Chance me?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Im a caucasian female living in New York</p>

<p>Graduating at 17</p>

<p>public High School</p>

<p>4.0 out of 4.0 gpa</p>

<p>SAT: 2160 (cr: 770 m: 690 w: 700)
SAT II: world history: 700 englich lit: 700 spanish: 770 U.S history 730
APs: Spanish: 4 U.S history: 5</p>

<p>47 of 490 in my graduating class</p>

<p>my courses junior year year were AP Spanish, AP US History, french 1, philosophy, precalc, and advanced choral studies. this year's are AP Psychology, AP European History, Syracuse University Project Advance (college credit), conversational spanish, honors physics, independant study senior project (Senior Project Overview), advanced choral studies, health (half year. required), economics (half year. required), government (half year. required). I only have lunch half the year.</p>

<p>i have over 500 hours of volunteer work in our local hospital and am the president of our school's community service organization. Through this organization , I've raised over $5,000 for charities and i've organized a district-wide drive for necessities for soldiers overseas. </p>

<p>I'm a member of the junior ambulance corps.</p>

<p>I was a member of student senate and student council freshman and sophomore years and im senior class social chairperson this year</p>

<p>I'm also a member of debate club, library club, youth in government, drama club and glee club, a starter on our Orange County Academic League team for the past year and this year (1 of 5 of over 40 members in all grades). For this I've competed on the TV show the Challenge for the past 2 years, on three episodes.</p>

<p>I am a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.</p>

<p>I founded the peer education initiative in my school, of which I am president.</p>

<p>I have been a member of NHS for 2 years and I am also a member of NSHSS.</p>

<p>I have been on high honor roll for all four years of high school. </p>

<p>I also participated in the People to People Program the summer of my freshman year </p>

<p>Do you think I have a chance?</p>

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<p>I think you have a decent chance. Your ECs are amazing but to be honest, your test scores and class rank are a bit low for Penn. I think your chances of getting in also depend on what school you’re applying to; Wharton may be a reach but you have a good chance of getting into CAS.</p>

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<p>definitely not Wharton haha I’m not THAT smart. I applied to CAS, thinking of majoring in either spanish or international relations</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about your test scores and GPA. Honestly that won’t get you in or keep you out. But you are in range… So don’t worry about them anyway!</p>

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<p>Something screams grade inflation to me…
How competitive is your high school? Do students from your school generally go to Penn caliber universities?</p>

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<p>question, are you from guilderland high school?</p>

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<p>nope. your scores on standardized testing are consistently low.</p>

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<p>@WongTongTong
I know it looks weird… our school does ranking based on weighted gpas, 4.0 is my unweighted. our class is extremely competitive and our ranking/gpa system is really annoying. The high school is restructuring the system the year after next - of course it couldn’t be any earlier to help us.</p>