Dartmouth ED!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying Early Decision at Dartmouth</p>

<p>Male
Caucasian
Medium sized Public High School in Boston suburb</p>

<p>GPA W: 4.82
GPA UW: 4.0
Rank: 1/229</p>

<p>SAT I: 680 CR 710 M 750 W (will retake in October)
SAT II: 720 US History 660 Literature (will retake in November)
ACT: 31 (10 on essay)
AP's: US History-5, Eng. Comp.-5, AB Calc-3
Senior Schedule: 6 AP's (Latin Virgil, French, BC Calc, Physics, English Literature, Psychology)</p>

<p>EC's:
3 years varsity golf
4 years varsity tennis
2 years marching band (percussion)
2 years concert band (brass)
4 years French Club (treasurer sophomore year, president senior year)
4 years Latin Club (vice president senior year)</p>

<p>Founder and president of International Club (participates in cultural meetings and celebrations as well as relief efforts and fundraisers)</p>

<p>National Honors Society (president)</p>

<p>3 summers interning for the mayor of my city (Boston suburb of 28,000 people-did clerical work as well as special projects including a local historic sites website, recycling, and a "Clean Up Our City Day")</p>

<p>Community Service: somewhere > 200 hours</p>

<p>Job:</p>

<p>currently working 10 hours a week as a mentor at an after school enrichment program</p>

<p>Awards:
Superintendent's Academic Excellence Award
National French Contest Chapter Winner (3 times)
Brown Book Award Winner--in short, given to best writer in the junior class of my school
Finished Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Year with Excellence (all A's)
Abigail Adams Scholarship
AP Scholar</p>

<p>Recommendations: from guidance counselor, Latin and English teachers junior year, mayor of my city, and Dartmouth Peer Rec from a friend I've known since first grade</p>

<p>Essay: going for humor, everyone who's read it has laughed, but I'm still ironing out the kinks</p>

<p>Thanks so much and good luck to everyone else!</p>

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<p>Everything looks pretty good except test scores are a bit low. If you get all SATs of 700+, you will be competitive, and if you get near 800s, you have a very good chance.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice Nickst</p>

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<p>Higher test scores could help, but currently you have a very solid application</p>

<p>I would say you are in, but ivies can be arbitrary sometimes, good luck</p>

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<p>Dartmouth is very score oriented. Your scores are not currently competitive. You’re also from a very competitive pool being from MA. I’d raise the scores and apply RD</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. I’m taking a crack at both the SAT and SAT II in October and November, so I’m hoping I can get that superscore up.</p>

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<p>bump it up</p>

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<p>If you can bump up CR and Literature, you’re probably in.</p>

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<p>Those are my goals!</p>

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<p>any other advice please?</p>

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<p>and another bump</p>

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<p>I personally know several students at my school applying with lower stats and their guidance counselor isn’t discouraging them, so you have a decent chance</p>

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<p>Given that 87% plus will be rejected, there must be a lot of guidance counselors who are not discouraging.</p>

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<p>thanks for the feedback xAAAx</p>

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<p>bump again</p>

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<p>You have a pretty good chance, especially if you get higher SAT’s. Even if they don’t improve by a great deal, you GPA is really strong and you’re taking hard classes too. I don’t know about Dartmouth, but many schools put more weight on a high school transcript than test scores. So with a good GPA, and test scores within Dartmouth’s range you should have a pretty good shot.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input bholloway</p>