Chance for CAS ED!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Hi guys... I'm currently a senior, and have applied to CAS for early decision. I would really appreciate any replies!</p>

<p>School: Large, public high school in NJ (block scheduling so you can't really take a lot of APs, although some students will have 7 or 8, whereas I only have 5).</p>

<p>Race: Caucasian </p>

<p>Academic:
GPA- 4.05(UW), 4.34 (W) (My school had a weird scale freshman year, so now it's impossible to have over a 4.0 uw)
Never gotten anything lower than an A (93) in mainly honors and APs.</p>

<p>APs- Stat (4), English Lang (5)</p>

<p>PSAT-National Merit Commended from NJ</p>

<p>SAT- 2290 Superscore (800 CR, 750 M, 740 W)
Took Math II and Spanish in October, expecting upper 700s and mid 700s, respectively.</p>

<p>Senior year schedule- AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Spanish Lang, a bunch of honors electives (most rigourous course load possible for this year). So far, I have all A's and A pluses in the APs.</p>

<p>EC's-
Co-pres. of temple youth group
School tennis team (JV past two years, hoping for varsity this year)
Weekly volunteer at program teaching disabled kids to play tennis
Ran a special fundraising event for the program (raised several hundreds of dollars in donations)</p>

<p>Member of:
-speech and debate
-interact club
-National honor society (tutoring for this club)
-Spanish honor society
-math honor society (tutoring for this club)
Rec basketball/baseball leagues
Writer for school newspaper
Piano player
Various tennis clinics and lessons</p>

<p>Summer: American Legion Jersey Boys State, Wharton Sports Business academy (both this past summer).</p>

<p>Essays:
Common App: outstanding!
Why Penn?: Decent/pretty good
Ben Franklin: Really good</p>

<p>Recs:
Counselor: I have no idea, but I think she likes me
Teachers: I'm confident that one will be incredibly glowing, and the other should be pretty good as well.</p>

<p>Thanks for any chances!</p>

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<p>I forgot to mention that I don’t know of any better applicant applying from my school, and Penn generally takes either 1 or two students from ED from my school. Will my slight lack of APs hurt me though?</p>

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<p>You’re in.</p>

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<p>I just found out my scores for Sat II’s:</p>

<p>Spanish: 740</p>

<p>Math II: 770</p>

<p>I don’t know if this changes anything, but I figured I’d throw them out there!</p>

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<p>Bump
10char</p>

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<p>Why didn’t you take more AP courses in junior year? Colleges expect you to take the most rigorous courses available.</p>

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<p>You’ll be admitted.</p>

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<p>My school uses block scheduling, and all AP’s have to end quarter 3. Some students take 3, whereas I took 2. In addition, some students take 1 sophomore year, where as I didn’t (the one AP sophomore year is APUSH, and history is the one core subject which I only took regular level). Basically, some students will have 7 APs (with the few exceptions of 8 or 9 depending on how much of a foreign language they know coming into HS), and I will have 5 by the time of graduation.</p>

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<p>Bump
10char</p>

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<p>In my opinion, they will probably consider you academically qualified. It will come down to your essays.</p>

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<p>Bump
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<p>You’re so in.</p>

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<p>Bump
10char</p>

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<p>Bump
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<p>You have a great record.</p>

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<p>this scares me, I need to compete for spots against people like you! :p</p>

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<p>Thanks! I’m just so nervous though for decision day. I hope I can get admitted, because Penn is my dream school!</p>

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<p>Bump10char</p>