What does Dartmouth focus on?

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<p>"Admissions varies from school to school - it will be easier for some applicants to get into a particular school and harder for others based on the strengths of their application. Some schools look more at the ECs, whereas other schools take greater consideration of the essay. Cornell is one of those schools. The adcom reads your essay first before anything else in your application. So if you are a strong writer and/or devote a lot of your time to perfecting your essay for Cornell, you'll probably be a stronger applicant than someone applying on a whim hoping his/her SAT scores will do the job. Another school might not value the essay so much as volunteer work or whatever other criterion, so it can be easier for you to get into certain schools based on that."</p>

<p>What does Dartmouth Focus on mainly?
ECs, Test Scores, GPA, or essays?</p>

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<p>Of course no one can give you a formulaic answer but take a look what is deemed important in the Common Data Set for 2006/7 class:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eoir/pdfs/cds2006-2007.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds2006-2007.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>See Page 6.</p>