<p>Ok so Dartmouth was my dream school and I got deferred. I am not too upset because that means I am competitive at least or I would have been rejected.</p>
<p>I am applying to the following schools regular decision:
Boston college
Brown
William and mary
Yale
Haverford
Dartmouth (deferred
Johns Hopkins
Washu
Duke
Cornell
Northwestern</p>
<p>Stats:
ACT: 32, 33 super
GPA: 3.54 UW (I had a very extensive leg surgery frosh year and got almost all B's, Almost straight A's soph and junior year)
Course load: has always been the most rigorous my school offers
SATII: 730 Lit, cant remember the rest.
Essay: amazing, teacher recs i didnt see but i picked the 2 best teachers for the job.</p>
<p>Extra currics - I was team captain of my select volleyball club and we went to nationals twice.
-Team captain of school volleyball club for 2 years
-Lead role in 5 different school plays
-I am a shift leader at my place of employment
- Stuco co-president
- president of school campus ministry
- Founded an environmental organization at school</p>
<p>Awards -National Honor Society
-nominated to attend the Missouri fine arts academy
-nominated to represent my school at the nation youth leadership forum on medicine
-winner of the questbridge college prep award
- won the highest honor my school has 3 years in a row
- attended missouri boys state
- won the brown university book award
Hopefully you caught that I am from Missouri. I am also a white male.
Please chance me!</p>
<p>I think that the deferred applicants most likely to receive admission at any school, including Dartmouth, are those that the adcom wants to see how their semester grades are. These are applicants whose record through 3 years of high school are not quite strong enough to justify ED admission. In your case, it could be that your freshman grades prevented ED admission. Strong semester grades (all A’s) would help your case at Dartmouth; performance below junior year grades would likely sink your chances. As for the RD schools, they will all be making decisions based upon your your semester grades. Your list includes some extremely competitive schools so nothing is guaranteed.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, I know ill be happy at any of the schools listed so Im hoping I get into at least one RD lol…</p>
<p>When we look at stats of the deferred, what Standrews says above can’t be true. There are many without a glitch in their records, these are not on the border candidates.</p>
<p>There are just so many qualified candidates, top schools don’t have enough room for them all. In the end it will be about who else applies from their pool, what state they still neef someone from, whether they need another oboe player…</p>
<p>Yeah I think he is true to a certain extent, they want to see what else we can offer but semester grades arent all they are looking for. They want to compare with the RD pool.</p>
<p>anyone think I have a decent shot at the others?</p>
<p>You don’t have any safeties on there at all. The way things are going with everyone, I would def. get a safety that you can see yourself at on that list.</p>
<p>oh sorry, yeah I already have been accepted to my safeties so dont worry about that lol.</p>
<p>insanitywolf:</p>
<p>I suggest you work hard to keep your grades up, and consider taking the SAT in January, or additional SAT IIs. </p>
<p>I also suggest you give serious thought to applying to the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Middlebury and Williams College. Those are all schools that are in important respects similar to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Ok thank you very much for the suggestions. Can I send in scores from January test dates?</p>