http://www.gobeyondthebrochure.com/5-... - Your “class” or the people in your year numbers around 1,000 people and the campus is ultra-small. To say you went to Dartmouth isn’t merely revealing your academic life for four years of your most formative years. You are signaling that you lived within the small confines of Dartmouth’s campus and interacted with 4,000 people everyday, every 3-month academic quarter.