Chances at Dartmouth?

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<li>Native American Female</li>
<li>English Major</li>
<li>From Oklahoma</li>
<li><p>BIA/Tribal-run Boarding School</p></li>
<li><p>Class Rank: 5/87</p></li>
<li><p>GPA: 3.85 UW, 4.07 W</p></li>
<li><p>ACT: 27 (30 E, 23 M, 30 R, 26 S, 10 Writing)</p></li>
<li><p>SAT subject tests (Only taken once): 620 English/Literature, 510 U.S. History <-Horrible, I know</p></li>
<li><p>Personal Statement:
My transition at the beginning of my junior year from the high school I attended (I have lived in the same town my whole life/never even moved houses before) to the boarding school I attend now.</p></li>
<li><p>EC's:
Volleyball, 9th through 12th grade, JV and Varsity captain (Selected as All-Tournament Player at Sequoyah and Okay Volleyball Tournaments)
Marching/Contest Band; drumline, All-District band member (first chair), percussion ensemble, steel drum band, woodwind choir, and jazz band; 9th and 10th grade
Children of the American Revolution, 9th through 12th grade
Academic team, JV captain, 9th and 10th grade
Newspaper, Co-Editor, 11th grade
Gifted and Talented (Journalism and Muscogee language classes), 11th and 12th grade
Native American Club, 9th and 10th grade
Prom Committee Member, 11th grade
Honoring Our People’s Existence (H.O.P.E.) Club, 12th grade
iRead Book Club, 12th grade
Student Council, 12th grade</p></li>
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<p>-Native Cultural Activities
Beadwork
Basket weaving
Attend powwows and festival days
College Horizons</p>

<p>-Work Experience
Lifeguard at the local pool (maintains Red Cross certification in CPR, AED, and lifeguarding), 9th through 12th grade
Babysitting, 9th through 12th grade
Swimming lesson instructor at local pool, 9th through 12th grade</p>

<ul>
<li>Honors:
National Honor Society (President), 11th and 12th grade
Oklahoma Honor Society, 10th through 12th grade
Oklahoma Indian Honor Society, 11th and 12th grade
Muskogee Phoenix Academic All-Stars, 11th grade
Outstanding English student, 9th and 10th grades
Coca-Cola Scholarship Semi-Finalist, 12th grade</li>
</ul>

<p>-Volunteer
Partners for Animal Welfare Society (P.A.W.S.) volunteer, 9th through 12th grade
Help clean teachers’ classrooms after school, 11th and 12th grade
Decorated a Daughters of the American Revolution float for the Parade of Roses, 10th grade
Referee, coach, and instructor to elementary school and junior high girls at volleyball camp, 10th through 12th grade
Helped backstage with costumes at local children theater’s production of The Seusical Musical, 11th grade
Tutor students after school at local intermediate center (5th and 6th graders), 9th and 10th grade
Helped prepare meals on Thanksgiving for the homeless at the local armory, 9th through 12th grade
Thirst Aid for First Aid disaster relief stand coordinator, 9th through 12th grade
File papers and run errands at dad’s law office, 9th through 12th grade
Special Olympics (Swim and land meets), 12th grade
Bought Christmas presents as an Angel Tree shopper through the Cherokee Nation Child Welfare program, 12th grade
Speaking at a Women’s Conference in Albuquerque, NM, April 2012
Coordinated the Reading Buddies program with NHS members and Cherokee Nation head-start students (ages 4-5), 12th grade</p>

<ul>
<li>Recs:
From English Composition One professor and Native American History teacher.</li>
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<p>That’s a tough one. Your standardized test scores are, as you know, really, really low for D. What is the relative rigor of your courseload like? Have you taken the most challenging courses available at your schools? You say your father is a lawyer…what was your school/community like before you transferred to the boarding school? The question may be whether your app convinces the adcom that you can do the work at D.</p>

<p>Since you didn’t mention it, is it safe to assume that you haven’t participated in any of the fly-in events D runs for Native American students?</p>

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<p>My course-load is fairly rigorous. I have taken all the honors classes my school has to offer. My school is not AP certified; however, they do partake in a program at the local vo-tech that offers AP classes for area students for calculous, chemistry, and physics. The hang up is that you have to take all of the courses. Although I have been in honors math classes since the fifth grade I still have trouble with it, so the calculous made me shy away in fear that I would not do well it all. Instead of taking the AP program, I opted to take trigonometry at my school. I’m taking honors physics and honors chemistry this term.
My old hometown is infiltrated with significant amounts poverty and drug use because it houses the state penitentiary. The penitentiary brings a lot of roughness to the town. The school I attended was a large, public school with various types of students and tended to be pretty rough. </p>

<p>I did not participate in any fly-in events because I did not become interested in Dartmouth until after they were all over. However, I did attend College Horizons where I met with various college reps (and sat in on the Dartmouth informational session).</p>

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<p>Where else have you applied?</p>

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<p>Stanford, Yale, Cornell, Harvard, Brown, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, and Vassar. I went to the Bowdoin and Swarthmore fly-in programs.</p>

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<p>Bowdoin is test-optional, right? That is definitely a good thing for you. </p>

<p>Frankly, I’m surprised that you are applying only to reach schools. Does this reflect a belief that your URM status will definitely outweigh your test scores? Did you apply to any safeties?</p>

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<p>I applied to a local University as a fall-back.</p>

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<p>As a native american female, you could get into this school with triple digit SATs and multiple felonies.</p>

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<p>^^I hope you’re wrong.</p>