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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Rising Senior :/</p>

<p>Asian Female, PA, sucky public school</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.0
W GPA: 4.99
Rank: 2/531</p>

<p>SAT: 780 CR, 800 M, 800 W (2380 Single Sitting)</p>

<p>SAT2: 800 Math 2, 760 Chemistry, 800 USH, 740 Biology (yeah, i suck at these)</p>

<p>APs: AP Calc BC 5, many still pending, but expecting 5s on Chemistry, English Lang, Psychology, Statistics, and maybe a 4 on APUSH </p>

<p>Freshman year:
-Honors Biology: A
-Honors English 9: A+
-Honors Alg. 2: A+
-Honors Precalc: A+
-Honors Western Civilization (History): A+
-Intro to Computer Programming: A+
-Spanish 2: A+
-Health/Gym: A+/A+</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
-Honors Geometry: A+
-AP Calc BC: A+
-Honors U.S. History: A+
-Honors Chemistry: A+
-Honors English 10: A
-Spanish 3: A+
-Health/Gym: A+/A+</p>

<p>Junior Year:
-AP Chemistry: A+
-Honors Physics: A
-AP Statistics: A+
-AP U.S. History: A+
-AP English 11: A+
-AP Psychology: A
-Spanish 4: A+</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes:
-AP English 12:
-AP Physics C:
-AP Spanish:
-AP World History:
-AP Comparative Gov:
-AP Biology:
-College to take Multivariable: </p>

<p>ECs:
-varsity swimmer (co-capt), 4 years
-summer swimming, 6 years
-science olympiad (capt.), 4 years
-ARML (american regions math league) (Section leader), 4 years
-piano, 12 years
-student council rep, 4 years
-debate team, 3 years
-math team, (capt.) 3 years
-newspaper (section Editor) 4 years
-art club, 2 years</p>

<p>Awards:
-ARML - National Championship Team (9,10,11); Section Leader (10, 11); Highest Achieving Female (9, 10); Team High Scorer (9)
-Science Olympiad - 1st in Anatomy, 2nd in Ecology regional level; 2nd in Ecology, 4th in Anatomy State level
3rd in Ecology, 5th in Anatomy state level
-Swimming - "Diligence Defined" swimmer award, i hold 4 team records for my summer team
-Rensselaer Medal Award for outstanding achievement in the study of mathematics and science ($15,000 a year, for up to 5 years)
-Piano - lots of national and state awards and recognition
-NMSF
-AMC 10 School Leader (9, 10), Bloomsburg University Competition – First Place Team (11), Lehigh University Math Contest – Third Place Team (10,11), Pennsylvania Math League High Scorer (9, 10, 11)
-$3,000 Scholarship Winner to Cedar Crest College for Outstanding Mathematics
-Lehigh University Math Contest Fifth Place Individual
-Honorable Mention in the Bill of Rights Institute “Being and American” National Essay Contest:Top 10 (out of 24,000 entries)
-Emerging Leaders Institute Class of 2011
-Art displayed in Bethlehem’s Cultural Arts and Education Center</p>

<p>Community Service (bout 550 total):
-250+ hours at Hospital
-100+ hours at nursing home
-50 hours choir piano acccompaniment
-100+ hours teacher's aide for chinese school
-50+ hours summer swim team timer</p>

<p>Work:
- Kumon Teacher Assistant
- MATHCOUNTS teacher
- Private swim coach</p>

<p>Essays should be unique, Interview should go well, but no legacy/recruited athlete :/</p>

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<p>Everything is solid, but to be honest, I don’t see a lot of uniqueness through your activities. You will have to stress how you are different and desirable through the essay. There will be many other applicants with the same stats and activities as yourself, so its immediately an uphill battle, good luck, and work on those essays.</p>

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<p>Unless she really screws up her essays, she shouldn’t have any issues.</p>

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<p>@OP: Your profile is OUTSTANDING! However, I’m not sure if “single sitting” gives you an advantage, just a btw. Every representative I’ve spoken to says that the biggest part of the test scores is super-score, as indicated by the Common App (which asks for your highest SAT component per component: highest CR, highest M, highest W). So a student who has taken the SAT two or three times that has the same score as you (OP) probably won’t be disadvantaged due to the super-scoring nature of admissions. Can anyone confirm/deny/add-on to what I’ve posted?</p>

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<p>If you apply SEAS or CAS then I think you are in. Going to a sucky public in PA is not a big deal. Penn takes lots of rich kids from Philly’s Main Line, but they tend to go easier on people from less wealthy parts of the state. If you got a 2380 in the middle of central PA then that is more impressive than some kid in Bryn Mawr or Haverford who got coached to the same score with 20k of prep.</p>

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<p>lol why try to lie there were no girls on the fire team this year hopefully none of them bother looking into that</p>

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<p>i never said i was on the fire team? i meant i was on the lehigh valley team, which was the national champion.
i’ll specify it on the app, obviously cuz they’re gonna check. i was just going for the top female.</p>

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<p>Alright so looking at this I can deduce that you’re either stupid or looking for reassurance. I’m positive it’s not the former so it must be the latter. You clearly have a good chance and good essays will make your chance more good. I won’t tell you you are guaranteed or anything cause no one can say that for sure but your chances are higher than a lot of peoples’. Good luck</p>

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<p>Based on your stats and ECs, I can’t think of any reason why you wouldn’t have a good chance. You’ve heard this before, but I’ll say it again: write compelling and personal essays. Good luck!</p>