Chance me for Dartmouth Georgetown and others!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a male senior from a very competitive mid-sized public school applying RD.</p>

<p>My school does not rank, however my GPA is 4.97/5 (weighted) My counselor told me however that I would be top 5-10% of my class if we did rank</p>

<p>ACT-33 (Best individual scores: Math-34, Reading-31, English-35, Science-35)
SAT II- Chemistry-770, Math II-740, US History- 700
AP Scores-Calc BC-5, Chemistry-5, US History-5, European History-4</p>

<p>I have received mostly As and a few Bs in the most rigorous course load available at my high school. </p>

<p>My Senior Schedule is:
Honors Multivariable Calculus
AP Physics B (My school doesn't offer C)
AP Econ
Wind Ensemble
AP Literary Analysis
Spanish 5</p>

<p>EC's:
School Newspaper- Editor-in-Chief, Features editor (10,11, 12)</p>

<p>Music: Trumpet- First chair, section leader, senior representative
Ensembles: Jazz band, Brass choir, Symphony orchestra & winds, Pep band, and a local honor band (9, 10 ,11, 12)</p>

<p>Cross Country- Varsity Team Captain, all-academic (9, 10 ,11, 12)
Tennis- Varsity Team captain, all-academic (9, 10 ,11, 12)</p>

<p>Relgious- Head acolyte, church youth group (Since 5th grade)</p>

<p>Volunteer- 100+ hours community service, nursing home volunteer</p>

<p>I also work at an overnight all-boys camp which I have attended for 8 years and have been an assistant counselor for 2</p>

<p>Honors:
National Merit Qualifier
National Honor Society
AP Scholar with Honor
Honor Roll every semester
Quill & Scroll Society (for writing)</p>

<p>I think my essays are very good, and I have been editing them with the head of the English department at my school, who thinks they are great as well. I wrote my activity essay about writing the crossword puzzle for the paper, which seemed to be a selling point in my Wake Forest interview. Hopefully it is for Dartmouth too!</p>

<p>My recommendations are from my English teacher junior year and my math teacher who has had me for 2 years in Calc BC and Multivar.
Also, I am sending an additional recommendation from my Band teacher, because I plan on continuing the trumpet in college. I know these teachers very well, and they were very enthused to be writing me a rec.
My peer recommendation and my additional recommendation are absolutely amazing. The math one is also very good as well.</p>

<p>Also, I'm not sure how much it weighs into admissions decisions, but an alumni has called the admissions office for me to speak on my behalf, as their family has been extremely good friends with mine for years.</p>

<p>Since applying, I have won Most Valuable Player for the band and 1st place at a Solo and Ensemble Competition. I'll add that to my mid-year report when the time comes.
Could you chance me for:
Dartmouth
Georgetown (EA)
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
UPenn
Duke
USC
Thanks!</p>

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<p>Bump…i suppose</p>

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<p>Anyone… please help is much appreciated</p>

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<p>Your in the running, but everything’s just a crapshoot with top schools.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth, UPenn, Georgetown, and Duke you have a good shot at especially if you say your essays are as good as you say they are, but sometimes they reject some amazing applicants as well. Wake Forest, USC, and Vanderbilt are matches.
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<p>Dartmouth-Low Reach
Georgetown (EA)-High Match
Vanderbilt-Low Reach
Wake Forest-High Match
UPenn-Mid Reach
Duke-Low/mid reach
USC-high match</p>

<p>Good luck :)</p>

<p>Btw, how do you schedule your Wake Forest Interview? I need to do that for the RD round, but do I just call the Admissions Office or what exactly? I’d prefer a face-to-face interview than a Skype one. </p>

<p>chance back please ;)</p>

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<p>Wrong. With that SAT there’s very little chance that Dartmouth/duke will take you. There’s been a recent trend at duke (and i’ve heard at dartmouth) to accept people with >2250. Anything less and they waitlist you. I’d put down dartmouth as a mid-high reach, penn as a mid reach duke as a high reach.</p>

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<p>I haven’t taken the SAT haha, but thanks anyways… And I’ve heard straight from the reps of Dartmouth that anything above a 700 on the subject tests is considered very solid…
Thanks for the input though!</p>

<p>But anyways bigdreamer an admissions officer emailed my counselor saying that he was coming to town and was conducting a few interviews so I signed up… Other than that I believe alumni interviews are available (although I’m not sure)… only other way would be to travel to Winston-Salem for a visit, but if you do be sure to email them first. I don’t think a skype vs. In person interview matters however… According to the officer about 80% of accepted students interview in some way, so I think just doing it and not doing horribly is all that matters</p>

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<p>Yeah. So dartmouth and duke definitely need you to take the SAT I. I don’t know why you think you can get in without them…</p>

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<p>Haha that’s just not true… They take either ACT or SAT and don’t place an emphasis on either (as do almost every college)</p>

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<p>I go to an ivy league institution but you can believe what you will. I haven’t met anyone at my school who hasn’t take the SAT I. It definitely raises a red flag if you haven’t taken them. The ACT is good and all, but if you’re tied with someone who scored a 2270 and you had a 34, they’re almost always going to go with the guy who took the SAT. There are a couple of reasons for this i) because SAT scores are easier to compare (since most people took the SATs) and ACT scores aren’t and ii) because the SAT prepares you for college a lot better than the ACTs do.</p>

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<p>Ok I’m not going to argue this because I know what’s right… But for the record colleges wouldn’t compare a person with a 34 and a 2270 and make a determination based on test scores, they would distinguish based on many other factors… And not taking the SAT does not raise a red flag, it honestly has no bearing on the application… Maybe when you applied things were different, but you can look it up and ask any admissions officer, they no longer favor one test over the other</p>

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<p>it’s your application man. I just don’t think you’ll get accepted wit the ACTs.</p>

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<p>Well ok thanks for the input… But please do look it up because if it turns out every admissions officer and website has lied to me, then I’m screwed</p>

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<p>They’re not lying per se. It’s like saying you don’t need to take a hard math course over an easy math course to get into college. It’ll look better ( a lot better) if you take the hard math course, but no ones gonig to say that you won’t get in with the easy math course. It’s a disadvantage, a pretty big one I’d say (since it shows that you didn’t challenge yourself enough to take the SATs), but you can still get in.</p>

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<p>Ok… Well I would have to completely disagree… At my school the ACT is almost a universal test, and we send kids to the top universities in the country consistently… In Illinois where I live the act is alot more popular, and it has not prevented anyone from getting into their choice university. I didn’t take the act because it’s easier, (which it isn’t) but because it is the more prevalent test taken in our area. If you ask kids from my school what they got on the sat they would say they never took it, just as many kids would say the same from your high school for the SAT. Could anyone else provide any insight to clear it up? And I’m one of 13 kids in my grade taking multivariable calculus, so I’m clearly not trying to take an easy way out lol</p>

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<p>@imnotafraid: Thanks for getting back to me! So wait the interview isn’t required? Ahhh looks like I was misinformed and told that it was necessary. I think I interview better in person than over the phone, so that’s why I had said that. If I need to go to Winston-Salem, it’s not a terrible drive anyway. The Wake campus is worth the drive :wink: Cheers!</p>

<p>And btw, you’re fine with having the ACT over the SAT, just like you’ve been maintaining. The head of admissions from Middlebury, who’s personal friends with ALL of the Ivy heads of admissions and has talked about this with them, told me that there is no preference between the SAT and ACT. I know people who’ve only taken the ACT, and had a really low score, still get in to Ivies. Good luck :)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the verification. And so technically the interview is not required for an application to be complete. However it is “highly recommended” to do an interview. In person is probably better, but you won’t be penalized or anything for a skype interview</p>

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<p>There is no preference, that guy is wrong. You can take the ACT or SAT. A 33 is equivalent to about a 2200 SAT, which is within those school’s ranges. I don’t know what he means by “challenging” yourself to take the SAT, they’re both standardized tests used to determine aptitude…</p>

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