Chances at Penn (Wharton), Harvard, Pton, and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<ul>
<li>Background
Asian-American female
Average public school in California
Most rigorous courseload</li>
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<p>-Stats
Rank: 39/900
GPA: 4.0 UW/4.3 W
SAT: 2330
ACT: 36*
SAT Subjects: Math II (800), US History (800), Lit (750)
APs: World (5), Calc BC (5), USH (5), Macro (5), Micro (5), Eng Lang (5), Bio (4)
Senior year schedule: all APs</p>

<p>-ECs
FBLA: state officer, 1st place at nationals (twice)
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Interact (community service club): school president, led efforts to raise $5K last year, coordinated countywide service project that gave over 2,000 hours (collective) to the community and reached out to over 8,000*people</p>

<p>Piano: 2 regional awards, played for 10 years - no significant accomplishments though</p>

<p>Summer activities:*
2 residential college credit programs in finance - not selective though</p>

<p>Jobs:*
town newspaper field reporter (since 10th grade)
summer intern at Chamber of Commerce (mainly phone calls and paperwork, nothing meaningful)</p>

<p>Other Awards:*
Scholastic Silver Key (wrote a memoir of childhood experiences)
Prudential Spirit of Community (community service award - state level)
National Merit (expecting finalist)*</p>

<p>***<em>I'm concerned about my rank. My school gives a 5.0 for any community college courses, so there are tons of kids who take 4 CC classes in the summer...and I can't compete with that level</em>of rank whoring, even though I've taken the hardest classes available. Also, I don't have a lot of breadth in ECs, but decent depth.
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Chances at:
Penn (Wharton) - ED
Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
UChicago
Dartmouth
NYU (Stern)
Emory
WUSTL (Olin)</p>

<p>Thanks for your insight and advice.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Bump, please. I’d like some fresh perspectives on my competency for Wharton and other schools.</p>

<p>Also, sorry about the random asteriks. I didn’t type them, so I don’t understand how they got there in my final post :(</p>

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<p>Your testing stats are excellent, and they’ll definitely make your application appealing. As you said, you aren’t as involved with the number of clubs others are, so make sure that in an essay you really highlight how devoted you are to each of your ECs (or maybe one in particular). I think if applying ED, you definitely stand a chance with Wharton…and I think your chances are really high with Cornell, UChicago, NYU, Emory, and WUSTL. The others are slight reaches (as they are for everybody), but you still have a good chance. If anything, see if you can get more recognition for your ECs.</p>

<p>If you have some time: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/965150-chance-me-please.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/965150-chance-me-please.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Very strong scores, but unless you go to a top feeder school, that rank is going to hurt you a bit</p>