Please chance me ED to Dartmouth

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<p>I was planning on applying ED to Amherst but then I realized Dartmouth had everything I wanted - a small, intellectual community in a beautiful environment with a huge party scene behind! Do you think I should even bother applying, given my stats?</p>

<p>COLLEGES:
• Dartmouth ED?
• Williams
• Amherst
• Vassar
• Haverford
• University of Cambridge
• St. Andrew's
• Bowdoin
• Bates
• Colby
• Trinity, Franklin & Marshall (safeties)</p>

<p>STATS:
• GPA unweighted - 3.98
• PSAT: 216
• SAT: 2100 in January w/out studying, will be retaking November and will probs get 2250+
• SAT II: French 800, Lit. 770
TOEFL iBt: 117</p>

<p>CLASSES & RANK:
• I'm foreign, from Italy. I've been studying at a boarding school in NH since my sophomore year. This school doesn't rank, but at the school I attended my freshman year I was ranked #1/60, and it was a very competitive British prep school which regularly sends students to Oxbridge.
• The NH school I attend now is an alternative boarding school, which means no APs, BUT I'm taking the most rigorous courses, all centered around the humanities field (Philosophy, World Religions, Global Issues, Advanced French Lit., Honors Eng, Honors US His) plus Advanced Calc. sophomore and junior years and independent AP Calc this year. </p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
French Club - co founded in 10th grade, president 10th, 11th, 12th. first club in school.
Active & Helping - club at my school that centers on charity, through which I've done many hours of community service and organized several projects. Joined in 10th grade, am now president. I also worked at a soup kitchen over the summer, and I've done many, many hours tutoring two of my peers in Math.
Model UN (10,11,12)
Literary Journal: editor 11 & 12, contributor 10 - very passionate about this and french club.</p>

<p>I am a very academically-centered individual - I don't care for sports other than golf and I am not a musician. I've done all I could for writing/language-centered ECs and charity work.</p>

<p>SUMMER ACTIVITIES:
Internship at a prestigious publishers. Really want to go into literary publishing. I got an interview for TASP but was ultimately rejected.</p>

<p>STRENGTHS:
My essays will probably be very good, as writing is my forte.</p>

<p>So, what chance do I have of getting into Dartmouth ED? Also, would you strongly recommend that I interview? Will it make or break me?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>It’s hard to get in as international and if you go to the boarding school that I think you go to (which doesn’t really have a reputation for sending kids to Dartmouth every year), then it’s even harder. That being said, if you can pay full ride and don’t need FA of any kind, then you’ll definitely stand a chance. There are definitely kids here who have test scores below 2200, but getting above the 2200 mark will be very helpful.</p>

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<p>Whether I can pay full ride or not is irrelevant, as Dartmouth is needs-blind for all applicants. </p>

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<p>My school hasn’t sent any students to Dartmouth in a decade, if ever, but barely any have applied - the last was one girl in 2009. In any case, is the school one attends really a big factor? I mean, I know I’ve challenged myself and I’ve chosen the right environment for me, as opposed to going to Exeter just for the college admissions value.</p>

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<p>Can anyone else chance me?</p>

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<p>Around 20%, Kids at Dartmouth have done something unique or are stellar in academics. What do you have?</p>

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<p>Well, I’m stellar in academics.</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>