Matthew C. Weiss, a Dartmouth College student in the class of 2006 from Auburn, has received the Rufus Choate Scholar award during the 2004-2005 year. Weiss is the son of Robert Weiss and Susan Weiss.

Rufus Choate Scholars are those students whose grade point averages are among the top five percent in the College for the academic year.

Dartmouth, the ninth oldest college in the nation, was founded in 1769. Noted as a highly competitive college, Dartmouth has a total enrollment of 4,200 undergraduates and over 1,000 graduate students in engineering, business, and medicine.