Dartmouth Class of 2018 Regular Decision Results

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<p>**Decision: Rejected **</p>

<p>Objective:
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown): N/A
[<em>] ACT (breakdown): 35
[</em>] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[<em>] SAT II: 770 Biology M, 760 Chemistry
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.9/5.0
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 16/500
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): 5,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: 5 AP Courses
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel STS Finalist, Intel ISEF, Davidson Fellows</p>

<p>Subjective:
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Senior Class President, President of Science Club, Varsity Debater
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Nonprofit organization work
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[</em>] Essays (Include Subjects): Hopefully decent!
[<em>] Other:[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: Haven’t seen
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: Haven’t seen
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Haven’t seen
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[<em>] Date Submitted App: Day before deadline
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[<em>] Country : USA
[</em>] School Type: Large Public School
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Upper middle
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None </p>

<p>Reflection
[<em>] Strengths: I didn’t do much, but whatever I did, I took a genuine interest in doing so.
[</em>] Weaknesses: I feel I have many weaknesses, not really sure what to put here
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Upenn, Duke (AB Duke full ride scholarship), Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Rice w/merit.<br>
Rejected: Harvard, Dartmouth
Wait listed: WashU, UChicago </p>

<p>General Comments: The college process is a crapshoot. So many qualified people get rejected to certain schools, but I feel that ultimately everyone will find their perfect place. I wish everyone all the best!</p>

[Mocean]

<p>**Decision: Waitlisted **</p>

<p>I realize this is a bit late, so I’ll just post my quick stats:</p>

<p>**Objective: **
-SAT: 2370 (math 770)
-SAT subject tests: 800 math 2, 800 bio, 770 US History
-Unweighted GPA: 4.0
-Class rank: salutatorian (out of about 280 students)
-AP: US History 5, Bio 4 (The AP’s probably did me in).
-Senior course load: second most rigorous possible for me + independent study project.</p>

<p>**Subjective: **
-Captain of varsity sport, played sport all four years
-played on competitive club team for this sport
-play obscure instrument at a high level (2 city-level honors bands, 2 state-level honors bands, 1 national-level honors band)
-350+ hours of community service</p>

<p>Other
-Caucasian male from overrepresented geographic location.
-My major weaknesses were the number of AP’s I took + my geographic location/ethnicity (Although I didn’t have control over these things. Would have taken more AP’s if it weren’t for my school).
-I’ll probably be going to my flagship state school for cheap.</p>

[akiddoc]

<p>Daughter was ACCEPTED. </p>

<p>SAT W730 M770 CR750 2250
Lit 780 Bio 730
Weighted GPA 4.37 at one of the toughest private high schools in the country.
The school does not rank.
AP Lit 5 (Actually, there is no AP Lit course at her school. She took the test anyway.) AP Bio 4.
Senior courses: AP Calc, AP Mandarin, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Shakespeare, Contemporary Asian History, Witticism in English Literature, Anthropology (some are one semester courses)</p>

<p>Probably the top high school female trumpet player in the state. Maybe #2. Member of premier jazz high school all-star band. Arts supplement sent to most colleges.
Published paper in a major medical journal after 3 years of research.
Equestrian.</p>

<p>Head Start volunteer.
Various minor school activities and clubs. In the Asian club but not Asian.</p>

<p>Not saying which state for privacy reasons.
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: African American
Income: 200,000</p>

<p>Accepted to Wash U., Vassar, Oberlin, others. Rejected Stanford. Wait listed Princeton and Yale. Still on Princeton wait list but less and less interested every week.
Attending Pomona College. Was apprehensive about the heavy frat and sorority scene at Dartmouth. The weather at Pomona is unbeatable and the school is very laid back.</p>

[JarynL]

<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 35
[</em>] SAT II: 780 (Literature)
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/597
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB (5), European History (5), English Language (5), World History (5), Human Geography (5), Statistics (4), US History (4)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP English Lit, AP Gov/Econ, AP Psych, AP Environmental Science, Debate 3, Academic Decathlon
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (Co-founder, President), Debate (CX Captain, Historian), Academic Decathlon (Captain), Mu Alpha Theta (Secretary), Save the Earth and Animals Club (Vice President)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Private academic tutor for 3 years
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered as an assistant science teacher at a low-income intermediate school
[</em>] Summer Activities: Volunteered, participated in Yale Young Global Scholars
[<em>] Essays: Rather quirky essay about awkward dancing. Definitely not a deep or life-changing essay, but I had fun writing it.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: From English and Calc teachers; did not read the letters but both teachers know me well and I definitely stood out to them in their classes.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Again, never read it, but my counselor knows me quite well considering the number of students she has.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Peer recommendation from a close friend was excellent; described me as someone who not only succeeds but helps others to succeed.
[li] Interview: Went very well, and the interviewer told me he’d write a great report for me.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Texas
[</em>] School Type: Large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Taiwanese)
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
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Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Leadership and main essay
[<em>] Weaknesses: lack of major awards
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly not sure; I was surprised myself. I suppose that I seemed well-rounded and my essay helped me to stand out among everyone else who’s well-rounded.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at UChicago and UT Austin Business Honors. Waitlisted by Harvard. Rejected by Yale.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I’ll be attending Dartmouth in the fall, so I’m super excited! Good luck to anyone applying next year who may be reading.</p>

[Nereidon]

<p>Decision: Accepted
Likely Letter</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I: 2230 (700 M/740 CR/790 W/8 Essay)
SAT I Superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2320 (730 M/800 CR/790 W/8 Essay)
SAT II: 780 Math II/730 Spanish
Weighted GPA: 5.93/5.00
Rank: top 2%
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): European History (5), Microeconomics (4), Macroeconomics, Spanish Language (5), English Language and Composition (5), U.S. History (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Orchestra, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Literature and Culture, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, Honors Wind Ensemble, AP Music Theory, Honors Writing Seminar
Number of ED applicants in your school: at least 1
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, Dean’s List, National Merit Commended Scholar, National Spanish Exam Gold Medals, National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Principal Chair in District Orchestra, District Band, All-State Honors Orchestra</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Math Team (junior yr), Literary Magazine (sophomore-senior yrs), Marching Band (freshman-senior yrs, Drill Captain, Staff, Section Leader), Future Flute Educators and Performers Project (junior-senior yrs, Founder and Project Leader, group of students teach flute, pro-bono, to area socioeconomically disadvantaged youth)
Job/Work Experience: Kumon
Volunteer/Community Service: Chinese School Teaching Assistant, Food Pantry Volunteer
Summer Experience: Intern at a Trade Center (sophomore), Travel Abroad to Mexico on a world languages scholarship from a local foundation (sophomore), flute camp (sophomore, junior)
Teacher Recommendation #1: Spanish, decent (did not read)
Teacher Recommendation #2: English, quite good (did not read)
Counselor Rec: excellent (did not read)
Additional Info: Music Supplement; won national essay contest; won state essay contest; published in national literary magazine; NHS, principal flute in school band, orchestra, marching band; placed in Chicago Area National Spanish Contest (top 10 out of nearly two-thousand competitors); took masterclasses with renowned flute teachers
Interview: not offered</p>

<p>Writing: feminism, flute; 10</p>

<p>CommonApp Essay: feminism, flute
Number of reminder emails received: several</p>

<p>Date Submitted App: late December
School Type: top public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: ~60,000-80,000
Hooks: none</p>

<p>Strengths: writing, roundedness
Weaknesses: testing?
Other Results: Accepted at Penn (Likely Letter, Ben Franklin Scholar), Amherst (Early Notification, prestigious scholarship that is awarded to 5 students), Northwestern, Oxford, Emory, UIUC Engineering (James Scholar); Rejected at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Duke; Deferred at UChicago, Waitlisted at Vanderbilt, Case Western Reserve, Williams, Cornell (opted not to stay on any waitlists); Shortlisted and then Rejected at Yale-NUS,
What would you have done differently?: would have done more research on Yale-NUS, would have applied to Stanford </p>