Any thoughts on my chances?

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<p>I'm applying ED to Wharton. I've been researching for a while now and it sounds like a great fit for me. Let me know what you think my chances are. Thanks!</p>

<p>Race: white
Family income: between $50,000 and $75,000</p>

<p>ACT: 35 with an 8 in writing
GPA (weighted): 4.535
GPA (unweighted): 4.0
Class rank: 2 of about 300</p>

<p>Academic honors: national honor society, math department student of the year for every year of high school, spanish student of the year, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended Student</p>

<p>Work experience: intern at a credit union, 30-35 hours per week (since summer of this year, and continuing into school)</p>

<p>Notable accomplishments outside of school: Boys State (elected to city council chairman, state senator, and state calendar committee), Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Grand Awardee (part of a team who were given a grant to develop and eventually present an invention relating to water filtration in third world countries at MIT; I had a leadership role in this project)</p>

<p>For AP Scores, I got 5's on both AP Calc AB and AP Calc BC, a 4 in APUSH, and 3's in everything else. </p>

<p>Community involvement: annual mission trip to build a house for a needy family in another country, involved in drama and choir at my church, officer/dj of a club that me and a few of my friends started a couple years ago to dj at school events, youth advisor for a local library district, active in the youth group at my church; this year I started playing guitar and leading worhsip</p>

<p>Current Course Load: Calculus 3 at a local college (online; I maxed out all the math at my school), AP Physics C: Mechanics (online), AP Lit, and AP Gov</p>

<p>Though I only have 4 classes, I do work almost full-time hours in addition to my extracurricular activities. </p>

<p>Last question: I'm considering dropping at least one of my classes next semester. It would either be physics or gov, or possibly both. I won't make any decisions until I contact the admissions department of whatever college I get into, but I was just curious what thoughts you guys might have. The reason behind dropping them is because I simply don't have the time. Between my work and other commitments there is little time to understand and get the work done for my online physics class in addition to my online calculus class. Dropping gov would simply relieve me of the busywork that I find myself doing and give me time to do other, more important things. </p>

<p>Thanks so much for your input!</p>

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<p>Just to clarify, dropping the class(es) would allow me to delve deeper into my mathematics courses and become more involved in my church and at my internship. It’s not senioritis, it would be prioritizing my time to do things that I am truly passionate about rather than just taking the class to say that I took it. </p>

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<p>If you’re a first gen student, you possibly could qualify for Questbridge. Check it out. Congrats on your achievements. I’m sure you’ll have nice options next April</p>

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<p>I looked into Questbridge already; after talking with an admissions officer at UPenn I learned that if an applicant’s family has any expected contribution, no matter how low, Upenn cannot match with that student. Though my parents will not have a large expected contribution, they will not be expected to give nothing. Thanks though!</p>