Big SAT increase but bad subject tests!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I am an American citizen, born in the US and my family still maintains a house there, however, I have lived in Hong Kong for the last 16 years. (NOT IN THE ASIAN POOL)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White
GPA: School does not use GPA
Class Rank: School does not rank (graduating class of 19)
School type: Extremely small private
SAT
-Math: 690 (fml)
-Critical Reading: 800
-Writing: 760
-Essay: 10
= 2250
Single sitting (Nov. rushed)</p>

<p>SAT II
French (written): 600 (mess up I am actually almost fluent :S will be retaking in January if I don't get into Penn)
Math II: 640 (oh my god...)
Chemistry: 700</p>

<p>Bilingual IB Diploma Candidate: (predicted)
HL Maths (5)
HL Economics (7)
HL History (of East Asia and Oceania) (6)
SL Chemistry (6/7)
SL French A2 (6)
SL English A1 (6/7)
TOK</p>

<p>ECs:
-Division I Club Rugby 10 years
-School (JV/Varsity) Rugby 5 years
-Division I Club Tennis 4 years
-International Rugby Board Referee level 1
-Golf - Club awards (<10 handicap)
-Volunteer at an NGO specialising in local youth outreach ( 3 hours a week for 2 years, >100hrs)
-Modeling (some for Charity fashion shows)
-Member of School Life Council (Highest student government body, made up of students from both English and French sides of the school, teachers and french government officials.) 3 years
-MUN 2 years
-X-country (Varsity) 1 year</p>

<p>Achieved Academia:</p>

<p>International General Certificates of Secondary Education IGCSEs (CIE) (2009)
A*: Maths, Economics, French (2008) and English Language
A: History, Geography, Information Technology and Chemistry
B: English Literature </p>

<p>Yale Summer Session ('10)
ECON 252: B+
ENGL 212: B+</p>

<p>Essays:
CommonApp: interesting interior monologue about internationalism, economics, history, culture, all of which spurred from a verbal assault on a bus.
WhyPenn: Fairly standard, usual stuff backs up my EC's interest in various activities at Penn, academic opportunities etc.</p>

<p>References:
Uni Counsellor (also econ teacher): most likely amazing since I have consistently shown the most promise in economics and am friendly with him outside class.
Teacher references: honest, unbiased opinions, that is the school policy so these should be fairly good and when I visited Penn they said they appreciate honest references!</p>

<p>Additional reference:
Yale University Professor: taught me during the summer, graded my work, knows me fairly well and will again provide an honest unbiased account of my work with him in seminars with Yale students.</p>

<p>Hoping to Major in Economics and minor in History or IR.</p>

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<p>did u apply ed or regular</p>

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<p>Cas ed!!! :d</p>

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<p>I’m an asian with 2300 SAT and 660/800 SATIIs. Way to rub it in my face with all caps.</p>

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<p>If you have written killer essays. Have great recommendation… then don’t worry…</p>

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<p>@d122002 sorry about that haha it’s just that last time I posted a chance thread there was a fair debate over whether I was international or not and if I was in the Asian pool. So I edited that thread. Therefore when I copy pasted most of my information to form this thread that was brought along. I can’t edit it now but no offense intended, I love Hong Kong! :D</p>

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<p>Mate I think we will have the same chances of getting in, I have almost the same grades for the exception of 6/7 in HL maths but I don’t have a lot of ECA’s I have done for more than 3-4 years. I think our chances are like 40-50%( My hope!) ;)</p>

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<p>I am not a big fan of HL maths as you can see from my application maths is not my strongest subject :/. I hope I get in though so I dont have to worry about May hahaha</p>

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<p>@chehk
none taken, no worries. haha. I’m not from hongkongdongkingkong anyway, but it sure is a great place to visit once in a while!</p>