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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dartmouth is an ideal school for a lot of students. [b]But it's really not accessible for the vast majority of accomplished students. I wouldn't let a kid get fixated on it - especially in this area.[/b] Go look at your high school data over the past few years and see how many unhooked students got in over the past few years. The answer is almost always zero. [/quote]

Yes-there is no magic formula or anything you can do if you don't meet one of their many institutional priorities or come from a feeder private school. Dartmouth is tiny (1100/year) and within this 1100 they have to roster a ton of sports teams, fill MANY Questbridge spots, admit legacies, admit Native Americans (they were built on Ancestral lands), internationals and on and on. Then they fill most of the remaining spots with kids from a handful of top private schools. This year there were a handful of privates who had 5 kids (each) matriculate at Dartmouth (out of high school classes of less than 100). There are feeders and then there are FEEDERS and Dartmouth has the latter.

By all means apply and you may get your number pulled (someone has to!!) but the decision won't come down to the SAT score. [/quote]

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