Dartmouth ED!

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Applying Early Decision at Dartmouth</p>

<p>Male
Caucasian
Medium sized Public High School in Boston suburb</p>

<p>GPA W: 4.82
GPA UW: 4.0
Rank: 1/229</p>

<p>SAT I: 680 CR 710 M 750 W (will retake in October)
SAT II: 720 US History 660 Literature (will retake in November)
ACT: 31 (10 on essay)
AP’s: US History-5, Eng. Comp.-5, AB Calc-3
Senior Schedule: 6 AP’s (Latin Virgil, French, BC Calc, Physics, English Literature, Psychology)</p>

<p>EC’s:
3 years varsity golf
4 years varsity tennis
2 years marching band (percussion)
2 years concert band (brass)
4 years French Club (treasurer sophomore year, president senior year)
4 years Latin Club (vice president senior year)</p>

<p>Founder and president of International Club (participates in cultural meetings and celebrations as well as relief efforts and fundraisers)</p>

<p>National Honors Society (president)</p>

<p>3 summers interning for the mayor of my city (Boston suburb of 28,000 people-did clerical work as well as special projects including a local historic sites website, recycling, and a “Clean Up Our City Day”)</p>

<p>Community Service: somewhere > 200 hours</p>

<p>Job:</p>

<p>currently working 10 hours a week as a mentor at an after school enrichment program</p>

<p>Awards:
Superintendent’s Academic Excellence Award
National French Contest Chapter Winner (3 times)
Brown Book Award Winner–in short, given to best writer in the junior class of my school
Finished Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Year with Excellence (all A’s)
Abigail Adams Scholarship
AP Scholar</p>

<p>Recommendations: from guidance counselor, Latin and English teachers junior year, mayor of my city, and Dartmouth Peer Rec from a friend I’ve known since first grade</p>

<p>Essay: going for humor, everyone who’s read it has laughed, but I’m still ironing out the kinks</p>

<p>Thanks so much and good luck to everyone else!</p>

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<p>Everything looks pretty good except test scores are a bit low. If you get all SATs of 700+, you will be competitive, and if you get near 800s, you have a very good chance.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice Nickst</p>

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<p>Higher test scores could help, but currently you have a very solid application</p>

<p>I would say you are in, but ivies can be arbitrary sometimes, good luck</p>

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<p>Dartmouth is very score oriented. Your scores are not currently competitive. You’re also from a very competitive pool being from MA. I’d raise the scores and apply RD</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. I’m taking a crack at both the SAT and SAT II in October and November, so I’m hoping I can get that superscore up.</p>

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<p>bump it up</p>

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<p>If you can bump up CR and Literature, you’re probably in.</p>

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<p>Those are my goals!</p>

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<p>any other advice please?</p>

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<p>and another bump</p>

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<p>I personally know several students at my school applying with lower stats and their guidance counselor isn’t discouraging them, so you have a decent chance</p>

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<p>Given that 87% plus will be rejected, there must be a lot of guidance counselors who are not discouraging.</p>

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<p>thanks for the feedback xAAAx</p>

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<p>bump again</p>

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<p>You have a pretty good chance, especially if you get higher SAT’s. Even if they don’t improve by a great deal, you GPA is really strong and you’re taking hard classes too. I don’t know about Dartmouth, but many schools put more weight on a high school transcript than test scores. So with a good GPA, and test scores within Dartmouth’s range you should have a pretty good shot.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input bholloway</p>