**Dartmouth International Applicant's Thread 2017**

<p>@blue - I know about the cut-offs!! :stuck_out_tongue:
They are insane!! Haha!! </p>

<p>Symbiosis has its own entrance test, doesn’t it??</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Thanks for the best wishes :slight_smile: I have 6 subjects. English has two papers, and I also have three practicals.</p>

<p>My school probably has a technical problem. Apparently none of the applicants from my school were able to send it via Common App. I don’t have my counsellor’s ID and password. Would it be ethical to ask her for this information?</p>

<p>So approximately how much have you guys spent on just the applications?</p>

<p>I’m planning on taking JEE (main) for IIST, IISER and IISc. Also SRMEE. I missed the BITSAT deadlines. :(</p>

<p>Don’t know if I have to call Dartmouth about my transcript now?? any advise??<I had 2 schools on common app (Stanford/Dartmouth)…counselor sent both on same day…Stanford received ,D didn’t…She cannot resubmit also!!</p>

<p>oh and Im taking only JEE and BITSAT…(hopefully I won’t need to wait till June:D)</p>

<p>@Rishav - haha yup.
Yes Symbiosis has an entrance test,SET, gonna give that. :D</p>

<p>@Keya - Oh okay so it was ten exams including your pracs. I thought you took ten subjects :open_mouth: :p</p>

<p>You know, maybe you should talk about this to your counsellor and just ask if she’d have you submit the apps ? Should work out me thinks.</p>

<p>Quiver - I hope I dont have to wait till June too :stuck_out_tongue: Chances are nil-ish, but still</p>

<p>Lots of people doing JEEs and BITSATs :open_mouth:
I feel alone:p</p>

<p>@Quiverfox - Yeah guess you should call Dartmouth up. Or send an email.
Been like 2 months since the deadline.</p>

<p>They gave me Feb 28 as the deadline actually…</p>

<p>^??? :confused:</p>

<p>Dartmouth gave me feb 28 as the deadline to submit my missing stuff:)</p>

<p>Oh! You have just blown my mind when you said that your Dartmouth deadline is feb28. One word–missing–made a huge difference:p</p>

<p>Oh…haha…we are all waiting for the main deadline aren’t we ???:D</p>

<p>Two days ago, I got an email from Drexel extending their application deadline to March1! Isn’t it actually Feb15??</p>

<p>Ya you are right, but waiting is actually not the right word I guess. Shouldn’t it be dying?:p</p>

<p>I keep getting those mails…I still don’t know why they send these!!</p>

<p>Let me guess. You might have added those univs/colleges to your CommonApp list atleast once. I have actually submitted everything to Drexel except my standardized test results.</p>

<p>Woah!! Same here( except I got VIP app. so no commonapp/essays etc)…They were once part of my list of safeties…Decided to throw out match and safety and only add reach/high reach…
That’s just how I work…effective though…saved a lot of $$$</p>

<p>How many are on your college list now? I spent around 65000-70000 INR towards this entire US admissions–tests,scores,CSS,posts,apps etc</p>

<p>VIP apps are some kind of likelies I guess! Am I right? I wouldn’t have known about a VIP app if Hofstra University didn’t send me one a week ago. Hofstra is the only one which sent me such an app.</p>

<p>Drexel, UCB gave me VIP apps:) UIUC was of course “Priority aPP”:D</p>

<p>$393 for standardized tests and $75 on applications (19 colleges). I really couldn’t afford to pay more than that.
At present I’m trying to email my mid-year reports, with the promise that the school will send them with the final report. I hope this works out!
I didn’t get any VIP apps! Atleast I don’t remember noticing any…but I was sure about where to apply so I wouldn’t have applied to too many safeties I guess</p>

<p>@quiver - You got a VIP app from University of California - Berkeley (UCB) ?? :O</p>

<p>Actually all colleges use the college board’s student search system to make a list of prospective applicants. While the top universities use it to send newsletters & stuff, the not so top universities use it to offer VIP apps to attract top applicants!! Each of these colleges know that all top students are bound to have 1-2 safeties and given the random selection mechanism at the top universities, a lot of good students end up at these “safeties” and this is what these “average universities” bank on!! :)</p>

<p>I got VIP apps from 6-7 universities - Drexel, Tulane, Baylor, Univ of the Pacific, St.Johns, etc. Though I applied to only Drexel because I remember a rep coming to our school & talking about Drexel!! Haha!! :D</p>

<p>So I have 1 safety(Drexel), 1 match(UIUC) and rest all are reaches(Pton,Dartmouth, NU, UPenn, Cornell, Columbia)!! </p>

<p>All together I spent ~40k INR on all my app fees, score reports, etc!!</p>

<p>@Keya - What is IIST & IISER?? </p>

<p>And answering your previous question - I think it would be better if you just went your counselor, sat down with him/her and tried to get it done! Rather than taking the account details/etc. - which I think is unethical !! :)</p>

<p>But if you’re counselor is having a “technical” problem, ask him/her to contact the commonapp help desk - they are damn efficient!! :D</p>