My final chances thread before I hit submit?! PLEASE READ =D

[sherlock1016]

Alright, supposed to be using today to finish up those apps. But I'm basically done. I've done everything I can and now it's in the hands of fate. What I am typing right now, really won't change by the time I send my application. Scary ... Best of luck to everyone else and thanks for reading! =D

Grade: 12
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
School: Small public school, graduating class of 200. Highly ranked and super competitive
Location: Suburban NY
Grades: School doesn't report rank or deciles, but my average is a 96%

PSAT: 212 (commended, not NMSF)
ACT: 35
SAT: 1430/1600 2240/2400
SAT II: Bio- 720 Math I- 710 U.S History- 750 Literature- 740

APs: European History- 4 U.S History- 5 English Language- 5 Human Geography- 5 Currently: AP U.S Government, AP English Lit, AP Macroeconomics, AP Latin Vergil, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics B
Course load: 6 honors classes, 10 APs

Extra-curricular
Music:
Perform in all the school musicals and dramas. 8 shows over 4 years, lead roles in each.
Drama Club
Briarcliff Singers Select Choir (President)
Cliffnotes Male Choir (Co-President)
Tri-M Music Honors Society (President)
Lubin Singers volunteer singing group (President)

Other:
Briars & Ivy school literary magazine (one of the two Co-Editors-in-Chief), Varsity Tennis, NHS, New York Math Honors Society

Not-really-clubs-but-kinda:
Latin Club, Asian Club, Ultimate Frisbee Club

Honors:
New York State- Selected for All-State Mixed Chorus
(applying to MENC All-Eastern Chorus, and ACDA National Chorus)
National Merit Commended Student
TASP semi-finalist (prestigious summer program I didn't get selected for =P)
Varsity Boys Tennis- League Champions, BHS Scholar Athlete Team '08
Won a county writing contest (10th grade)
National Latin Exam- Bronze '06, Silver '07, Gold '08
School Awards: Future Geographer, Outstanding Musicianship, and NYSTEA Theater Award

~~~~~Colleges~~~~~
Darmouth ED (really really really want to go. Well, who doesn't feel that way about a first choice...)

U. Chicago EA

Harvard(?)- crapshoot. I would love to go. My best friend is there now. Who knows?
Brown
Amherst
Bowdoin
Johns Hopkins
Hamilton
Wesleyan
U. Mich
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Recs-
History Teacher (gave me the future geographer award. Has already written me other recs)
Latin Teacher (I'm the top of the latin class, but I'm not sure how convincing a writer he is...)
Peer Rec- That best friend at Harvard mentioned before. He's there for English too

Other factors with Dartmouth- My grandfather is an alumnus. They told me second generation doesn't matter, but who knows...He will try and get in contact. I'm meeting with a Dartmouth Alum who is a friend of a friend. He is now a conductor, and I'm going to see if he would be willing to write to the music department

Worries? About two other people from my school are applying ED to Dartmouth. They have better grades, but my scores and ECs are better...It's a really competitive area (suburbs of NYC). Also, we've had every other Ivy in the last four years....but not Dartmouth. Someone applied ED last year and was deferred.

[sherlock1016]

10charbump?

[casey2009]

Congratulations on your achievements! Darmouth is an amazing school; as far as admissions goes, you have just as much of a chance as everyone else. Best of luck!!

[basketballbabe13]

good luck!

[sherlock1016]

thanks! Anyone else?

[DunninLA]

Your stats are in the upper half of the class... so it depends now on whether the adcom likes the picture the application paints of you -- letters of rec + essay.