Another Chance Thread - Wharton ED

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<p>10-12 Academic GPA: 4.54 Weighted, 3.63 UW
My school ranks by decile, so I'm top 10% (admittedly I think I barely made it).
Senior schedule
AP Gov/Econ
AP Calc BC
IB History of the Americas
AP Biology
AP Latin
AP English 4</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT: 780 CR 800 M 710 W (2290 Total; one sitting)
SAT 2's: 800 Math2C; 760 USHistory; 780 Chem
AP's: All 5's - CalcAB, USH, Chemistry, CompSci, Euro, Lang&Comp
I'll be taking another 5 or 6 AP Tests next May.</p>

<p>Everyone says this, but I go to a VERY competitive school in SoCal. Top 3 STEM school in the nation, we send about 10 people to either Harvard or Stanford every year, and we're the most consistent national champions for Science Olympiad every year. I'd be willing to bet that we have the most rigorous science department in the nation. Unfortunately, that means that my 6 5's on my AP tests are completely standard for the people at my school.</p>

<p>Organizations & Activities
Speech and Debate (4 yrs) - Board Member; Debate Instructor; Parliamentary Captain; Policy Captain
Best Buddies (2 yrs) - Peer Member
Church (2 yrs) - Fundraiser Manager/Event Organizer
Art Club (3 yrs) - Director of Finance
Muscular Dystrophy Association (1 yr) - Director of Finance
National Honor Society Member
NMSQT Semifinalist - Going for finalist right now</p>

<p>Weirder Activities
Stock Investor/Trader - Made $1000 and donated half to the Best Buddies Friendship Walk and the other half to American Cancer Society Relay for Life. (Focus of Common App Essay)
Self-taught German speaker - Planning on taking the SAT II in German in July, and tutored during my sophomore year. (Focus of Ben Frank Essay)
Competitive Fighting Game (Street Fighter) Player - went to the Rio in Vegas for EVO2011, international FG tournament with participants from over 60 countries. Placed top 128 of about 1300 competitors.</p>

<p>Specific Wharton-related Activities
Online Coursera Course - Intro to Operations Management, Prof. Christian Terwiesch
Bianca's Kids - working with the MGMT100 team of one of my high school alumnus to fundraise for their non-profit project, currently recruiting students to help the effort and getting school administration involved
Also, if it matters, I visited 3 weekends ago. </p>

<p>Summer Stuff
After 11th - Internship @ USC in their computational biology lab; Cal State Fullerton ECON@201 (Intro to Micro) - got a solid A.</p>

<p>Recs
English 3 and Calc AB teacher - Should both be pretty good. Especially considering one of them has a ton of pull with colleges and literally unrejected a guy from Stanford and unrescinded a girl from Yale. Though my main concern is that I stood out to both of them because I read a lot of philosophy, and that isn't really reflected anywhere else on my application.</p>

<p>If you really made it all the way down here, I sincerely appreciate the time you took to read this and any feedback you guys can give me!</p>

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<p>Pretty good chances. With the ED boost, I’d say you’re more likely than not to be admitted. I think those essays will be really killer, given the connection to business and the general impressiveness of self-teaching a language. Also, you might want to consider applying to Huntsman b/c of the whole language thing.</p>

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<p>To be honest, I wasn’t even planning on applying two months ago because I just assumed I had no chance because of my mediocre grades. Getting into Wharton alone is already way more than enough for me. And I never had any intentions on using German for business or anything. I just learned it because I thought it sounded cool. >__<</p>

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<p>bump with more info
Asian-American Male
Household Income 100k~200k</p>

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<p>Looking solid with the stats, but honestly at schools like Penn it’s all a crapshoot. You know you definitely won’t get rejected because of your scores, extracurriculars, awards, or grades, but if the admissions counselor simply doesn’t think you’ll be a good fit for Penn, then you’re out of luck. There’s obviously no algorithm or benchmark for whether you’ll get in, so for now I guess you’ll just have to wait till December to know whether you got in. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>I’ve been hearing about fit a lot, but what exactly does it mean? Is it a certain personality that Penn is looking for, or interest in the school?</p>

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<p>You look like every other applicant - have fun blending into the crowd.</p>

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<p>^ haha, ouch.</p>