<p>I'm looking for complete honesty as to my chances at Penn ED. Thanks!</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
State: NJ
School: Competitive Public
Major: Biology or Biochemistry (premed oriented)</p>
<p>GPA: UW-3.84, W-4.18
Rank: Top 5% of class of around 700</p>
<p>SAT I: M-800, CR-760, W-740
SAT II: Math II-800, Chem-800, Biology-740
APs: Physics B-4, English Language-5, Chemistry-5, AP Calc BC-5, Computer Science A-5, Biology (Taking), English Literature (Taking), Statistics (Taking), Art History (Taking), Latin V (Taking), Computer Scienc AB (Taking)</p>
<p>Recommendations: Counselor - Awesome, Teachers - English (very well known by adcomms, gives amazing recs), Chemistry (10th grade teacher who I've known very well, I didn't have her for AP Chem though)</p>
<p>Supplemental Recommendations: One from professor who I've researched with and another from a JSA advisor. Both will be outstanding. </p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Clubs:</p>
<p>-Science Olympiad (11-12)
-JSA (9-12)
-Medical Professionals Organization (10-12)
-Science Competitor's Club (10-12)
-March of Dimes Youth Council (10-12)
-Central Jersey Math League (11-12)
-NJ Science League (10-12)
-Chemistry Olympics Competition(11, year of AP Chem)
-National Honors Society
-National Latin Honors Society</p>
<p>Leadership:</p>
<p>-Co-founder of Science Olympiad last year, President this year
-Director of Debate for JSA (11) and Vice President (12)
-Regional Leadership Positions w/ JSA (11-12)
-Officer of Medical Professionals Organization (12)
-Officer of Science Competitor's Club (11-12)
-Officer of March of Dimes Youth Council (12)</p>
<p>Other:</p>
<p>-Volunteer at local hospital, senior center, and with March of Dimes for a total of over 200 community service hours.
-Summers of 10th and 11th grade were spent researching at Rutgers University in microbiology. Around 600 hrs. of lab work.
-Spent one week during spring break 2007 volunteering at a children's hospital in India in a poor, rural locale.
-Robert Wood Johnson Mini-Medical Program
-I write expository articles for JSA on various political subjects. I'm going to send some of them in as supplements along with my research.</p>
<p>Awards/Honors/Competitions:</p>
<p>-USNCO Semi-Finalist
-2nd Place at Chemistry Olympics
-Team placed at State Science Olympiad
-Finalist at the North Jersey Regional Science Fair
-National Latin Exam: 9-Silver, 10-Gold, 11-Gold
-Qualified to take AIME (11)
-Several Best Speaker Awards for JSA
-March of Dimes Chapter commended by Governor Corzine for outstanding fundraising efforts
- NMSQT Semifinalist
-Other awards I must be forgetting
-Submitting research to Siemens/Intel </p>
<p>Thanks in advance for responses</p>