Humor me with a chance?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>I know, I know, these are pointless. But I'd really like to try and figure out what's going to happen next Thursday... I know no one really knows but admissions, but if you could judge me as realistically as possible, I would truly appreciate it!</p>

<p>General info: White female, NYS (upstate), public high school.</p>

<p>Current GPA: 99.939 (weighted), 96.387 (unweighted)</p>

<p>Rank: 5 out of 400</p>

<p>Senior year courses:
-Wind Ensemble (honors)
-AP Psychology
-Foundations in Media Arts
-Syracuse University Economics 101/102
-Journalism
-AP Statistics
-SUNY Oswego English 304 (first semester)
-World Literature (second semester)</p>

<p>Notable previous courses:
-SUNY Oswego French 102/201
-AP US History (5)
-Took honors classes whenever available</p>

<p>SAT:
-CR: 800
-Math: 730
-Writing: 800
-Total: 2330</p>

<p>SAT II:
-US History: 760
-Biology E: 720</p>

<p>ECs:
-School newspaper, grades 11-12 (Alumni Editor 11, Editor-in-Chief 12)
-National Honor Society, grades 11-12 (Secretary 12)
-Marching Band, grades 8-12 (Clarinet Section Leader 12)
-Ski Club, grades 7-12 (Secretary 12)
-Powderpuff Football, grades 11-12
-Wind Ensemble, grades 10-12 (principal clarinetist 12)</p>

<p>Awards:
-National Merit Finalist, grade 12
-Empire State School Press Association Silver Award for Feature Writing, grade 12
-The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Editorial Writing Contest, First Place, grade 12
-English 10 Honors Outstanding Student, grade 10
-Earth Science Honors Outstanding Student, grade 9</p>

<p>Other:
-Competed in the 2006 National Spelling Bee
-Attended Harvard Secondary School Program in summer 2009
-Recognized as one of the 40 most outstanding seniors by my city's Rotary Club</p>

<p>Supplemental information:
-My school only offers five AP classes, three of which I took, and the other two of which I could not take due to scheduling conflicts.
-To clarify for those not from New York State, SUNY Oswego is a state college.
-My school has about 1600 students and rarely sends students to top schools.</p>

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<p>Did you take the full science sequence and calc before senior year? If not, the question is would your excellence and outside-the-box involvement in other areas make up for it.</p>

<p>Depending on that, I think your chances are good for an unhooked kid.</p>

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<p>I’ll just post the HS classes I’ve taken prior to senior year, if that helps. Thanks for your opinion!</p>

<p>Grade 8:
Math A1-A2 (the New York system is odd, but was basically algebra)
French 1</p>

<p>Grade 9:
Math A3-B1 Honors (algebra, geometry, some trig)
Earth Science Honors (with lab)
French 2 Honors
English 9 Honors
Global History 9 Honors
Concert Band</p>

<p>Grade 10:
Math B2-B3 Honors (trig, some geometry)
Living Environment Honors (w/ lab; this is biology, but New York likes to give things bizarre names)
French 3 Honors/SUNY Oswego French 102
English 10 Honors
Global History 10 Honors
Wind Ensemble
Photography/Advanced Photography</p>

<p>Grade 11:
Pre-Calculus Honors
Chemistry Honors (w/ lab)
American Literature Honors
AP US History
Wind Ensemble
Journalism
Health</p>

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<p>Again, it depends how they feel about a transcript that contains courses in media, photography, and journalism instead of physics and calculus, doesn’t have at least four years of FL, and doesn’t ever double up in an academic subject.</p>

<p>Obviously you’ve taken these media-oriented courses because that field interests you, but another view is that HS is a time to get a really thorough preparation in core subjects. Given your high SATs, it doesn’t really look as if you chose to challenge yourself academically in HS.</p>

<p>But obviously you have pursued what interests you. Who knows what they’ll decide. Good luck in any case.</p>

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<p>Your ECs don’t really tie together at all, it looks like you just joined a bunch of random things.</p>