<p>Hey everyone, I just wanted to know what my chances are and if you think I will be accepted or rejected this school. This would be almost the exact application the schools would get from me next year, as I am a junior right now in high school. </p>
<p>Not Weighted *out of 4.0 GPA </p>
<p>a) Freshman year 3.2
b) Sophomore year 3.4
c) Junior year 3.84
(Upward Trend GPA)</p>
<p>Total Cumulative GPA: 3.48</p>
<p>Sat Raw Score 1550 800 math 750 reading 760 writing</p>
<p>4 Varsity Letters freshman through senior year Swimming
4 Varsity Letters freshman through senior year Spring Track
2 Varsity Letters junior through senior year Soccer
Captain of the Swim team
Captain of the Spring Track team
Scholar Athlete Award for the 2007-2008 school year for perfect grades while being a varsity athlete
142 Hours voluntary community service helping out the poor disorganized farms in Israel
Recommendation from Swim Coach/ Math Teacher Junior Year Final Grade = A / employer over the past 3 years at Haworth Swim Club (I am a lifeguard full time in the summer)
Special Letter of Recommendation from current prime minister of Israel ( Did work in the Israeli Embassy in America with my father )
Student Senate (Club)
Latin Club
Superintendents Student Advisory Committee ( Club / Counsel to promote Random Drug Testing in high schools in New Jersey</p>
<p>English Honors Italian Honors Latin Honors History Honors classes</p>
<p>Do you think I have a chance to be accepted to this school, if you believe I can get accepted and that there is a high possibility, what do you I will get in regards to financial aid/scholarships (Parents combine to make less then 80,000 dollars a year)</p>
<p>i want to major in business and maybe get a mba later on</p>
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Scholar Athlete Award for the 2007-2008 school year for perfect grades while being a varsity athlete
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<p>1--How do you know this? It's only January. (This same question applies for the part where you said "Recommendation from Swim Coach/ Math Teacher Junior Year Final Grade = A.")
2--How do you have "perfect grades" and only a 3.84 GPA?</p>
<p>Anyway, I assume you want to apply to Wharton if you want to major in business. Your freshman and sophomore GPAs are going to hurt you quite a bit, as will your cumulative UW GPA, unless you go to an uber-rigorous prep school or something. Wharton will be getting floods of applicants with 4.0's all 3 years; what special do you have to bring to the table to make up for those low grades? You might get in (rec from Israeli PM, possible recruiting?), but I wouldn't say it's incredibly likely.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, you never gave class rank/weighted GPA/difficulty of courseload. Those are all pretty important.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, I just wanted to know what my chances are and if you think I will be accepted or rejected this school. This would be almost the exact application the schools would get from me next year, as I am a junior right now in high school. </p>
<p>Not Weighted *out of 4.0 GPA </p>
<p>a) Freshman year 3.2
b) Sophomore year 3.4
c) Junior year 3.84
(Upward Trend GPA)</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: Freshman year 3.65
Sophomore Year 3.92
Junior Year 4.47</p>
<p>Cumulative : 4.05</p>
<p>Total Cumulative GPA: 3.48</p>
<p>Sat Raw Score 1550 800 math 750 reading 760 writing</p>
<p>Freshman Year No Honors classes
Sophomore Year 2 Honors Classes (English History)
Junoir Year 3 Honors classes (Italian, English, Latin)
Senior year 3 AP Classes, 1 Honors Classes)</p>
<p>(*Improving rigour of courses)</p>
<p>4 Varsity Letters freshman through senior year Swimming
4 Varsity Letters freshman through senior year Spring Track
2 Varsity Letters junior through senior year Soccer
Captain of the Swim team
Captain of the Spring Track team
Scholar Athlete Award for the 2007-2008 school year for perfect grades while being a varsity athlete ( I have recieved the award already for fall and winter, so instead "Two Time Scholar Athlete"
142 Hours voluntary community service helping out the poor disorganized farms in Israel
Recommendation from Swim Coach/ Math Teacher Junior Year Final Grade = A / employer over the past 3 years at Haworth Swim Club (I am a lifeguard full time in the summer) * He told me to keep up my grades and that i will personally get an A in his class if he just sees full effort from me*
Special Letter of Recommendation from current prime minister of Israel ( Did work in the Israeli Embassy in America with my father )
Student Senate (Club)
Latin Club
Superintendent’s Student Advisory Committee ( Club / Counsel to promote Random Drug Testing in high schools in New Jersey</p>
<p>English Honors Italian Honors Latin Honors History Honors classes</p>
<p>Do you think I have a chance to be accepted to this school, if you believe I can get accepted and that there is a high possibility, what do you I will get in regards to financial aid/scholarships (Parents combine to make less then 80,000 dollars a year)</p>
<p>i want to major in business and maybe get a mba later on</p>
<p>You'll be rejected if only because of your UW GPA. I think anything below a 3.7 kind of raises a red flag and yours is substantially below that, without a hook.</p>
<p>basically a 0% chance. you shouldn't be looking at schools like Penn unless you seek disappointment. especially not Wharton that's the hardest college at Penn.</p>
<p>Your GPA is your biggest red flag. Is their a good reason for your poor grades? Also, you're from New Jersey, and Lord knows Penn has enough of those applying. No clear passion in your EC.</p>
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Special Letter of Recommendation from current prime minister of Israel ( Did work in the Israeli Embassy in America with my father )
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Won't help you unless you actually worked with the Prime Minister directly. Adcoms are not stupid.</p>
<p>penns a good shot for you. i wouldnt worry too much about your grades because an upward trend is going to help you a lot. your SAT scores tell them that you're definitely academically capable of the school and that's going to bolster your poor cumulative GPA. your ECs are very good at the same time.</p>
<p>my credentials were a lot worse than yours, and i had similar GPAs but i got into upenn</p>
<p>i did work with the israeli prime minister. my father was head of the ground units of the navy seal commando. He personally knows the prime minister and i have a letter from the prime minister stamped by the prime minister saying that i have potential to achieve great things in the business world.</p>
<p>Unless someone is going to be rejected with extremely high certainty, these threads are pretty useless. Clearly the OP has an upward-GPA trend with good SAT scores and decent EC's... so there is always a chance. Go ahead and apply to Wharton and hope for the best.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, however, that the cumulative GPA will still hurt you quite a bit. From the 2011 admitted students website showing % accepted for a given rank (I'm assuming 3.48 at your school falls outside the top decile):</p>
<p>Second Decile 4%
Second Quintile 3%
Third Quintile 2%
Fourth Quintile 0%
Fifth Quintile 0%</p>
<p>I am willing to bet most of the students accepted in this range had special circumstances or were very good athletes who may have not had super-high academic records. So, make of this what you will.</p>
<p>You had a chance without Olmert's recommendation, but now you're probably in.
I take it you're not dati, but plenty of Jews of all kinds at Penn regardless. Good fit.</p>
<p>I just don't think it's really relevant WHO the rec came from so much as WHAT it says about you. Unless the PM is your dad, it won't matter too much.</p>