<p>Hello, my name is Tyler and I have never been into the whole Ivy League thing. However, when I found out that if your family makes less than 60,000 a year you can get a full ride I quickly became interested. I am currently a junior so I still have some things to do to get ready for college, but I thought I would get a preliminary opinion. OK so here is my info.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.078
Rank: 1 of 714
Public High School
ACT( took as sophomore taking it again in like 2 weeks): 29 (hoping for 33)</p>
<p>Schedule: 10th
Honors Chem
ACC Algebra II
Spanish III
AP History (got a 4 on the exam)
English 10
Health
Drawing Fundamentals (got thrown in I hate art lol)</p>
<p>11th
AP Government (haven't taken exam yet)
English 11
Organic Chem
Analytical Chem
Bio II
Econ
ACC Trig
Spanish IV</p>
<p>Prospective 12th grade schedule
AP Calc BC
AP Bio
AP Chem
AP Spanish (spanish V)
English 12
Newspaper/Brit Lit/Sociology (i dont know yet)</p>
<p>Extra Curricular</p>
<p>Science Olympiad
Driven Club (christian club)
Spanish Club
Spanish Honors Society
NHS
Varsity Tennis
Young Republicans</p>
<p>I come from an extremely low income family (Less than 15000 a year.) My parents are divorced and I live with my mom. I am a first generation college attendee.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help. I know these can be annoying. Please be brutally honest</p>
<p>Solid grades. But sorry, your ECs are sort of weak for a dartmouth applicant. Therefore, try to brush them up in your senior year. Leadership positions would help a lot. </p>
<p>Your family’s income and background would help. Make sure that you attach a note or something.</p>
<p>you definitely need a higher than 29 act score for dartmouth…but a 33 would put you in the top 25% of dartmouth students. Its not necessarily that you need more ec’s, you just need to make sure that you excel and show passion in the ones you have. Like wannadartmouth said, any leadership positions would greatly help</p>
<p>hello again tyler
umm to the person above me, he took that last year, so he should be able to break 32 if he practices.
and tyler, you dont need any specific ECs, just pick one or two to focus in that shows your passion.and yess at least a couple leadership pos.</p>
<p>Grades couldn’t be better really… But then there’s show some passion, do better on ACT (which I’m sure you will, you took it as a sophomore) yada yada yada etc</p>
<p>Anyway, Dartmouth, like any highly selective school, is picky. But if you have got some leadership positions, a 33, an awesome essay, I don’t know why they wouldn’t accept you, or why you wouldn’t get into a ivy. And being a valedictorian first gen college student certainly does help. Anyway, definitely go for it, go for a few since it can kinda be a crap shoot. Their financial aid packages are all great. Best of luck</p>
<p>ECs like: Model UN, RSI?, school committee?
I dont know. It all depends on your interest and passion. There is no point doing something you hate. Like I have said earlier, leadership postions would help a lot.</p>
<p>It’s very likely that most adcom at any school are liberal dems and likely pro choice. While they are not supposed to discriminate based on politics, they’re human. If I were in your shoes, I would not hang my hat on a pro life club.</p>
<p>Not enough information at this point. Strength/quality of your high school would be important to know (e.g. how many graduates go to highly selective colleges). More recent scores on standardized test would also give a better picture of your chances. </p>
<p>Don’t worry so much about ECs so long as there is coherence to and passion around your participation in them. </p>
<p>If you are from an area/high school truly underrepresented at the Ivies, consider Harvard as they have a big push on this.</p>