<p>Competitive program at NYC public school
GPA: unweighted 4.0
weighted 4.2
Rank: Top 4%
SAT:
CR: 650
Math: 630
Writing 710 E12</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math II: 700
Math I: 690
World: 690
Chem: 660</p>
<p>ACT: 29</p>
<p>APs: World 4 Language 4 Chem not Report (med) Gov't not Report (med)</p>
<p>Current: AP CalcAB, AP E Lit</p>
<p>Extras:</p>
<p>Varsity Tennis Captain 2 years
NHS member/leader
Extracurricular Council Chairman
School Musical Stage Director
School Literary Magazines, Publish/Photographer
Int'l Festival Perfomer
Intel Science Talent Search Project-
Neurodegenerative disease @ NY Hospital
Wildlife Photographer- Int'l Contest Finalist (Submitting Portfolio)
City Cricket Team</p>
<p>Volunteer
Tsunami Housing Project in Affected Country-Letter from President of Country and Charity Board
Local Hospital Volunteer (load of hours)
Teaching Special Needs Kindergarteners- Spanish Language at Local Elem.</p>
<p>Awards:
Honor Roll, Honors in all subjects etc etc
Maxima Cum Laude Latin Exam L.II
Int'l Photo contest Finalist</p>
<p>Work:
Tennis Center worker/teacher
teaching little kids and rich old ladies.</p>
<p>Applying to CAS, hoping to do BBB with a bit of Linguistics thrown in or should i apply undecided considering my chem/math scores? we'll see. Cheers.</p>
<p>with an unweighted 4.0 and a weighted 4.2, you must not be taking a very demanding course load. Also, the not stellar SAT scores signify to the colleges that there was some serious grade inflation going on at your school. You also don’t seem to have any very strong EC’s or an apparent passion for your high school career. I think it’s a pretty high reach.</p>
<p>I actually took the most demanding classes my school offered…a year in advanced, not by choice but still, i’ve taken all that has been offered to me, does that really express a lack interest/passion? and the GPA was an estimate by a teacher</p>
<p>my averages are 93% unweighted and 95.96% weighted
we get 1.05 a course and 1.1 per AP</p>
<p>^ I agree. I managed to get perfect scores in CR and M but still couldn’t crack the top 5% at my school.</p>
<p>Don’t perceive this as an attack on you (maybe you didn’t study hard enough for your tests?), but it seems that your school has inflation. Does your school send many grads to top schools each year?</p>
<p>IMO If you’re applying RD then Penn is a reach, ED then you stand a better chance.</p>
<p>My program is large and filled with very bright kids, all from mid/low income families and our grades are very close, the valedictorian’s unweighted average is 3.72 points higher than mine (96.72) and we are seperated by hundredths of points which is why my percentage is so low. i also think my GPA posted above is incorrect based on most of the posts i’ve seen so if anyone can Apx. what it is on the standard 4-point GPA sclae, it would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>As for grads going to good schools, its not so much them going, but they get accepted. (most unable to afford top schools, most kids’ families are stuck in that limbo income) we usually get about 6-7 into cornell, 1-2 columbia, 1 Harvard/Princeton, 1-2 Penn/Gtown, 6-8 to City funded yr med or pharm programs, then the rest to NYU/midrange schools/CUNY honors programs/top SUNY programs</p>
<p>And not getting offended, but Lucaskhan:
what tests are you reffering to?
Isn’t the ED pool smaller but more competitive? and oh well, appling RD, haha
Thanks all</p>
<p>By tests I mean standardized ones (i.e, SAT & SAT II) not school tests (obviously, since you are in the top 4%). Ideally you would want to get mostly 700+ on each test/section so if you can rush in another testing session you may want to consider that.</p>
<p>At any rate based on what you’ve described your school seems to have a pretty good reputation with top schools, so in that case you should go to the incoming student profile page to see how you stack up:</p>
<p>Don’t forget that admissions seem to be fairly random, and that Class rank counts more than the SAT/SAT II</p>
<p>As for ED, yes the pool is more competitive but a larger percentage of those applicants are admitted (usually double the rate of RD). With RD the key is to demonstarte interest in Penn beforehand with campus visits, etc.</p>