Chance me on ED UPenn?

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Hello there. I’m a quest bridge finalist just so recently realize she wasn’t matched XD I’m considering applying ED to Upenn and I was wondering if you guys can chance me?

Major: Statistics and Electrical Engineering
GPA: 4.8
UW: 3.8 (school calculates UW weird)
rank: 3/425
SAT: 1410 (760 math and 650 English) 21 on essay
subject tests: 710 math2 and 680 bioE
ACT: 31 superscore and 10 on essay (didn’t send since I thought it was similar to SAT)
AP: APUSH, AP Seminar, AP Physics I, AP Calc AB, AP World, AP Research, AP Lang, AP Statistics
Senior year course load: AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Gov, AP Psych, AP Environmental, AP Economics
along with some community college courses
Major Awards: AP scholar, AP Capstone, Scholastic Art Award, (basically just some regional art awards), NHS leadership award, QB finalist

Extracurriculars: Science National Honor Society (VP and Co-founder), Relay for life (president), Alliance for Climate Education (Action Youth Leader), Sunrise Climate change (canvassing team activist and presentation activist), International service Interact rotary (President), Culture Connection (Co-founder and chairman), Sierra student coalition (Community organizer), NHS (member) and (some more stuff but minor— also did speech and debate but quit to pursue environmental justice deeply) I also submitted an art portfolio (I own an online art shop and donate the money I get)

Job/Work Experience: worked at multiple Chinese restaurant, take care of the house and sister
Volunteer/Community service: mainly interact club and some key club, animal shelter volunteer
Summer Activities: Biosequencing program at Tufts in my incoming junior year, Bioengineering at BU incoming senior (got this intern from the BioBuilder at LabCentral MIT)

Essays:

Biological essay: 10/10 I really talked about my culture. I really like creative writing and imageries so I was very artistic with the way I wrote. Talked about how I was raised in a Chinese restaurant since it took up a lot of my parents’ time. Talked about how I matured a lot quicker than those around me due to having to hold immense responsibilities at a young age. How I had a hard time coming to the acceptation of my culture due to racism.
The other quest bridge essay: 10/10 Although I would say I like the first one better, I like this one a lot too. It shows my artistic side and how I am very fascinated with human beauty and how I want to preserve it. I talked about the experience through me painting a live model. Talked about climate change as well, how we need to preserve humanity. Relates a bit to my major.

Teacher Recommendations: 9/10 AP World Teacher: I had him for freshman year for us history and then ap world for junior year. I was always pretty open about him about how my life is going and he was always very kind. Although I wasn’t the best at history, I always tried my best and I think he saw that

9/10 AP Calc AB teacher: I always went after school to him about how to do certain problems. He always helped me and I did very well in his class and participated and asked a lot of questions. I told him how I wanted to always go into the stem field.

For both of my recs, I did not look at them.
Counselor Rec: 8/10 she had a lot of students to take care of. She asked me to fill out this resume sheet for her so she can write my rec. But she always really liked me.

[ *] State (if domestic applicant): MA in US
[ *] School Type: Public, pretty average
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Income Bracket: 45K
[ *] Assets: none
[ *] Property: my house? $150,000 left on mortgage
[ *] Extenuating Circumstances: Parents are old and not in best shape
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list] first generation

So yeah I was wondering if I should apply ED for Penn? I want to go into business along with engineering and possible get a dual degree? And I really like Philly!

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SAT and ACT scores are really low, below average for UPenn. Furthermore, I don’t see anything in your EC category that suggests you want to major in STEM. You have a pretty rigorous courseload and good essays/recs. However, you might want to retake your SAT/ACT for at least a 1500 or above.

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@nomansland Ah yes. I took the Sat again in December and I think my score is around 1450. A lot of my ECs revolved around climate change and global warming. I want to something with sustainability. I did a lot of bioengineering internships but towards the end of the summer I got some exposure to electrical engineering (maybe going into solar power or something).

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Wait how can you apply ED now? Do you mean for next year?

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@CCTA334 I believe Questbridge finalists who don’t match are able to convert their applications to ED at some schools.

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@CCTA334 yep exactly what @momofsenior1 said

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Your scores are a bit low but not terribly out of range. I really like the essay topic and everything else seems solid. I would say about a 50-50 shot, although being from the northeast is a disadvantage.

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@dbacks180 yeah thank you! Those who were matched yesterday had around 1400s for upenn. I’ll just cross my fingers yeeet

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@dbacks180 why would being from the NE be a disadvantage? the largest amount of students are accepted from the NE

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I helieve there is a geographic quota that needs to be satisfied, so schools want applicants from around the country. It just so happens that tons of kids from the northeast apply, so they accept many. But they can’t accept all NE kids, so the competition is pretty brutal. However, being from Kansas, for example, would probably help your odds because schools need applicants from a variety of regions. Hope that made sense!

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@kindablue thanks for clarifying!

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The largest amount of kids are accepted from the northeast because so many more apply. Since there are so many applicants from NE they want diversity so someone from Kansas or Arizona is a little more appealing if it were the exact same application.

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I do think the rest of your application is strong enough to offset this though so we’ll see! A lot of it is just chance, there are so many qualified applicants so if you don’t get in it’s not that you’re not qualified.

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@dbacks180 Thank you. It would be very amazing to attend UPenn. But the whole National College Match did hurt my confidence a bit but now that I have a taste of it, I think I’ll be ok. Hopefully I’ll be lucky thank you!

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I’m in the same boat as you, applied ED this year but not with the National College Match. My scores are in range and essays are good but my ECs are kind of weak so we’ll see. Hopefully we both get in!

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@dbacks180 ah yes!! Best of luck to you as well! Hope we both get in!!!

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Hi guys. I know that I’m a little late, but I am another person from the NE (NY) who converted their QB NCM app to Penn Early Decision! Good luck to y’all!! @dbacks180 @stats87

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In general, I really don’t understand how people can rate their own essays out of 10. It such a subjective thing that its hard to do through your own (the writer’s) eyes.

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@kelvinismyunit ahhh glad to see QB applicants here!! We’re in this together! good luck to us all

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@collegeboi2023 true! But I guess it really depends on you. rate it based on how you feel but yeah I agree it is very subjective. but to me, I really like my essay but that may not be the case for others and thats ok