Chance a slacker with VERY high expectations

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys!</p>

<p>Current senior
Prospective major :Psychology! </p>

<p>School doesnt calculates gpa. Just gives us percentages</p>

<p>9 - 88% (top 10%)</p>

<p>10 - 91% (top 7%)</p>

<p>11- 72% (top 15%, I know that that sounds funny. But our Junior year is extremely tough)</p>

<p>12 - Still awaiting mid terms. Atleast a 80+</p>

<p>Standardised tests:</p>

<p>SAT 1 - 1920!!! CR- 630 Math- 710 Writing - 580 :(((((
ACT - October. Hoping to do mucch better than the SAT
SAT 2 - November. But should go fine. Done all of that stuff in school (Phy, Chem and Bio)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Music Society (6,7,8,9,10,11,12)
Acoustic Guitar <self taught!=""> (9,10,11)
President, Student Congress (11,12)
Chief Editor, Biology Magazine (12)
Chief Editor, Chemistry Magazine (12)
Member, English Ed board (11)</self></p>

<p>Additional EC's :
Worked on a Hands on Project organised by the University of Munster, Germany.
Authoring a book.
Enroled for the International Award for Young People
Working on a documentary on gender diversity (will send that as well!)</p>

<p>Voluntary work:
Teaching slum children Math, english, science
Teaching underpriviledged children at an NGO</p>

<p>Awards/Honors: <not too="" many="">
+ Certificate of Exemplary Performance for excellence in academics for 6 years
+ Exemplary Performance (Badminton)
+ Selected as one of the 50 kids internationally for a conference in Singapore to represent my country. Also given a scholarship of 1500 USD.
+ A few Certificates for music.</not></p>

<p>Recommendations : Teacher(s) - Brilliant
Counselor - Great</p>

<p>Essays : That's not for me to judge. I'll do my best, ofcourse.</p>

<p>Colleges:</p>

<p>Dartmouth (ED) - Not happening, I know. But still, its my 'dream' school.
Middlebury - ^same minus the dream school.
Hamilton
University of South Carolina
College of Wooster
Providence College
Fordham
Wisconsin, Madison
Oregon</p>

<p>Aid Requirement: Nearly full, if possible.</p>

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<p>BUMP!!!
Please chance!</p>

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<p>You’re right, Dartmouth is not happening. Rethink using your ED there.</p>

<p>There is nothing unusual about junior year being the toughest. So colleges are looking to see what happens to your performance as things get harder. A significant drop junior year, relative to that of your class, will make a top school very tough to get into. Add in the scores which are well below median for Dartmouth and Midd, and they are enormous reaches.</p>

<p>The rest of your list looks fine, but not for someone looking for a lot of aid. What state are you from?</p>

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<p>“Teaching slum children”? I hope you get someone more politically sensitive to go over your essay – and your book!</p>

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<p>@LoremIpsum: Thankfully, neither my book nor my essay deals with a ‘politically conflicted’ topic.
I’d really appreciate chances, though.</p>

<p>Bump, anyone more productive?</p>

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<p>Dartmouth isn’t happening.</p>

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<p>The title made me laugh.</p>

<p>Not sure about others, but Fordham doesn’t claim to meet full need.</p>

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<p>I’d say your chances of getting into Middlebury are the same as your chances of getting into Dartmouth, but you’ll never know unless you apply.</p>

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<p>Improve your SAT I by a total of 200 and your chances will improve alot when applying to Dartmouth :)</p>

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I’ll bet OP’s application fee that he doesn’t get in, unless OP has omitted some key details about a super-hook or something. OP, you really ought to reconsider Dartmouth ED IMO.</p>

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<p>“Aid Requirement: Nearly full, if possible.”</p>

<p>You said on another thread you were an International?
You are in a very difficult position then for FA.</p>

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<p>SLUMOM - Yeah, I’m an international.
But isn’t Dartmouth need blind for internationals as well.</p>

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<p>And SwedishChris, what about a 31 on the ACT?
That’s like in the median for Dartmouth, right?</p>

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<p>Internationals face much tougher entrance requirements than domestic candidates – you often have to be one of the very best students in your entire country or even region. Any college that has need-blind aid for internationals will very likely only accept the best 3-4% (so forget about median scores) and the other schools may well be happy to take you, but only as a full-paying student.</p>