chance me please

Colleges and Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>17 year old high school senior from New Orleans, LA
National merit semifinalist
SAT: M700, V690, W790 (retaking nov 3)
ACT: 31 (retaking oct 27)
SATII: (retaking math 2, lit, and bio december 1)
math 2: 640
lit:640
spanish: you dont wanna know
Subject tests: taking lit, spanish, and math2 on saturday
GPA: 3.88/4.0 UW...school doesn't weight honors courses
Courses: all honors courses throughout high school except for women's history senior year. taking as many AP courses as the school allows (2)
ECS: choir all 4 years
select choir 3 years
a capella group 2 years
high school play all 4 years
newspaper staff 2 years (editor in chief 12th grade)
peer support leader 2 years
national honor society 2 years
mu alpha theta 3 years
science olympiad 3 years (plus 4 in middle school, not that it counts)
italian club 2 years
plus others that I can't remember right now</p>

<p>MANY academic awards esp for spanish
highest scholarship award that my school offers for high school
NMSF
was a national spelling bee finalist
will graduate with Distinction in Music through the mentorship program at my school</p>

<p>comm service
-LOTS with hurricane katrina, organized a clean up team for my flood-ravaged neighborhood
-children's hospital candy striper work
-painted at a school for mentally handicapped students
-standard No/AIDS walks, breast cancer walks, juvenile diabetes walk etc</p>

<p>work:
-babysitting
-peer tutoring
-summer internship at local newspaper (difficult to get into)</p>

<p>essays will be no problem; i'm a strong writer and i've got the best english teacher in the school helping me along.</p>

<p>final grades for every year:
9th grade:
Honors English: A
Honors World History III: A
Honors Introductory Physical Science: A
Honors Geometry: A-
Honors Spanish II: A
Music/choir: A
PE: A</p>

<p>10th grade (HURRICANE KATRINA YEAR):
Honors English: A-
Honors US HIstory: A-
Honors Algebra II: A
HOnors Biology: A
Honors Spanish III: A
Music/Choir: A
PE: A</p>

<p>11th grade:
Honors English: A-
Honors US GOvt: A
Honors Precalculus: A-
Honors Chemistry: A
HOnors Spanish IV: A
NEwspaper Journalism: A
Music/choir: A</p>

<p>12th grade courses:
Honors English
Women's History
Honors Physics
AP Calculus AB
AP Spanish V
Newspaper journalism (editor in chief)
Drama I
Music/Choir
Mentorship in music (will graduate with Distinction in Music)</p>

<p>plus I have a recommendation letter from the recently retired head of the Board of Trustees</p>

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<p>Like many of us, you are competitive. Your music ECs and geography are plusses. I don't think anyone can be definitive on your chances, but you appear to be certainly in the running. Raising your SATII scores will be key. They are rather on the low side and they have the potential to cause the adcom to call into question the quality of your high school and your academic accomplishments there. As an example, you cite numerous awards in Spanish, yet you have, by your own admission, embarrassingly low scores on the Spanish SATIIs. I also would not overestimate the letter from the former Board of Trustees member. Unless he or she really knows you in some important capacity and can shed some positive and unique light on you as a person, these kinds of letter are not all that beneficial and they are often treated by adcoms as simply perfunctory.</p>

<p>Are you applying ED or RD?</p>

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<p>RD...if I do well on the ACT i recently took I may just submit those scores. I am retaking SAT II's in december. All i can chalk the bad scores up to in spanish is just a bad testing day. Hopefully if I can raise the scores the adcoms will see that too. I really do not know what happened. </p>

<p>Does Dartmouth take scores from the January testing date? If the December SAT II's are not up to par I may retake then as well.</p>

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<p>Buck up on the tests!</p>