chance an AA for next year

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Gender: F</p>

<p>State: MA</p>

<p>Ethnicity: African American</p>

<p>GPA (unweighted)-3.7 (although this might be a 3.5 or 3.6)</p>

<p>GPA (Weighted)- 4.56</p>

<p>SAT: Reading, 800
Math: 760
Writing: 800</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activites: </p>

<p>9th, 10th, 11th, (and 12th for next year) member and violinst of the school orchestra
Copy editor of the school newspaper 10th grade
President and creator of my of high school STAND chapter (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) 11th grade, and will continue till I graduate
Member of Tri-M Music Honor society- 11th grade, (and continue next year)</p>

<p>Interests in Volunteering: </p>

<p>One of the things that I am most passionate about is increasing the literacy rate for lower-income children across the nation. I am really passionate about volunteering, and am considering entering the Ameri-corps after college graduation for a year. I had tried to volunteer at non-profit organizations that were geared towards my interest in education and literacy, especially catering towards helping lower-income children in inner-cities. It is important for me to help these children, especially since I have a parent that grew up in a very low-income inner-city Boston neighborhood, and came out of the Boston public school system. I also still have family that live in poorer areas in inner-city boston, so it is close to my heart to help many of these disadvantaged children throughout the country.</p>

<p>Volunteer Work: (450 hours and counting)</p>

<p>Registration Coordinator for First Book, a non-profit organization based in D.C, which helps distribute free or reduced-priced books to lower income children across the nation. As a registration coordinator I had reached out to many different Title 1 schools, and after school programs that serve over 80% of low income children. To date, I have helped over 25 schools and after school programs including Washington D.C, New York City, and around the inner-city Boston area in Massachusetts, recieve free or reduced priced books. </p>

<p>Volunteer at an elementary school after-school program in my hometown, (11th grade and continue on in 12th grade)</p>

<p>Volunteer for Student Solutions, a non-profit organization based in North Carolina, which helps increase the literacy rate in children across America by providing literary and eduacational resources to schools in need. As a volunteer, I helped create databases of schools across the country that Student Solutions would reach out to to provide educational resources and materials to.</p>

<p>Volunteer for Nanubai, a non-profit organization based in India, which helps keep women and children in schools and India, and also helps increase the literacy rate among them. </p>

<p>Awards/Achievements:</p>

<p>Winner of First Book Registration Coordinator Challange</p>

<p>Presidents Volunteer Service Award- Gold</p>

<p>Congressional Award- Bronze Certificate</p>

<p>Congressional Award- Silver Certificate</p>

<p>Congressional Award- Gold Certificate </p>

<p>*The only problem is that I go to a really competitve high school where most people do well,( I have a class of about 360) I'm probably not going to be in the top ten percent of my class, bt maybe the top quarter, I'm not sure yet. Do you think I still might have a chance? </p>

<p>*I am also about to start my own non-profit organization called "Change for Changing Lives" that helps benefit low-income children in inner city schools and will raise money to help provide educational resources.</p>

<p>*Does it also help that my school is not diverse at all, and I'm one of the only African Americans at my school? Do colleges pay attention to that?</p>

<p>Do you think I could possibly get in?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>I gotta say, EVERYTHING except for the unweighted GPA is simply fantastic, I would say you have a really good shot for Penn even without the URM boost!</p>

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<p>I think they’d be crazy not to take you, but you never know.
Any idea of your class rank?</p>

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<p>I think by the time I apply it might be around the top 20%. Do you think this will hurt me?</p>

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<p>If you don’t get in there’s something wrong.</p>

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<p>Everything besides the GPA is outstanding, your GPA is still good though so I think you have a good chance, I know some1 accepted with around a 3.9 and lower SAT scores/ less EC/non-minority so ur probably in a good spot. Good luck</p>

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<p>Darling, welcome to Penn =) Your grades aren’t spectacular, but your SATs are just stellar, much more so for an URM. Try to get your grades a BIT higher, but frankly, I’d be shocked if you didn’t get in.</p>

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<p>hey cep361, u have a GREAT shot no doubt and i too will be kinda shocked if u dont make it but i just think it is important that u realise that there is ALOT of luck in admissions and stuff so dont get complacent and dont just believe whatever anybody else tells u about ur chances on this or any other college website. we are NOT adcoms!</p>

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<p>I did not mention above that I have a complicated situation, and I hope the admissions officers will understand this. I have been living through child abuse for a decade, having a fatally ill father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness who has been through a pyschiatric ward twice, and maybe going on her third, plus having restrictions on the amount of time given for school work on the computer, so there have been many limitations for me throughout my life. I also want to stress in my essay that in my father’s family, there have only been four college graduates in the entire family ever, including 3rd cousins ect, therefore going to college and becomming a college graduate is a very important thing for me. As these are very difficult circumstances to have to have put up with throughout my life, I hope that UPenn will understand this.</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>If you don’t get in, I don’t know how anyone will…</p>

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<p>thanks 10char</p>

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<p>lolwut
in everywhere</p>

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<p>SAT: Reading, 800
Math: 760
Writing: 800</p>

<p>definitely in. If i were you, I would also apply to HYP. You are probably in at LEAST the top 99.7 percentile for your SAT score for African Americans. Your probably higher, possibly around the 99.9 percentile. Someone got into Penn last year from my school who was an african american with an SAT score in the 1800s and she was ranked 50 something out of 457. That is why I am so sure that you are in</p>

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<p>^^^after reading your personal story in your UChicago chance thread, I am really going to be shocked if you don’t get in. Like really, very, sincerely shocked.
I got into UChicago with lower SAT’s, little higher GPA, and manyyyyy anti-hooks.</p>

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<p>Agree with Lightzout. You’re definitely in at Penn; go for HYP (and Columbia too) and see what comes of it.</p>