<p>wow, i am absolutely terrible at taking ap tests…</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED!!! **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2180 (790 math, 690 cr, 700 writing)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 math 2c, 690 bio-m
[<em>] GPA: little above 4.0 W
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>] Other stats: APs: English 5, Bio 5, French 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: showed lots of personality
[<em>] Teacher Recs: fabulous
[</em>] Counselor Rec: i assume good.
[<em>] Hook (if any): legacy
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: private, very very very competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Intended Major: math
[li] major strength/weakness: weakness: history. strength: personality[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
gold award in girl scouts (girl scouts for 12 years) . president of girl scout troop. created my own accessory company. tennis for 3 years. singing for 10 years. head of a community service conference (4 years). team captain for relay for life (4 years). good interview. hmm…and…being cool? THAT was probably my main hook.</p>
<p>busted!!! congrats again laura, and everyone else. i have a feeling there are quite a few lakesiders on here.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone again!</p>
<p>And Ian, I like how you changed your state in your chance posts just so no one would think it was you…that was brilliant! (Just kidding, of course.)</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred
SAT: 2230
SAT II: 800, 750, 720
GPA: 3.7 (unweighted)
Rank: N/A
Other Stats: Natl Merit Semifinalist</p>
<p>Essays: Very good
Teacher Recs: Never saw them but I guess they couldnt have been that good
Counselor Rec: Great
Hook: Legacy, Editor of school newspaper</p>
<p>State: TX
School: Very competitive private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Intended Major: Government
Strength/Weakness: Personality, lots of extracurricular activity/gpa isnt amazing</p>
<p>wow, congrats to everyone who got in 
it seems like it really IS easier to get in than i thought 
i might have stood a chance :(</p>
<p>not easier</p>
<p>I think the difference is that Dartmouth really looks at the whole package – especially ECs, essays, and recommendations – and doesn’t just consider GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>i don’t know about that. couple thousand kids applied for what? 400 spots. that is not a very pleasant ratio as far as i’m concerned. and there is still regular decision. it is the smallest of all ivies though. i would think it would be far easier at say, i don’t know, a school with about 13000 kids. give or take… not rippin cornell, my sister goes there.</p>
<p>Did you guys get your acceptance letters (not e-mail) yet? Is it in package form or just a letter? Thanks.</p>
<p>“wow, congrats to everyone who got in
it seems like it really IS easier to get in than i thought
i might have stood a chance”</p>
<p>ah yes, nothing makes me feel better about being accepted than THAT statement…i’m elated, truly</p>
<p>I was accepted to Dartmouth as well… this is my first post here, so I dont know if I am supposed to post stats or what…
I received the actual letter on Friday I think… It had a letter, a rubber sticker thing, a certificate, and a return letter.
EDIT: I just read the original post so now I know what I am supposed to do…</p>
<p>DECISION: accepted
Name: dartmouth</p>
<p>STATS :
GPA 4.0 unweighted (rank 1)
ACT 32 </p>
<p>i had good teacher recs, a good essay, and a really good peer rec </p>
<p>classes… our school doesn’t offer AP but I have taken them online and have a fairly loaded schedule (6 years math, 6 years science- taken every course in the school, etc.) </p>
<p>I am not sure if these are all of my activities… my work experience was ranch work for the past 9 years…
In school activities:
-Student council (student body president, started new form of student council, junior and sophomore class president)
-Youth Legislature (4 years- 2 state officer positions- speaker of the house, representative of the year, lt. governor, majority floor leader)
-BPA (3 years- state officer, chapter president (2 years), voting delegate at state and nationals, some of their awards, placement at state and nationals, etc.)
-Policy debate (4 years-started team, coach the team, good win record- etc.)
-Tennis (4 years- varisty(3 years)- #2 doubles, regional placing eh…)
-Soccer (4 years varisty- 4th at state (2 years), etc.)
-civilian representative to the school board (i am on the county’s school board…)
-stuff like HOBY, National Honors society and Girls State
-then all these random school spirit organizations that i head up
-school ambassador
-random competitions (economics challenge, quiz bowl, math competitions- i dont know if i put those on my application) </p>
<p>Out of school activities and community service:
-firefighting cadets (organizer of new program, recruiter, cadet… 4 years)
-paso fino horses (i live on a ranch in montana…) - (yearly national qualifier, 3 time NW highpoint and champion, etc. about 11 years)
-Sailing- (4 years- passed instructors course…)
-peer tutoring- (weekly two years)
-soup kitchen (weekly 6 years)
-big brothers/big sisters- america reads (weekly 2 years)
-get out and vote (voter registration, etc. - 3 years)
-established soccer in the highschool and funded (50,000 dollars- 4 years)
-Livingston Education foundation (4 years- fundraisers and representative)
-4H (secretary, horseman level 7, 6 years)
-japanese exchange program
-weekly piano lessons for 12 years if that counts for anything</p>
<p>Hooks: leadership???</p>
<p>eh… sorry- i wasnt supposed to post all that- of course I didnt read the format part of this thread… and I cant find the edit button…</p>
<p>if you’re into dartmouth, you better know what baker tower is. also, if you’re into dartmouth, you better know that the events leading up to christmas absolutely freaking rock. here’s a live webcam from baker tower showing the entire green and the christmas tree in the middle. </p>
<p><a href=“Campus Life | Dartmouth”>Campus Life | Dartmouth;
<p>ahh, looks like a fine place for ultimate frisbee during the less frigid months of the year…</p>
<p>Yeah, I live in Hanover, and go to Hanover High School (I’m taking a multi var. calculus class there now… :P)… anyway - it is a BEAUTIFUL town - I already know like 4 of my classmates who got in (our grade is only like 200 kids… so that’s 2%, which is HUGE - but of course it’s in our home town, and there are parents who work there too, etc… unfortunately, not mine…</p>
<p>anyway - it’s a BEAUTIFUL town, and i’m sure you’ll love it… I applied ED to Williams and am expecting a response in … 3 DAYS! I was seriously considering eding to dartmouth… but… 4 more years in hanover is a little much… 17 is quite enough</p>
<p>Congrats - and btw - if you got to Hanover over the summer or some other time - go into Norwich, VT (town right across river from hanover… <1 min away) and stop at Dan and Whits general store - it’s AWESOME, and i work there, so i can say congrats to you personally. hahah… seriously, though, great school, great people, have fun</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 34
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II: 790, US Hist: 760, Chem: 770
[<em>] GPA: 4.1 weighted
[</em>] Rank: no ranks
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Good enough I guess
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t read, probably good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: same
[<em>] Hook (if any): not really
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Grosse Pointe, MI (outside Detroit)
[<em>] School Type: Big and public. Best public in the state
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Intended Major: Gov or Computer Science
[li] major strength/weakness: strength: curriculum, weakness: lack of strong EC[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Oh people, sorry, i didnt mean to be mean/rude or anything with that statement…</p>
<p>Its just that I’ve always had this view of ivy leagues as COMPLETELY out of my league and such. I’m of course not saying its easy, its incredibly tough to get into an ivy league! And dartmouth is amazing too. I didn’t mean to be condescending. all the people who got in and even got deferred/rejected look like amazing candidates.</p>
<p>It’s just that personally, I always thought I never had any chance whatsoever to get into any sort of ivy, and I was just expressing my feeling that perhaps it <em>could</em> have been possible and maybe I could have tried to apply or something. I just felt from looking at some of your stats, that mine are somewhat comparable, and I might have stood a chance if i had applied, i was just voicing my regrets…i’ve just been really regretting lately that I didnt try to apply for an ivy. sigh.</p>
<p>Geez. I have such a bad way with words. I always end up saying some random statement that angers people. sorry, guys, my sincere apologies :</p>
<p>Hey akhila, don’t worry about it…I have the same foot-in-mouth disease :P</p>
<p>A friend of mine was accepted! She is a black female from the Houston area, and was a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>Just wanted to leave a post for Golds aka Jane who is NOT plain and also to thank her profusely for making me the avid/addicted ccer that I am today. Ummm to all the rest of you Dartmouth 2010ers, bring itt!! Brown will be kicking some major green ass in the near future.</p>
<p>-Kumar/Brown 2010</p>