<p>I just want to confirm this, this website (<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/admissions.asp?listing=1023117<ID=1%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/admissions.asp?listing=1023117<ID=1</a>) says that the average Dartmouth GPA is 3.66. Is that correct? Isn't that too low for an Ivy?</p>
<p>Thats correct, most of the applicants come from competative schools (3.66 is top 5% of school). However don't forget athletes and special talents get a break can can come in with a 2.0 gpa, and weight down the average. A 1500 SAT score would put you in good position (competative level)</p>
<p>Is that weighted or unweighted? I'm at about a 4.7W/3.9UW.</p>
<p>Its hard to compare GPAs, but I seriously doubt its that low...also I don't think any athlete gets in with a 2.0, including a future Michael Jordan.</p>
<p>One must take into account that not all schools calculate GPAs identically... e.g., which years consitute the GPA, are sports/non-honors included, etc.</p>
<p>Further still, a 3.66 means you are getting mostly As and some Bs... is that so horrible?</p>
<p>the average gpa is 3.66 based on the 43% of the students that submitted GPA's A 3.66 is pretty close to having an A- average</p>
<p>A 3.66 GPA isn't that horrible. I'm just saying that it is pretty low for an Ivy League University considering there are ALOT more people with much better GPAs who are applying.</p>
<p>Dartmouth's office of institutional research states that the average GPA is 3.66 for the 43% who submitted GPA's
57% did not submit GPA's some or maybe many that are higher than the 3.66 average</p>
<p>Those statistics are weird because the 57% who might have had higher GPAs didn't report theirs, and it would be beneficiary for an applicant to submit a higher GPA. I'm not contradicting those stats, i know they're real, they're just a bit ironic.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your peoples posts</p>
<p>Many of the prep schools, which send a ton of kids, and hopefully me, to Dartmouth, don't have GPAs.</p>
<p>how do you quantify a good grade then?</p>
<p>At my school we do have designations like high honors, honors, high pass, pass, but there is a comprehensive written review of your work in every class that the colleges read. At St. Ann's, which sends the highest % of grads to ivies in the US, they just have the written comments. This is common for preps.</p>
<p>Many schools just do straight number grading on a 100 point scale vs letter grades with points assigned to them</p>
<p>So if a person has a 95 average for all intensive purposes they can say that they have a 4.0 GAP which would be the equivalent. However their H.S. transcript is going to indicate a 95 average</p>
<p>I take all the AP classes possible at my school and have a 3.956 unweighted GPA. Only six other people in my grade (of 250) have taken as many AP classes as I have. I have a 33 on the ACT, which obviously isn’t as high as some applicants to Dartmouth. How do you think Dartmouth weighs ACT/SAT scores vs. class selection and GPA vs. extracurriculars vs. SAT subject test scores?</p>
<p>You dredged up a 6 year old thread?</p>
<p>Good morning San Diego!</p>
My unweighted GPA is 3.65. Is that acceptable?
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