Chance me for Dartmouth, I'm in Washington state

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<p>Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male
School: Top public @ WA
SAT: 2310 maybe will retake, predicting >2350 on account of 239 PSAT (took PSAT well after SAT
SAT2: 800 Math2, 800 Physics, 800 Chem, 730 Lit
APs: CompSci A--5, World Hist--5, Calc AB--5, Calc BC--5, Chem--5, US Hist--5, Bio--5, Eng Lang--5, Macroecon--5, Microecon--5, Phys B--4, French Lang--3
GPA: 4.0 UW, >4.6 W
Class rank: #4 after 1st sem junior yr, hopefully is #3 or, dare I hope, #2 (i'll find out once next yr starts)
ECs: piano, math club (9-12), robotics club--programming team member (10-12), chem club founder/president (11-12), school student finance association founder/president (11-12), ~100 hrs community service distributed between various places, performing research w/ top professor in his field @ UW this summer, peer tutor, martial arts (8-10), vice president of econ club (11-12)
going to continue w/ that prof through the school yr, might start another research internship too if time permits</p>

<p>thanks,</p>

<p>gfortran <-:</p>

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<p>I won’t lie to you, you have an extremely stereotypical “math-and-science-oriented Asian” application and this is going to make it tough for you to stand out among the thousands like you who will be applying as well. That’s a good SAT but you would definitely be in better standing with something like a 2360. The gig you have going with the professor at UW sounds interesting, you are going to want to highlight that on your essays. Also you mentioned you’re interested in piano and robotics…have you won any awards in these areas? Your geographic location may or may not give you a slight advantage, but other than that, I don’t see much standing out. Sorry if that sounds harsh but I hope you understand that I’m just trying to give you honest feedback. It might help us if you could give us any possible hooks you may have (first generation college student, legacy, etc.)</p>

<p>P.S. how you’ve taken that many APs already is a mystery to me! Good scores though…</p>