Hispanic Dartmouth Chances

sybbie719
Wed, 31 May 2006 11:27:05 +0000

I am normally one not to do chances but I am going to offer a few words of advice.

You are definitely not a shoo-in. It is going to take more than your minority status to get you admitted into any elite school as more minorities are stepping up their game the pool is becoming more competitive.

while some schools will wink at the SAT scores, they are not going to wink at GPAs. From what I have seen over the past 4 cycles, if a student gets in with a lower SAT they are pretty much a straight A student with some equally impressive AP scores. what are your SATIIs looking like?

IMHO, I think that your GPA is kind of low and I would especially be concerned about the 3.5 unweighted GPA (as the school will evaluate you on a 4 point scale) because there is already an expectation that you are taking the most rigerous courses that your school offers.

Considering that you will be evaluated in a the pool of other hispanic applicants (you will nto be the only first gen, low income in the bunch) I think your SAT scores are a little low also as there will be hispanic students that will bring better stats to the table.

Make sure you cast a wide net that includes match and saftey schools including a financial safety.

Cautionary Tale:

For the class of 2010 was a first generation low income hispanic student who applied to Dartmouth (after attending Destination Dartmouth).

He also applied to the following other schools:

Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Upenn/Brown
Cornell
MIT
end result- rejected at all schools, attending his state U.