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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Female
Location: Florida
High School: Olympic Heights Community High School
High School Type: Top rated in the district; one of the best in the state</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.0
GPA- Weighted: 4.641
Class Rank: 2 of 400
All honor courses where available (except freshman enghlish)
AP Lang-4
AP US-3
AP Psychology- current
AP Environmental Science-current
AP Micro- current
AP Gov- current
AP Biology - current
AP Calc - current
AP Lit - current
Two years of spanish</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT: 1390/2030
SAT II Bio-E: 780
SAT II USHistory: 770
SAT II MathII: 680 </p>

<p>EC:
Drama department all four years - was a drama officer for one of them;
two years in student government;
two years on student advisory council;
president of SADD and SWAT club;
vice president of earth club;
in national honor society and math honor society;
two years in FBLA
Interact member</p>

<p>Awards:
Outstanding leadership award
superior scholar award
award for academic excellence (received 7 times)</p>

<p>Extenuating Circumstances:
I help care for my ailing father who is disabled by MS.</p>

<p>Acceptances:
Hofstra U
University of Miami</p>

<p>Awaiting Reply:
Cornell
Dartmouth
Yale
Columbia
University of Penn
Princeton
Duke
Notre Dame
FSU</p>

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<p>ehhhh.
GPA and class rank are excellent, and you seem to be taking a heavy courseload, but your AP scores seem to suggest that your school is not very challenging...yes, you're taking 7 APs, but how many of them are you going to get 5's on? (penn only gives credit for 5s, and 4s to satisfy lang. requirements)
also, i could be wrong about this, but i think a lot of your schools recommend more than 2 years of a foreign language.
i'm very impressed by your SAT IIs though. 770 on US with a 3 on the AP? i got a 5 and only a 750...but i did take the test too long after i took the ap course and didn't review for it, so that was probably my fault.</p>

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<p>The reason for my 3 on the APUSH exam was because the dbq was on Vietnam and my teacher had never covered anything past WWII. So I was totally at a loss. Then two of the essay choices were set in the 1600 which my teacher also refused to cover because she believed she knew what essays were going to be asked for the essays. Needless to say, only 6 out of 50+ students passed the exam.</p>

<p>I didn't study for the SAT II either - took it about 6mo after the AP exam and went entirely on prior knowledge.</p>