What are my chances of getting into Dartmouth College Early Decision Class of 2021?

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Hello, I am a senior interested in applying to Dartmouth early decision. Here are my stats.

Currently a senior at a highly competitive high school in California and the United States.

Race: Asian Indian

ACT- Composite: 30 Writing:30 - Planning to take ACT again in September

SAT II- Planning to take Math 2, and Chemistry in October

AP Exams: Art History(10th grade) 11th: APUSH, AP Chemistry, AP Music Theory

Unweighted GPA: 3.70

Weighted GPA: School stopped weighting GPA in 2015

Senior Yearr: AP English Literature, AP AB Calculus, AP Physics 1, AP Economics (Micro and Macro), Business, German 3.

Extracurriculars:

Piano
I have been playing for 13 years. I have performed in masterclasses with renowned pianists and college professors and played for famous pianists including Aleksandre Korsantia (Head of Piano at the New England Conservatory), Ann Schein (Head of Piano Department at Aspen Music Festival), George Barth (Head of Piano Department Stanford University), Jean-David Coen (Head of Music Department at Willamette University and taught Yuja Wang), Daniel Glover (Concert Pianist), Haochen Zhang (Van Cliburn Gold Medalist 2009), Sonia Leong (University of the Pacific), Frank Wiens (University of the Pacific Piano Department Head), Rex Cooper (University of the Pacific) and Vadim Rudenko (Concert Pianist). I have won and placed in the State Piano Convention Honors Recital for the past 5 years. Working on performing a 1 hour program for a highly coveted performance award.

Water Polo and Swimming

  • Achieved two Far Western Times in the 100 and 200 Butterfly
    -Achieved multiple Junior Olympic Times in 100 free, 200 free, 500 free, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 fly
    -placed 5th in the country in the 2013 Speedo Cup in Michigan for water polo
  • placed in the top 15 during the 2013 San Diego Cup for water polo
  • played in Junior Olympic Trials for water polo

Volunteer Service:

-volunteered for 110 hours
-volunteered as a camp counselor at a local theater camp. Helped build sets, teach kids lines and songs for a musical that took two weeks to rehearse and perform from scratch
-volunteer as a music concert usher for local piano concerts
-volunteered as a videographer and filmed many local events including an emergency preparedness drill with triage practice

Work Experience
-Worked as an intern in city government and helped perform data entry, run a marketing campaign and create flyers
-Programming instructor at a code camp for 4 weeks. Taught middle school and high school students the fundamentals of computer science and how to code in HTML, CSS, JS, Firebase, and jQuery. Projects at the camp included building a messaging app, Pong, jQuery Event games, Tic-Tac-Tie, Dictionary Search, Arduino, Hangman, Computer Graphics.

Other

Programming: Like to code in my spare time and tinker with Arduino. Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, C++, Coffeescript and some Firebase.

Legacy: Yes- father was Dartmouth Class of 1991

Awards
President’s Education Award For Educational Excellence 2013
Local piano honors for the last 5 years for outstanding performance

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Your chances are probably on the lower end because of your ACT score and GPA.

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Dartmouth has a 10.5% acceptance rate, so pretty much everyone’s chances are slim.

However, while ACT and GPA are very important components of the admissions process at Dartmouth, so are extracurricular activities (they are all ranked “very important” in the CDS). Yours are very unique and demonstrate a strong level of commitment and talent, so I think this will help you. Additionally, you are applying ED and are a legacy, two additional boosts.

For ACT, you are right at Dartmouth’s 25th percentile for accepted students. Taking it again will definitely help your chances, but it wouldn’t be completely unreasonable for you to get in with that score. I think you have a pretty good shot at being accepted ED.

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Good luck!

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Your scores/grades are below-average, but your EC’s are through the roof, particularly piano/athletics, plus you’re a legacy. You have an above-average change because of your EC’s, but nothing is guaranteed at schools like Dartmouth.

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I think you will get in, especially if you get that ACT score up a little. Chance me back?

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Thank you for comments. I made the decision to apply to Dartmouth Regular Decision.

Here are my new and current stats.

Currently a senior at a highly competitive high school in California and the United States.

Race: Asian Indian

ACT- Composite: 32 Writing:10 (Writing Score is based on the new 2-12 scale which was implemented in June 2016. This equivalent to a 30 on the old 1-36 scale from 2015)

AP Exams: Art History(10th grade) 11th: APUSH, AP Chemistry, AP Music Theory

Unweighted GPA: 3.70

Weighted GPA: 3.91 (School started weighting GPA again for Class of 2017)

Senior Year: AP English Literature, AP AB Calculus, AP Physics 1, Economics, Psychology, Business, German 3.

Extracurriculars:

Piano
I have been playing for 13 years. I have performed in masterclasses with renowned pianists and college professors and played for famous pianists including Aleksandre Korsantia (Head of Piano at the New England Conservatory), Ann Schein (Head of Piano Department at Aspen Music Festival), George Barth (Head of Piano Department Stanford University), Jean-David Coen (Head of Music Department at Willamette University and taught Yuja Wang), Daniel Glover (Concert Pianist), Haochen Zhang (Van Cliburn Gold Medalist 2009), Sonia Leong (University of the Pacific), Frank Wiens (University of the Pacific Piano Department Head), Rex Cooper (University of the Pacific) and Vadim Rudenko (Concert Pianist). I have won and placed in the State Piano Convention Honors Recital for the past 5 years. Working on performing a 1 hour program for a highly coveted performance award.

Water Polo and Swimming

  • Achieved two Far Western Times in the 100m, yd and 200 Butterfly m, yd
    -Achieved multiple Junior Olympic Times in 100 free, 200 free, 500 free, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 fly
    -placed 5th in the country in the 2013 Speedo Cup in Michigan for water polo
  • placed in the top 15 during the 2013 San Diego Cup for water polo
  • played in Junior Olympic Trials for water polo

Volunteer Service:

-volunteered for 110 + hours

  • I recently started a volunteer organization with three of my classmates in my business class that works with a local hospital to provide youth patients with entertainment and friendship
  • volunteer as a piano recitalist at a local old people’s home. I perform a 1 hour piano program every Saturday
    -volunteered as a camp counselor at a local theater camp. Helped build sets, teach kids lines and songs for a musical that took two weeks to rehearse and perform from scratch
    -volunteer as a music concert usher for local piano concerts
    -volunteered as a videographer and filmed many local events including an emergency preparedness drill with triage practice

Work Experience
-Worked as an intern in city government and helped perform data entry, run a marketing campaign and create flyers
-Programming instructor at a code camp for 4 weeks. Taught middle school and high school students the fundamentals of computer science and how to code in HTML, CSS, JS, Firebase, and jQuery. Projects at the camp included building a messaging app, Pong, jQuery Event games, Tic-Tac-Tie, Dictionary Search, Arduino, Hangman, Computer Graphics.

Other

Programming: Like to code in my spare time and tinker with Arduino. Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, C++, Coffeescript and some Firebase.

Legacy: Yes- father was Dartmouth Class of 1991

Awards
President’s Education Award For Educational Excellence 2013
Local piano honors for the last 5 years for outstanding performance

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Congrats on getting that act up 2 points in such a short amount of time! That will definitely help your chances greatly, and it helps to see your weighted gpa. I think your credentials are great!