<p>I want to study business and maybe minor in international business or communications</p>
<p>sex- female
ethnicity- hispanic moved to the U.S. when I was 10 without speaking any english
Location- Pahrump NV
School- public school with about 1500 students there are about 400 in my class
Grade- just completed sophomore yr will be entering 11th grade
Unweighted GPA- 4.0
Weighted GPA- 4.7
I have gotten all A's since I began high school except for one B my freshman year. (will that affect me?)
Class Rank- either 2 or 3: one of the top 5 GPA's in the entire school </p>
<p>PSAT- (just as pratice didnt study) total 174 higher than 84%of juniors
critical reading- 59 (higher than 92% of sophomres)
math- 57 (higher than 86% of sophomores)
writing- 58 (higher than 92% of sophomores)</p>
<p>SAT- will take them the fall of my junior yr so I have the chance to retake them if necessary</p>
<p>Activities:
Freshman class president
Josten's Renaissance member
National Junior Honor Society
National Honor Society vice president (next year)
Student Body Vice President (next year)
Interact Club vice president (next year)
Peer mediator (since middle school)
Soccer (got hurt so became manager)
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards attendee
Teen Leadership Camp attendee
Peer tutor</p>
<p><em>Will become president of the clubs I am currently vice for my senior year</em></p>
<p>Volunteer-
Hospice visitor
Even Start program
Translate for my school
Volunteer throughout the school and community with the different organisations I'm in </p>
<p>Classes-
Have taken every honors class offered except biology my freshman yr. Will take every honors class an AP class. My school doesnt offer that many and will only begin the AP program next yr. So AP's I'll take will be- U.S. History, U.S Gov, Biology, English, Calculus, and any other they might offer later on. </p>
<p>I am very fluent in Spanish since I lived in Guatemala for 10 yrs. (speak it and write it)
I took 2 yrs of Italian (just Italian I and II offered) Completed my 1st yr of French and will take it for the rest of high school until French III (I took 2 languages in 10th grade)
Also take college classes after school since no time during the day. </p>
<p>How I am doing so far? Do I have a chance for Wharton and the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business? If not, what can Ido to improve my chances?</p>
<p>I think you have a substantial chance if you continue to earn straight A's and demonstrate leadership... in fact I'm glad you're not in my class! :-) However, bring up your SAT score dramatically or all that hard work might be wasted.</p>
<p>Yeah I'm studying like crazy! :) I took the PSAT in the fall of sophomore yr so it was pretty much all freshman stuff I knew, but hopefully all this studying will help out. Since I'm going for business, what subject tests should I take? and since Wharton is about International Studies, should one of them be Spanish? I didnt take spanish in hs since I know it already, and I wanted to take other languages.</p>
<p>If you're fluent in Spanish, definitely take the Spanish SAT II and maybe the Spanish APs also. That should be an 800 and a couple of 5's to add to your application. It might not mean as much since you are actually hispanic, but obviously it can't hurt. Penn only considers your 2 highest SAT IIs, but if you take Spanish as one of them, I'd take at least 3 (Spanish + at least 2 others). For Wharton, it's important that you take Math Level 2... I'm pretty sure almost everyone who's accepted to Wharton has taken that SAT II. Aside from that, I don't think there are any SAT IIs that they'd prefer over others. The faculty might say they recommend a language one, but that's pretty much just for placement, because tons of kids don't take a language SAT II and get in, including me. Hopefully that helps a bit. Also, I think you have a good chance at getting accepted if you get your SAT up to over 2000, and an even better shot if you were to apply Early Decision.</p>
<p>Thanks I'll definetly consider that. I was planning on taking the math and maybe english? Is the math for the SAT II much different from the SAT one? I'll be getting the Subject Test book soon so hopefully I'll find an area that I'm strong at. I'm definetly thinking about Early Decision, at least if I dont get in I still have time to reapply regular. Thank You</p>
<p>Well, I think it is very important to prove yourself in math. Usually AP BC Math is good enough. I'd be carful on focusing entirely on the SATs. EC and essays tend to outwiegh SATs by alot at Ivy schools.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say ECs and essays outweigh SATs, because after grades, SATs are probably most important, but you need to be really strong in both areas to get into an Ivy.</p>
<p>By the way, you can't minor in international business or communications at Penn. Those are two of the few exceptions. But in case you don't get into Huntsman you can still minor in international relations.</p>
<p>math2c is test over pre calculus, sat 1 only has geo alg1 n 2</p>
<p>Your SAT will be one of the keys.</p>
<p>Yeah I know about the mayors and minors, those are just the areas that I'm most interested in. I do like international relations though. So besides the SAT's what else can I do to improve my chances at UPenn?</p>