Dartmouth College Class of 2019 RD Results

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (730 R, 670 M, 800 W)
ACT (breakdown): 34 (34 E, 34 M, 34 R, 35 S, 11 Essay)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 710 Bio-E, 760 US
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Biology (5), AP European History (5), AP U.S. History (5), AP Human Geography (5), AP English Language (5), AP Macroeconomics (4, Self Study), AP Microeconomics (4, Self Study), AP Environmental Science (4, Self Study)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Calculus AB, AP Spanish, AP English Literature, AP Chemistry, Ceramics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):Questbridge College Prep. Scholar, Questbridge National College Match Finalist, National Merit Commended, National AP Scholar, Gates Millenium Scholarship Finalist

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):Speech & Debate (10-12), Key Club (11-12), Quiz Bowl (11-12), Science Olympiad (11-12), Liberty in North Korea Club (11-12, President), Columnist for a Science website (11-12)
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:Volunteered at local library and Key Club events (80 hours)
Summer Activities: Boy’s State California 2014, Publishing articles about science for a website
Essays: Common App (10/10), Dartmouth Supplement (9/10) I wrote about my interest in sustainability
Teacher Rec #1:Didn’t read, probably great (9?)
Teacher Rec #2:Didn’t read, probably great (9?)
Counselor Rec:Didn’t read, probably great
Additional Rec:N/A
Interview:N/A
Additional material (abstracts/papers/other):N/A

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Korean
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $30,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Personal life circumstances, Questbridge?

Reflection:
Strengths: Scores were in range, Supplemental essay really meshed with Dartmouth’s values
Weaknesses: No EC commitment for 4 years? (Not really a weakness imo)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essay made me seem like a really good fit for the school.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: UCI, UCSD. UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley
Rejected: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, CMC, HMC, JHU
Waitlisted: Harvard!
General Comments: Write essays that reveal why you are a good fit for a school. Dartmouth was the only school that I did this for (unintentionally) and that is why I believe my results were favorable! Also, it’s never too late to get involved in high school! I didn’t do much my freshman or sophomore years, but I became super involved in my school during my junior year!

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**Decision: ACCEPTED!!! **

Objective:
ACT: Composite-35(E-36, M-36, R-35, S-32, Essay-11, Writing-35)
SAT II: Physics(800); Math(790); Biology(760);

Grades: ICSE: 95.00% cumulative, 96.40% best 5 aggregate;
IB diploma predicted 41/42, 777 at Physics, Chem, Math HL;
APs: World History(5), European History(5) (self-studied)
Major awards: National Merit Semifinalist, international quizzing and Model UN awards. 2nd place in India for spelling.

Subjective:
I’m not following the format, sorry. I’m just copy pasting. I do not feel I can judge my own recs or essays. Instead, I’m posting a rundown of my ECs.

  1. MUN- President, head delegate and Best and Outstanding delegate awards at multiple regional/international level conferences, train children for MUN. Secretary General of intra-school conference, executive board member of international level conference.
  2. Founder of a registered NGO that trains children in English and public speaking/debate. Developed own curriculum for debate training at orphanages. Currently have 300 children in our program.
  3. Quiz team captain, founder- local awards at multiple quizzes. Won 1st place(school category) at an international quiz with participants across the continent.
  4. Spelling: 2nd place (all-India) at the India Spell Bee 2011. House team captain during 9th and 10th grade.
  5. Editor-in-Chief- of school yearbook and newsletter, coordinate all literary activities in school. In charge of school yearbook, major annual publication
  6. Writing- multiple awards at regional level.
  7. Debate team captain and founder- local awards, organized regional qualifier for national level debate tournament.
  8. Independent science projects- Made irrigation system for local farmers, made an android app for school’s attendance, won astrophysics engineering design competition
  9. Internship at local web design company-coded in SQL, CSS
  10. Internship web data/dev. firm- designed a Java/PHP web crawler-Summer after junior year and sophomore year. Wrote an android app-summer after sophomore year.

Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
Projected Concentration: Computer Science
State/Country: US Citizen applying from India
School Type: IB
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none.

Reflection
I have no reflection. The other reflections on this page shall help any future applicant more than anything I could write. Good luck to everyone. We shall all succeed eventually, no matter our feelings today.

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Penn, JHU, Vandy
Rejected: CMU, Cornell
Waitlisted: Swarthmore, WUSTL, Duke, Harvey Mudd, Columbia, Brown, UChicago.

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (740 R, 800 M, 790 W)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 US Hist, 780 Lit, 800 Physics, 700 German
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.3): 4.17
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP U.S. History (5) AP Physics C Mechanics, E&M(5) AP Calc BC (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Haha senior year is a joke for Chinese students who apply for foreign colleges
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):National AP Scholar, Participation at PuMac (…)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Dorm Representative (in U.S.), MUN, student government, photography club, X-country
Job/Work Experience: intern at an educational institute; intern at Tenneco lab
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at a local special-ed school
Summer Activities: Summer Program in France, university-based physics lab training
Essays: Common App (8/10), Dartmouth Supplement (8/10) I wrote about visiting spy museum in D.C…
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10
Teacher Rec #2: 10/10 didn’t read, but my math teacher loved me
Counselor Rec: 7/10 (I translated the rec for him…)
Additional Rec: 9/10 my best friend wrote a peer rec for me
Interview:N/A
Additional material (abstracts/papers/other): I think I submitted poems I wrote in English and research abstract. Don’t quite remember

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Physics/Math/CS
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): China
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): One exchange year in the States. Female in STEM?

Reflection:
Strengths: Scores and essays were fine, teacher recs were great, research
Weaknesses: No real focus in extracurricular activity. Hardly stand out in Chinese applicants who all have great scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Dartmouth admits several students from my high school every year, so I think my school’s reputation really helped.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Northwestern, Cornell, WashU, Notre Dame, UVA
Rejected: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Harvard, JHU, Brown, Amherst (long rejection list haha)
Waitlisted: Yale, Williams, UCB, UCLA
General Comments: During college application I reflected a lot on my high school and exchange year in the States. I really wished that I could have tried more things: not for college application but for myself. Sometimes I didn’t do things I like because I was way too self-conscious and felt myself an outsider in U.S. Breaking comfort zone is easier said than done, but I do hope I could achieve that in college. Best of luck to all future applicants!

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (800,800,700)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: Chemistry (740) Physics (790) Biology (760)

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 2.8 UW and 3.2 W!!! (HA)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 35/150
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP World (4), APUSH (4), AP Physics B (5), AP English Lang (5), AP Psychology (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Chemistry, AP English, Honors Anatomy/Physiology, AP Gov/Econ, Band, AP Calculus AB, Future Teachers (Teaching Geometry)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): GSA (founder and President) Native American Awareness (Founder and president), Bassoonist United (First Bassoonist in school district and community), Leadership Club, Drum Major (two years), I play all woodwind and brass instruments, Choir (Tenor/bass/Baritone and soprano) , Science Club (VP), Future Teachers (President), FIDM (VP), Youth Council (4 Years as president) UNITY , Psychiatry Intern, Future Psychologist Club (Founder and President)
Job/Work Experience: Burger King (Manager)- 5 Years
Wal-Mart (Supervisor)- 4 Years
Pharmacy (Intern)- 3 Years
Volunteer/Community service: Big Brother, Big Sister; Presidents Volunteer Service Award (Gold); Music Teacher, Cooking Class Teacher, College Prep Helper, Native American Youth Council; Youngest Tribal Council Member (First teenager to get on); Helped teach poor outside of school; UNITY
Summer Activities: Youth Council; Three Jobs; Psychiatry Intern; Summer Youth Coordinator; Band Leadership Camp; Attended Juilliard on Bassoon one summer.
Essays: 10/10 I talked about living poor. Single parent home (Basically no parents- Did not know dad; Mom was always out with BF) Talked about how I was sick with a 106° fever and mom sent me to the store to get medicine for her boyfriend and abused me for using some of his medicine. Also how she always spent all her money on him (~1200 a week; only gave us 50)
Teacher Recommendation: 10/10 my freshman year teachers also teach senior year classes.
Counselor Rec: 5/10 Councillor always got made at me for asking questions.
Additional Rec: 10/10 I asked our tribal president to write me a recommendation letter.
Interview: 10/10 We both played the bassoon and love teaching!! :smiley:

Other

State (if domestic applicant): Arizona
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Native American (100%)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 60,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM; Great great great great grandfather was Carlos Montezuma (Look him up!!!), First Generation College Student (Carlos Montezuma was the last male from my tribe to go to college)

Reflection

Strengths: Science (i LOVE physics and chemistry)
Weaknesses: History (We were taught different history on my tribe when I was younger)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly? Being a native but I’m not sure.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
accepted:
U of Penn, U of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Cornell, Brown, U of Oregon, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard (Thank God they HAD a native college),

Waitlisted: None
Rejected: Duke, Vanderbilt, Bowdoin, Arizona State University (Ha, I applied as a joke) Princeton, U of Washington

General Comments: Don’t give up if you have a low GPA!! I had like two D’s on my transcript but I also came from a racially biased school. When I’d ask for help, most of my teachers would flat out say no but when a different skin color person would ask, they’d gladly help them.