Hey guys I just got rejected by Cornell…and UPenn seems to be the only school I have a little hope so…PLZ Chance me
British Columbia, come from China since grade 10
Sat 1460 (660 and 800) essay highest 656
Sat Chem 780 Math 2 790 No AP course provided at school, self-learnt and prepared for the exams
Calc AB 5 Chem 4 Microecon 5 Macroecon 5 Governt& Politics Comp. 4
School doesn’t report GPA, scale out of 100. average academic grade 11 and 12: 95%
IELTS overall 7.5 listening 7.5 reading 8.5 writing 6.5 speaking 6.5
EC: volunteer at a senior place 80+hours; a member of a student-organized group called Youth for Care, helping a local hospital; School chamber choir + vocal jazz group; initiated the position “International representative” in the student council; created an international & ELL student community at school (have organized many events); twice Vancouver Sun Run; school magazine writer
Personal background: doctor grandpa and nurse grandma;experienced annorexia nervosa and was hospitalized; visited UPenn
No prof reference, no research, no college course completed…
I’m kinda hesitating if I should still try for RD. I feel a bit tired honestly…and as a Canadian PR it is really much cheaper to attend a canadian institution…hmmm still wanna go to the states and really interested in the Nursing program(btw I’m a girl). I applied for nutritional science at Cornell lol cuz I want to be a dietitian to help EDers. It used to be an awful disease for me…
Good luck everybody! CHANCE ME PLZ PLZ PLZ and all suggestions and comments welcomed!
Add something more…my volunteer coordinator at the senior place wrote me a reference letter
Top student at school for both Waterloo Euclid math contest and COMC
Well…only top 25% in all contestants
no ranking
From what I understand, Penn Nursing doesn’t really accept many international applicants.