Chances for Wharton/Huntsman

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>do i have a shot at Wharton or even a glimmer of hope for Huntsman International Studies and Businessif I ED there…
if I apply to Wharton but get rejected can I still go to regular UPenn?</p>

<p>ACT 36
SAT 2340, V800 M760 W780
SATII’s Math IIc800 Chem 800 US History 790 Chinese 760
PSAT 240 (if you take best scores from soph and junior year) otherwise 229</p>

<p>GPA 4.0 school doesnt weight
all honors or AP’s and 5’s on all tests. (US History, Chem, Bio, Calc BC, Phys M & EM, Euro History, Comparative Gov.)
next year is a pretty standard rigorous curriculum.
AP English, Micro/Macro, World (maybe) and math and science at a local university.</p>

<p>the problem with my transcript is my foreign language. i took one year of french freshman year, and one year of chinese sophmore year. After that I didn’t take any language classes junior year because of scheduling and am not sure if i’m going to pick it up again next year.
I do speak chinese at home though…
Not sure how much that helps me.</p>

<p>EC’s</p>

<p>Debate (started soph year, Captain 2 years) Debate camp during the summers
Band, Marching and Regular. 4 years (section leader occasionally. me and another guy keep switching chairs in each next audition)
Science Olympiad (also started soph year, done well personally but our team as a whole is not so hot. co-coptain next year maybe?)
1 year JV tennis, and going to be 3 years of track. not varsity.
10 or so years of piano (decently good at competition, nothing amazing.)
Quiz Bowl 4 years. (only varsity senior year though)
National Honor Society
Founding Model UN next year (hopefully this’ll work out)</p>

<p>Awards Type Stuff
nationals at Chemistry Olympiad
qualified for AIME, not sure my exact AMC scores i’ll have to dig those up
won a Detroit Free Press Writing Competition</p>

<p>Freshman year i did pit orchestra and robotics which were both huge commitments esp. robotics which was almost 30 hours per week. I don’t know if i should put these on the app at all since i didn’t carry on with them, but i don’t want my freshman year to be blank and these were the things that stopped me from doing other things.</p>

<p>approx 150 hours of community service mostly as a teaching aide at the local chinese school.</p>

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<p>If you apply to huntsman, you can choose additional consideration by EITHER wharton or the college, contigent on your rejection from Huntsman, you cannot be considered by both schools.</p>

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<p>Incredible SATs, increadible GPA, decent to good ECs, I'd say you have a very very good chance.</p>

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<p>To be honest, the stats are completely normal/avg for huntsman.</p>

<p>The ACT is pretty rare though, I hear there are less than 3-4 dozen kids in the states with a perfect ACT.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure about Huntsman because I don't know too much about it but I'd say your chances for Wharton are looking very good.</p>

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<p>I think the language thing will be an issue because that's a huge part of Huntsman. They will prefer that you select a language that is NOT your native language, especially if it is Chinese because that's the most common one.</p>

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<p>Why wouldn't they want you to choose a language that's your native one? It would make more sense to do so, since they expect proficiency prior to college entrance. I seriously doubt anyone can be fluent or proficient at a language after 4 years of high school unless it's their native tongue. Futhermore, they expect you to study a semester in a school in the country in which that language is spoken.</p>

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<p>nj, they want you to expand yourself not limit yourself... go read the hunstman site it's all there</p>

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<p>Proficiency is nothing near fluency. They want you to explore languages that aren't your own. It is possible that you can be admitted with Chinese, but then asked to switch to another target language.</p>