Chances at Dartmouth

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>white female from suburban NJ
current junior
(all GPAs unweighted)
Freshman and sophomore year GPAs: over 4.0
Junior year GPA: 3.7ish (depends on last mp)...cumulative GPA probably still over 4
Rank after sophomore year: top 2.5%
Probable rank after junior year: I don't think I'll fall past top 5%, but this still really worries me</p>

<p>AP's:
English Lang
Calc BC
US History
Chem
Stat (next year)
German (next year)
Econ (macro, next year)</p>

<p>Full IB student:
HL Chemistry, Math, History of Europe, German
SL Economics, English</p>

<p>Tests:
old SAT 1470
Math IIC 800 (sophomore year)
waiting on scores in chem and US history
taking new SAT in June
PSAT 233</p>

<p>EC's:
(I play clarinet and saxophone)
Marching band (9-12, section leader 11-12)
Area/region honors bands (quite a list of these, but I missed all-state)
I also play in a community band during the summer
Jazz Band (11-12)
Pit orchestra (10-12)
German Club (co-founder 10, secretary 10, VP 11)
Girl Scouts (1-12, Silver Award, Gold Award)</p>

<p>Chances at Dartmouth, Middlebury?</p>

<p>Question: how much is the slip junior year going to hurt me? I have low grades in calc BC and English. Will I get any reprieve for taking calc BC as a junior or not? Don't know how well I did on the AP.</p>

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<p>Your junior year grade slip will definitely be noticeable to the admissions committes at Dartmouth and Middlebury.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, you will not be pardoned for taking Calc BC as a junior. The admissions comitte will assume that you should be able to handle the course if you are enrolled in it. After all, not just anyone is placed in such a math course. If there are any special circumstances for your grade dip, make sure that your guidance counselor includes them in her reccomendation letters.</p>

<p>Your SATs are solid and so are your ECs. It seems that you like Dmouth slightly more than Midd. So I would reccomend that you apply to Dmouth ED I and Midd ED II if you don't get into Dmouth. Middlebury will especially like your founding of the German Club. Midd. is very renouned in the languages. </p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

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<p>You will get some repreive if you did well on the AP exam</p>

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<p>Yeah, thanks, that about confirms what I've been thinking. I was planning on Dartmouth ED. I look to study international relations/foreign languages, so that is a big attraction of Middlebury. I don't have a great reason for the junior year drop - just overwhelmed, which I'm guessing is pretty much the kiss of death. Also, forgot to mention that I take German outside of my regular high school as well, at a German language school Saturday mornings. It's been a really great experience, how would I mention this on the application? Just work it into essays?</p>

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<p>i still don't get how ur unweighted is over 4.0</p>

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<p>Oh, sorry. At my school, A+ = 4.3.</p>

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<p>My junior UW grade was 3.65 (with 5 APs), dropped from 4.0 UW sophmore year. Although our transcripts only show the weighted, the number of Bs was pretty obvious, including a B in honors English, and B+ in BC calc. </p>

<p>But that wasn't the end of it because I still got into UPenn, Cornell, Hopkins, and others.</p>

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<p>flavian ur my new idol... my 3 top choices are penn cornell and hopkins... and my gpa is a 3.65 ;) lol</p>

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<p>Anyone else with input? Thanks.</p>

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<p>hey Flavian, what's ur SAT score?</p>

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<p>Bump, and to add SAT II scores: Chem 790, US History 740.</p>

<p>Also, anyone have suggestions on where I should look for safety schools? I tend to like the smaller LAC's and would like to be in New England.</p>