<p>Amherst, Williams, Brown, Georgetown, Tufts, Wellesley</p>
<p>It’s the rest of the Ivies, Stanford, Rice, Northwestern, UChicago, Amherst, Pomona, and University of Washington Honors for me!</p>
<p>Also, we currently have more posts and views than the Columbia ED thread! BIG GREEN!</p>
<p>What are your guys’ “safety” schools? I only have reach and target schools, and I’m thinking that if I don’t get into Dartmouth, I probably won’t get into my other reach schools.</p>
<p>I have scholarships to two local state schools, so if all else fails, I’ll go to either of those and eventually transfer. But I’m fairly certain I’ll get into Bryn Mawr and Skidmore, as they both have >40% admit rates and my stats are in great shape for their ranges. I’m lucky because I love all of my back-ups.</p>
<p>…I just love Dartmouth the most. :D</p>
<p>will a supplemental recommendation from a trustee help my application if the trustee knows me well?</p>
<p>I’ll be applying to Yale, Harvard, Brown, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Williams, UC Berkeley, Swarthmore, Duke (GO BLUE DEViLS…hah any duke fans out here?), and Wellesley if I don’t get into Dartmouth early… 
I’ve applied to the Hesbergh-Yusko Program at Notre Dame as well.</p>
<p>Oh and @tylrrvera</p>
<p>Crraaapppp… I got well above a 2300 on the SAT and got 800 on my 2 subject tests… should I be worried? Those stats are ridonculous. :/</p>
<p>I definitely agree with cara324. I recently attended a Brown/Dartmouth joint information session about a month ago and I was surprised at how much the representatives stressed that standardized test scores are not the be-all-end-all of your application. In fact, they said they’re not even close to being the most important piece of your application. Especially for a place like Dartmouth–how would they compile such a compassionate, engaging student body full of awesome people if they just admitted people with great test scores?</p>
<p>Lately I’ve gotten into the habit of imagining what I will do if I actually got accepted. I might run into the street and scream at the top of my lungs, or maybe just start sobbing with joy.</p>
<p>It’s getting bad, I need to stop thinking about it.</p>
<p>I feel like Dartmouth has one of the most “forgiving,” if you will, admissions processes of all the Ivies. I’ve been on campus twice, and I honestly can’t recall meeting one person who wasn’t down to earth and completely awesome. Even video chats with Maria Laskaris are casual! Admissions folk know we’re human. I don’t think Dartmouth expects perfection…qualities like passion for learning, enthusiasm, intelligence, and being a kind and compassionate human being are way more important. </p>
<p>@hgll94 - Definitely go with the former over the latter! It’s way more dramatic that way. :)</p>
<p>how many of you guys are legacy? Just testing the waters?</p>
<p>does a sibling who went to Dartmouth make me a legacy?</p>
<p>If (hopefully not) I get rejected from Dartmouth, my list is:</p>
<p>Colgate (EDII)
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Hamilton
UCONN</p>
<p>@johnscott</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that counts as a legacy… ahh. Lucky you! (:</p>
<p>Siblings at Dartmouth do not count for legacy status. Neither do grandparents. Dartmouth has one of the more narrower views of legacy status - applicants are only considered “legacies” if either parent graduated with an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth:</p>
<p>[Ask</a> Dartmouth - Admissions & Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ask/categories/admissions/02.html]Ask”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ask/categories/admissions/02.html)</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com:</a> For legacies, age-old perks in admissions are still in swing](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2004/05/10/news/for]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2004/05/10/news/for)</p>
<p>“In Hanover, a legacy is considered “a son or daughter of anyone with a B.A. from Dartmouth College,” said Furstenberg. No other relation to Dartmouth makes a student eligible for legacy. Likewise, there is not an extra benefit to having had both parents graduate from Dartmouth – sometimes called a double-legacy – or being a multi-generational legacy.”</p>
<p>Also, the acceptance rate is approx double the normal rate, which is pretty much in line with other highly selective colleges - particularly in the ED round:</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com:</a> College is twice as likely to admit legacy applicants](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2008/04/17/news/admissions]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2008/04/17/news/admissions)</p>
<p>I’m not legacy. I’m just a white female from rural New York. I’ve got zero hooks, lol.</p>
<p>I’m wondering what exactly constitutes a hook–someone on the admissions council? the board? a professor? I’m also a little worried because I never got an interview, although I live in Michigan where I don’t think there’s an abundance of alumni interviewers, since people from the midwest tend not to go to ivies.</p>
<p>“Hook” typically means: URM, legacy, athlete or development case.</p>
<p>How much of a hook is being a first generation college student for Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Got it. Wasn’t up on that bit of admissions terminology.</p>
<p>I think that “first-generation” is pretty good as far as hooks go, but I could not see is being a determining factor unless two applicants were very similar. But better to be “first-generation” than not :/</p>