Dartmouth chances?

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<p>Did this for Yale, and now Dartmouth. Been to the campus, but inasmuch as I love urban settings, Hanover had such a rustic feel to it that I enjoyed. Great campus, and I could always drive to the Atlantic megalopolis if i needed some action haha. My cousin goes to Dartmouth (doesn't count as legacy, but does offer a lot of insight)</p>

<p>ACADEMICS
Medical magnet high school, ranked 40-some on newsweek. Pretty competitive.
SAT: 2170
ACT: 34
SAT II: Bio M - 780, Lit - 740, Math II - 770
GPA: 96.9/100 (setbacks: grandfather's funeral, grandma's surgery and chemo follow up, all in the Philippines. Left school for a total of 4 weeks and had little time to make up work junior year)
Rank: 8/165 (setback: only kid in school taking Calculus II; it's not even offered on campus. I go to a medical magnet and I have to go to our district's engineering magnet to take that class. Ridiculously unforgiving teacher. I have a C 1st quarter senior year)
AP 5/5/5/4/3</p>

<p>DEMOGRAPHICS
Ethnicity: Filipino (does it matter what kind of asian?)
Region: South Texas, Rio Grande Valley. Not the richest part of the US. A skip away from the border.
Status: Perm. Resident, lived in US for 5.5 years total. Moved from philippines when i was in 7th grade
Languages: English, Spanish, Filipino, Ibanag</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
Student Council; Treasurer Jr. Year; Vice-President Sr. Year
KRGV-TV Masterminds (college-bowl type competition; 1st runner up, team captain)
Health Occupations Students of America (Advanced to Nationals)
National Honor Society; Member Jr. Sr. year (no faculty council my first two years; lazy principal)
National Technical Honor Society; Member Soph/Jr. Year. President Sr. Year
Senior Class Treasurer; former Sophomore class Vice-President
Founder: Med High AP Tutorial Initiative
VIVA National Peer Tutor; soph, jr. sr. year
University Interscholastic League; State 6th place overall science (freshman year) District 1st place science, persuasive speaking, social studies (freshman year), State 2nd place biology (Junior year)
Newman Institute; Diocese of Brownsville - World Youth Day coordinator and youth correspondent
Instituto Cervantes Manila; Auxiliary tutor jr, sr year
Pianist; working on Liszt's La Campanella; finished Beethoven's Appasionata 3rd movt
Organist, San Cristobal Magallanes Parish</p>

<p>MISCELLANEA
AP Scholar with Distinction
Assisted (not observed, assisted) in Ovarian Mass Resection (video and picture documentation and write-up included) University of Sto. Tomas, Manila.
Couples for Christ Gawad Kalinga charity program; built houses in Philipine landfills and drove through slums giving food while parents gave medical services. annualy since 7th grade
Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine DocPrep participant
MD ANderson Cancer Research Center Symposium invitee and participant</p>

<p>AP's
AP Calculus BC (only one in high school taking it)
AP Physics B
AP Macro
AP Gov't
AP English Lang
AP English Lit
AP World Hist
AP US Hist
AP Biology
AP Chem</p>

<p>Seems incomplete tho...can you guys do a quick scan and chance me on this?
Barring Yale and Stanford, it's really one of my top choices
And I'm dead set on it</p>

<p>if there's anything else you need to know, hit me up</p>

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<p>You have a C? I highly doubt you’re going to get in. Enjoy your state college.</p>

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<p>jeez man, make me feel bad. i’ll just have to negotiate that grade then and bring it up before midyear report comes out. seems like that one letter is a gaping hole in my app</p>

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<p>It isn’t going to kill you.
You look like a solid applicant and I don’t see why they wouldn’t accept you. If you can bring it up to a B before midyear reports, then that is obviously better, but don’t stress over it. One C at a midyear report isn’t going to completely kill your ENTIRE application.</p>

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<p>I find it difficult to believe that your school is “ranked 40-some on newsweek. Pretty competitive” yet you’re the only one taking AP Calculus BC (which is not the same as Caculus II btw)</p>

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<p>funny story actually; every year only some 10 seniors or so take Mr. Jones’ Calc II class. (someone remind me of the difference between Cal BC/Cal II - our district puts AB as a prereq for BC so its Cal I and II on our course thingies)</p>

<p>well my junior year was Mr. Jones’ last year
and only 5 people, including me, took the Cal I prereq in order to be able to take Calc II the following year</p>

<p>but now, our school doesnt have a Cal II teacher, so the other four took Stats instead
and I’m the only one taking Cal II at the engineering magnet with an entirely different teacher</p>

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<p>calculus II is multivariable</p>

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<p>Okay. . . I live in the same area except i am a bulldog/ go to McHi. I am telling you RIGHT now that students that attended Med-High/Sci Tech are not much “magnets” for Ivy Leagues. I say this because I was going to attend Med-High considering my areas of interest.<br>
Your scores are great.
Our region is great.
Just take it by ear by now. Thats pretty much it!
Nice to see a fellow RGV-er trying to crawl out of this heat/hell hole! I know of one IB student from Lamar that is planning on attending Dartmouth & our head basketball captain just recieved his likely letter. Squeeze yourself into that competition ! haha</p>

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<p>dmouth i think ur talking about Cal III, at least where I live. Coz the curriculum for Cal I goes from limits to fundamental theorem, and the curriculum for Cal II covers integration by parts to taymac series after polar/parametric stuff. Cal III is the multivariable stuff. Our district follows the UT course system, that’s why</p>

<p>rivercourts, I know personally from being at the school that around 4 people from Med High and around 9 from Sci-Tech go to Ivies each year on average; i attend both schools haha. Two years ago we had a kid go to Princeton and three go to Rice (not an “Ivy”, i know, but still one of the best), and Sci-Tech had a lot of kids go to Rice and sent two to Stanford. Three years ago we had two go to Hopkins and two to Columbia. I know a lot of IB people from my OLS CCD class and I know a lot of their kids get sent to top schools.</p>

<p>I remember the Masterminds finals Med High vs. IB (we should’ve won haha, do a careful review of the tape). Some guy named Walter was their team captain was on his way to Princeton, and i was like wow haha. We had a short chat after, and I know what I’m up against, you’re right. Each candidate packs their own unique flavor, in my opinion. All things being equal, I’m sure Strawberry-Guava is just as good a flavor as Chocolate-Boisenberry (***), and sometimes it just boils down to the adcom’s tastes are.</p>

<p>Thanks you guys!</p>

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<p>WALTER FICK!! Yes. :slight_smile: He was the head journalist at our school. I did all the UIL writing events with him. He’s brilliant. Enjoying princeton as of now :] My best friend Maribel goes to Sci-Tech. She hates it haha</p>

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<p>at med high and sci tech, only like the top 5% are the real serious kids, and the rest are kinda floating around, falling into the ranks. the good are the great, the not-so-good destroy our rep haha. top students usually hate that about their respective schools</p>

<p>oh yeah, forgot to mention that the Beta valedictorian is nice and cozy at Yale now haha.</p>

<p>the valley has some good kids. I really hope that the adcoms from those schools see it, and take our situation into consideration. but i’m sure you;ll have to agre with me when i say that you need to have lived here in order to even barely understand why some of your classmates begin talking nonchalantly about their house in Donna being broken into by thugs (and instead of being scared to death, complain about how they couldnt get to their homework until four hours later lol)</p>

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<p>Haha! I know… When our Band has to travel to Donna to play we have to load up the buses with our uniform covers surrounding the doors and windows for “saftey.” Last year they threw beer bottles/huge rocks at our windows and a couple of people got injured. But here. . . its a “oh, no biggy!”</p>

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<p>well, you have good chances at Dartmouth 45-65%. You can get in with a good essay. For Stanford, you have about a 10% chance. srry.</p>

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<p>Basically along the same train of thought as dmouth123,</p>

<p>There is no possible way your high school is ranked even within the Top 100 on Newsweek if you have 10 seniors taking Calc BC. I go to a public school in NJ which averages around 50-60 people in Calc BC each year, usually including 4-6 Juniors. </p>

<p>But regarding your chances, I’d say that only the SAT score might be detrimental to your application, otherwise you’re definitely competitive.</p>

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<p>edit: Calculus II includes linear algebra in our district curriculum. we finish BC in one semester. Cal I or at least Cal AB is a prereq</p>

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<p>I think, though I’m not sure, Philippine may qualify as Hispanic. Look into that. If it does, your chances just doubled.</p>