<p>Hello! I'm considering applying to Dartmouth ED and I was hoping someone could give me their opinion on my chances.
GPA: 3.9 unweighted
SAT: 740 critical reading, 740 math, 770 writing - 2250 total
SAT II: 760 Biology, 710 US History (I'm taking Math II this saturday and I hope to do well.)
AP: US History 5, Biology 5, Government 5
Class Rank: top 10 percent</p>
<p>My teacher recommendations will be great from my Bio and English teachers. I am also submitting a supplemental recommendation that my Earthwatch trip leader wrote to my parents on his own behalf. </p>
<p>My Schedule this year is: AP English, Honors Spanish 3, AP Environmental, AP Physics C, AP Euro, AP Calc AB</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: 4 years varsity cross country, cross country captain, Environmental club VP, Human Rights club president, school newspaper columnist, philosophy club. Honors and Service society.</p>
<p>Awards:AP Honors Scholar, Earthwatch SCAP Fellowship, Okinawa Peace Scholarship, Mountain Film Festival Student Award Presenter</p>
<p>Community Involvement: I volunteer with local environmental organizations. I am in the midst of arranging two community film screenings one will serve as a starting point for a local political campaign to pass an ordinance reducing my town's consumption of single-use plastic bags. The other screening is about a doctor I met who does humanitarian work in Ethiopia. I hope to raise money for him to either assist with the construction of school houses or to help young Ethiopians with tuberculosis of the spine get surgery/treatment. </p>
<p>Employment History: Wegman's Food Markets - a local grocery store where I work as a cashier.
runsignup.com - I helped my cross country coach during the nascent stages of the development of a now-successful website on which individuals can register for races on line. I did data entry.
Moorestown Youth Baseball/Softball - umpire
My sister and I are in the developing stages of founding our own little mini-business of handmade reusable produce and grocery bags. </p>
<p>Summer Experiences:
Outward Bound: two week backpacking course in Leadville, Colorado
Youth for Understanding: I was fortunate enough to be a recipient of the Okinawa Peace Scholarship. I lived in Okinawa, Japan for six weeks as an exchange student. The scholarship was paid for by the US embassy in Japan and established in 2000 as a diplomatic means of strengthening peaceful relations between the US and the people of Okinawa since the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Earthwatch SCAP Fellowship: I received a scholarship to participate in a two century long study of the impact of climate change on the plant life in the mountains of California. During this trip I assisted a Smithsonian field botanist and contributed to the Smithsonian library as the close-up photographer.
Mountain Film Festival - Movies that Matter program: I participated in a program at a film festival where I was part of a panel of student judges who learned about as well as critiqued films. I was the presenter of the Student Award.</p>
<p>I am going to take a gap year next year during which I plan to both volunteer with the doctor I know in Ethiopia and spend time in Patagonia in Chile. In Patagonia I will likely be participating in a volunteer program where I will stay at a camp for several weeks with local Chilean gauchos/foresters where we will do trail and forestry work. By doing this I will be able to be a part of the most important conservation project of our time, the establishment of the Patagonian National Park. After this I plan to go on a 40 day mountaineering trip. A Dartmouth admissions director told me that an interesting gap year idea could help my chances of admission.</p>
<p>I am also interested in applying to Williams, Bowdoin, Colby and Middlebury if anyone might be able to weigh in their opinion for those schools as well.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>