<p>So, I was wondering if you guys would care to help me out and chance me? UPenn is kind of a reach school for me, my parents insist on me applying to an Ivy, and UPenn looks like the best, but I realize I may be slightly lower than the average Penn student.</p>
<p>uw GPA: 3.64 w: 3.82</p>
<p>This could actually be higher as I'm not entirely sure about my school's policy with + and - yet, I need to ask the college counselor about that. </p>
<p>SAT scores are pretty good, but could be higher, I'm planning on taking them again:</p>
<p>Reading: - 630
Math: - 640
Writing: - 680
So a total of 1950...</p>
<p>German: - 710
English: - 740</p>
<p>I'm taking 3 APs this year and will be taking 5 next year, along with self-taught AP German. (I'm fluent btw )</p>
<p>My grades Junior year are lower than they should be, but I switched schools from the English system to the American, so the first semester was kind of an after-shock.</p>
<p>Will have 4 years of drama, both on and off stage, usually with main roles (I was also part of the theater society at my first high school)
Will have 4 years of art
Have been involved in MUN for 3 years
Part of Habitat for Humanity at my school</p>
<p>To be honest, your SAT scores are not really good enough. </p>
<p>As for GPA, I don’t know why everyone keeps saying your GPA has to be of a certain range when they don’t even know how hard your school is when it comes to grading. Kids from my school get into Wharton with 3.5~ GPA. I got in with a 3.68 (though some here might argue that our SAT/ACT scores were high enough, the kid who had a 3.5 gpa got around a 2350 SAT, and I had a 35 ACT [both 1 sitting], and just so you don’t ask later, we’re both asian, born in the US).</p>
<p>And it’s not just about GPA and scores, you gotta write compelling essays and have some good activities. </p>
<p>So, my question for you is, how hard is your school? Have you looked at previous years’ students who got admitted into Penn and what their GPA range is? I would see if your counselor can give you those stats, so you can compare yourself with them.</p>
<p>If i were you though, definitely try to improve your SAT scores -> Most importantly the Math and the CR. You can even try the ACT if you want. My SAT wasn’t too great, a 2250, so I went for the ACT, and got a 35. I sent both scores though since they wanted them all.</p>
<p>p.s. - what’s the meaning behind your username :D?</p>
<p>Your odds are almost nil. Your GPA and SAT I scores are way too far off the mark to get in. Here’s something more fundamental though; even if you had the scores you still shouldn’t apply. Look at your reason: you’re applying to Penn because your parents told you to, and because it looked like the best Ivy given that you had to apply to one. It seems though like you really don’t want to go to Penn. Rather, it seems like your parents want you to and you’re humoring them. If you somehow got into Penn, I therefore think you would be an unhappy student because you yourself don’t really want to be there. Don’t think of this then as a loss; instead think of it as a blessing in disguise. By not going to Penn, you can go to a place that YOU, rather than your parents want to go to. Find a place that you are passionate about, or at least quite fond of. Even if it’s not as prestigious as Penn, it’ll be better for you because it’s where you will be happiest. I know that seems a bit frivolous to you in high school, but once you’re in college it really matters. College is one of the only times in your life where you’ve got four years to do exactly what interests you and makes you happy. That’s why I and most of the other people on this site are applying to Penn. We believe that it is a place that could provide us with unique and valuable opportunities to pursue our interests and join a community that we can be happy being a part of. I can almost guarantee you that if you go to a place you aren’t really interested in, as seems to be the case with Penn, that you will be wasting one of the best chances you’ll ever get to be happy and grow intellectually. Penn is a great school, particularly for those who actively want what it has to offer, and who also appreciate its institutional character. However, like any school, it’s a poor choice for those who are indifferent to its offerings and institutional character, and who are instead doing it just to make their family happy or to say that they went to an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>I got in with about the same stats as you.
GPA: 97.6833.
SAT I: 1960
SAT II: Math I: 630 Math II: 680
I got into the nursing school, so you definantly have a chance :)</p>