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<li>Asian (Filipino)</li>
<li>Living in Alaska</li>
<li>Top 2% of my class (graduating class is around 450 students, ranked 5th of out 459)</li>
<li>4.0 GPA freshman year, 4.16 GPA sophomore year, expecting 4.66 junior year and 4.5 senior year (I'm going to maintain straight A's, which would lead to a 4.33 cumulative GPA and hopefully valedictorian)</li>
<li>4.0 unweighted GPA</li>
<li>Took 1 AP class (US History) last year, taking 4 (Spanish, Econ, Lang, Chem) next year and 3 (Stats, Calc, Psych) my senior year</li>
<li>Key Club (2 years projected)</li>
<li>National Honor Society (3 years projected)</li>
<li>Yearbook editor (also doubled as the financial manager, handled our budget)</li>
<li>Varsity football (2 years as a junior and senior)</li>
<li>Haven't taken SATs and ACTs yet, but expecting to get around 2200 and 34 on them</li>
</ul>
<p>I probably will apply just for the hell of it, if I get admitted I will be pleasantly surprised and accept on the spot.</p>
<p>Wharton is hard, and the Alaska hook probably won’t make up for your lack of ECs if you don’t hit 35/2300+. Remember, a 34 translates to a 2280. Fortunately, you have a high GPA and can probably hit val; but you must show that you are more than your stats.</p>
<p>Also, a word of advice: Don’t indicate your race. You’ll be hurt by saying that you’re Asian (ORM), but a Filipino name oftentimes sounds Hispanic to admissions officers (which will help). As far as EC’s go: get some leadership positions. Go for football captain and work your way up in Yearbook and Key Club. See if you can get the folks at NHS to start a big project (perhaps a fundraiser for Haiti, or Pakistan, or something) that you can head up.</p>
<p>Finally, with regards to that GPA, if you’re at West (which I suspect you might be); then don’t count on those straight As (especially from chem). It gets a lot harder junior and senior years.</p>
<p>It’s not the end of the world if I don’t make it in, I was just wondering what my odds were. My last name is Huang, so I’m SOL on that haha. And I go to Dimond. I’m probably in line for football captain in senior year and I’m already an editor at yearbook. I’ll be NHS secretary but I still haven’t joined Key Club (doing it this fall) so it’s going to be hard to get a leadership position there.</p>