Chances for Dartmouth?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My dream college. It seems to me unlikely (duh), but what the heck...</p>

<p>-Class of 2009 (rising junior)
-"Ethnicity:" Jewish-American
-Live in suburban Vermont
-Go to a fairly competitive HS w/ 1000 students</p>

<p>Class rank:
Freshman year: 16/222
Sophomore year: Don't know, est. same or a BIT higher
Freshman GPA out of 4.33: 3.999
Sophomore GPA out of 4.33: Don't know: est. 3.95 or so</p>

<p>Freshman year:
Geometry Level 1 - A
Honors English 9 - A-
Concert Band - A
World History - A+
French 3 - A+
Earth Science/Intro to Physics - B+/A
Japanese 1 - A+
Freshman Seminar - A</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
Algebra II Level 1 - A+
Honors American Studies English - B+
Honors American Studies History - A- to A
Japanese 2 - A+
Pre-AP French (skipped a year) - A+
Wind Ensemble (upgraded from C. band) - A
Lab Biology - A</p>

<p>Classes for Junior Year:
AP Chemistry
AP US Govt.
AP French
Wind Ensemble
Honors English 11
Accelerated Pre-Calc
Health and Human Development (req.)
A wonderful, stupid year of PE (req.)
Drivers' Education
Psychology (consortium)
US Foreign Policy
--Self-studying Latin, possibly</p>

<p>Classes for Senior Year:
AP English
AP Calculus
AP Physics
AP European History
Public Issues and World Affairs (req.)
Another stupid semester of PE (req.)
Something in technology or visual art
--Maybe a college class in French</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars: (things past 10th grade still pretty much certain)
Scholars' Bowl (Quiz bowl) team: 9-12
Speech club: 9
Debate club: 10-12 (this past year was first year we had debate)
Oceanography club: 11-12
Exchange to Perigueux, France next year
CTY summer program 2005, 2006, 2007
District band every year
Co-founded school computer club (mostly to learn from other co-founders about computers, but also to help)</p>

<p>Weaknesses in app:
Community service - haven't done much, but am doing some this summer
Sports - am not on any teams because I am inept at everything but tennis</p>

<p>Passions/pastimes
Languages: Love learning them, challenging myself with them.
Writing: Last year I spent some free time writing a 300 page fantasy novel
Music: Listening to prog-rock and classical world music
Introspection: self-explanatory</p>

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<p>It is way too early to be worrying about college admissions. I know that at the moment you feel like you need to know whether you are on the right track (you are), but trust me, wait until the second half of your junior year before you seriously think about applying to colleges.</p>

<p>The schools I thought were my top choices at the end of my sophomore year were not even schools I ended up applying to. Take the time to excel in school and activities and have fun rather than worrying about college. Two years ago I thought that my top choices would be Penn and Duke - now I am headed to Harvard in the fall. Just goes to show that your preferences change, so don't worry about it for another year.</p>

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<p>I could not disagree more with the above. hose who's parents can afford it often hire private college counseors to guide hem before HS. In this age of extremely competitive admissions, the sooner you plan the better.</p>

<p>You seem on the right track. Try for al As and a 2250 SAT.</p>

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<p>Please do not listen to the post above.</p>

<p>As someone who has completed the college admissions process and has had time to reflect on it, your time would be better spent actually accomplishing things and having fun than thinking about college already. Do not worry about it! Work hard, do what you enjoy, and the success in the college admissions process will naturally follow, as I have found out.</p>

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<p>I guess you still have plenty of time until starting worrying about college. Maybe,the only things you should think about now are the SATs. It won't hurt to take some of them next autumn, or in January, if you feel prepared. You can cancel them if you consider you've screwed up. I tell you this because, if I could start over again preparing for college, I would definitely take the SATs earlier. I am a raising senior and I've only taken three SAT subject tests and I think I'll have to retake at least 2 this year and the SAT reasoning, but I have a lot of things(unrelated to college) to do this summer and autumn so I've already started alarming myself.</p>

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<p>There's a good reason the rich and connected make up 65% plus at top colleges. They had educational plans made for them since pre school.</p>

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<p>Something tells me that 65% of people at top colleges are neither rich nor connected.</p>

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<p>don't worry. I only do the things i do for me, not for the admissions process</p>

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<p>any other opinions?</p>