Chance me ED to Dartmouth + RD to top LACs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a senior.</p>

<p>COLLEGES:
• Dartmouth ED
• Williams
• Amherst
• Vassar
• Haverford
• University of Cambridge
• St. Andrew's
• Bowdoin
• Bates
• Colby
• Trinity, Franklin & Marshall (safeties)</p>

<p>STATS:
• GPA unweighted - 3.98
• PSAT: 216
• SAT: 2100 w/out studying, will be retaking November and will probs get 2250+
• SAT II: French 800, Lit. 770
TOEFL iBt: 117</p>

<p>CLASSES & RANK:
• I'm foreign, from Italy. I've been studying at a boarding school in NH since my sophomore year. This school doesn't rank, but at the school I attended my freshman year I was ranked #1/60, and it was a very competitive British prep school which regularly sends students to Oxbridge.
• The NH school I attend now is an alternative boarding school, which means no APs, BUT I'm taking the most rigorous courses, all centered around the humanities field (Philosophy, World Religions, Global Issues, Advanced French Lit., Honors Eng, Honors US His) plus Advanced Calc. sophomore and junior years and independent AP Calc this year. </p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
French Club - co founded in 10th grade, president 10th, 11th, 12th. first club in school.
Active & Helping - club at my school that centers on charity, through which I've done many hours of community service and organized several projects. Joined in 10th grade, am now president. I also worked at a soup kitchen over the summer, and I've done many, many hours tutoring two of my peers in Math.
Model UN (10,11,12)
Literary Journal: editor 11 & 12, contributor 10 - very passionate about this and french club.</p>

<p>They are few, but my school doesn't offer much, and I've done all I could for my passions - French and Lit., and for charity work. </p>

<p>SUMMER ACTIVITIES:
Internship at prestigious publishers. I got an interview for TASP but was ultimately rejected.</p>

<p>STRENGTHS:
My essays will probably be very good, as writing is my forte.</p>

<p>So, what chance do I have to get into Dartmouth ED? Also, would you strongly recommend that I interview?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Any tips would be appreciated. If it’s totally unrealistic, I’ll just do ED to Amherst.</p>

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<p>Come on, collegeconfidential.com!</p>

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<p>Hellooooooooooo</p>

5

<p>This is awkward…</p>

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<p>Seriously? No one?</p>

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<p>Literally ANY tips would be appreciated!</p>

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<p>yoyoyoyoyyoo</p>

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<p>Should I just give up?</p>

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<p>Interview if possible especially because your school does not offer AP/IB classes or lots of ECs. You are more of a blank slate than many other candidates. Is your boarding school in NH well known in New England?</p>

<p>In any event, there is a big difference between 2100 on the SAT and 2250. Hope you are right on the improvement, but for chance purposes I will assume you end up in the mid to high 2100s (still pretty darn good scores).</p>

<p>Dartmouth ED - reach (10 to 33% chance of admittance); Williams (reach, but if applied ED might be high match [above 50% chance of admittance] as Williams takes half its class ED); Amherst – reach; Haverford, Vassar, Bowdoin = low reach (33 to 50% chance of admittance); Bates & Colby = match (66 - 90% chance of admittance); Trinity & F&M = safeties (90% plus chance of admittance)</p>

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<p>Thank you, muckdogs07. My school is not at all well known in New England. I can’t really do much about the interview as that’s up to Dartmouth.</p>

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<p>make yourself stand out with your personal statement/letter of recs. maybe in the additional information on your commonapp you could discuss that your school does not have AP’s. your sat score is solid, but if you got that 2250+, then you should have a pretty good chance at this school. i would strroonngllllyyy recommend that you interview. put a face on your application! as of now, you look borderline with that 2100. boost it up and make your personal statement rock
chance back please.</p>

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<p>Again, the interview is up to Dartmouth - they tell you whether they’ll give you one or not once you’ve applied. The lack of APs is covered in my counselor’s description of the school I attend.</p>