Chances '13

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GPA: should be a 4.0 or 4.1 w by the end of this year (freshman year issue to go on councelors note, severe family illness while in Hanover and i broke my leg in 4 places playing ice hockey missing several weeks of school and having a full leg cast for 6 months and sophomore w was a 4.1 and this year should be 4.3 ish) I also took a college bio class at a local university in 9th grade and recieved an A and this summer im planning to take two or three more courses
SAT's : W: 750 CR: 670 M: 700
SAT II's: will take Us History and English
AP's Junior Year: AP English, AP Us History, AP Art History
Ap's Senior Year: AP Chem, AP English 12th, AP Gov, AP Economics, AP French
My EC's include NHS, French National Honors Society, Philosophy Club, Staff Writer, Literary Magazine Editor, Student Council Executive Board, President of Polish Club and of French Literature Club, Interact Club, Jazz Band, over 200 hours of community service, Peer Mediator, L.I.N.K., SHOC Counselor, and have at least 2 hours of Peer Tutoring a Week. Run own music lesson buissness (employ highschool musicians to give lessons, percent of profits go to charity), Member of Philadelphia and Baltimore Classical guitar Society I am also planning to do an internship with 2 yale graduate, college writing proffesors (one of which wrote for the NY Times), a language proffesor at University of Delaware, and a Cardiologist. This summer i will most likely be traveling to morocco with a benefit group called the Atlas Mountain Fund to supply children with school supplies in that region. </p>

<p>I am also very involved in Classical Guitar and take lessons from a college proffessor and am in the Finals for 2 Youth competitions, and have participated in Master Classes at Julliard and Peabody </p>

<p>I was looking to mayb get recruited for rowing (lwt 2k 6:50, 6k 22:36)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>yupp you have a great chance! maybe try taking your sat's again? but your ec's are wonderful. i got into wharton and my ec's weren't a third as good as yours</p>

<p>thanks fanta orange for your response, I forgot to mention that my dad spent a few semesters at wharton on some sort of scholarship before transfering and so did my mother. I was probably looking to apply to the college of Arts and Sciences and i live about 30-45 minutes south of Philly and Row out of Vesper and stop by the UPenn boathouse occasionally, if this helps at all.</p>

<p>PLease keep the Comments coming!!!</p>

<p>Yep, looking good.
Everyone will tell you that you have killer activities, so I won't belabour the point.
Just two things:
With colleges like Penn, your weighted GPA will matter very little, so I would post your unweighted in the future.
And the only weakness I see in your app right now is SATs. Since you still have time to boost your scores, here's how I got a perfect SAT CR: read. A lot. Get a subscription to NYT, Time, things like that, and try reading cover to cover. Have some novel to piledrive through.
I mention this tip only because I see so many people going out and buying loads of practice tests and wasting their time doing those rather than actually improving the skill in question.
And keep in mind that even if you get a 2400 SAT, no one's a shoo-in. But I still think you've got great chances.
Good luck!</p>

<p>Thanks for the response cooledge, my counselor said that our school only sends the weighted GPA, but my uw should turn out to be (by my own calculations) in the high 3.8 - low 3.9 range including the college courses ive taken and will take. Without these college courses its around a solid 3.79-3.8. Should i still try to send it anyways, and anyone else how do my chances look??</p>

<p>classicalguitar8 your chances look good go the academic calculator for the ivy league that should give you a really good idea of your chances</p>