<p>I recently got rejected from Penn RD. In fact, I got rejected from the five ivy league schools I applied to. I'm a Canadian Asian. I'll be going to a Canadian school, the university of Waterloo, this fall. After one year, I'll try to transfer to Wharton, being the persistent person I am. I couldn't take being rejected from Penn, so I'll try again. I'm majoring in computer science and finance at two different universities at the same time (it's a double degree).</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): W 660 (low, I know); CR 780; Math 800 (2240 superscore)
ACT: Didn't take (I will take this before I apply to Penn as a transfer)
SAT II: Physics 800; Chem 800; Math II 800; French 760
High school Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 94% out of 100
High school Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/300
AP (place score in parenthesis): Nothing yet
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Calculus, AP Chem, AP French, computer science (self-study AP), physics (self-study AP), English, Accounting
I'll also be doing ECON 001 at Penn in the summer before university.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Grade 9 piano at the Royal Conservatory, Live Green Toronto Youth Award, UofWaterloo Avogardro's chem exam 97th percentile</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- Environment club (president)
- Students of Toronto for Environmental Progress council (chair)
- 4-H provincial greenbelt youth forum
- Reasearching french literature at the University of Toronto with a professor
- Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award (met Marc Keilburger at the awards ceremony, featured in the newspaper for this award)
- Leadership camp at my school (organizer)
- Piano (stopped after grade 9)
- Varsity soccer (made it to the provincial tournament last year)
- Cross country for six years
- FIRST robotics
Job/Work Experience:
- Summerhill group, they're a national environmental organization (team lead, youngest employee)
Volunteer/Community service:
- Library, Senior home, March Break camp
Summer Activities:
- I did a French immersion program last summer and worked a job
- I went to summer school the summer before that
Essays:
- For the Penn essay, I imagined a day in my life as a Penn student. I researched which frat I would join, my extracurricular activities, research, academics etc. I hoped this showed interest in Penn
- For the M&T essay, I talked about the Robotics club. Obviously, this activity is very technical by nature. But we also had to raise $20,000 for each competition, and that was the business side. I also had a snow shoveling business back in middle school to raise money for the robotics competitions.</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Toronto, Canada
School Type: Large suburban public school
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100,000 +
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: Nothing at all in particular. I just noticed that nobody who applies is an environmentalist like me. Global warming is one of the most pressing issues of this century!
Weaknesses: Poor SAT writing score, not enough awards, asian, not enough APs,
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I'm pretty mediocre.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. I got into a bunch of "good" Canadian schools that nobody cares about.
General Comments:
I was actually really hoping on UPenn, even though I knew that my chances weren't that great. I'm actually pretty sad and shocked that I got rejected, but I know that success in life comes from the ability to bounce back from your failures. Oh well, I'll go to a Canadian school and try to transfer. I just really want to go to Wall Street and work in an investment bank, and while getting rejected from Penn is a setback, I can still make it.</p>
you should know that applying to the ivies is a crapshoot 
just make the most out of whereever you end up. Good luck!</p>