Hi! I recently submitted my application for Penn and it is one of my top options for where I’d like to go right now. Please chance me! 
I am a Hispanic (Mexican and Cuban) girl fluent in Spanish.
SAT I : 2150; 700 math, 700 reading, 750 writing.
ACT: 33; 30 math, 35 english, 34 reading, 34 writing
SAT II: 740 Math II, 730 Lit
Unweighted GPA: school doesn’t calculate, weighted is 4.81
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5% of 376
AP : AP Calculus AB (5); AP Language (5); Ap bio (3); Apush (3); World history (3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Government, Church History, World Religions (required theology courses)
First semester grades all A’s, B in Ap Calc BC
Awards: national hispanic scholar, ap scholar with distinction, first place in bridge building at the South florida engineering fair in 2011, 99 percentile on high school entrance exam
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years of marching band, concert band, and jazz band (drum major and section leader), film club (secretary), Science Club (vice president), Science Olympiad (co-captain), Mu Alpha Theta (treasurer), National Honor Society, Rho Kappa, Science National Honor Society, Friends Of Animals Club, Art Club
Volunteer/Community service: close to 200 hours, performed shows with people with disabilities and special needs, donated “care packages” and school supplies to poor and underprivileged students, summer camp counselor for three years, honor band program in which I help elementary and middle school students play music on their instruments, peer tutoring in all honor societies
Essays: common app is probably a 7/8. Penn essay is very good, I’d say at least an 8 or higher because I really talked about Penn’s efforts and programs to introduce women and minorities into stem fields and I talked about how this has always been important to me, etc.
Recommendations : Have not read, but I’m sure they are excellent as I had a very good relationship with both teachers and my guidance counselor. Both teachers were science teachers.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Engineering (Chemical)
State: Florida
School Type: Private Catholic
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Cuban)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >150,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m an underrepresented minority female applying for engineering. I think that helps me. Additionally I made it clear in my essay that this kind of representation is important to me and Penn has various programs that contribute to increasing it.
Thanks so much for reading!!