Dartmouth College essay review
Dartmouth College prints 9 supplemental prompts for 2026-27 and asks every applicant to write three of them, capped at 100 words and 250 words. A NudgeEssay review reads your draft against the Dartmouth College prompt you pick, not against a general checklist: six rubric bands scored 1 to 5, notes on your own sentences in the margin, a map of where a reader's attention holds and where it drops, and a ranked list of fixes with the biggest one first. The first fix and the line a reader kept come back free; the full marked-up report is $49 for one essay or $299 for 20.
The Dartmouth College prompts and deadlines below were read on Dartmouth College's own admissions site on 2026-08-30. NudgeEssay is not affiliated with Dartmouth College and makes no claim about any admissions decision.
What Dartmouth College asks you to write
Word for word, from Dartmouth College’s own admissions pages. Pick the one your draft answers in the box below and the read is judged against that prompt’s own asks.
Supplement 1 · 100 words
As you seek admission to Dartmouth's Class of 2031, what aspects of the college's academic program, community, and/or campus environment attract your interest? How is Dartmouth a good fit for you?
Supplement 2 · 250 words
Question 2, option A. There is a Quaker saying: Let your life speak. Describe the environment in which you were raised and the impact it has had on the person you are today.
Supplement 3 · 250 words
Question 2, option B. "Be yourself," Oscar Wilde advised. "Everyone else is taken." Introduce yourself.
Supplement 4 · 250 words
Question 3, option A. What excites you?
Supplement 5 · 250 words
Question 3, option B. Labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta recommended a life of purpose. "We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things," she said. "That is what we are put on the earth for." In what ways do you hope to make, or are you already making, an impact? Why? How?
Supplement 6 · 250 words
Question 3, option C. In an Instagram post, best-selling British author Matt Haig cheered the impact of reading. "A good novel is the best invention humans have ever created for imagining other lives," he wrote. How have you experienced such insight from reading? What did you read and how did it alter the way you understand yourself and others?
Supplement 7 · 250 words
Question 3, option D. The social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees have been the focus of Dame Jane Goodall's research for decades. Her understanding of animal behavior prompted the English primatologist to see a lesson for human communities as well: "Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right." Channel Dame Goodall: Tell us about a moment when you engaged in a difficult conversation or encountered someone with an opinion or perspective that was different from your own. How did you find common ground?
Supplement 8 · 250 words
Question 3, option E. Celebrate your nerdy side.
Supplement 9 · 250 words
Question 3, option F. "It's not easy being green..." was the frequent refrain of Kermit the Frog. How has difference been a part of your life, and how have you embraced it as part of your identity, outlook, or sense of purpose?
The same prompts with every deadline round, the platform and the dated source are on the Dartmouth College essay requirements page.
What the review does to your Dartmouth College essay
It reads the draft cold, the way a stranger with four hundred more files to get through reads it, and answers the question that decides the essay: what is still there a week later. Then it scores six rubric bands from 1 to 5, each with a short quote from your own essay that drove the band and two or three sentences on what would raise it.
It marks your own sentences in the margin, maps where a reader’s attention holds and where it drops across the draft, screens for the patterns that read as AI-written or consultant-written, names the stock archetypes the essay is falling into, and ranks the fixes with the biggest one first. It points at your own material and never writes a sentence for you to paste.
Prompt fit is judged first, before any opinion of the writing: each distinct ask in the Dartmouth College prompt is checked separately, because an essay aimed near the prompt rather than at it is the most common fatal miss in a paid draft.
All 23 checks are listed on what the review checks. Seven complete reports on sample essays are published unedited, exactly as the engine wrote them, on the samples page, and what a college essay grader leaves out explains where the six bands stop and the read begins.
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$49 for one essay, $299 for a pack of 20, one free re-read on every essay, nothing expires. The first fix and the line a reader kept come back before you pay. Every plan is set out on the pricing page.
When it is due
| Round | Date |
|---|---|
| Early Decision | November 1, 2026 |
| Regular Decision | January 1, 2027 |
A college can move a date mid-cycle. Confirm on Dartmouth College’s own page before you rely on one. Every round for every college is on the deadlines page.
What Dartmouth College reports about admissions
Dartmouth College admits 5.4% of applicants. The middle 50% of enrolled students scored 1500-1570 on the SAT and 33-35 on the ACT.
From the federal College Scorecard, pulled 2026-09-17. Score figures describe enrolled students, not applicants and not admits, and they are not a cutoff. No admission probability is stated anywhere on this site, because colleges do not publish admit rates conditional on a score, so any single percentage would be invented. The free chance me tool sorts a list into reaches, targets and likelies and gives no percentage either.
What Dartmouth College actually costs a family after grant aid, income band by income band, is on the Dartmouth College cost page.
Questions
- How many essays does Dartmouth College require?
- Dartmouth College prints 9 supplemental prompts for 2026-27 and asks every applicant to write three of them, capped at 100 words and 250 words. Each prompt is printed word for word on this page and on the Dartmouth College requirements page, with the date it was last read on Dartmouth College's own admissions site.
- What is the word limit on the Dartmouth College essays?
- The limits run from 100 words to 250 words across the 9 prompts every Dartmouth College applicant meets. Each prompt's own cap is printed beside it above, taken from Dartmouth College's own admissions page. A range such as 150 to 250 words is counted at its upper number.
- Is the review written against the Dartmouth College prompts or against a general checklist?
- Against the prompt you pick. You choose which Dartmouth College prompt the draft answers before the read starts, and the report judges whether the essay answers that prompt's distinct asks, each one separately, before it forms any opinion of the writing. A well-made essay aimed near the prompt is the most common fatal miss in a paid draft, so prompt fit is judged first rather than last.
- When is the Dartmouth College application deadline?
- The first deadline is Early Decision on November 1, 2026. Dartmouth College publishes 2 rounds for 2026-27: Early Decision on November 1, 2026, Regular Decision on January 1, 2027. Dates come from Dartmouth College's own admissions site, read on 2026-08-30, and a college can move a date mid-cycle, so confirm on Dartmouth College's own page before you rely on it.
- How much does an essay review for Dartmouth College cost?
- $49 for one essay, $199 for a pack of 10, or $299 for a pack of 20, which is about $15 an essay. Every essay includes one free re-read of the revised draft and nothing expires. You see your report in redacted form, with the first fix and the line a reader kept, before you decide whether to pay.
- Is NudgeEssay connected to Dartmouth College?
- No. NudgeEssay has no relationship with Dartmouth College or with any other college, is not endorsed by Dartmouth College, and does not predict, influence or guarantee any admissions decision. The Dartmouth College prompts and deadlines on this page were read from Dartmouth College's own public admissions pages and are linked to their source. The review is a reading of your writing, nothing more.