughter].
>> [Background music] I like the fact that everything here is really green,
lots of trees, a lot of friendly people.
The upperclassmen, also, have been really friendly, and there's, like,
no stigma about being a freshman it seems.
>> Honestly, I am blown away by how nice everybody is to the freshman.
I honestly thought we'd just be another group of little kids
and everyone would ignore us and this has been great.
>> I feel like everyone here is really generous and really nice and is really just helping --
looking to help you find your way, especially when they know you're 16.
>> I love the small-knit community, how, like, everyone here is just so down-to-earth
and just awesome and just amazing and truly determined.
>> I feel like everybody here really cares about you, and they're just really welcoming,
and they're looking out for you, and it's nice.
>> It's so friendly.
It's so welcoming.
This is my second time starting college.
I was at Oxford.
I feel so much more at ease here.
Everyone's so friendly.
I love it.
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