I know there’s not true answer to this question because Ivies are a lottery to some extent, but if anyone can give me any info that would be great.
ACT: 34
SAT subject tests: not sure yet, sorry
unweighted GPA: 3.96
Weighted: 4.72
I’m a white female from a low-ish income range, not a first gen student
rank: 4/296 (98.6%)
AP scores: Psych (5), English Lang (5), Gov and US History (4), World history (3, lol i was a freshman and probs wont send)
I’m in the International Baccalaureate program, and when I will graduate will have 17/33 of my classes AP or IB
I am a club/school varsity swimmer (I was in a state champion relay and school record, and have gone to states every year for both club and school), I also do volunteer coaching, private lessons, and am the assistant head coach for a swim team.
I won conference, regionals, and 3rd place at states for forensics in extemporaneous
Research volunteer at Jones Institute of Reproductive medicine, Hospital volunteer 130+ hours, lifeguard, nanny, intern for democratic party unpaid 480 hours, founder and pres of club that does projects and fundraisers for a women’s/children’s shelter, hostess at a winery
West point leadership award, William and Mary leadership award, semi finalist for AFS profect change competition, national merit commended (most likely, but slim chance of being a semi-finalist because Virginia is too smart), presidential volunteer award, AP scholar award, highest academic honors (lol this is a joke), published “What swimming gives you in return” on swimswam.com
Spanish National honor society, science national honor society, mu alpha theta (secretary), SCA advisory board, county youth commission board member.
Thanks for anyone’s input! also if you know of examples of Dartmouth’s supplement essays because I would love to know how anyone has answered them in such a small word count lol
what’s your planned major and what’s your performance like right now in IB?
Wow, that’s a ton of volunteer hours! That will look great on your app.
You’ve got a really interesting mishmash of ECs. Swimming, obviously, is your spike- your swimming accomplishments are awesome.
Is your income closer to 100k or 50k?
As it stands, I think you’ve got good chances.
Your stats are great. If you get above 700 on your subject tests than that is even better.
Your ECs are a little average for the Ivies. Have you tried being recruited by the Dartmouth coach for swimming?
I’m not 100% sure on what major yet, because I really want to study public health and there’s no major for that. Probably something in biology. I have had all A’s in all my IB classes, and my scores for the year (only two of them) were pretty good. My income is closer to 100k. I sadly had to quit competitive swimming because of health issues, which is rough because I was previously being looked at for the team.
I’m hoping the research I’m doing this summer will help boost my ECs, because I’m working with the Jones Institute (which invented a lot of birth controls, as well as inventing IVF) and my mentor is a world famous doctor/researcher. I’m also trying to get the paper I’m working on writing published, possibly in the Dartmouth high school science contest, so that would help a lot lol
Sounds like you have a good plan. Good luck, and get started on those essays!