Decision: Rejected
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1340 680R 660M
ACT (breakdown): 32C 27M 34S 32E 35R
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.756
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 58 out of 315
AP (place score in parenthesis): Psychology(5), English Language(4), Seminar, Biology, English Literature
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Sem, AP Bio, Coll Chem, Honors PreCalc, Coll French IV, Coll Human Body Systems, Leadership(an elected class, we plan all assemblies, spirit events, etc)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Academic letter, honor roll, Société Honoraire de Français, I’ll graduate with an honors diploma
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): HOSA(Historian), French Club(President), STUCO(Rep), Renaissance Peer Mentor, Prom Committee, a competitive local photography program that included my work being displayed in a world-class museum(I didn’t submit any of my portfolio, as I thought it wouldn’t help me, but now I wish I did.)
Job/Work Experience: I work 20 hours a week. I completed a 80 hour competitive medical based internship.
Volunteer/Community service: 70 hours of community service towards my diploma, which was all tutoring. In a tutoring organization in school.
Summer Activities: work, internship, and tutoring as mentioned.
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
1: My common app essay: 9/10, a little inelegant, but one of the most emotional pieces I've wrote. About sexual assault and how I've dealt with portraying my femininity and survival. I did have a little trouble finding the right words and it's a little short.
2: Why Dartmouth: 8/10 had a hard time portraying this in such a short box, but I went into how I think Dartmouth creates interesting, well-rounded, intelligent people.
3: Which of the world’s “troubles” inspires you to act? How might your course of study at Dartmouth prepare you to address it?: 8/10 I went a little too literal with the course of study part, but I talked about how a patient of mine during my internship was dying slowly because he couldn't afford his medication, and being lower income myself inspires me to strive to help others. Wrote about my dreams of having my own pro bono foundation.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10 AP English teacher. She’s in charge of NHS so she really knows how to elaborate on strengths. We’re not too close, but I really enjoyed her class and she told me that I changed her opinion on many classic books.
Teacher Rec #2: 8-9/10 French. Unsure of how quality this one is just because she has a habit of procrastinating, and not too many people ask her for recs, but we’re very close. I think this probably shows more of me as a person which is nice.
Counselor Rec: 8/10. Standard counselor rec. We’re not too close, but I did share some of my driving factors and life story with her, which I think she may have portrayed.
Additional Rec: 7/10. My best friend. I think she did portray me emotionally, but she’s not the best at elaborating on her thoughts. She didn’t really write anything too great and it was kind of short, but I’m thankful for it.
Interview: 9/10. Went a little short(45 min) just due to our own schedules, and we kind of ran out of things to talk about. But he told me he thought I was a great fit and was rooting for me. Talked about how I typically deal with school and activities, and a research project I was doing on welfare drug-testing.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Psychology / Neuroscience
State (if domestic applicant): MO
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Under 60,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen, maybe sexual assault survivor?
Reflection
Strengths: first gen, decent act, strong emotions in my essay, show a range of interests
Weaknesses: low sat(didn’t mean to submit), no subject tests and little AP(due to financial struggle), I didn’t really cover why I hadn’t achieved as much in my underclassman years as my upperclassman years as much as I wanted to. Low GPA(due to switching schools and couch-surfing(unstable living)), my essays were a little unlike me as they were not as well written as I like. not as many extra curricular as others
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: low SAT + GPA, no subject tests and little AP, basic freshman and soph year
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: only state schools so far
General Comments: I honestly thought I might be deferred, so I was a little shocked. I’m pretty upset, but there’s nothing I can do about it. I honestly thought me being a SA survivor going into psych would help Dartmouth out rn lol.