Chance me for UPenn?

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Majors: Political Science and BioChemical Engineering (double)

Stats: Junior year
*My school doesn’t do GPA so here is my breakdown, we have 4 AP classes (and classes are technically honors)
Semester 1- A (Advanced Art), A (English), A- (History), A- (French 3), A- (Advanced Immunology), B (Pre-Calc), and a C in a college class (which I was in the top 10% grade-wise (does this KILL my chances?
Semester 2 projected- A (English), A (History), A (Intro Tech), B+ (Advanced Immunology), B+ (French 3), B (Pre-Calc)
I calculated my GPA of sophomore (3.9) and freshman year (3.8)

Projected Senior Year courses:
English, History, Honors Art, AP Chemistry, Calculus, French 4

ACT (breakdown): 31C (29E, 29R, 33M, 34S) first time and taking again for higher

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (planning on being captain, won several awards), Special Needs Awareness Group (going to be leader next year), Varsity Bowling (won team leader award), Children’s Education Foundation- Vietnam, BBYO (ran several conferences and is the leader of the chapter which I founded), Hazamir, Youth Theatre Ensemble (at NYU, very hard to get in), Future Music Moguls (at NYU, hard to get in), Math Club (Captain of team, but is unranked), School band and do production after school

Job/Work Experience: worked at my day camp summer of sophomore year, planning at working at my sleep-away camp junior year

Volunteer/Community service: Worked at an arts school to teach kids (50 hours), worked at a special needs camp (50 hours), various camp community service (freshman summer- 25 hours), works at an adoption center (15 hours at the moment but will be more)

Essays: are pretty good, and getting a tutor

Teacher Recommendations:

  1. French Teacher- had for three years and going to have all my years
  2. School Advisor
  3. English Teacher- from Junior year, did well in class

Supplemental- might try to submit artwork which I have been told by Cooper Union is really good

From: New York, NY
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female (which I hear is good since I want to do STEM)
Income Bracket: 150k

*Note in the past a lot of people have gotten in from my school with lower ACT scores, they typically accept a 29 and a 3.8 gpa at my school

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Are you going to be applying to cas or seas? You would have to add on the dual degree later because I don’t think that there’s an existing dual degree that’s polisci and engineering.

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@vkrish most likely SEAS.

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I am not sure what impact the college class has. What college class did you get a C in even though you were in the top 10%?

Your stats are on the low side for Penn, so I think retaking the ACT is a good idea. You will also need two subject tests.

Are you taking BC calculus, AP Bio, or AP Chem? That might help.

Honestly, Biochemical engineering will be very challenging without adding a double. If you get in, I would try to get established with that alone, and then consider if you have the additional band width to manage the second major.

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@Much2learn it was NYU’s applied psychology department. I am not in any of those classes, and might not be able to take any of them except calc AB next year and AP chem. I thought at upenn if you take act with writing you don’t need sat 2’s? Also am looking into taking the math 2 and french without listening if I do indeed need to take it.