<p>my test scores are terrible: SAT- 1780, ACT-25 (i'm a slow thinker-haha)
my gpa is uw- 4.0, w- 4.5ish
class ranking 27/1060
i am in varsity tennis, nhs, stuco, key club and i started a vegetarian club, i've been really involved in theater at my school...
i volunteer a lot and have a job.</p>
<p>i participated in the native fly in program- dartmouth payed to fly me in (i live in oklahoma) and look at the school and stuff for 3 days. </p>
<p>i thought my essays were pretty good. but it seems like my scores are way too low to get me in. but then again, they did pay to fly me in. </p>
<p>Well, I don't have any good/bad feedback (I never know what to tell people on "chance me"s) but kudos on the vegetarian club. I'm vegetarian, too. :)</p>
<p>yeah, i'm sure i could raise my sat score. I've only taken it once. but the thing is, i applied for ED, so i guess it only matters if i get deferred. i'm just crossing my fingers that the whole native american thing will pull me through.</p>
<p>no, i have not taken any sat subject tests yet. and for those applying for ED who have not taken them, they must take them in january, which i am. and on the dartmouth site it says that they use those scores for deferred people.</p>
<p>Yeah URM helps but a 1780 is way below the Dartmouth average. My guess is they defer you and hope you can bump up the score. I highly advocate studying for the SAT. I have friends who bumped up their scores over 250 points by studying constantly for it.</p>
<p>yeah, i'll for sure study for it more. applying to an ivy league was just kind of random for me and taking the sat was a last minute thing. here it oklahoma, it's all about the act, which i also suck at. but why would dartmouth fly me in and put me through all those seminars and everything if they weren't going to accept me? people said that 75% of the kids who participate in that fly in program that i did actually end up going to dartmouth. i had to apply for that program and they saw my scores and everything before accepting me to participate in it. i just don't get it.</p>
<p>Well, if you look at the Common Data set for last year, they did take a few people with scores in your range. Your class rank and GPA are both great. So you never know. What kind of courses have you taken? Have you taken any AP exams? Some good scores in those would probably reassure the committee that you can do the work.</p>
<p>well i have taken one ap exam and i got a 3. once again, a terrible score. it was the writing one. but 9th and 10th grade four out of my six classes were pre-ap (they didn't offer AP those grades). 11th grade i took AP english and pre-AP pre calc, on level everything else. but this year i'm taking Ap literature, AP environmental science, AP calc BC at my high school and nutrition and into to sociology at my local community college.</p>
<p>so, considering there were 7 people from OK that went on the fly-in, i'm not sure who you are.. (i went on the fly-in too.. guess who haha) .. but.. there were a few people with significantly lower scores than that. as long as your essays/recs/peer eval were on the higher end, you're probably going to be admitted. there were a few 12's who applied for the fly-in, were not accepted.. but attend the college now. you're the second fly-in person i've seen on this forum.. so hopefully all 3 of us are accepted =)</p>
<p>Dartmouth clearly says they have a special affinity for Native Americans as they closely tie in with the School's entire history. I totally get it and even can appreciate it. I don't know how that converts to helping the rest, but it sure is better than being a white girl from NY. (no offense to white girls from NY and I include myself in that group) :)</p>
<p>nothing wrong. You're probably the single highest represented demographic at the school (compared to any other gender/ethnicity/state combo). BUT, a significantly higher proportion of you apply. Therefore, you wont be getting any favors for being under-represented.</p>