<p>Chance me for UPenn and MIT!</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian (hook?)
Sex- Male
Area- North NJ</p>
<p>SAT: 2100</p>
<p>want to major in engineering</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.7
Weighted GPA: 4.2</p>
<p>Top 20% of class of 170</p>
<p>Junior Year first quarter:
honors physics: A+
health: A+
AP US: A
AP Euro: A
Spanish 4: A
Honors English: A-
AP Bio: A
Honors Precalc: A</p>
<p>Senior year: will take ap physics, ap us 2, honors english, regular spanish 5, ap calc ab</p>
<p>Extracurrics/Awards/Hooks:
1 year frosh/2 years JV /1 year varsity lacrosse (all seniors are varsity)
Asian Culture Society
National Honors Society
Key club
1 year of Frosh Football
Ultimate Frisbee Club
1 year Ski Club</p>
<p>Well, your grades look pretty decent. If I were you, however, I would try to up the SAT score a bit and how about SAT II? But since you are a junior with another 5-6 months left+ senior fall, seems like you’re on the right track.</p>
<p>I think you’ve definately got a shot at both… take the ACT!</p>
<p>Im a Junior, and from what Ive heard/seen, both will be very hard (i wanna do UPenn too, but as a Bio)</p>
<p>Get more E.C.,and show REALLY show ur interest in Engineering (Mechanical? im guessing), work at an Engineering office, even if its just scanning roll files (like i did), write an essay about how you love to construct and build and ur desire for the greatest education in engineering, and do some EC with Engineering. From ur courses, i see that AP Physics and Calc are the Engineer-y things, and thats good. Try as hard as you can to get ur GPA up,</p>
<p>to elab. on flow’s post,for U-Penn, you need two SAT 2’s</p>
<p>im taking physics and math sat iis soon</p>
<p>please identify either as high medium or low reach, match, or safety (upenn is my safety as of now)</p>
<p>UPenn is NEVER a safety, its a 10% chance of admittance. Id say its a Med-High reach for you. As for MIT, High Reach</p>
<p>being asian is NOT a hook, especially at those schools. considered an over-represented minority, actually. your class rank and sats are mediocre at best for upenn and mit. both are reaches, MIT is a huge reach. upenn is NOT a safety, honestly I would be quite surprised if you got in.</p>
<p>I have to agree on that. Its pretty dangerous to say that UPenn is a safety, with your scores(no offense). However, I guess it is still a little early to assume anything. Most importantly, keep your grades up, and boost that SAT. And maybe brush up on your ECs, they look pretty weak IMO.</p>
<p>my uncle is a psychologist and gave me a special IQ test and my result was 138. does that help?</p>
<p>not really…they dont look into ur IQ :P</p>
<p>tryout for Johns hopkins and princeton u. too…both also top-notch engineering schools</p>
<p>damn. you would think that i’d be a really competitive applicant considering that i technically near genius</p>
<p>If ur one in a million in America, there are 300 people just like you. Always remember that.</p>
<p>Looks like a joke topic to me… but I don’t know for sure.</p>
<p>How the hell do you figure Penn is a safety for you?</p>
<p>idk i just assumed it wasnt that hard to get into</p>