Chance me for Wharton ED!

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White Male

SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 770 Bio
ACT: 36 (Math:35, Reading: 36, Science: 36, English: 35) taken only once

GPA (Unweighted) - 4.00
GPA (Weighted) - 4.39
Class Rank: 6/262
Attend decent public school in rural Virginia
Taking math course at Virginia Tech since already took Calc BC as junior.

AP - 9 AP’s taken already (counting Chem and Bio as two each), I am sending all scores

Calculus AB (5)
Calculus BC (5)
Chemistry (5)
Biology (5)
English Lang (5)
Spanish Lang (4)
European History (4)

Senior Year Courses:

AP Computer Science A
DE English Lit
AP Physics C (2)
AP Government
AP Statistics
2114 Intro to Linear Algebra (at VT)

Major Awards:
Rotary Academic Achievement (Top 5% of class)
Laurel Chain (top 10 boys in class)
AP Scholar with Distinction
Top 10 in my event at DECA States

Extracurriculars:

Varsity Tennis (9-12) - Team State Champion (first ever) and two time Team State Runner-Up,
Singles State Runner-Up, four year starter

VASTS (11) - Yearlong class and summer “academy” at NASA; we designed a trip to Mars

Quiz bowl team (11-12) - pretty good I was on the A team (we made it to nationals but I couldn’t go because I had tennis)

Student Government (9,10,12) - Class VP, Class Treasurer (x2) organize prom and graduation

Community Service:

Interact Club (9-12) - junior Rotary, officer for two years

National Honor Society (11-12) - Treasurer
our school actually does a lot of stuff here we are fundraising for a scholarship etc.

Work Experience:

Finance Intern (12) assisted with making of preliminary business plan for a startup company basically

Lifeguard (summers 10-12)

Soccer Referee (fall and spring 9-11)

Essays/Recommendations

Teacher 1: 8.5/10 had for Calc AB, Calc BC, and Computer Science
Teacher 2: 7.5/10 Biology
Counselor: 6/10 don’t really know her that well just the usual

Common App Essay: 7.5/10 talked about living in Australia changed my view of the world

Penn Essay: 8.5/10

Hook: none (I am an Australian dual citizen and I lived there for 4 years so that’s kinda cool)

Thank You!!!

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Also forgot I have a rec from the president of the company I interned for 7/10

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This smells like Crimson, Pm me lol

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Curious, What is DE English lit?

Also, I’m not sure why you are counting AP Chem and AP Bio as two APs each?? If that were how it worked you would have received the National AP Scholar Award (scoring all 5s and 4s) for 8 or more APs. I would not list 9 APs already taken on your resume. You took 7. And it looks like you are taking 4 senior year for a total of 12.

Your grades are great and your test scores are stellar! Start-up EC is good. Have you contacted the Tennis Coach at Penn? As a state singles champ runner up, he may be able to recruit you or support your application in some way…

Best of Luck!

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@runswimyoga
DE English Lit is basically AP English lit but it’s technically dual enrolled at the local community college and I took it because the ap English teacher at my school is bad.

And I didn’t list it as 9 anywhere on my app but at my school ap sciences have twice as much class time and you get 2 5.0s for your gpa so that’s why I was counting it. Also European history and calc ab were sophomore year

And I’m not nearly good enough for penn tennis the Ivy’s actually have really good tennis teams

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Didn’t end up applying ED :>

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What is your result have applied in early decision