<p>Basic Info:
male
Costa Rican
Tempe, AZ
public high school
both parents received degrees (father, doctor, mother, nurse)
not a legacy candidate
Academics:
4.0 GPA (unweighted) 4.65~ (weighted)
34/675 rank
mostly honors and ap classes (senior schedule: honors professional internship (writing for local paper), AP Spanish language, advanced yearbook, AP Competition Government/AP Econ, AP calculus bc, AP senior literature)
SAT I: 720 M, 680 CR, 720 W
SAT II: Literature 720, Spanish w/ listening 720
APs: Lang. and Comp. - 5, US history - 2 (bad day)
Awards and honors: Morehead-Cain scholarship nominee (1 per school), HOBY ambassador, Excellent in Sports writing (x2) JEA/NSPA conventions, Distinguished Student Athlete (x4), Principal's Honor Roll (x4), Editor of the deadline, staffer of the deadline, Who's Who in High School
ECs:
Yearbook - 3 years, Editor (advertising and sports, 11 12 respectively)
Internship - Phoenix Magazine and Wrangler News
We the People - team won district
Model UN - selected to attend national convention
Spanish Honors society
NHS
volunteer spanish tutor - 4 years
volunteer teacher's assistant - 4 years
Track - 4 years, varsity letter (x2)
Cross Country - 1 year, Team-Morale captain
Global Volunteer - community service trip to Costa Rica
College level spanish courses at the Universidad de salamanca in Spain
Essays: Counselor loved it (said it's one of the best he's seen), and made English teacher cry (hardest teacher in school)
Letters of Rec: one from aforementioned english teacher, strong, and one from yearbook adviser, ?
Peer Recs: two closest friends, strong
additional essay (sent in on my own): why I want to go to Dartmouth
Intended major/area of interest: government, anthropology, classics, arabic</p>
<p>So what do you think my chances of ED admissions into Dartmouth are?</p>