RE: My brother was offered a basketball scholarship to Dartmouth and turned it down because he didn’t want a BS in liberal arts BS. He went to an engineering school and now builds things
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Where did he eventually go? I believe Dartmouth does have an engineering program, no?
I called my mother and got the scoop. She said she knew he would not be able to do two things at the same time (basketball and engineering school), so when he expressed hesitation about going so far away from home, she said, "You're right. You shouldn't go." Then later when he got offered his very first job offer overseas and hesitated again, she said, "You're crazy! You need to go!" And he did.
So I was wrong. It wasn't about the curriculum, it was that my parents didn't want him to play basketball because they felt he wouldn't graduate if he did. My apologies to all Dartmouth grads.