Princeton Trails Columbia in Welcoming Vets to Ivy League
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John Around Him left Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for the Army and served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He never imagined he’d end up at Dartmouth College five years later, or that veterans would be such an unknown commodity at an elite school.
“I sort of came in thinking that the administrators knew all about me or knew about my situation,” Around Him, a 29-year-old senior, said in a phone interview. “It was disconcerting that they had no idea what to do” about navigating financial aid and other services a veteran might seek, he said.