Deferred Dartmouth ED-er

truegibberish
Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:19:29 +0000

Hey. Not up to snuff right now, but if anyone could help me sort out what to do from here, I’d really appreciate it. All I’ve applied to so far are Dartmouth, Williams and Amherst, my dream schools, and half-applied (not complete yet) to Middlebury and Vassar. I’ve been looking at colby and bowdoin too. Please help me… it would mean a lot.

Absolutely no minority status…
middle class female
Suburbian public school of about 200 per class

Graduating high school in 3 years (didn’t have a junior year). (Took u.s. history at college over the summer and independent study english)

SAT: first time, 700m, 760v. second, 740m, 690v. (i have no idea how the second one happened… but i dont really know if i should retake it again).
SATII’s: 800 writing, 700s world history & math IIc. Probably taking another 1 or 2 in january.
Average: 95.6, unweighted don’t know what that is for GPA. This year, one B so far.
School doesn’t rank.
PSAT: 80V, 70M, 80W (230) (just got it this year, so I wouldn’t get national merit till next year…very complicated). 99th percentile.

APs: so far, Calc BC (4) & Euro (4).
Classes this year: English lit AP, Stat AP, Physics B AP, Latin III, Spanish 11, multi-var calc, a soc class considered ap-level but no test.

EC’s (lacking, I know):
Horseback riding, 11+ years, i’ve spend like at least 9h at the barn per week and 6h getting back and forth…= my life.
Book club, 2 yrs, founded, a mix of reading, sharing writing and fundraising for kids’ literacy.
Tutoring, mostly math, sometimes physics. this summer i tutored at least 40 hrs and continue now, but like 2h a week.
Used to do volleyball, but had to quit b/c time issues with riding.
Writing indepentently, written two unpublished books.

Summers:
9th gr. summer: writing courses at a program at U Mich.
Last summer: the english/soc study, writing program at Columbia U.

No employment, but just turned 16 in Oct so haven’t had much opportunity.

Intended major(s): english or linguistics or creative writing with probably minor in math.

That’s about it. i have no idea about my recs, they’re from my eng teacher from last year who read one of my ‘books’ and my euro teacher and current soc teacher who is just awesome and my guidance counselor is also head of my book club. my essay’s on a math teacher who inspired me to go forward, incl graduating early.

Sorry I took so long. I’d really like help. Thanks!