<p>My parents are from India, and I live in Houston, Texas…</p>
<p>Sat Scores
Math -720
Reading -750
Writing-700
(Reading and Math Total) - 1470
(Total) - 2170</p>
<p>Sat Subject Tests
Math-730
U.S. History-750</p>
<p>Gpa - 3.8 Unweighted
93.8 /100
Rank-89/450 kids
^^^^ I know this is bad, but my school is very competitive, my teachers and counselors have mentioned in my letters of recommendations that at surrounding schools I would have had a higher rank.</p>
<p>Activities
Won Science Fairs
Karate for all four years, got my black belt
Youth Club all four years
In 3 clubs in school
Volunteered at a hospital for 50 hours
Volunteered at Doctors’ offices for 340 hours
Volunteered at a Community Center for 4 years, 100 hours approx.</p>
<p>Your SAT’s are weak, and your class rank is way below average. Unless you go to one of the top schools in the nation or you have an absurd hook, that looks very iffy. Your EC’s look very thin as well.</p>
<p>You’re so dumb you went around all the ivy league boards posting this same message, why don’t you just post in “What are my chances” instead of being a complete tool.</p>
<p>You are fine, really don’t worry about it. Apply and see what happens, Dartmouth is a great school but there are plenty of dec. schools around. Your scores are higher then mine were (I barely got in), so you are better off then I ever was. gl.</p>
<p>Nothing more than reasoning. Asians (a term I use to include Indians) are not a URM. URM’s can have lower SAT’s than average. Thus, non-URM’s must have higher SAT’s than average.</p>
<p>Also, Asians are generally stat-heavy, so within Asians, Dartmouth would look towards those with passion in their EC’s while still having higher SAT’s than average.</p>
<p>While I would agree that the Asian stereotype is stat-heavy, I don’t think that it follows that Asians <em>must</em> have top-of-the-pool stats to get in. This applicant has SATs that are good enough to get in: they certainly wouldn’t keep him out.</p>
<p>The question is what else does he offer.</p>
<p>This applicant’s class rank isn’t in the top 10%, which is a problem, and his presentation here is bland, which is also a problem. If I were him, those are the things I would be concerned about.</p>
<p>I did not say “Asians <em>must</em> have top-of-the-pool stats to get in.” If you were inferring that I said that, which I am sure you were not, then you would have been completely mistaken</p>
<p>Also, the application must be viewed as a whole. As I’m sure you know, but for the sake of those who do not know, it is not merely a checklist of a) SAT above xxxx, b) President of x clubs, c) above x rank. Some areas are allowed to lag if others are significantly higher. Thus if his SAT were higher, he might be pulled into the likely range, making up for his lackluster performance in other areas, so I see no issue with my statement that his SAT’s are weak.</p>
<p>Sorry for my bland description from about my Ec’s, heres an updated version from my college resume, I have letters of recommendation from all of my community serivce and doctor offices.</p>
<p>Honors Awards
2008 - Busido Karate-Black Belt
2008 -AP Scholar with Honor
2007 Hosa Concepts of Health Care Area Competition- 2nd Place
2007- High School Science Fair -2nd Place Environmental Sciences
2006- County Science Fair- 1st Place Overall Ninth Grade Division
2006- County Science Fair 2nd Place Environmental Sciences
2006- High School Science Fair 4th Place Ninth Grade Division</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities
(2005 2009) Busido Karate (4 hours a week)–Got my black belt
(2005 2009) Youth Club (5 Hours a week)
(2006 2009) Hosa ( 1 hour every 2 weeks)
(2007 2009) - National Technical Honor Society ( 1 hour every 2 weeks)
(2008 - 2009) National Honor Society (1 hour every 2 weeks)</p>
<p>Community Service
2006- Southeast Hospital 50 Hours
2007- 129 Hours at Neurologist Office
2008- 78 Hours at Neurologist Office
2008- 83 Hours at Internal Medicine Office
2005-2009 - Youth Club Volunteer (5 Hours a week)
Total- 340+ Hours </p>
<p>The Youth Club volunteer thing was where I went in and taught kids why not to do drugs, peer presure, and the negative infulences to be aware of on TV, and Movies… Did it every suday for five hours…</p>
<p>Interesting Thoughts, Any other opionons would be greatly appreciated…</p>
<p>Thanks for not calling me out on posting this on most of the ivy leauge forums…I don’t know a lot about college admissions, and was looking for help, sorry…</p>
<p>My academic index is only a 4 / 9 with my stats. 204 points. Its on college confidential somewhere. I read that you need at least an 8/9 to have a good chance of getting in.
^^^^^Kind of depressing.</p>
<p>your resume looks good. You should apply. You never know. I heard a lot of top achievers get rejected but “regular” kids get accepted. I’m not saying you’re only “regular” but they may see something in you they don’t in top-achieving applicants.</p>
<p>i asked my counselor who used to be an admissions officer at brown…and they only use the academic index for athletes. All 8 ivy league schools have agreed to have a minimum requirement for AI for athletes…and I think its like 180. If they’re below that, it doesn’t matter if they are the best quarterback in the nation…they’re not going to an ivy.</p>