<p>Anyway, it would be hella awesome to get to know who for sure is going next year. We could start a list where people list their names, location, screen name, and school, and maybe get to know each other a little. Just for fun, say what the WEAKEST part of your application was (i.e. terrible SATs, lacks of ECs, etc.). I'll start:</p>
<p>Ted
Kentfield, California
californiacrew13
The Branson School
My GPA (3.45 uw)</p>
<p>You got in with a 3.45?</p>
<p>...Did you...save the president or something?</p>
<p>My school doesn't calculate a GPA, so I don't really no exactly what it was. It was probably closer to 3.5 - 3.6 ish unweighted, and closer to 3.8 - 3.9 weighted. Seeing how I made it clear that I'm NOT a math/science person, I guess that Dartmouth thought a few B's in freshman and sophomore math classes didn't really matter that much.</p>
<p>And btw, I'm the last person you'd find saving our current president.</p>
<p>are you a recruited athlete for crew?</p>
<p>Shelley
Bristol, VA
themindofaynrand
Virginia High School
low SATs for Dart (1440)</p>
<p>john
s.d., ca
kamikazestriker
francis parker
ec's (left spaces blank)</p>
<p>jetmaster: You had no ECs? What did you do to get in?</p>
<p>mindo: 1440 is not that low for Dartmouth</p>
<p>Lindsay
Burlington, MA
Linz1127
Burlington High
not very unique ec's/community service</p>
<p>i had good scores, i just didn't have that many ec's</p>
<p>"And btw, I'm the last person you'd find saving our current president."</p>
<p>Looks like SOMEBODY'S going to be listening to NoFX on the 20th.</p>
<p>Dylan
Bellevue, WA ('burb of Seattle)
Dillythehobbit
Bellevue High School
1450, lots of Ec's</p>
<p><em>saved president... then made him promise to step down and give Dean presidency</em></p>
<p>Give Howard Dean presidency..hahah..he would be screaming "Yeahhh!!" in that monstrous voice all the time.</p>
<p>Emily
North Caldwell, nj (outside nyc)
mili213
West Essex Hgih school
weakest point--sat (retook alot...)</p>
<p>FS,</p>
<p>Many times?</p>
<p>Like 50?</p>
<p>How weak is weakness?</p>
<p>Did you kill the president or something?</p>
<p>No, as it turns out, he's a Zombie, undead.</p>
<p>took it three times...on the third sitting i got my highest score--750v 720m</p>
<p>the first two times i was high on crackahol</p>
<p>Foster
Lexington, VA
I don't have no screen name
Rockbridge County High School
GPA (3.6ish UW) and my white-male-nitude</p>
<p>You have no idea how hopeful this topic has made me.</p>
<p>...Thanks.</p>
<p>How so, bud?</p>
<p>Well, I live in a small, below-average income town. I always considered that a disadvantage, seeing as how most admissions officers will (in my case) pick around half of their people from Madison, about half from Milwaukee, and one or two from the rest of the state.</p>
<p>But here, I see some people with what I would call a major disadvantage (like 3.6 and white, white, white for you, julians) still make it in. It seems like all of the people here have fantastic personalities, so it's nice to know that the admissions officers are willing to take a better overall person over a better, if unbalanced, student.</p>
<p>I think that there's an article somewhere (thedartmouth.com maybe) about how the adcom (or maybe it was the Dean of Admissions, specifically) despised "the All-American" boy or girl. I think the exact phase the article used when describing what the adcom is looking for was "creative loner." While I wouldn't have gone with that phrasing ::cringe::, Dartmouth offers an Ivy League education and a gigantimous (I defy you, grammar!!) quantity of competition, so to get past the gate, if you will, you're gonna have to be brilliant in some fashion.<br>
Plus, while julians may have had disadvantages, I do believe he had a 1600 or something close to it on the SATs. So, yeah, personality matters, but so does your brain. Here endeth the rant.</p>