At the top of the list? Dartmouth product Mike Slive '62, commissioner of the SEC. To learn more about Slive, whose hiring by the SEC just about a decade ago was criticized by the Louisville Courier-Journal with this comment, "The man is as Southern as snow tires," read this Birmingham Magazine story.
Check out Slive's fact page on the SEC Digital Network or his Wikipedia page.
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A story about the Seattle Seahawks signing a 26-year-old basketball player to a three-year contract at tight end got me to thinking again about a 6-foot-10 former Dartmouth basketball player who might have been a pretty good tight end. I freelanced a story including a little about his football dalliance here.
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A story in the Brown Daily Herald reporting that the real cost of attending the Providence school was the second-highest in the Ivy League behind Cornell sent me scurrying to the source to see where Dartmouth ranked. First, a definition from The College Scorecards in the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center:Net price is what undergraduate students pay after grants and scholarships (financial aid you don’t have to pay back) are subtracted from the institution’s cost of attendance.Here is the net price ranking for Ivy League schools from low to high:
$18,277 HarvardThe scorecard also purports to show how the average net price at each school changed from 2007-09 (although to be fair, the numbers certainly make it seem there have been some reporting discrepancies):
$18,813 Princeton
$18,934 Yale
$19,073 Columbia
$20,592 Penn
$20,814 Dartmouth
$22,743 Brown
$24,249 Cornell
Yale down 26.4 percentSo you don't have to go Googling the way I did to track down the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center Scorecard, find it here.
Cornell down 17.4 percent
Harvard down 15.5 percent
Princeton down 4.4 percent
Columbia down 2.2 percent
Penn down 1.7 percent
Brown down 1.2 percent
Dartmouth up 1 percent
