<p>Please chance for Wharton (early decision with legacy), Cornell, UNC, Georgetown, Wake Forest, UCLA, UVA, and NYU and I have some safety schools. Please read and thanks a lot</p>
<p>Hooks: Have legacy to Wharton and own my own landscaping business which I am going to stress in my application</p>
<p>Demographics:</p>
<p>Gender: M
Race: Caucasian
State: New Jersey
College Class Year: 2015
High School: Public
High School Type: Blue Ribbon, sent about 10 students to ivys last year
Major: Finance/Business
Income: over 100,000</p>
<p>Standardized Tests
SAT I (Please List Breakdown): N/A
ACT (Please List Breakdown): Comp 32, E 34 M 33 R 31 S 30 (retaking in fall and plan on a 33/34 Comp)
SAT II: Math 2 770 Physics 720
AP Scores: Physics 4</p>
<p>Courseload and Transcript
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.25
Briefly describe any upward/downward trends: Have been raising gap by .2 each year
Freshman year courses (only list honors/AP): mostly honors
Sophomore year courses (only list honors/AP): mostly honors
Junior year courses (only list honors/AP): mostly honors and AP Physics B and Ap Microeconomics
Senior year courses (only list honors/AP): AP Macroeconomics AP Calc BC AP Physics C AP Art History Ap Lit AP Gov
Rank: top 5%</p>
<p>Awards and honors: None important (School doesn't really give/ promote awards) but did win the Stock Market Game in the state in 8th grade :)</p>
<p>Ecs
-Own my own landscaping business
-Used to own a longboard company freshman year (very small but shows entrepreneurial interest)
-Soccer since I was 8 through senior year (JV captain one year)
-3 years swimming (State Champions)
-2 years volleyball (JV captain first year playing)
-2 years lacrosse
-3 years Stock Market Club
-2 years Honor and Service
-2 years peer tutoring through NHS</p>
<p>Volunteer Work: About 125 hours including 2 mission trips</p>
<p>Your numbers definitely look solid and your ECs clearly show that you want to be involved in finance or own a business one day. I think you’ll definitely have a shot at your reach schools, for sure.</p>
<p>Wharton - Reach (it’s a reach for everyone)
UNC - Low Reach
Cornell - Reach
Georgetown - Reach
UVA - Low Reach (it’s tough to get in if you’re OOS)
NYU - Low Reach/High Match
UCLA - High Match
Wake Forest - Match</p>
<p>Since you’re legacy to Wharton, I would say you are definitely in the running for Penn. That being said, I would raise that ACT score a little (34+) to give yourself a even better shot. Your ECs are okay but I think your landscaping business will definitely be a strong point to talk about if you articulate it well in your essays. </p>
<p>Cornell, Penn, and UNC will be reaches for sure, but the others are definitely matches for you, including UCLA.</p>
<p>Also, I would advise that even though your school doesn’t offer many awards, try using your business and business skills to enter competitions in your area and get recognition. That will be a great tie-up to your application if you do. </p>
<p>UPenn ED for 2014 was 25.2% so if you add your legacy to that you look good for UPenn.
UCLA you have a big advantage being OOS; 2014 admit rate for OOS was 26.2%
At the public schools you may want to leave off parent income if it is high; best to leave that blank for the public schools and just remove it from consideration. </p>
<p>make sure you emphasize not only the fact that you want to study finance, but that you want to study it at Wharton. that’s part of what’s really important to penn’s admissions committee. they want to know not only why you want to study your choice, but why Penn is the right school/program/whatever for you! tie that in to your landscaping business, and you should be fine.</p>
<p>@empanada I’ve actually never thought about that but that’s great advice! So basically say why I need to be at Wharton as opposed to any other school</p>