<p>This is one is official. Let's not post in here until the decisions actually come up! Good luck ya'll!
(just remove the spaces on this before you post up)!!</p>
<p>Congratulations! It is with great pleasure that I inform you of your admission to Dartmouth College as a member of the Class of 2013. You were selected from an accomplished and academically talented group of more than 18,000 applicants. The admitted group, of which you are a part, is outstanding in its achievements, interests, and potential. We are enthusiastic about the prospect of your attendance and are confident that you and Dartmouth are an ideal match.</p>
<p>The faculty and staff join me in inviting you to attend Dartmouth. This is a particularly exciting time at the College; the opportunity for personal involvement in all facets of your education here is significant. The College continues to be distinguished by the commitment of its faculty to combine excellence in teaching with exceptional scholarship and research. New initiatives undertaken in recent years, including a reaffirmation of the commitment to a diverse student body, an expansion of the financial aid program, and a major expansion of academic and research facilities, will each enhance Dartmouth’s national leadership in liberal arts education.</p>
<p>All of us at Dartmouth hope you will visit campus during the month of April and take the opportunity to meet students and faculty, attend classes, and stay overnight in the dorms. During the month of April, we will sponsor a series of special programs to introduce admitted students to the academic and extracurricular life at the College.</p>
<p>Again, congratulations on your acceptance. Please let us know if we can be of any help to you in the next few weeks. We would appreciate confirmation of your matriculation plans via the reply form that is enclosed with your paper notification by May 1st. I hope you decide to become a part of the Dartmouth community.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Maria Laskaris
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 34
[</em>] SAT II: 780 US History, 750 Physics, 740 Literature
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5,5,5
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Toughest possible, 4 APs, the rest Honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing of note.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Very involved in politics/water conservation out here in Colorado. Have authored and passed legislation, work in the state capitol, and held high leadership positions on the McCain/RNC 2008 campaign. Other stuff like Mock Trial, Class President, etc.
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good I thought
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[<em>] Additional Rec: From a friend in the Colorado House of Representatives
[</em>] Interview: Went very well</p>
<p>[/ul]Other [ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):** Colorado! **
[li] School Type: Medium Private[/li][</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Pretty unique ECs I guess. Nothing else.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul] Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, stats
[</em>] Weaknesses: Couple of Bs first Trimester senior year, but brought up to As by second trimester. Thought essay was just alright.
[li] Why you think you were accepted: Geography, unique activities.[/li][/ul]General Comments: Good luck everybody! Go Big Green!</p>
<p>SAT I: N/A SAT II: 800 Bio M, 740 US Hist ACT: 33 Comp (35 Eng, 32 Math, 29 Read, 35 Sci, 8 Write) AP Exams: Biology (5), US History (TBA), Psychology (TBA) GPA: 4.94 W, 3.94 UW Rank: 14/514 (Top 3%) Transcript Breakdown: 4.5y English, 4y Social Studies, 3y Math, 5y Science, 3y Visual Art, .5y Volunteer Work Senior Coursework: Honors Sociology/AP Psychology, Honors Physics, Honors Human Anatomy, English Composition/British Lit. (Dual Enrollment, AP), Student Volunteer Worker (Classroom Asst.)/Adv Creative Writing</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: My personal essay was a heartfelt narrative about how I came to terms with my sexuality by falling in love. It was the major turning point in my life, and I feel I did it as much justice as words possibly can. Teacher Recs: Both are glowing; I couldnt have asked for better. Counselor Rec: Enthusiastic. Extracurriculars: Editor of the School Literature Magazine (1y), Scholar Bowl Team (2y), Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Team (2y) Awards/Honors: National Merit Commended Student, 6th in the State of Illinois in Biological Science (WYSE), Artwork Displayed @ City Art Show, Yale Book Award for intellectual promise</p>
<p>[/list]Location/Person:</p>
<p>State or Country: Illinois School Type: Non-Competitive Public Ethnicity: Caucasian Gender: Male Perceived Strengths: Intellectual Vitality, Strong Recommendations, Heartfelt Essay Perceived Weaknesses: Lack of Foreign Language and Calculus, Few ECs
** Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:** I thought I had a decent shot, but apparently my weaknesses outweighed my strengths. Oh well, admissions are such a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2150
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II 760, Physics 720, French 680
[<em>] GPA: N/A (43/45 Predicted IB Marks)
[</em>] Rank: School doesn’t rank, top 1%, unofficially #1
[<em>] Other stats: 34 ACT
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I liked them
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Never saw
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Never saw
[<em>] Hook (if any): TASP
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Nova Scotia, Canada
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: South Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Intended Major: Economics
[li] major strength/weakness: Decent all around, low subject scores[/li][/ul]Other Factors: international, whatever got into WHARTON wooo</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT Reading: 710
SAT Math: 720
SAT Writing: 650
SAT Total: 2080
SAT II: BioM-800, MathI-720, USH-650
TOEFL (if applicable):
ACT (if applicable):31
AP/IB taken/scores: Bio5, USH4
GPA weighted (if applicable): 99.92
GPA unweighted:97.9
Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 2/124
Academic Awards: George eastman young leaders award (fairly minor), NHS, a couple of "student of the month"s
Extra Curricular Activities: TONS of soccer - Varsity since freshman, Premier since 10 yr old - marching band, concert band 1st-chair bass clarinet, chess team co-captain, scholastic bowl, ski-club</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: 1 VERY unique about me, basically an argument through metaphor (see my name); 1 deep/serious about the death of two of my friends
Teacher Rec #1: better than anyone elses no doubt- this man is a genius
Teacher Rec #2: good
Additional Rec: yes- it was ok
Counselor Rec: good
Hook (if any): NOPE</p>
<p>Location:
State or Country: USA
School Type: i guess we are a decent public, but i think we are crappy
Ethnicity:White
Gender: Male
Legacy Yes/No: NO
Recruited Yes/No: no</p>
<p>Strengths: Interview, passionate ECs, Essays, 1st teacher Rec, GPA, Class Rank
Weaknessess: Test scores, Community Service</p>
<p>Comments: i really thought i had a chance, but i guess my scores are just too low because i just don’t know what else i could have done besides get them up</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2270 - 800 Reading, 800 CW, 670 Math
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 Lit, 750 American History, 720 French w/ Listening
[<em>] GPA: 3.9 UW, 4.5 something W
[</em>] Rank: school doesn’t rank
[<em>] Other stats: hard to list them all, but lots of leadership things, lived by myself in a foreign country twice, self-taught languages and website programming, lots of leading roles in plays, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were unique and interesting
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn’t read them, but one teacher described his as “glowing”
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read it, but I assume it was good
[<em>] Hook (if any): Legacy, URM (hispanic)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Las Vegas, NV
[<em>] School Type: small (65 kids per class), private college-prep
[</em>] Ethnicity: hispanic (argentina)
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Intended Major: Ancient Studies
[li] major strength/weakness: independent learner, pursue my interests to the fullest[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I think I might have been the only legacy from my state to apply, but other than that I guess the URM thing helped along with good stats</p>
<p>Comments: AHHHH!!! I am so excited! Looking forward to seeing all you admits next year! To those who were waitlisted/denied, cheer up, you guys are all amazing!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2160 - math 660, reading 710, writing 790
[</em>] SAT IIs: world history 700, math2 600, literature 730
[<em>] GPA: 3.91 uw, 4.56 weighted
[</em>] Rank: top 5%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: common app essay -about my dad, unfortunatly Dartmouth didnt ask for any other essays
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I thought they were going to be stellar, but didn’t see it
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I thought it would be great, didnt see it
[<em>] extracurriculars: Captain of varsity xc team, editor-in-chief of newspaper, forensics (public speaking), nhs, + a lot of stuff related to diabetes research/advocacy (i.e., running a community support group, writing a blog for a health website, babysitting for diabetic kids, speaking at press conferences on capitol hill, lobbying for stem cell research)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MD
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: half white, half Indian (did this hurt me? did they accidentally write me off as an “asian”?)
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Intended Major: undecided - definitely humanities, though
[li] major strength/weakness: dunno[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I would have been the 13th person in my family to go to Dartmouth</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 750 CR, 780 M, 800 WR
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 780 M2, 760 M1, 740 Ch, 730 Ph
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Counselor estimated top 2% i think
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: GCE A level candidate: Math Physics Chem History, English, History honors (prediction straight As)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None too spectacular. No sciency olympiads. 1 international writing award 1st prize, Singapore odyssey of the mind etc.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
See my post in the Georgetown forum. For super-detailed, find my post in the Yale forum dated 16 Dec :)</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. Got more than 80% but i’ve got better offers.
[</em>] Intended Major: Political science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Vietnam
[<em>] School Type: In Singapore - large public. Very competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: Combined total 8k per annum
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): 4 years high school in Singapore on full scholarship and all the life experiences i got. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I think i have a certain level of maturity that may not seem obvious from the way i look, and is definitely not something many 18 year olds have. I have a rather well-rounded profile, with major awards in both sciences and social sciences. I know what i want and i do well at it. I also have a personality. I’m quite funny in person and i know how to make conversations.<br>
[</em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Highlight the well-roundedness. My focus now is definitely on politics/history and english.
[<em>] Weaknesses: I’ve heard that you need intl olympiad prizes for H and i only had one writing competition to my name. I don’t think i’m anything spectacular though. Seriously.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted: I dont know! Its all a mystery
[li] Where else were you accepted: Harvard, Yale (EA), Princeton (likely), Columbia (likely), Georgetown SFS. Those are all that i applied for during RD round, withdrew the rest after EA decision.[/ul][/li]General Comments: I don’t know! I’m really overwhelmed. I received a likely so its a little expected but still feels really nice! Probably will have to say no to Hanover though. It’s too cold and i’ve been in the tropics all my life :P</p>
