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Dartmouth College
A native of Hanover, NH, Nelson, who has a 3.75 grade point academic average as a pre-med student, has contributed greatly to the outstanding Dartmouth women's hockey team during her four-year collegiate career. During her freshman and junior seasons, the team won the Ivy Championship while they finished third in the nation last year.
In her letter of recommendation for Nelson, Dartmouth coach Judy Parish wrote:
"What sets Sara apart from all of the other dedicated student-athletes on campus is what she has chosen to do with what little free time is left in her busy schedule."
While at Dartmouth, she has been an intern at the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, an Undergraduate Advisor, a trip leader for the Dartmouth Outing Club trips, an admissions tour guide, an intramural hockey official, and an organizer of the Dartmouth Women's Hockey Clinic for local female hockey players.
Her commitment to the community, though, began long before she matriculated at Dartmouth. Beginning in 1986 and continuing to the present, she has been a volunteer at David's House, a home-away-from-home for families receiving treatment at the children's hospital at Dartmouth.
Academically, Nelson is one of the College's top students, as she has received academic citations for excellence in chemistry, physics, and statistics. These citations are presented to undergraduates who have made "particularly favorable impressions on members of the faculty because of their unusual talents, dependability, initiative, resourcefulness, or other meritorious characteristics that are not indicated adequately by academic grades."
She has been a Presidential Research Assistant in the psychology department and inducted into Golden Key National Honor Society. Then, last year, she was named a prestigious Rufus Choate Scholar as being in the top five percent of her class.
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