Chance me for Wharton M&T ED 2018

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Hey all! I’m an Indian male from NJ, and I was wondering if I could get a quick chance me for Wharton (my top choice) and other business schools. I’d be applying to the business school, and double majoring in Finance and Computer Science. Thanks!

Stats

3.8 UW/ 5.5 W (My weighted is weird, but I will have taken 6 APs at the end of 11th, and 11 at the end of 12th)

1560/35

800 Bio, 790 math 2 (retaking), 780 chem

Top 3%

Taking calc 2 at a community college

Eces

Traded Cryptocurrency and Stocks for 2 years (started in 10th grade) and made solid % gains

Coded a crypto trading bot with a proprietary algorithm that I am planning on selling or making a business with

Created a Discord server with over 10k members who actively discussed crypto trading news, taught people how to trade, and discussed trades they were making

Created a paid membership service that gave members access to VIP trading signals provided to us

Created a “money pool” of over $50k to purchase an industry standard trading signal generator for stocks and crypto

Community moderator for Delta, the largest cryptocurrency portfolio tracking app. Helped in customer service, marketing, and designed their reddit page

Binance “angel” - I was on the marketing/customer service team for Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. I helped in fund management & reacquisition, customer service, and marketing.

Job with a very famous test prep company as a student marketer

Coordinator of a tutoring branch in my town. As coordinator, I was in charge of membership fees, teacher and student attendance, and I taught math

Campaigned under Phil Murphy (Basically a canvassing job)

Created an MIT Launch club at my school which taught kids how to make their own business(my weakest EC honestly)

Awards

Junior Stem Academy Finalist - International Finalist in a competition where a team and I created a futuristic building. Presented my project in NYC

Pennapps top 30 Hack - Won the Pennapps hackathon, and my team was one of 8 high school teams that made it to the finals.

National AP Scholar

Patent Pending for a healthcare invention I am planning on liscensing

Reccs

First recc will be from my AP world teacher. Him and I are very chill, we’ve discussed Crypto together and is going to mention that in his recc, so thats going to be solid

Second recc is from my AP Econ teacher. She and I are also close, and again, I’ve discussed crypto with her and she knows my obsession with trading and finance

Essays

common app - pretty decent talked about cooking and how I loved learning (better than what it sounds like honestly), 7/10

why upenn - pretty decent again, talked about their Blockchain club, a couple of classes, meeting a Penn student and loving the atmosphere, 7/10

M&T supplements - meh honestly, 6/10

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good chances. You should get into at least wharton on thursday. btw, where did you find the $50k? do you have rich parents or something

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i think he’s applying RD?

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@bichon_frise99 he wrote ED in the title of the post

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LOL rip sorry
for some reason it stuck in my head that it sounded future tense

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I think you have really good chances!

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@ibanker38 Nah I started I Discord server (like a really big group chat) and I contacted people to see if they were willing to invest.
My parents gave me 2k after I got a decent SAT score, and I saved up 2k of my own money. I used that to invest, and thats where it all began :slight_smile:

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@Pr0Thr0waway So you got $46,000 from random people online? Do they know you are a high schooler?

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Well I contacted people who were already in my server so they knew I could be trusted.

And the whole point of crypto is anonymity, ofc they didn’t know I was a high schooler.

Also, I didn’t put all 4k into the pool, I used it to trade crypto, and I only put in like 500-600 into the pool from my own money.

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Oh, I get it. So the signal generator is shared among the members of your discord server, so anyone who contributed to the money pool can use it. Lmao that makes sense.

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You have really good EC’s and test scores but essays really matter. I’m sure they’re better than what you think they are (7/10) so if so I think you have a great shot

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@rohuncho thanks! I hope theyre better than what I think, but ik for a fact thats the weakest part of my app

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yea np. Just curious, did you put all of these on your extracurricular activities list or on your resume?

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I essentially copy pasted my common app here. I didnt submit my resume

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Did you get in?

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^^^

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Rejected :frowning:
I didn’t even get into wharton, i guess my essays were actually trash

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go to a school that will help with your entrepreneur skills…you decide your own destiny! Would suggest come up with new ideas and commercialize them…that seems to be your strength! Good Luck!

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Meh I wanted to go into finance and Wharton wouldve been perfect. :frowning:

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@Pr0Thr0waway don’t let this rejection define who you are! There are many more great business/finance schools out there, you just need to look for them.