Dartmouth ED!!!!Help Meh!

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<p>Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 12</p>

<p>Dartmouth ED profile judgment (not chances >.>)
Hi, I know it's ridiculous to ask for a chance because I know it's pretty much everyone has a straight shot at colleges like Darmouth, so anyways, moving on.</p>

<p>Asian Male (Vietnamese, is this considered URM?)
Oregon
Senior with 700 in my graduating class (we're the biggest high school in Oregon) and probably the most competitive too lol, considering our class size
Parents make less than 60,000 a year
No religious affiliation whatsoever</p>

<p>GPA- 3.95 unweighted and 4.326 weighted (included with freshmen year, W/O is 4.565GPA weighted)
SAT's- 770 reading, 690 writing, 720 math (2180)
SAT II's- US History 720, World History 770, Lit 700 (2200)
Rank- not so sure, probably around 10%. What's really sad that my high school takes in these kids from an advanced middle school who get a good start taking about 1-2 AP classes their freshmen year and around 4-5 their sophomore year. Basically, it's going to be hard to catch up with them.
Ap's taken (8): Biology (5), US History (5), Psychology (5), Government (5), Environmental Science (4), Economy both micro and macro are condensed into one year together (4 and 5), English Lang (4), Euro History (5)
Based on most notable classes</p>

<p>Freshmen year:
I did English honors, chemistry honors, and global studies honors</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
AP Government
AP Biology
Spanish 3</p>

<p>Junior year:
AP US History
AP Psych
AP Economy
AP Environmental Science
AP English Lang
Spanish 4
AP Euro History
Pre-Calc</p>

<p>Senior year:
AP Calc AB
Spanish 5
AP Physics
AP English Lit
AP Stats</p>

<p>EC's:
Key Club (9-12), Secretary during junior year
MUN (10-12), ambassador during junior year
Speech and Debate (10-12), some good awards in that
NHS (11-12)
Boy's State
Internship at a law firm
Attended Vietnamese School every Sat.
Participated in To be an American national essay and national philosophy slam</p>

<p>Volunteering:
200+ at the Salvation Army
200+ at the community library</p>

<p>Awards:
National Merit Semifinalist
Speech and Debate awards, 1st place at an invitational was my highest
Volunteering awards
Honors Diploma at my school
Haratio Alger Scholar
Coke scholar</p>

<p>So basically, Dartmouth is what I'm shooting for, I've been to campus before and I've got to say I like it. I'm thinking about majoring in political science and I hear Dartmouth has a really good program there.</p>

<p>Other Colleges I'm applying to:
Stanford
Univ of Chicago
Columbia
NYU
Amherst
Swarthmore
Boston College
Princeton
Harvard (I can dream can't I lol.)
University of Notre Dame
Duke
Georgetown
Suggest some others for me that have good political science majors.
Thank you and leave any input you'd like or remind me if i'm forgetting something.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, I also did 9 years or about of Kiyokushin (something like that) karate but stopped after I moved because couldn't find another place to practice it in Oregon (no dojos). Did 5-6 years of piano and 3-4 years of trumpet (was in jazz band in middle school). I think it should include the karate part but not my instrumental part.</p>

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<p>I think you have a slim chance.</p>

<p>I'm believe Vietnamese would not be considered a URM.
Financial status may help you.
Your SAT's do not stand out.
Class rank does not work in your favor.
Aside from debate and the internship, your EC's look kind of slim.
From what I see, it's gonna be tough.</p>

<p>Also, can you logically explain to me the difference between a "profile judgment" and a "chance"?</p>

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<p>Well, in my view, when you're asking for a chance, you're practically asking for an absolute answer like a match or safety sort of deal. What I want to know from the judgment part is one thing and one thing only: does my profile look nice and if not what can I do (2nd part I guess)? Oh btw, I'm actually 5%, my mistake.</p>

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<p>When you're at the 5% range, you've got to make a comparative judgment of your standing vis a vis kids who graduated in the last 3-4 years with stats similar to yours. At some schools, a valedictorian will not make it to D. At some schools, even public, a guy in the middle of the pack (like me) will make it there. Your APs are strong, something that I believe helped me a lot as well. But your SATs, especially among Asian candidates, are nothing to write home about.
What kind of law firm did you intern at? If you can, I'd say intern at a firm specializing immigrations/refugee law, and spin that with your vietnamese heritage and interest in international relations. They might like that...</p>

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<p>Well, the building I interned at did construction so I'd have to say real estate, nothing constitutional really. Quick question: How lenient are schools towards kids who's parents make about 40k a year. --That's my situation.</p>