Chance at Wharton...

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Okay... here it goes guys... I haven't really gotten my stuff together to organize my awards/ECs (which I am low on) but here's what I got off the top of my head...</p>

<p>Anyways...</p>

<p>White Male
From a town of about 2000 people in vermont (which I was thinking about writing about in an essay...) and go to a semi-private high school (would be private but there are no public high schools in the area so this one is paid for us by taxes)
Applying Early Decision with LEGACY dad (at SAS) and grandmother (school of nursing)
Class Rank: 1/180
GPA: 4.19 unweighted (5.5-6 weighted probably as of now)... lowest grade an A on transcript as of now
SAT: 2210
Critical Reading 700<br>
Math 730
Writing 780
AP: Tests already taken: English Language and US History (both 5)
SAT II Scores (hurting a little...)
Literature 700<br>
Mathematics Level 2 800<br>
U.S. History 690
I'm hoping the 5s on the AP will make up for the lit and history scores. I'm also taking Spanish SAT II in about a week and expecting a high score.</p>

<p>Taken the hardest curriculum at my school and this year will be/am taking
AP Spanish
AP Art
AP English
AP Psychology
AP Economics
AP English Literature
AP Calculus
AP Biology</p>

<p>Recommendations
Will have two awesome recommendations I hope... one from my spanish teacher (who will hopefully talk about my interest in languages/travelling and my ability) and my English teacher who writes really well and went to Penn so will try to say how I'm a good match.</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars, outside activties, and awards
Went to ecuador for a month summer sophemore year and argentina for two months with rotary summer of junior year. I don't know if they care about this, but I organized it virtually all by myself and worked to pay for a lot of the ecuador trip and virtually the entire argentina trip. Also, want to defer admission and go with rotary again to taiwan for a year (though I don't know if I should or could include this in an application). Also virtually fluent in Spanish now. In ecuador I went to spanish school and in argentina I went to school but mostly just practiced on my own with people in spanish.</p>

<p>Downhill skiing on free time
Fencing in my free time (mostly freshman and sophemore year because it wasn't really available junior year) and taught fencing to kids as part of my community service
Community Service: only 50 hours... some time spent teaching kids fencing, assisting in a neurological rehabilitation center in Ecuador, and aiding katrina efforts through a clothes drive freshman year
Also, in the process of starting a fencing club.
Nordic Skiing Junior/Senior year
NHS Member: Junior/Senior
NHS representative on student council: junior/senior
astronomy club: freshman-senior
"Iron" club (going to the gym): freshman-senior
Note: this EC is rather lame... if you go to the gym a lot you're basically "in the club" but it is a legit club at the school and organized by the school. I was thinking I shouldn't include it at first but now I am not sure... any advice? I feel like it at least makes me a little different.
Student representative/ambassador for rotary (at my local rotary club I went to talk): Junior year. They didn't let me apply for doing this my senior year because you could only do it once. I don't want it to seem like I'm not committed or they kicked me out or something though.
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (completion of an RYLA Conference)
Got accepted to American Young Ambassadors Program (I don't know if this counts though... this program that would have sent me to China but didn't get the necessary funding)
PSAT semifinalist (222 score)
Headmaster's award all four years (which you just get for having an average of A or higher)
Got accepted to and went to the Governor's institute of vermont for science and technology
Also working on learning chinese by myself and with the help of a taiwan exchange student to prepare for my year long trip...
Also, last year helped a lot with the blood drive and this year hope to be head "coordinator" of the NHS Organized blood drives.</p>

<p>A little about me: I'm pretty passionate about traveling and learning languages and I hope to travel a LOT at Penn (I will write about study abroad programs in my what interests me about Penn mini paragraph thing). I want to go into business/international business and minor/study various languages.</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Lots of time spent Caddying summer before freshman year and sophemore year summer. Haven't done it since then during the summer (which is the only time I do it) obviously due to the ecuador and argentina trips.</p>

<p>Also, I hope to submit some sort of art supplement (I don't know how that is done). Here is some of my art...
<a href="http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3688/faceru9.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3688/faceru9.jpg&lt;/a>
<a href="http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5349/profilelc4.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5349/profilelc4.jpg&lt;/a>
<a href="http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/8121/themapmakerlp6.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/8121/themapmakerlp6.jpg&lt;/a>
<a href="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2701/oldmaninpencileq7.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2701/oldmaninpencileq7.jpg&lt;/a>
<a href="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2059/picturegh6.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2059/picturegh6.jpg&lt;/a>
<a href="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3373/peacesv5.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3373/peacesv5.jpg&lt;/a>
Also got some sort of award for "participating" in an art competition. Doesn't really mean anything as far as distinction goes but my art was in the show.</p>

<p>Sorry about it being disorganized and all the side comments but anyways...</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>You're ridiculous at art.
Double legacy, solid scores and ECs.<br>
I'd say you have a good shot.</p>

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<p>thanks for the reply diablo and harold and also for the compliment :D :)</p>

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<p>Do you have any siblings?
Maybe they can go to the School of Engineering.
Then you will have a full house, lol.</p>

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<p>You've got your GPA a little mixed up. UW GPA can't go higher than 4.0 and usually the max WGPA is ~4.9-5.0. </p>

<p>Aside from that you have a very good shot at getting accepted into Wharton. Good luck.</p>

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<p>some schools have unweighted GPAs out of 4.3</p>

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<p>National standard is 4.0 though.</p>

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<p>Can I purchase your second picture? It'd look great in my room. :). Totally serious btw. I really like it.</p>

<p>Edit: I like 3 alot too.
<a href="http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8121/themapmakerlp6.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8121/themapmakerlp6.jpg&lt;/a>
Fix'd link.</p>

<p>If you colored it, extra points.</p>

<p>You can't really do much more than what you have. The only thing I would say you don't have is actual leadership related extracurriculars (Boy Scouts, Class Prez, Editor-in-Chief, Varsity Captain), but you do have leadership in ecs, so it should be fine.</p>

<p>However, I think you're the definition of a Huntsman candidate. The entire program is for people like you who want to go international with their business. Remember, if you don't get into Huntsman, you can still be accepted to Wharton.</p>

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<p>You're definitely in for Early Decision.</p>

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<p>Cataylsis - haha yeah... well my sister and brother are already in college somewhere else!
_________ - Yeah, my school has A+ being 4.33 instead of the traditional 4.0. But weighted systems are generally different in all schools. My school has AP courses have a GPA +2 (A+ = 6.33), CP courses +1, general courses +0. But thanks though :)</p>

<p>jptoor - Thanks a lot. Actually it ends up that I am going to be captain of the varsity nordic team next year which is nice. But now that you mention it, I think I'm gonna go for the huntsman program (all I have to do is another essay). It has been my dream to be honest... the only thing holding me back is A) I felt I had no chance because the average applicant will probably have already taken calc BC or more and got 800s on all math SAT and 5 on calc ap test and probably speaks like 5 languages. and B) I felt if I applied and put down wharton if I didn't get accepted it might decrease my chance of getting accepted to wharton...
llpitch - thanks man :)</p>