**Chance a girl for Wharton**

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Hey all, could you tell me if I have any shot at Wharton? I'm really worried, since I really want to go there but don't have many business-oriented ECs. </p>

<p>Also, does being a girl applying to Wharton give you an advantage?</p>

<p>About Me:</p>

<p>Junior
Female
White</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>-SAT I: 800 CR, 800 Writing, 770 Math (2370, in one sitting)
-SAT II: will take Chem, Math 2, and US History, probably will get 700 or above
-GPA (weighted): 4.6
-GPA (unweighted): 3.97
-Class Rank: school doesn’t publish, but I’m pretty sure I'm first out of about 175 (if only they published right?)
-APs: Latin Poetry (5), US History, Computer Science, Calculus AB, US History (I’m pretty sure I’ll get 4’s and 5’s on all of those? Hopefully, at least!)
-Will take (APs): Physics B, Literature, Government
--also going to take Calc II next year at a local university since I've run out of math at my school</p>

<p>School:</p>

<p>Private, Ohio, all-girls
Is well-regarded in my city at least, sends MAYBE one or two girls a year to a top-tier school, but sends all girls to college at least</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>-Latin Club—officer (3 years)
-Technology Club—president (2 years)
-Technology Team—officer & co-founder (1 year)
-Tutoring—at inner-city schools and younger kids on my street (3 years)
-Theater—lead in shows/on production crew/costume crew (2 years)
-400+ hours with theater group for people with disabilities (since 7th grade—does the time before high school count?)
-Zakta Guides beta-tester (we tested a new Facebook application, it was a contest but I did pretty well so they paid me among others to continue working on it)
-Helping build a communication device for people with disabilities at Miami University—it’s a federally funded project and we get to work with students and professors
-Poems published in TeenVoices magazine and my school’s literary magazine</p>

<p>-School representative at Women in Technology conference at GE
-10-day mission trip to Nicaragua</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>-Gold medal on National Latin Exam
-“Spirit” award at a weeklong technology camp at University of Cincinnati
-Numerous academic and creative awards at Latin Convention
-1st Honors entire time at school
-(Assume NMF, I got a high enough PSAT score for my state)
-(Also assume the AP award you get when you get good scores on 5 tests)</p>

<p>Work Experience:</p>

<p>-Work at a snow-cone stand 25 hours a week in the summer (3 years)
-Work for my dad who rehabs houses (I paint, clean, mow lawns, etc.)
-Have a full-time internship at P&G this summer, working with engineers in a sort of IT role, acting as a liaison between them and management
-Also this summer will work for the same theater group mentioned above, not as a volunteer but for pay this time.</p>

<p>Thank you everybody!</p>

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<p>i’m pretty sure that you have the most amazing application that i have ever seen. good luck (not that you really need it!) haha</p>

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<p>I have to agree with acf236. You have amazing credentials, and not to mention the all-girl school tidbit will give you a huge edge/advantage. Keep up the grades, stick with your ECs and make sure you write something fantastic on your essays. Be different. That’s the main thing.</p>

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<p>Does going to an all-girls school give you an advantage? </p>

<p>And shoot essays’ll be stressful :/</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>hi, i’m a girl that just got accepted to Wharton. I think your chances are awesome! i don’t think not having a business-oriented EC will hurt you at all. You have other things that shows you are interested in business-related things, like technology. I do want to say that you should place more emphasis on your essays. Because Penn will read 3 of them, you want to convey a sense that you truly want to be there. Be sincere and honest in your ambitions and goals. I have some friends that applied to Wharton that put “it’s always been my dream to go into investment banking.” Most of the time, the adcoms know that they are not passionate about that dream. </p>

<p>I think my essays are what got me in. I’m Asian-way over represented and i have a 2060 SAT, which is more than 100 points below the average for penn (i imagine wharton is higher). my counselor did not check “taking most rigorous classes.” my rank is 15/570, but my school is NOT competitive (maybe top 25 people are, rest are not). i am involved in many ECs and community service, though. i demonstrated my passion through involvement and actions. I talked with those teachers writing my recs about my future and dreams, and thought out reasons why i want to go to penn (my top choice). I think they took it to heart and saw that i really wanted to be there–both teachers and counselor wrote my recs without resume or questionnaires. Many top 25 kids at my school applied to 15+ colleges and if you asked them why they want to go there, they say prestige or other reasons that have little substance, although I’m not saying the prestige reason is wrong. </p>

<p>Sorry i’m ranting a little, but important thing is trying to convey that you and penn/wharton will be a good fit, not just them to you but also you to them. In my esssays i connected a part of my penn community essay to another part in my page 217 and so forth to my common app. they are very subtle connections, but when you read them as a whole, it feels just wholesome. </p>

<p>Sorry. this turned out to be less of a chance post than i originally planned, but I hope you can take some of my experiences and use them!</p>

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<p>Wow, thanks so much for that post! That makes me feel a lot better–that they really do care about why people want to be there. That makes me want to go there even more, since the people at Wharton won’t just be the atypical good test-takers, but will really have passion. I’m really nervous about writing my essays, but I think I’ll be able to convey how much I do want to be there.</p>

<p>PS congrats for getting in! That’s amazing!</p>