I'm hoping to transfer to dartmouth, and I'm wondering how you think my transcript looks. Please give any advice on anything you think I need to do to get in. Also, please know what you're talking about!
Here's what I have currently on my transcript:
Grades: B+ to A-
Volunteer: weekly and a lot in the past 3 years.
Sports: fencing, rowing, skateboarding
Music:Violin, occasional informal orchestra performance
Art: entering art comp. for photography
Other stuff: Greenpeace lobby program
Greenpeace campus coordinator
attended 2 DC environmental rallies
Environmental conference coordinator
Buddhist tour event organizer
Travel stuff: Studied mandarin in China 6 months
-Nepal 6 months in monastery
-Canada 3 years
I'm hoping to join a re-election club on campus and am hoping to get an internship with the Senator's office or my district Rep.
My sat's are not wonderful, but doable. I suck at math unfortunately.. Anyhow, any imput is appreciated! Sorry to be blunt, but by seeing that you posted this question several times I might as well post this, your chances are very very slim for an undergrad transfer student. I bet that you know that only a handful of students are admitted and I praise your determination to pursue your dream school.
So basically Dartmouth doesn't really care if you intern at a senator's office if it isn't your passion. The majority of students volunteer at hospitals and government officials' offices as they view it to be prestigious, but if you are doing it for the sake of it, then most admission officers can sniff those applications out.
So my advice would be to find an EC that you love doing or if you already have one, make sure to embrace it and include it on your essays/supplements. If you want to know the truth, you can end up staying at a regular university and go to Dartmouth for grad school and it can have the same weight when you apply to jobs. Mostly because if your SATs are just average, you would have to have an AMAZING gpa, application essay/letter of rec, and to show the college that you took the MOST difficult courses. It's going to be hard to compensate for low SATs or gpa especially if you aren't a top athlete or found a cure for cancer. Best of luck, coming from a student at Dartmouth who applied under early decision. |
