Is Dartmouth possible for me?

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<p>Gender: female
Sat: 2110 cr:780 m:670 w: 660 ( all first time, hoping to raise it to a 2200)
Sat II: will take phys math and ush this spring
Ap: ush, eng lit and comp, bio, and calc.</p>

<p>note: these are ALL of my school's AP options despite my protests. My lack of APs are somewhat supplemented by my courses at a local community college: stats, psych, government, economics, English</p>

<p>Courseload: every single upper level class possible, several honors (in English, chemistry, pre calculus, world history)</p>

<p>Gpa: uw 96 point something, w 101 point something
Rank: top 2 percent, possible bid for valedictorian or salutatorian </p>

<p>Honors:
Principal's honor roll ( since freshman year)
Nca all American nominee: 2008,
2009, 2010
NCA all American admitted: 2009, 2010
Artwork selected for gallery show ( I have omitted details for security)</p>

<p>EC: varsity cheerleading 4 yrs, varsity lax 2 yrs, youth/ volunteer groups, student govt</p>

<p>Work experience: lifeguarding for 3 years all year round</p>

<p>Volunteer: during summer @ a local cat shelter, in various areas with my youth group, French tutoring </p>

<p>Summers: lifeguarding, cat shelter volunteering, will be attending summer@brown program </p>

<p>If I have forgotten anything please tell me! Thank you!</p>

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<p>Yes. 10char</p>

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<p>How likely? What are my weaknesses? How do you suggest I improve?</p>

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<p>You’re definitely smart enough, provided you get those SATs up a little bit. The thing that I think might hinder you, though, is a lack of depth in your application. You participate in a lot of things but, unless you’re not including it, I don’t see anything that really sticks out to me as saying “this person really has a passion in this activity and has shown this through a pursuit of making themselves better in it by going above and beyond what we see in the average high school student.” Dartmouth is one of the best school in the nation; they want people who are going to change the world. If you’re not conveying some sort of passion in your application, they’re just going to throw you in the “denied” pile with the other 10,000 bright, well-rounded kids.</p>

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<p>To give yourself the best shot you probably need to get more EC leadership as mentioned above. Have a couple things you do very well and care deeply about. Also you will need to raise the SAT. Do those things and you are a strong candidate.</p>

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<p>get your SAT scores up. being a URM will drastically increase your chances as well.</p>