Chance for Wharton ED?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>With honesty what are my chances at Wharton ED and other Ivy's such as Harvard, Princeton. I am also looking at Notre Dame and Northwestern and Stanford. I am an international Hispanic student. </p>

<p>SAT I:
- First try: 1890 (M:620, R: 610, W:660)
- Second try: 2150 (M: 770, R: 680, W: 700)
Plan on retaking on October to score 2200+</p>

<p>SAT II: Bio M- 750. Math I: 750, Math II: 770 Spanish: 800.</p>

<p>ACT; don’t plan on taking.</p>

<p>GPA: 96.7 weighted</p>

<p>Rank: 3 of 120</p>

<p>AP (score in parenthesis): AP Bio (5). Anticipated: AP English Language (4-5), AP Calc AB (5), AP Spanish Language (5), AP Macroeconomics (5), AP Microeconomics (4-5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP Physics C (5), AP Spanish Literature (5), AP Statistics (4-5). AP English Literature (4-5).</p>

<p>Summer Courses: Im going to Harvard Secondary School Program to take “International Trade and Commerical Policy”, and “Money, Financial Institutions, and Markets”. I plan getting A+ at these courses. I also plan on getting recommendation letters from my teachers.</p>

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<li> Im gonna work at one of the most important banks in my country. I plan on getting an amazing recommendation letter from the Bank’s President.</li>
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<p>Awards: I have won the Presidental Award for scholarship, and dozens of academic awards.</p>

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<li> Extracurriculars: </li>
<li> -Have won various tennis turnaments. Have played for 3 years.</li>
<li> I play piano.</li>
<li> I was captain at the Knowledge Ball AASCA.</li>
<li> I am part of MUN and went to Yale Conference,</li>
<li> Class treasurer</li>
<li> Part of NHS</li>
<li> President of Catholic organization outside my school.</li>
<li> I from part of a local group dedicated to do charity and help people. </li>
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<p>Essays: Amazing, I am a very effective writer.</p>

<p>Teacher Reccomendations: Amazing, best in career</p>

<p>Councelor Reccomendation: Very good, best in career.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>I would appreciate any comments and thoughts. Thank you very much!! :)</p>

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<p>BUMP!!! write any thoughts please!!!</p>

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<p>you have great grades, test scores are mediocre, 2300-2350 is what you should aim for. You have okay extracurriculars but nothing that “pops”. You do have ethnicity going for you though. Not sure what else to say, overall great chances if you take up some hardcore extracurriculars and boost your standardized test scores a little bit.</p>

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<p>If you’re working at one of the most important banks in the country, do you honestly think the bank’s president is going to have the time to work with a random high school kid and actually know him well enough to write an “amazing recommendation letter”?</p>

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<p>I will aim to get my SAT to 2200+, and I definitely take the most rigid curriculum at my school (11 AP total). And i know why i tell you I am going to get a good reccomendation from the banks president ;)</p>

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<p>haha, are you sleeping with him or something? What’s the wink for?</p>

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<p>The OP seems like a guy, so I don’t think that’s likely. More probably that his dad is bribing the bank’s president.</p>

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<p>noo not at all, wow you are crazyy… im getting the letter jijiji</p>

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<p>Lets have some fun and assume the bank he is talking about is Goldman Sachs. The president of Goldman is Lloyd Blankfien, Blankfien will make about 20 million dollars this year. Lets say he works 60 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. for a total of 3000 hours. by my calculation each hour of his time is worth $6,666.67. Assuming it takes him 30 minutes to write your letter, that would cost the bank $3,333.33. I doubt a bank is going to spend $3K on a high school student.</p>

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<p>Haha thats a good calculation</p>