Chance me for U-Penn

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a second year International Studies major at a strong Community College, hoping to transfer to U-Penn (or Brown/Columbia/Middlebury). I would be willing to enter as a freshmen. I would love to attend U-Penn as a Huntsman student, but it is definitely a reach. </p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 with a wide variety of rigorous coursework. (Hon Gen Psych, Hon Ancient World Hist., Hon Hist. of Middle Ages, Hon Eng. Comp. 1&2, Hon Gen Soc, Hon Contemp. Soc. Issues, Hon. World Lit 1&2, Pre-Calc, Calc 1, Calc 2, French 1-3, Spn 4, Spn Lit, Latin Am. Lit, Adv. Spn. Conv., Adv. Spn. Comp.) </p>

<p>In order to complete my AA, I will also have to complete: Speech Fund, Cultural Anthropology, Intercultural Comm, and a lab science (Probably Engineering Physics, a Calc-Based physics)</p>

<p>Extracurricular- Served on my school's Judicial Board and Student Senate before being elected President of Student Government (Student Body=9,000), PTK (National Honors Society for 2 Year Colleges) Vice-President of Leadership, Founder of a College project designed to raise funds to renovate Cuttington University in Liberia (The oldest degree granting institution in Africa) and raised about $10G as well as donated close to 5,000 text books to their nursing and education programs. May also be running for state president for PTK this upcoming year. </p>

<p>Strong college essay demonstrating personal growth, and overcoming a difficult family life. Letter of Rec. from President of College. </p>

<p>However...I have not taken the SAT. I have taken practice tests, and scored a 2400...but I have not taken an official one...and a lot of the colleges I am looking at require it. Now that I have already completed college coursework...my transfer adviser says that it is too late to take them. What should I do? What are my chances? Thanks for the input.</p>

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<p>Call (or email) UPenn's admission office and ask them if it is really "too late to take them". That comment seems odd- could he mean you are too old for your scores to be compared with high school scores?</p>

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<p>Do they even take transfers into Huntsman? I'm not sure how that could work given all of the requirements. Junior transfers into just Wharton are nearly impossible.</p>

<p>I've seen a lot of CC kids apply to Wharton as I teach a business class at a CC. The few that get in seem to be those who could have gotten in out of high school. It would be very hard to have confidence a student could do well there based on CC grades alone. You will find many kids with a CC 4.0 who have very low scores. So call and ask the colleges if they will accept the scores if taken now, a high score will put you in the running. When I was at Wharton I saw very few transfer that were not internal and the transfers were stars.</p>

<p>Also look at schools like Cornell, Michigan and Berkeley which work with many more CC transfers.</p>

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<p>I'd like to do Huntsman....but getting into Wharton is yeah..impossible. </p>

<p>I would definitely go for Int'l Studies at U-Penn, and be happy with that. But if I could get into the Huntsman Program (which doesn't accept transfers) I would be more than happy to enter as a freshmen. However...do I have any chances in getting into upenn at all?</p>

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<p>Hunstman is actually harder to get in to than Wharton.</p>

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<p>OK. So let's forget Huntsman and Wharton altogether. Do I have a shot at getting into U-Penn's College of Arts and Sciences?</p>

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<p>CAS isn't that easy to get into either... though i think it's slightly betteer than Wharton...
but i could be wrong</p>

<p>so wait, you dont get which dept you get into.. you just want to go to Penn?
if that, try Nursing; it has the highest acceptance rate. Or SEAS, but that's pretty tough to.</p>

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<p>Thanks cookies, that was a stellar recommendation!</p>

<p>So...CAS anyone want to chance me (without SAT scores?)</p>

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<p>what is the acceptance rate at Penn Engineering (vs. Huntsman, vs. CAS, vs Wharton)? Just curious if anyone knows.</p>