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<p>Me- Junior at Phillips, Andover, live in MA</p>

<p>Academic-</p>

<p>9th grade at public HS, had a 4.518 GPA</p>

<p>Sophmore Year-
Grading System on a 0-6 scale, 5 and 6 are honors grades, GPA average is 4.5 unweighted (school doesn't weigh)</p>

<p>Sophmore English Fall-6, Winter-5, Spring-5, Final-5
Second Year French- 5,6,6,6
BC Calc-6.5.6.6 (5/5 on AP)
AP Chem- 5,5,6,5 (5 on AP)
Sophmore History (Fall,one term) 4
Religion/Philosophy (Diplomia Requirement, one term, Winter) 4
PE (one term, spring)-Pass
Java Computer Programming (one term, Spring) 6</p>

<p>In the Spring term, I had a 6.0 GPA (according to my advisor, our school rounds to the nearest .5). Only about .7% of students have a 6.0.</p>

<p>Junior Year-</p>

<p>Junior English projected grade of 4/5
Third Year French 5
Organic Chemistry 5
AP Physics 5/6
Multivariable Calc 6</p>

<p>EC's (Major ones)</p>

<p>Cross Country
Track
Math Club
Science Club (placed 1st in school science bowl)
Mock Trial (co-founder and co-president, this will be our first year)
Summer job at a small company, helping them make a website, isn't much though</p>

<p>My scores on my last practice SAT were something around 670V/780M/690W(based on MC) . My SAT II (IIC and Chem) are both 800's.</p>

<p>I can definetly get great rec's and good essays.</p>

<p>I'm just looking around at different colleges right now. I'm thinking of majoring in somthing like biochem. How do I stand as a candidate to Dartmouth?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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<p>Wow. My thread titles must scare people away... Maybe I could write that as an EC.</p>

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<p>your gpa confuses me...why cant all schools be on a 4.0 scale with honors and ap go up to a 5?</p>

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<p>Well at my school we don't have A's, B's, etc... We have 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And the scale is kind of weird. From what I've heard around my school, a 6 is like an A, a 5 an A/A-, a 4 ~B/B+, a 3 B-/C, a 2 C-/D, a 1 D, a a 0 F. The GPA average is around a 4.5 (and when my school calculates GPAs, it rounds to the nearest .5, don't ask me why.)</p>

<p>But I agree, it would be so much easier if all schools had a 4.0 GPA system.</p>

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<p>Admission is a crapshoot. Ivies routinely reject many kids from prep school including Andover despite having perfect 4.0 GPA. Look on CC for justice (Andover 6.0 GPA) who was rejected from all ivies except Columbia despite having 1600/800/800/800/800/800/800 and 15 APs with five scores. You have excellent SAT II scores and GPA. So apply and see what happens.</p>

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<p>Is justice the screen name? I can't find that. But I think I have heard of the guy. Class of '04?</p>

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<p>Well, first of all, you're a junior and shouldn't worry too hard at this point (and it's hard to give concrete info until you have actual test scores.) </p>

<p>That said, looking pretty good, especially if you decide to apply ED. Dartmouth does have a graduate engineering school and is fairly strong in the sciences but isn't best known for their strength in those areas. So if you make it pretty clear that you're a dedicated "science" person, you should have a decent shot, especially because we lose a lot of science applicants to schools with more "science-y" reputations. Again, applying early would be a huge help. Do your research and if you think you'd like it here go ahead and apply early (speaking from personal experience I don't think you'd regret it.) Coming from Andover will probably help a bit. Anyway, I'd put your chances if you apply ED at around 60%, if RD at 25%, just because nothing about you REALLY stands out...</p>

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<p>I'm planning to do some research over the summer. The best senario would be to attend RSI. What will the effect of that be on my chances?</p>