Chance me Penn RD CAS + any advice, please?

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Hello All, I really would appreciate some advice or some honest chance me for Penn RD. I wanna go into cognitive science so probably will major in cog science or biological basis of behavior.

Gender: female
Race: Asian (South Asian)
School: PA public, few kids go to ivies every year, really “good” in area, about 4,000 students almost 900 in my grade

GPA (W) cumulative 9-11: 3.8 (will be going up during senior year) 9th: 3.7/ 10th: 3.8, 11th: 4.0
GPA (UW): 3.5ish (school doesnt release this information)
Rank: school doesnt rank

SAT: taking in August probably around 1520-1560
ACT: taking in Sept probably 33-35

SAT II: literature - 770
chem - 760

AP scores:
Junior year:
AP World - 5
AP Lang - 5
AP Psych - 5
*also took AP physics class, didn’t take the test tho, got a B- in the class so yikes

Senior year:
Planning on taking
AP Comp Gov
AP Chem
AP Stats
AP Lit
(taking more classes but they are CP or electives so I didnt count those)

Extra Curricular Activities:

Volunteering:
104 hours at science museum for kids near my house
35 hours as an assistant coach for field hockey
10 science tutor hours through Science Honors Society
50+ hours interact club
*will be volunteering more for these organizations through the year
(Also some hours through my temple)

Work:
Part time at parents hotel this summer
Part time Barnes and noble cafe this summer into the school year
Internship at my parents hotel last summer

Clubs - including senior year :
Psychology club (4 years) - secretary junior year and president senior year
Interact club (4 years)
Science fair club (4 years)
Science Olympiad (2 years) - won 2 gold at regionals
field hockey for school and club (3 years) - will not be doing senior year because I need a job to pay for college and have opportunity to direct and produce play

Will probably finally be starting a Cultural Club aimed at providing students with cultural awareness, bringing in religious leaders, doing language tables, watching cultural movies, bringing in cultural food, etc. My friends and I got the green light, we just need to get it going.

Did other clubs but this list is long enough

Honors:
National science honors society (2 years)
National honors society (1 year)
Maybe International thespian society (honors society for theatre lmao) next year and national English honors society next year.
National AP Scholars Award

Other awards:
Won several science fair first and second places
Won local chapter`s valley psychological association award 2x
Won a scholarship to some college for 20,000 a year but not going (won another scholarship to state university for science)

Can I have advice on who to ask for recommendations?? I have a really good one from a theater teacher/club adviser/possible senior year English teacher, a really good one from 10 year chem teacher and was considering one from my psychology teacher but does that count as a “real” teacher or “core” subject???

My essays are pretty good, I`m still heavily in the process of drafting them though.

I’d appreciate any advice or responses you might have and will chance back.

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Penn will definitely like the upward trend of your GPA, but it is still way below average for Penn RD. I can’t really tell you anything about your standardized tests yet, but above a 1500 on SAT and a 33 on ACT would definitely help. Your extracurriculars are good buy you may need some leadership positions. You have one nice one, and creating a club is definitely good. For letters of recommendation, choose a teacher that also knows you as a personal level. In my opinion, this is a high reach. However, if you apply ED, it should become a low reach. Of course, this is just my opinion. Good luck!

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@sparkykoolkat thanks so much for the advice!!