Very peculiar case here, need help!!!

billiechan
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:07:02 +0000

I’m an applicant from China. My family is poor - both of my parents are over-aged, divorced, and retired. I’m the top of my school, Wuxi No.3 Senior High nobody’s heard of, from Wuxi, a small city equally anonymous.

I made this decision to study abroad 6 months ago, and my initial goal was Dunedin College in New Zealand, and that changed to NYU later. Since I still cannot afford either, I thought it pertinent to give it a try on Dartmouth College.

I then self-studied and scored 2340 - C800/M780/W760 with 11 on Essay in SAT Reasoning Test - not as easy as it sounds like. I’m confident that a perfect score is within the reach, but I have Subject Tests ahead, and hotel and airplane ticket all need money.

I’m ambidextrous, I have a 139 IQ, and I speak perfect American accent through self-talking. My Personal Essay, the blend of stream-of-consciousness and vorticism, would surely be an eye opener for admissions officers.

My GPA would be 4.0 and my rank would be top 1%. But our school doesn’t handle cases like mine. They don’t offer recommendation letters in English, and lack any basic knowledge of what constitutes a transcript. I did everything myself - my only source of information is the Internet.

It was suggested to me that I should resort to an Education Agent, but gee that’s quite expensive.

So, is there any guideline I should follow? Do I have a chance in Dartmouth?

And lastly, Dartmouth and Amherst, which one is more cordial for people like me? Things like geographic location or political inclination are not what I should consider, sadly.