Chance Me for Dartmouth and Brown

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics

  • US domestic
  • State/Location of residency: Florida
  • Type of high school: private, college prep
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity: female, she/her, white
  • Other special factors: none

Intended Major(s)

  • I put psychology, sociology, education, and/or undecided for most schools. Going in undecided.

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0 (My school only officially reports weighted, but I got an A+ in every class)
  • Weighted HS GPA: 4.71 (Honors is a .5 bump and AP is a 1 bump, e.g. an A+ is a 4.3 in regular, 4.8 in honors, 5.3 in AP)
  • Class Rank: My school doesn’t rank, but my class is around 90 students if that means anything.
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1570 SAT superscore (790 English, 780 Math) I took it twice, both in sophomore year, although I doubt that makes a difference.

Coursework

5 APs

  • 9th: none (My school didn’t allow freshman to take APs)
  • 10th: AP CSP (5)
  • 11th: AP Lang (5), AP Calc AB (5)
  • 12th: AP Psych, AP Stats
  • This is the area I’m most worried about since my school allowed up to 10 APs and I only took half of that and they were mostly easy ones.

Foreign Language

  • 3 years of Korean online: two in 9th and one in 10th
  • 1 year of Hebrew online: summer before 11th
  • I didn’t take any foreign language after that, although I think my Hebrew class is listed on my transcript as first semester 11th.

Other

  • 10th: Theory and Practice of Learning
  • 11th: Independent Study: Theory of Grading
  • 3-D Design: intro in 11th, honors in 12th

Awards

  • National Merit Semifinalist
  • Florida Holocaust Museum Anne Frank Humanitarian Award (11th)
  • AP Scholar
  • NHS
  • Mu Alpha Theta
  • National Art Honor Society
  • Scholastic Art and Writing Awards: Honorable Mention for Digital Art (9th)

Extracurriculars

Work

  • GT School Summer Intern, summer before 12th, 40 hrs/wk (I helped build a math program for an online ed-tech start-up that wants to accelerate learning for motivated students.)
  • GT School Math Student Analyst, 12th, 10 hrs/wk (I’m basically helping build and run the AP Calc program with a bunch of other students right now.)

Volunteering

  • Warm Up America, 10-12th (I crochet blankets, clothes, etc. and donate them. I have about 200 hours from this.)
  • Florida Holocaust Museum, 9th (50-60ish hours)

Clubs

  • Copy Editor of school newspaper, 12th
  • Co-President of Feminism Club, 12th (member in 11th)
  • Founding Member of Human Rights Club, 11-12th
  • Pride Club, 9-12th

Other

  • Speedcubing, 11-12th, PB: 15.98 (It’s just a hobby, I haven’t done any competitions.)
  • Guitar, since I was 6 (also just a hobby)

Essays/LORs/Other

  • I think my essays are good, although some are maybe a little strange.
  • My Common App essay is about how I don’t like lettuce, but at the end I revealed that it’s a metaphor for being asexual.
  • My LORs are from my AP Lang and AP Calc teachers.

Cost Constraints/Budget

  • N/A, not applying for financial aid

Schools

This is the same as another post I made for my other schools, but I just decided to apply to Dartmouth and Brown as well. It’s before the RD deadline, but is it possible that I have a lower chance because my app will be sent in so close to the deadline? I also don’t know if I’ll get to do an interview with Dartmouth, but I’ll make sure to do the video introduction for Brown.

I’m fully expecting rejections, but I’m curious if I have a shot.

Thank you!! :blush:

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I think that it was worth an application to both universities. They are reaches. However, you are a very strong student.

I also think that you are likely to do well wherever you end up. Congratulations on your strong effort up to now and best wishes.

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You should recalc without the .3+ for +. 4 for A, 3 for B.

You could get in anywhere but it’s a competitive world.

I don’t think that earlier or later in RD will matter.

You are very accomplished. Best of luck.

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You made a good decision to apply to both schools. All the best!

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First of all, congrats on all your achievements, all the result of consistent hard work, in addition to your inherent ability.

Dartmouth and Brown don’t have rolling admissions, so it doesn’t matter whether you submitted your application on the first or the last day for applications - as long as it’s complete by the deadline, you’ll have the same chance as if you’d submitted it in September.

I think you have a chance, but I don’t think you’re a likely admit, because you didn’t take the most rigorous classes available to you, and because your ECs and awards are very good, but not outstanding at the statewide or national level. I think you’d have a better chance at highly selective small liberal arts colleges, so I hope that you have applied to some of those, too.

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And this indeed is a weak spot. Schools want you to challenge yourself as much as possible given what is available. You have excellent grades and scores yet skipped the hardest APs. In my experience this usually makes chances a lot more difficult at top schools, especially for those whose GPA and scores indicate they clearly could have handled the challenging path. However, you do have a realistic chance! Good luck!

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I’m saying mostly what other people said: it’s worth applying, but I wouldn’t say you’re a shoo-in. You’re a very impressive person.

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