<p>Hey CC I'm a junior and I've loved Penn every since i visited last april. Can you guys give me a look and tell me what you think? Thanks</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Race: Asian
SAT: 2310
SAT II: I've only taken Chem and Math but I got 780 on Chem and 800 on Math. I'll prolly take Bio and hopefully get 800
AP: 4 on APUSH :( but I'm taking four this year so hopefully I'll get 5's</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 on 4.0 scale (I'm confused on this. I had a ton of A-'s, are those 3.7 or are all As 4.0? this is for the 3.7 = A- scale. It's low cuz of that lol) 4.53 W
Rank: 1</p>
<p>EC's:
Cross Country team captain. Qualified for regionals
Science Olympiad team captain. Qualified for regionals and states soph. year
Rating of 1 at OMEA (string quartet performance)
Youth Orchestra principal Cello freshman year
Assistant principal Cello @ school
Regional orchestra qualifier sophmore and junior years
Intern/Volunteer at childrens hospital last summer, potentially published research
Played chamber music at retirement homes
Rallied at Moveon Occupy events
Program chair of the East Egg Brunch, a school event celebrating "east egg" from TGG</p>
<p>Honors:
national merit commended scholar (probably, I got 209 :( )
Scholar athlete
Academic honors: Silver key (will get gold key senior year, it's based on amount of semesters of gpa = 3.5 or above, gold is 7 sem.'s, silver is 5)
The "can" team award
"Nuts of steel" award (This and ^ above are both xc awards)
AP Scholar Probably (i take the hardest classes available)</p>
<p>Essays:
Drafted my first already, it's on my peanut allergy and my wanting to be a doctor. Will start why penn essay very soon. Have until October to revise! Should be very good by then.</p>
<p>Recommendations
first year Biology/physics teacher loves me, already wrote a fantastic one for my other internship this summer. Lang will prolly write the other one, should be pretty good. Might have my AP chem teacher write me one. Is having two science teachers bad?
Counselor doesn't know me too well but still well enough to write me a pretty good rec. She thinks I'm crazy smart and willing to challenge myself (the second one is true :p)<br>
XC coach will write a great one about perseverence i'm assuming. I've known him since freshman year and he's always liked me.</p>
<p>I've visited Penn, idk if that means anything. </p>
<p>THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR READING.</p>