<p>Thanks for helping me out anyways
I posted this on the chances board, but I kind of figure that dartmouth people would probably know more about chances at dartmouth.</p>
<p>I would be applying ED, Dartmouth is definitely my top choice.
Caucasian female from large, very competitive asian (~80%) public high school. (CA)</p>
<p>Classes:
took hardest courses available (took double ap sciences junior year), except took regular physics instead of honors and didn't take apush :[
APs: English composition, English Lit, chemistry, biology, calc ab, spanish, gov, econ
Got 2 Bs: one in first semester algebra 2/trig, one in first semester precalc H. (both went up to As second semester)</p>
<p>Overall academic GPA(9-11): 3.9something unweighted, 4.4 weighted (all the honors classes at my school are UC approved, so very few of my classes are honors, and there are no honors classes available freshman year and no APs available til Junior)
School doesn't rank, but in top 10%</p>
<p>Test scores:
SAT 2360 overall: writing 760/reading 800/math 800 (only took it once, didn't want to push my luck)
SAT II chem 800/bio-M 800 (taking math II in october)
AP exams: English comp (5), biology (5), Chemistry (5)
taking gov, econ, spanish language, english lit, and calc in may</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: (weakest part)
Interning:
Research intern at NASA Ames Research Center in an atmospheric chem lab, 2 years-summer after sophomore year-present, spent first year doing standard research intern stuff (finding papers, easy experiments, etc)
Second year did own project that will be presenting at the american geophysical Union conference in December in San Francisco
Will be publishing paper in spring in an atmospheric chemistry journal.
(Can submit abstract for presentation at AGU with college app). I'm also going to be second author on another paper, but I don't know when that one's going to go out.
Worked full time over the summer (~40 hours a week, summer after soph and junior years) and then about 16-20 hours during school week through scholastic year</p>
<p>Volunteered at nature museum (taking care of animals, plant, and documenting wildlife) at local historical park (summer after freshman year)</p>
<p>Clubs:
Friends for animals community service club: Vice president (2 years)
California Scholarship Federation: Project LIT chair (4 years)
MUN (2 years)
Octagon community service club (3 years)
Link Leader (help out/welcome incoming freshmen) </p>
<p>Honors/ awards:
National Merit commended scholar (maybe semifinalist)
Spanish Honor society
CSF 100% life member
Certificate of Merit Merit Scholar (for Piano)
National Honor Society (maybe officer)
Some sort of AP scholar thing</p>
<p>Out of school:
JV Gymnastics (2 years, until injured)
Club swimming (2 years, after gymnastics)
Piano (9 years, up to level 9 of Certificate of Merit)</p>
<p>Should have strong essays
Great recs from AP Bio(I'm apparently one of her best students she's ever taught..), AP Chem, and lit teachers (will be sending 2 recs to each school, but AP bio teacher only does 6 recs, so chem will be doing some.)
Also great rec from research mentor at NASA
Guidance counselor rec will be as good as it can be from a school with 3,000 kids and 4 guidance counselors...</p>
<p>Also, I don't know how to mention this but I'm a really huge skiing fan; I live in northern CA so the nearest skiing is about 4 hours away, but I usually go about every other saturday during the ski season, leaving at 3 am and returning around 9. I'm not good enough to make it on the dartmouth ski team, but it's a pretty big part of my life (and will be more so once I'm a SECOND SEMESTER SENIOR)</p>
<p>Do I have a snowball's chance in hell?
Thank you so much!</p>