ED Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, I am looking to apply ED to Dartmouth. Do you think I have a chance? If you can, can you recommend me some match schools?</p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): Didn't take
ACT (breakdown) 33 (E: 34, M:36, R: 32, S: 30, W: 8/12) (Re-taking in two weeks)
SAT II: World 720 US 730 Math I 720 (November re-take)
GPA: 3.86 W (School doesn't do unweighted, 3.98 W in Junior Year, all honors & AP's)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Doesn't rank
AP (Scores): AP World: 5 AP US: 5 AP Music Theory: 4 AP Stat: 3 AP Physics B: 3 AP Lang: 2 (not sending that)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Calc AB, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Comp Gov, AP Spanish Lang, Orchestra, Research</p>

<p>Misc/Awards:
In-school research award freshman year
AP Scholar with Distinction
Various piano awards</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
SciOly (9, 10, 12)
Mathletes (9)
Astronomy Club (10, 11, 12) (President, 12)
Quiz Bowl (11, 12) (1st place overall in JV regional, school won't let us go to States)
Tri-M Music Honor Society (10, 11, 12)
National Honor Society
National Spanish Honor Society
Piano since 4 years old
Violin since fifth grade (1st violin, around 4th stand since freshman year)
Model Congress (12) (Joined because my friend wanted me to)
Been researching since freshman year. Got a mentor this past summer. Entering Siemens and STS.</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service:
Summer hospital volunteering (10, 11) ~150 hours
In an organization with my friends where we promote computer literacy and fix computers for nursing homes in our area since soph year.
Church volunteering every week for 2 hours.</p>

<p>Essay: Common App was "amazing" according to most people. Supplements are also.</p>

<p>Recommendations:
My APUSH teacher who loved me since I was the best in his class.
Lang teacher said she would write me one since I showed how hard I worked in her class despite my AP score. (Got an A in her class)
Guidance counselor rec should be good since she likes me.
BFF writing my rec. Currently working closely with him to write it.
Recommendation from my professor who said he would write me a good recommendation for Dartmouth.</p>

<p>State: New York
School Type: Ultra-competitive public, smartest class for the last 10 years
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Hooks: Mom didn't attend college???
Immigrated from China in 5th grade.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>Dartmouth is basically a reach for most people, even ones with stellar credentials.
If I were you I wouldn’t send the AP scores that are a 3 either…
I also am just taking your word for it that your essay is great but I’d say low reach/reach…</p>

<p>I think you have a shot but it’s a crapshoot.</p>

<p>ALSO just keep in mind that ED acceptance rates are higher in schools like these because a lot of athletes/legacies apply early…</p>

<p>Good luck though! </p>

<p>P.S i’m also just a student so my guess is as good as yours!</p>

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<p>Easy defer/wait list straight from your GPA. The admissions committee only cares about unweighted GPA, so you if your weighted is <4.0 with AP weight added then your unweighted will not be very good. You say your school is ultra competitive but I would need to see where you rank among your peers to negate the negative GPA.</p>

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<p>School doesn’t do unweighted and our school doesn’t rank.</p>

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<p>What do you think?</p>