<p>I'd keep your options open... many aspire to drastically raise their grades, but fail to do so.. It's not a dismissive comment on your potential, but a realistic way to look at things...</p>
<p>ok guys, i will respond to this thread on june 13, about 6 months from now, with my second semester gpa. let us see whether i can achieve my goal or not. thanks for all the posts.</p>
<p>from now on, just A n B.</p>
<p>stick to that n u should hav a decent shot.</p>
<p>Try your hardest and you never know what may happen. However, I would like to say that there are even more qualified applicants (than the one Giggitus mentioned) to Wharton that get rejected.
Hint: do well in math!</p>
<p>^^ Millhouse is right. There's been people with even crazier stats who have been rejected. You just have to really sell yourself in that application. It's not all about the numbers.</p>
<p>Hmom5- Wharton has an International Business program with a specialty in Chinese business relations. My D is spending her junior HS year in Beijing, living with a Chinese family, learning Chinese, through SYA. Her GPA is only 3.8 though (she had a bad time with an AP course last year and got her first C), no SAT results back yet. The Wharton program is exactly what D wants, and we can afford it without financial aid, but never thought she had much of a chance there. Would you guess the China experience might put her in the running? Or is there still a snowball's chance? We are from a small western state, does state diversity help?
Thanks for your help, we are just starting this whole process, and I am clueless.</p>
<p>I think you are referring to the Huntsman Program (Wharton and CAS in international studies degree with chosen language). Only 50 students are accepted to this program every year --> insanely competitive. People turn down HYP for the program (enough said). But yes, it does "help." She should take a foreign language SAT II and ideally get 750+ and excel in her language and math courses at school (obviously she should excel in all of her courses but these are necessary).</p>
<p>Huntsman</a> Program in International Studies & Business</p>