Hi, I’m a sixteen year old girl in high school. I’m curious about my chances of getting into Dartmouth. Just to clarify, I’m a junior about to begin my second semester.
Dartmouth is my dream school but I want to know if it’s even a feasible option for me.
My unweighted GPA is a 3.94. I know it’s not exactly stellar, but please keep reading!
My weighted GPA is a 4.51.
I’m in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program at my school. I haven’t taken my exams yet, but I’m aware of Dartmouth’s policy about only accepting/giving credit for scores of 6 or 7.
My current classes are:
HL = Higher Level
SL = Standard Level
HL Spanish
HL History
HL Biology
SL Chemistry
AP Calc AB (SL Math)
SL English
I took AP Physics 1 in 10th grade and passed the exam with a 3. Again, not great!
This year, however, I have a great calc teacher, so I hope to rock the AP Calc AB exam.
I’m taking double sciences and I would have liked to take HL Chemistry, but it’s not offered at my school.
Extracurriculars:
-2 years in Key Club (requires 50 hours of service per year)
-Junior Varsity Soccer in 9th grade (I played keeper/goalie)
-Track since 10th grade (400 meter sprinter)
-National Honor Society (NHS)
-Spanish National Honor Society (requires tutoring students who are falling behind in Spanish class)
-Rho Kappa (history honor society, woo!)
-Tutoring ESOL kids (I tutor kids who didn’t learn English as their first language)
-CAS completion (I haven’t finished CAS yet, but I have some cool things going on, so hopefully I have many experiences to write about on my college apps!)
-Also, kind of random, but I volunteer at a nature preserve and remove invasive plant species!
I don’t know if this is necessarily important, but upon joining NHS, I received the Typical Initiate Award. In 9th grade I also received an award for exhibiting the traits of the IB Learner Profile.
If you’ve read this far, I just want to say that I really appreciate it. I hope I don’t come off as someone who’s conceited and just bragging about their “accomplishments”. I just really want to know my chances of getting into Dartmouth and I want to provide a thorough background!
Anyways, yup.
Other things that might make me stand out:
-I was born in another country. I’m a naturalized American citizen and an Irish citizen by birth, so I have dual citizenship. I lived there for quite a long while
-My parents are divorced and my dad has been unemployed for the past 5 years. It sucks. In some ways though, we both know his unemployment might help my chances of getting financial aid, so I guess there’s a silver lining
-I’m a decent enough horse rider, but I doubt that wins me anything but a couple of brownie points . . .
I’m taking the SAT with the essay in the spring, and I’d like to take the ACT. I want to take 2 SAT subject tests and I’ll likely choose from history (world or U.S.), Spanish, chem, and bio. I took the PSAT and got a 1450, so I’m crossing my fingers to be a National Merit Semifinalist or even just a Commended Scholar.
That’s all I have for now. If you have any idea as to the SAT and/or ACT scores I’ll need for Dartmouth, it’d be awesome if you could tell me. Also, any thoughts about my unweighted and weighted GPAs would be great. If you have anything to say about Dartmouth in general, that’s cool too.
Thanks for reading this far! (: