Dartmouth College offers Early Decision but does not offer Early Action for freshman admissions.
The Early Decision (ED) deadline for Fall 2022 admission is November 1.
All ED1 applications should receive an admissions decision by December 15. All ED2 applications should receive an admissions decision by April 15. Last year, Dartmouth admitted 574 of the 2,474 applicants who applied early decision. The acceptance rate was 23.2%.
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hi everyone! i applied ed dartmouth and am absolutely freaking out about the decision next month. anyone want to commiserate? my story is really unique and i have a great essay and recs, but my ap classes are pathetic and my gpa’s only a 3.8. also, i didn’t submit test scores. am i way over my head?
From our college advisor experience, you may be burning your ED on Dartmouth from what you’ve said in your post about credentials. Did you have any college advising help? Any schools you loved besides Dartmouth? The ED acceptance rates are not what they appear on the surface and do next to nothing for Ivies or Top 20 schools. Lots of articles out there breaking that part down and once you remove recruited athletes or kids from specific programs for first generation or lower income levels, the acceptance rates are close to RD for the tippy top schools. Good luck to you in any case and hope it works out.
My understanding is that recruited athletes will typically apply ED and legacy students frequently will also. These will stretch the statistics.
You need to make sure that you also apply to at least one and preferably two safeties. Applying to some match schools might also make sense depending upon how you feel about your safeties.
Then try to relax (which I know is tough). There are a lot of great universities, and you can do well at any one of a very long list of schools.
I received requests for “first quarter” grades on November 16th. Those were due on November 23rd; however, given the holiday week, I expect that Penn expected most of those to be submitted on Nov. 29th.
Did anyone’s Dartmouth financial aid portal have a date change in when the documents were received? My dates changed to early December (except css profile and fafsa that were 11/1 and 10/28 respectively). Does this mean anything lol?
Yep, my fin aid document dates also changed. Did you get some financial aid email requesting additional documents? I don’t think it means anything tho.
do you know if people can get updates at different times? like if we didn’t get an update yet in early dec could we still get one later before the release date?
hey there! Honestly don’t feel bad, you are going to do great either way - I promise whether you go to dartmouth or not. I freaked out too because I have no ap classes or honors classes, so see yourself as an awesome person. You had the bravery to apply to dartmouth and that is amazing.