Dartmouth ED Class of 2020

@SirPepsi I really wouldn’t stress with those scores. Those are very good for not preparing and a 34C ACT will make you very very qualified.

Thanks, @anonymous1998, it seems as if I’m searching for things to concern myself with. Thanks for indulging me xD

@SirPepsi None of those scores will disadvantage you in any way during the admissions process. Not at any school in the world

@SirPepsi I’ve read that once you get above a certain threshold, there isn’t really much of a difference between scores like a 2200 and 2400 or a 34 and a 36. A 2200 and a 34 are both still 99th percentile and great scores! I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

Plus, schools don’t want to see that you’ve exhausted yourself by taking these standardized tests several times.

Are any of u fellow URM applicants?

Wow I was gone for one day and this thread gained 70 comments haha

@johnbaxbohh im a urm (hispanic). When I visited dartmouth I saw maybe one hispanic person lol

Dartmouth updated the admitted students page to the class of 2020… I feel almost guilty for looking at it before getting a decision notification.

I can’t bring myself to look at it until I know if I got accepted

@dartacceptme Yeah, Im hispanic too, i had the same experience at dartmouth. There seems to be very few hispanic people there for some reason.

@johnbaxbohh hopefully it will help us out a bit, but I will definitely miss having a lot of other hispanic people around on the day-to-day basis.

@dartacceptme I think it will. But who knows. :slight_smile:

I think the worst part of waiting for decisions (besides all of my self-doubt) has been people constantly asking me when I find out. 6 of my coworkers felt the need to ask me if I had been accepted yet. Like no, I haven’t been, and I probably won’t be so shhhhh

@dinolove Also everyone else is hearing back from their ED schools already and we’re still waiting. That’s tough as well.

I’m trying to tell as few people as possible so that I won’t have to tell everyone I got rejected, but that isn’t going too well. The waiting is killing me.

I’m half Mexican! but I look white:( my mom immigrated from Mexico when she was around 18 and actually just graduated from college today haha. I’m from Texas and there is a really large Hispanic population so when I went to the east coast this past summer to visit colleges I was super weirded out bc I could count the number of Hispanics I saw on one hand haha

I’ve already told quite a few people that I didn’t get in to avoid having them ask when I actually do find out (and me bursting into tears bc reject) :frowning:

@norcaltraveler so true! I have 6 friends in ivies already and everyone else around me has already heard back from our state schools, and I’m just here in limbo

I only told a couple of people what schools I applied to, but those couple of people told other people and now everyone around me knows and it’s h-e-double hockey sticks tbh