<p>Upenn College of Arts and Sciences Early Decision Chances?</p>
<p>SAT: 2280 combined (700 cr 800m 780w)
SAT IIs.. MATH 2: 770, LITERATURE: 700</p>
<p>Took the ACTs for fun..33 composite
Race:White</p>
<p>Grades: </p>
<p>Cumulative GPA: 3.83
Freshman Year (all honors courses): 3.96
Sophomore year (all honors courses): 3.89
Junior Year (all IB courses): 3.65</p>
<p>Should have a pretty creative essay and good college recs</p>
<p>ECs:
Debate Team (4 years)--Varsity Captain
Model UN (4 years): On Secretariat ...won many awards
Hebrew School (4 years)
Working at a job
DECA (3 years) ...have awards from that, finalists
Won academic achievement scholarships for summer programs
Over 200 community service hours
National Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society</p>
<p>Other than that..no hooks..What are my chances? Please give me in percentages that you think i'll get in at..</p>
<p>Well, I think you have what it takes to get into UPenn. You have great everything. However, there is nothing eye popping, so I honestly think that with a school as competitive as UPenn, it’s a toss-up. Regardless of that, I think because of your high grades and scores, you have a great chance</p>
<p>OP is clearly above average in terms of score, not to mention decent ECs. Also note the 31.5% overall ED acceptance rate. (CAS probably has a higher rate)</p>
<p>Seriously some people here say that anything below 800s and a 4.0 for a top school is below average. You do know that not every student accepted gets perfect scores in everything right?</p>
<p>Based on your stats, I’d say the OP has a pretty good shot at UPenn. YOu might wanna consider applying RD, and trying to get really high mid-year senior grades to offset the slight dip in grade 11 (something I am also doing).</p>
<p>Not everyone who gets into Penn has a 4.0. In fact, I know that one or two who have gotten in from my school probably had around a 3.6-3.7 unweighted. Not all schools grade the same way. While it seems that at many schools, the best students all have 4.0s, this is not true of every school. A lot of people seem to describe my high school as practicing grade deflation. As a result, even the top students in the class have significantly lower unweighted GPAs than would be expected. If you took all of the highest level courses, you could potentially have a 3.7 and still be in the top 5% of the class. So you can’t really understand someone’s grades without knowing a lot about their school.</p>
<p>Why I don’t think this will happen is because of 2 key things: a big dip in junior year GPA when things got harder, this is fatal at top colleges. The 700CR isn’t helping.</p>
<p>The bottom line is as top schools move to accepting under 10%, Penn is getting much more selective.</p>
<p>.23 lower than his Sophomore year is a big dip? And even then, 3.65 is perfectly acceptable. </p>
<p>Schools are not purposely moving towards sub 10% acceptance rates, this is due to the dramatic increases in applicants they receive every year, though not necessarily of increasing standard. It is wrong to say “Penn is getting much more selective” in an attempt to convey any higher standards for admission. This simply does not reflect the complexity of the changes in admissions, nor does it reflect the less competitive early applicant pool compared to other “top schools.”</p>
<p>The bottom line is that OP is a strong applicant and as Penn ED hovers around a 31.5% acceptance rate, he has a good chance.</p>
<p>Some people seem to be posting superlatively, but I’d agree that the junior year dip is going to hurt. A .23 drop is the equivalent to accruing 2 extra Bs (a 3.65 is really not good), and without a favorable class rank it’ll end up hurting the OP a decent amount.</p>