Hey all, I’ve been wanting to “chance myself” for a while here but couldn’t because I felt it was too early (and I knew I’d get clowned for it hahahaha). But I saw someone put their GPA and ask for ED 2020 chances, so here I am. I want to know my chances of getting into UPENN, Wharton specifically. If you can help, whether or not you were accepted or not, I would appreciate it so much 
Thank you all for your time and kindness, the threads in here have been so honest and uplifting the more I read them
Background:
Ethnicity: Asian
Sex: Heterosexual Male
Where from: Suburbs of Atlanta
Income Bracket / Type: My family is single income and I have one sibling. Income bracket is under 85k / year.
Test Scores / Academics:
SAT: 1570 One Sitting (770 Reading / Writing, 800 Math
SAT II: 800 Math 2. Haven’t taken any others, but looking into SAT II Korean and Literature.
ACT: I’m taking the February 8th exam Super nervous for it
GPA (Unweighted / Weighted): 4.83 / 4.0.
Ranking: Our school provides percentages. My class size is 600 and I am in the top 2%, which means I’m sandwiched between 1% and 2%, so anywhere from 6-12th.
Additional Notes: I have a weird transcript because I took the IB Diploma. A lot of things are weird, like how many credits I have as well as how everything is calculated. I took 5 APs (Gov, Calc BC, World, Compsci Pri, Lang) before beginning the IB program as a junior. Right now I take 7 credits a year, so I’ll graduate with 34 ish credits (acceleration programs in my middle school allowed a few kids to get high school credit early). Important thing to note: out of 600 kids in my class, only 20 are in the IB program. Me and my IB friends are all guinea pigs in our county because the county wanted to pioneer the IB program at our school.
Subjective / Extracurriculars:
Work and Leadership:
Founder and CEO of SWAVE Solutions, a media marketing business geared towards local franchises / businesses. Clients have included Smoothie King, Sankranti (local restaurant), and UI Dynamics (a web development company), so a mix of large franchises / local businesses.
CMO at LearnLink, LLC; my friends and I started this company two years back to provide online video solutions for our county system. It lets users collaborate on live video channels hosted over multiple connections to get rid of annoying lag time. We also have a platform on there to sell / distribute old textbooks. LearnLink is widely used in a number of schools in our county because we were able to franchise the business out to other high schools.
Founder of FAST Tutoring: FAST is a program I started to help kids who couldn’t afford private tutors (a rare but unfortunately necessary commodity where I live). I run it at the local library.
Assistant Coach at my old middle school. I love this position because I get to coach at the school I used to attend; I teach debate and public speaking after school.
Coach at IBA: this is a paid job that I go to on the weekends. I teach debate here.
Student Council Member (2017-Present)
FBLA Member (2017-Present)
Debate:
1st place team, Harvard Nationals 2019, Cambridge, MA
1st place individual speaker, NSDA 2017, Birmingham, AL
3rd place individual speaker, Harvard 2019, Cambridge, MA
Quarterfinalist, Georgetown 2018, Washigton D.C.
Octofinalist, Georgetown 2019 Washington D.C.
Quarterfinalist, NSDA 2017, Birmingham, AL
Semifinalists (ranked 3rd), International Public Policy Forum Championships, NYC
Music Composition:
Published Artist on Spotify (I’m an Asian that makes Spanish reggaeton! Weird but my Spanish teacher likes it and I enjoy it Find me on Spotify @Cafeina)
1st place Classical Composition, NAfME 2017
3-time All-State Composition Contest Winner (in GA), 2017, 2018, 2019
Two-Time Senior Representative for MTNA and one 1st place MTNA Composition Win
3-time NFMC State Winner, 1st in 2017, 2nd in 2019, and 1st in 2020
8-time PTA Reflections Winner (2014-2020)
Debuted original piece “Nightingale’s Anthem” with the New Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra at Infinite Arena Energy Center.
Debuted original piece “Midnight Flurries” with the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra; proceeds from the concert were donated to charity.
Piano player of 13 years
Violin player of 8 years (never made All-State tho :(. Concertmaster at my school, but always failed at second round at All-State)
Other Things I Couldn’t Categorize ?:
I love video! I have a YouTube channel where I upload cool things I do in my free time like sing, make art, crafts, work on business marketing campaigns, etc.
I’m trilingual! I was born and raised in a Korean household, and I was sent to Korean school every Sunday until I was 12. One of my closest friend’s mom is a Spanish teacher, so I picked up Spanish to a fluent level by sophomore year of high school (she’s been teaching me since Pre-K).
I saw Karate Kid one day and decided I wanted to try my luck at Tae-Kwon Doe. I currently hold a 4th degree black belt after 13 years of testing and training. Random but thought it was worth including.
I want to attend Wharton and apply ED to surround myself in a competitive, but also collaborative and generally aspiring, uplifting community. What do my chances look like? What should I do over this summer to improve my chances?