<p>Maybe send the email again, but I would try calling the admissions office to get a definite answer of what to do.</p>
<p>Scheduled my interview for Saturday at the Panera by my house! Time to prepare :o</p>
<p>Support the Dartmouth Class of 2016 and talk to other prospective applicants on the facebook group: </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dartmouth-College-Class-of-2016/197239640354692?skip_nax_wizard=true[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dartmouth-College-Class-of-2016/197239640354692?skip_nax_wizard=true</a></p>
<p>I dont want to like that prematurely, and end up all awkward when I get rejected LOL</p>
<p>Haha ^ same.</p>
<p>Why is our forum so boring? You’d think that with 1800 people there would be some conversation.</p>
<p>im just hoping that given the greater amount of recruited athletes applying ED, that admissions admits more people in general ED rather than screwing over the rest of us average joes.</p>
<p>the chances of this happening are slim, but a girl can dream, right? lol</p>
<p>does anyone know the exact date that earl decision results come out? They say no later than the 15th of december, but in the past it has been earlier.</p>
<p>Btw, there is no penalty for not accepting an interview. Half of the applicants don’t even get interviews.</p>
<p>My interviewer told me that in my area, she’s seen a decent number of us average joes get in. So there’s hope! Of course, this probably has more to do with the lack of recruited athletes in my area. Still, they can’t only admit a bunch of athletes. They’re important, but so are we! :)</p>
<p>All I know is that in less than 30 days, my Christmas/Birthday will be either the worst or best ever. most likely worst…</p>
<p>The Choice, just released data for The Early Line on Early Applications for the Class of 2016
they will update the chart as they receive more data from schools.
Dartmouth’s numbers are posted. </p>
<p>[College</a> Admissions Advice - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/]College”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/)</p>
<p>I hope they release the decisions on Friday, December 9th. Last year, they released them on Friday, December 10th, and given the fact that the number of early applicants this year is similar to last year’s… </p>
<p>And anyone doing UChicago EA?</p>
<p>Although, don’t you think the date may be a little later this year because Dartmouth allowed applicants to admit stuff through November 7th because of the storms in the East?</p>
<p>That will probably have an effect on when they release decision, so at this point im just safely saying in my head December 15, but I will definitely be checking on a daily basis starting on December 9!</p>
<p>One book you might want to peruse while you are waiting to hear from Dartmouth is “A for Admission” by Michele Hernandez, who is a former AO at Dartmouth. If you haven’t read this book already, it discloses the formula that Dartmouth uses/used for evaluating applications. Although this book is about 10 years old, she stated that, between 1997 to 2000, about 40% of the applicants whose parents attended Dartmouth, and about 60% of the recruited athletes, got into school. I was surprised that the legacy number was so high and the recruited athlete percent was so low. </p>
<p>Among the numerous other tidbits Herandez revealed in her book, 70 to 85% of the factors that Ivy schools weigh when reviewing apps are purely academic, which factors she says create an “academic index” or “AI”. When calculating an AI, Dartmouth gives (or at least it did so as late as 2000) class rank a weight of 1/3 of the entire AI, SAT’s a weight of 1/3 and SAT II’s a weight of 1/3. If your AI score registered a 225 or better (out of a perfect score of 240), you had, at least as of 2000, a 92% chance of getting into Dartmouth. To understand how to calculate the AI and measure the other 15 to 30% of the factors Ivies use to evaluate apps,…read the book.</p>
<p>There is an AA calculator on the College Confidential website. Or at least there was…</p>
<p>I was under the impression that the AI is dated…I think Dartmouth uses a rating system with 5 levels. Who knows. Sometimes I feel like they just draw names out of a hat, lol!</p>
<p>The AI system may be outdated. I don’t know. Heck, the entire Henandez book may be outdated now. Shoot, Dartmouth may have revamped its entire admissions scoring system after Henandez revealed it in her book. Still, I have to think that Dartmouth didn’t alter or couldn’t have altered its system dramatically over the past few years since the Henandez book. In the end, academics still matter… a lot.</p>
<p>So, what is the “5 level” rating system, and how does it work?</p>
<p>Maria Laskaris mentioned it once in one of those admissions chats that feed live on the Dartmouth website. Somebody asked about the AI, and she said that Dartmouth has its own “rating system” that ranks students 1 - 5. She didn’t go into much detail about the what makes an applicant a 5 and what makes an applicant a 1. </p>
<p>Fortunately, Dartmouth looks at applications holistically, so while academics are extremely important, I like to think we’re more than test scores and GPAs! :)</p>