Are Dartmouth ED Decisions Scaring You?

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<p>This thread is devoted to the many of you who have seen the Dartmouth ED thread and are a little scared about our own butts now. Let's all try to calm eachother down. We can use this thread tomorrow when Cornell gets theirs as well.</p>

<p>Now I'm really nervous... less than 2 days!</p>

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<p>Penn is harder so... :(</p>

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<p>one word -- hell yes. oh wait, that's two. </p>

<p>my hands are kinda shaking right now. and i can't breathe.
inhale. exhale.!!!!</p>

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<p><em>nods</em> I feel like Dartmouth accepted students with lower scores and GPA's. I guess those aren't everything...but Dartmouth might have different criteria than Penn does. It might have thought that students with high stats will get into good schools even they don't get in ED. Hopefully penn has different view on ED..</p>

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<p>Actually Penn ED is easier than Dartmouth ED.</p>

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<p>yea christ. don't brown and columbia find out tommorow, too?</p>

<p>if so, we might see a few more acceptances -- hopefully.</p>

<p>damn.</p>

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<p>lol is CC crashing? why's the posting sequence all messed up?</p>

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<p>yeah........</p>

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<p>yeah they're making me 100x more nervous.</p>

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<p>yeah my bro was deferred and he was definitely qualified to be accepted. It doesnt really make me nervous dartmouth and penn are different schools entirely, and their apps went up while ours went down, and they have a lot less applicants and spots than we do.</p>

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<p>At first I was, but now I'm not so worried.</p>

<p>I just can't believe most of what they're saying in that thread. I believe the acceptees, for the most part, are telling the truth, since they have less inclination to lie, but I think there is some serious score-padding in the deferrals. </p>

<p>Or they're conveniently forgetting to mention that all of their class valedictorians applied to Dartmouth or something.</p>

<p>The real people I spoke to were accepted. </p>

<p>I say we make a pact to honesty here at the Penn board, where we fully and truthfully explain the circumstances of our decision, whatever it may be.</p>

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<p>Ya, why are posts being pushed to the top...</p>

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<p>CC crashing = bad sign.
lol jk</p>

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<p>life sucks....</p>

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<p>they're scary. no doubt about it.</p>

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<p>I agree with Amadeuic. I was a bit suspicious of their stats too actually. Don't let this happen to us. There's really no point of padding up the score. Doesn't make anyone feel good.</p>

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<p>omg CC is really messed up right now. I can't' even find my own post</p>

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<p>lol haha wow
i never suspected score padding
that might be a first instinct tho
lol. eh can't blame them =p they just got deferred
anyways...this is exciting</p>

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<p>lol soysauce you are in denial. i doubt any of them had a reason to inflate their stats. and this is CC, nearly everyone has high stats.</p>

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<p>^then the simple answer is that there were so many qualified applicants that stats (which probably weren't very differentiated from one applicant to the other) took a backseat to more subjective material like essays and recs. In fact, one of the admissions officers once told me unofficially that the adcomm (for Penn, however) looks at the essays as the next big factor right after GPA and SATs. If you notice, Dartmouth automatically eliminated candidates with GPAs/SATs that were TOO low. More than likely, the applicants that remained (it would seem, generally, 2150+ and 3.80+) were on a relatively even playing field statswise.</p>