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<p>Dartmouth is my DREAM SCHOOL! I'm in love with their creative writing and art history program, the D-plan, the campus, the traditions, and the housing!!! I'm so excited for when I apply next year. I am a junior and I would like to know if i have a shot at Dartmouth! I will tell you my extracurriculars, my stats, and what my essay would be on.
I usually manage to get all As and at the most 2 Bs per year. My unweighted gpa is around 3.8 and my weighted is around 4.3 or a little higher. </p>

<p>Freshmen Classes - Pre-IB English 1, TV production, Pre-IB Chemistry, Alg2, Pre-IB French 1, AP World, and a Pre-IB class that is called theory of knowledge.</p>

<p>Soph classes- Pre-IB English 2, Music Techniques, Pre-Calc, Pre-IB Biology, Pre-IB French 2 and 3, AP Euro.</p>

<p>--- I had to stop the IB program junior year, I will explain why later. ----</p>

<p>Junior classes- AP Computer Science, English 3, Art History Honors, French 5, Physics, AP Us history, Calculus.</p>

<p>Senior classes- AP Environmental Science, Playwrighting, French Civilizations (honors class), AP Calculus BC, AP Government, A senior capstone class ( this will be a leadership class or a class about the middle east oil industry ), and either economics, physcology or ceramics.</p>

<p>Reasons for dropping IB program- Well I had the decision to move where ever I wanted to the summer of sophomore year. I lived in a town walt disney created, basically an attempt at an utopia, and the town was falling apart. My high school was getting really rough. I was harassed on a weekly basis. So i decided to apply to one of the most elite southern private schools that is located in my hometown of New Orleans (at the time, I lived in Orlando). I got accepted in the winter and I decided in the spring that I was going to move so i can be open to more opportunities and get a better education. Florida did not offer me many volunteer or internship opportunities so I was excited for the change. I just enrolled in the private school now and I have never been happier. I definitely am going to write my college essay on my "risk-taking decisions". I think this will let them see that I am a student that would do anything to achieve a high level of education and to open doors of opportunities. </p>

<p>Extracurriculars~~
Vice President of Freshman class
Vice President of Sophomore class ( my class consisted of at least 450 students )
I will be on varsity tennis all four years. ( i may be captain next year at my new school )
I did extremely well in tennis my sophomore year, my team went to states.
Founder of holocaust memorial day
Potential Scholar Award
Pre-IB best musician sophomore year
Pre-IB runner up best musician freshman year
Homecoming committee fresh. and soph. years
Prom committee soph. year
I attended the Boston University summer challenge this summer
I attended a prestigious music program at NYU freshman year
~ Currently I am ~
An intern at a art gallery
A weekly volunteer at a state museum
On a Teen Board for another museum
I write for my school newspaper
Clubs im in --- Cultural awareness, art club, young republicans club and the literary club.
~~ I plan on next year.... ~~
Being the president of the art club
Being a leader in the cultural awareness club
Being a editor for the school newspaper
Being Vice president for the young republicans club
Winning some literary contests for my short stories. ( some of these contests are nation wide )
Curating my own art show
Interning abroad for a art gallery in London.</p>

<p>SATs---
I took a practice one and I scored around 2100, so I am going to try to improve that.</p>

<p>I plan on taking the SAT a couple of times, the ACT and both math SAT IIs.</p>

<p>If you have any suggestions on how I could improve my chances, please tell me! <3 Thanks!!!</p>

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<p>That awkward moment when over a hundred people read your stats and none of them give advice…</p>

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<p>Okay, I’ll bite.</p>

<p>OP, I didn’t respond before because I find too many things about your story implausible or difficult to parse. The one thing I can say with certainty is that higher SATs would stand you in good stead.</p>

<p>What instrument do you play? Where exactly are you going to curate your own art show, and by that do you mean you will display your own art, or the works of others? If your own, what is your medium? How exactly are you going to swing interning for an art gallery in London as a HS student? For that matter, how did you swing interning at an art gallery where you live? Are you getting these opportunities through family connections or through personal enterprise and dedication? You mention several summer programs: was entrance by audition? Or was this a case of your family simply being willing and able to cough up the $$? How can you “plan on” winning several short story contests? Are we talking real contests, or the kind of thing that is basically a vanity publishing scheme?</p>

<p>You could either be an unusually dedicated and enterprising budding art historian/gallery owner/museum curator/artist, writer, and musician, or you could be someone whose family buys them opportunities. It’s hard to tell from your story. BTW, the idea that your switching schools was solely in your person purview, with no parental involvement–which is how your present it–is rather unusual. Leaving a crumbling public school for a private school in your home town does not seem like a risky decision to me…but again, it probably depends on the untold story.</p>

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<p>To answer your questions ( yes yes… i know my story is confusing… and i apologize for that)…

  1. I play guitar, piano, and I used to play flute( I kept getting light headed everyday by playing flute and that was not good for my health )
  2. I am displaying the works of other artists.
  3. My college counselor is talking with art gallery owners in London and France. They are open to having me intern for a summer. I got the internship at the art gallery where I live now by meeting the owner through my Aunt.
  4. I understand how you see that I get everything through my parent’s money. Well I am fortunate to have a family that can pay for the things, but I am the one who is committed and wanting to do the things I do. My family is surprised by that because my brothers never wanted to intern, volunteer, or go to summer school. I like doing things involving art and academics after school, and I am fortunate enough to have a family that can afford it.
  5. The NYU program was audition. I only sent in a essay and GPA to get accepted into the BU program.
  6. The literary contests is pretty legit. I discovered how much I love writing this summer randomly at the BU program and I haven’t put down my pencil since. When I was at the program, my teacher noticed my talent for writing ( which I was unaware I had ) and now I am entering contests. My english teacher and my english profs from my summer program tell me I have a very good chance at receiving at least a bronze or higher for my works. ( I write very different stories, often taking place in past eras)
  7. I think you believed that I transfered schools in the town I went to the public high school in. That is not the case. I moved STATES. I literally left all I have ever know since I was 6 to go to a prestigious school in Louisiana. I was born in louisiana but lived in Florida most of my childhood. Thats why I said " I moved to my hometown". </p>

<p>P.S my family wants me to stay in Louisiana for college and then take over my family’s company ( its a pretty known nationwide company ), but I would rather die than take it over… Well if my career as a art curator or screenwriter doesn’t pan out, at least I am fortunate enough to have that career always open for me. So I am going against the wants of my parents, which is pretty risky. I am so thankful they still pay for all my programs though and are giving me a chance to try to reach my dreams! ( sounds cheesy, i know)

  • If you think I can get accepted because my dad owns a nationwide company, that is not the case. He didn’t get a degree from college… My mom only finished undergraduate school BARELY! So I have no alumni connections. </p>

<p>Hope this helps you give me advice! Thanks for responding!!:)</p>

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<p>With a college counselor who can procure opportunities in London and France, it sounds like you are all set. I don’t think you need any help from CC. Except perhaps to tell you that making the decision to attend an expensive private school that your family can afford to pay for is not a display of “risk-taking” simply because it is located in another state. People go to prep school all the time. You seem to have a passion, and have taken steps to pursue it. That’s great. I suggest you concentrate on that in presenting yourself.</p>