Chances for Penn ED? (I'll chance you back)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So I've decided to apply to Penn ED, and I would really love to know if you all think I have a shot!</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>None of the school's I've gone to have done rankings!!</p>

<p>SAT: 2310 (going to retake)
SATII: Literature: 750 Math II: 720 Chem: taking in November
Unweighted GPA: 3.6*
Weighted GPA: No idea
AP**: Psych-5, EngLit-4, EngLang-5, Microecon-5, USGov-5. (By the end of senior year I will have Calc AB and BC, Physics B and C, Chem, USH, Visual Art, and if I can get my school to administer them, Spanish, German and maybe Latin. I test well and plan to have nothing lower than a 4 on any of these.)</p>

<p><em>I know this is awful, and that it might just be a deal-breaker.
*</em>I went to an IB school for my freshman and sophomore years, so those are all from my junior year. </p>

<p>ECs/Sports</p>

<p>Gr.9/10:
V. Ice hockey (captain and MVP sophomore year)
V. Field hockey (state all-star freshman year)
Duke of Edinborough
over 100 hours community service
social services club
amnesty international (only 9th)
model UN</p>

<p>Gr.11*
club ice hockey, captain</p>

<p>*this was a really difficult year for me. I switched into a huge school about a month late, and there's no excuse, but I really have nothing which is terrible because it's the most important year. Needless to say I spend a lot of time freaking out about this, but there's nothing I can do about it now except work as hard as I can to make up for it. </p>

<p>Gr.12</p>

<p>school forest (eco. clean up)
SPIDEE (diversity awareness education)
student review board- secretary (student government)
club ice hockey- captain
knitting club- founder/president (tutoring special needs kids)
volunteer work at the senior center</p>

<p>Essay and recs:</p>

<p>I really don't want to sound cocky, but I think I can write a great essay.</p>

<p>I just started at a new school (my family moves a lot) this year, so I had to get recs from junior year teachers who I had for less than a year. However, I am extremely confident in their caliber (AP English and AP Government teachers)</p>

<p>P.S. I want to do pre-med and major in Chem. and Bio. (unless that's too much in which case I'll switch right over to just chem)</p>

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<p>Anybody have any ideas? Can somebody give me a comparison of my chances if I apply ED at Dartmouth instead?</p>

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<p>My only question is this- why would you retake the SAT with a score of 2310? All Ivy League schools are pretty much reaches for anyone. You are probably not going to improve your chances much by trying to raise your score to a 2400.</p>

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<p>I think Dartmouth would be more reasonable. Penn values more than anything your academic transcript.</p>

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<p>I think you have a great chance at U Penn:) However there will be many applicants with many scores like yours.<br>
Chance back?
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<p>Psychodad: I guess it’s personal more than anything. I just want a 2350+. </p>

<p>That’s one vote for Dartmouth. Anybody else?</p>

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<p>Bump! (10char)</p>

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<p>I think it’s interesting that you are getting letters of rec from an English teacher and a government teacher when you want to do setting completely unrelated to both of those classes.</p>

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<p>I know, but my junior year I couldn’t take AP Chemistry or AP Physics because at the school I was attending at the time, Government/Economics was a junior year requirement and it was taught during the same period. So now I’m at a school with no physics at all (studying it on my own) and an AP Chemistry teacher who’s known me for all of a month. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it. My precalculus teacher was kind of cold and aloof, and I don’t really see him as the recommendation writing type. </p>

<p>Honest to god, I love chemistry so much. I mean, I enjoy studying chemistry more than I enjoy watching television or playing hockey. I know my choice of recommenders doesn’t convey that, but it’s been a struggle for me to decide on any of my teachers at all, having had them for such a short time. I don’t want admissions officers to think I don’t really care about what I want to study. I was hoping that I might demonstrate interest in my essay.</p>

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<p>Penn is bigger, and potentially a better shot for you with a larger and more diverse applicant field. I’d like to be harsh and say its a Reach for now, even ED. Its not your numbers, its just that similar numbers and titles do tend to show up within admission offices. </p>

<p>As I say with others, try and make yourself seem like a person, and not a name on a list. If you do that, your chances jump. Best of luck, and hope the '13-'14 application season goes well for you!</p>

<p>Chance back, if you feel like it?
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<p>PS: A 3.6 ain’t a killer. Seen many a kid around my school (competitive, magnet) with not much better and acceptance into Ivys or that sorta level. Sure, maybe they have hooks, but point being, a 3.6 isn’t worth losing sleep over or calling “awful” just yet.</p>

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<p>U have a great chance there. I think u should look for higher ones …</p>

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<p>Higher whats?
I can’t tell; Was that sarcasm?</p>

<p>Thanks TypeRA! That was a really encouraging response. It’s not harsh to say it’s a reach. I know. </p>

<p>(bump)</p>

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<p>Bump again…</p>

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<p>Bump again!</p>

<p>(Dartmouth: 1, Penn: 1)</p>

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<p>You look like you have a really good chance! </p>

<p>Chance me back please!</p>

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<p>I forgot to mention that I’m proficient in English, Spanish, Latin (self-taught) and German (self-taught) and I’m currently teaching myself French. </p>

<p>I love French, man. It is so much fun to speak French.</p>

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<p>DO NOT retake a 2310 (for lack of a better word, it makes you like like a ******).</p>

<p>I’d say you have just as good a chance for Penn or Dartmouth ED as anybody else.</p>

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<p>Soze you just made my entire week better I adore you. </p>

<p>and I won’t retake the SAT</p>

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<p>Bump (again).
Please help me out guys. Any input on the Darmouth ED vs Penn ED thing would be hugely appreciated.</p>

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<p>with your stats it seems as if Dartmouth might be a better place to apply for ED since penn really values the gpa but a 3.6 isnt too bad</p>

<p>please chance me back!</p>