<p>The thing about the essay was just a suggestion. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to write about, I just meant to make sure that you’re careful with the tone of the essay. You want to make sure you come across as a generous person who’s willing to work/make sacrifices for family, not someone who relishes in their own ability to do so while in high school. But if other people have liked your essay, than that’s probably what it does.</p>
<p>And that tone humble tone should carry over to your EC’s. Describing your investment EC’s as venture capitalism might be pushing it, just make sure you present your EC’s in an informative realistic way. It is somewhat nitpicky, but you have great EC’s. Just make sure adcom’s will be affected by them the right way.</p>
<p>I’d say at this point that UPenn Wharton and Harvard would be reaches on account of your SAT I (especially since many schools weight CR+M higher than W) and your relatively lax pre-senior year course load (though your weighted GPA is pretty high, did you take honors courses or something similar or is this your expected GPA by the end of senior year?). At any rate, getting CR and M up to the mid 700’s would help your application a lot.</p>