<p>Please stop bumping this thread. Applications are viewed holistically. Taking a few more AP exams will not drastically alter your chance of admission. And I really don’t know how much AP scores matter because unlike SAT scores, you don’t have to send your official score report, so colleges have no way of knowing if you are being honest when you self-report your scores. You talk about how you are starting an equestrian club, FBLA, a petsitting business, and a book club. To be honest, it kind of looks like you are trying to build your resume instead of doing things you are passionate about. In my opinion, it looks much better to start one club that you are fervently passionate about than to start four things that you don’t put much effort into. My list of extracurriculars was way shorter than yours, but my list was filled with things that I poured my heart and soul into like Science Olympiad. If someone asked you “what are you involved with at school?” what would be the first activity you told them about? Spend your time doing that instead of starting a bunch of new clubs. Look, maybe I’m wrong, and maybe you really care about all of the things you listed. But I’m just saying that it looks like a lot of fluff to me.</p>
<p>Not much of a chance at Wharton, maybe, just maybe, at SAS or whatever. But you dug yourself a hole. You have to start lower, like say a 25% base chance vs all the kids who took just about the max course load at a 50% base chance vs the overacheivers who took all the nerd things and start at, say a 75% chance. Now you have to kill the last year. Show improvement and it goes up 2%. Kill the SAT and up 5%. Hope the other kids drop.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think you should ignore all attempts to chance you and just keep any useful advice you see on this thread in the back of your mind. Nobody here has the authority to tell you your “chances” of getting into Penn. People can share their opinion of your grades, courses, and test scores but none of what they say can be fully valid interpretation because they are not on the admissions committee and they don’t know what your specific circumstances are. I notice that most people who participate in chancing here don’t even go to Penn. </p>
<p>Just apply and see what happens. Even if people say you are a shoe in on here, you may be rejected. You don’t know what will happen. I was sure I would be rejected or deferred because of a weaker freshman year but neither of those things happened. If you need reassurance, ask your counselor at school, don’t come on this forum. You won’t get any reliable information and will just make yourself more anxious. This goes for all “chance” threads.</p>
<p>Your ecs are phenomenal but you have to remember and many people often forget ecs just complement your application. The core is your gpa and course load. SAt is like a hurdle you have to leap over with a certain number of points depending on the college. Your gpa and course load is really not enough to consider Wharton. You may wanna try about 10 ranks lower for a reach. Good luck.</p>
<p>Unless I’m seriously underestimating your school difficulty then you don’t have much of a chance. Check with your school counselor for a naviance report.</p>
<p>sunkist- I only bumped twice. and I decided against the book club and I did switch into the only other AP available to juniors… I’m completely sincere in my ECs!! I love working with others- whether they have 4 legs or 2! hahah i think my interests (business, horses, petsitting) all connect… well maybe not so much with dance. it’s not fluff! I’d be doing all this stuff even if say… someone was going to give me 99 trillion dollars and I’d never have to work or worry about college/a career. </p>
<p>darkwalrus- its not like that. check out the college ******* admission plots for the top schools and there are some people that got in who weren’t at the top (not saying i think a have a good shot at penn, but there is a teeny possibility) my older brother is one of those top really nerdy guys. he did dual enrollment, tons of APs, got 5s, had a (i think) 2300 on the SAT, got a patent on a genome development idea, won the state science fair, went to the Intel international science fair but didn’t win anything big. anyway, he applied to all the ivies, renesselear (sp? haha), and a few rural state schools as safeties.
he only got into renesselear and the safeties. he had literally NO ECs (unless you count 1 year of book club… doesnt mean much) sooo. my point is you cant base acceptance off of only academics… you could be a genius, but i don’t think the Ivies will take you if you don’t socialize/ “get involved with the community” “show leadership”… etc etc. </p>
<p>thanks to everyone. best of luck to you all too</p>
<p>whoops. i didn’t realize they’d put stars over the other website. its college prow… (ignore this)…ler</p>