<p>Class of 2015</p>
<p>Stats:
ACT: 33 (35E, 34M, 27R, 34S, 8E) (Does combined M+E carry more weight than M+R?)
SAT II: Math iic: 790 Physics: 760 Chemistry: 750
GPA: W:4.4 UW: 3.9 (top 10 percent of a top ten school in the state)
Extra curriculars: president/officer of four clubs, helped start DECA and Investment Club, tennis team captain, lots of volunteering, Associated Student Body, other leadership roles in school, rotary youth leadership award, state department full scholarship study abroad to china, MUN award.
Reccs: Expecting them to be really good.
Essays: Probably very good/unique
Ethnicity: Asian Indian
Gender: M
Residence: CA, USA
Interested in Economics/Finance, Chinese, Possibly Engineering</p>
<p>Colleges to chance:
Dartmouth ED
Chicago EA
UPenn (Huntsman/Wharton)
Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore ED II
Middlebury ED II
UCs (Berkeley, LA, SD)
Northwestern
Cornell</p>
<p>GPA and rank are great, but your ECs demonstrate little commitment and are wholly average, while your ACT could use some improvement. Dartmouth will be a reach, though you have a decent shot with the ED. Penn, Williams and Amherst are all going to be big reaches, with everything else being high matches to lower reaches.</p>
<p>thanks, i agree with you
bump bump bump!</p>
<p>I absolutely disagree with billabongboy. Your ECs are fine. They’re not mind-bogglingly good but they’re not bad either. Look at the Dartmouth results thread and you’ll see several people with ECs like your’s getting in. These people, however, seem to excel academically. In that regard, you should increase your ACT score to have a reasonable chance at Dartmouth ED.</p>
<p>I wish you the best of luck! :)</p>
<p>What portion of my post did you find disagreeable? You seem to have done an excellent job in echoing exactly what I said; average ECs, an ACT score that could stand a little improvement, and holistically a decent chance at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>The problem here is being an ORM from an overrepresented state, with average stats at best for a school accepting 11%, half of whom are hooked. Without a EC that really stands out, I’m not seeing Dartmouth. Huntsman, even harder and the others are reaches until you hit the UCs.</p>
<p>In fairness, chances are better if rank is near the top of the top 10%, which you don’t tell us. At Dartmouth and most of the most selective schools, the majority of the unhooked are val or sal.</p>
<p>My S got into Williams, Northwestern and Cornell with stats that were similar to yours, but he isn’t an ORM, he’s Mexican. And your ECs are better than his were.</p>
<p>most of my ECs are def commonplace but my biggest EC is going to china for a summer studying chinese under a state department sponsored scholarship (about 1500 people applied for about 100 spots in 7 countries total). many people would see that as a considerable hook.</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but I think a “hook” is something like being an URM or having a skill that the school wants. I think what you’re describing is an accomplishment (and a good one,) not a hook.</p>