First to apply - Better chances?

sybbie719
Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:21:45 +0000

My daughter was not the first person from her school to apply to Dartmouth, but she was the only person from her school to apply in 2003, and the first person in her school’s history (small NYC public h.s whose first graduating class was in 1997) to be admitted.

It was funny because her in the past students from her school went to Penn, Columbia, Cornell and NYU but in her class someone got in to Stanford (a first) and Brown (no one had been admitted 2000).

I think the good thing about your situation is that it does give Dartmouth as a whole the opportunity to see another school which may have been under the radar because no other students have applied. Your applying also helps to open the door for others from your school, because after h.s. had their first admit to stanford in 2004, they had another in 2005.

Hey you have tossed your hat in the ring and that is half the battle. Someone has to be first and who says it can’t be you?

good luck.