Chances for Wharton?

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<p>Hi, I know there's about a million of these posts on this boards, but I'm curious about my chances. Right now, I don't really think I have a very good chance, but I hold on to the hope that a good essay will get me in. I am currently a junior in high school, so a lot of this is just projected. I plan on applying ED in the fall (I know that helps my chances a lot).</p>

<p>GPA: 95.3 unweighted, 98.2 weighted (Top 5% of my class))
SAT: Just took this yesterday, but I got a 217 on the PSAT, and I'm projecting a 1500/2200.
ACT: Haven't taken yet, no idea what to expect.
SAT Subject Tests: I've taken Biology-M and World History and gotten 700s on both, but I don't plan to submit either. Taking Math II and Physics this year and should get above a 750 in both.</p>

<p>APs: Haven't taken any prior to this year (only AP World History was available), but currently enrolled in Physics B and Enlgish Lang. Next year I'm enrolled in Physics C, BC Calc, US Gov, Macroeconomics, English Lit, and French, as well as College Accounting and Business Administration.</p>

<p>ECs:
Varsity Spring Track (all 4 years, captain)
Varsity Winter Track (Soph-Senior, captain)
MSG Varsity Club (Soph-Senior, founding member and holder of multiple board positions)
French Honor Society (Junior & Senior, probably a board member next year)
DECA (Junior & Senior)
Community Service Club (all 4 years)
National Honor Society (Senior)
Business Honor Society (Senior)
Wall Street Investors Club (Senior, might have a small board position)</p>

<p>Recommendations:
I plan on getting recommendations from my track coach (who is also my physics teacher), a different school teacher, and my neighbor who is a Wharton grad and is on the alumni board</p>

<p>Awards:
High Honor Roll every quarter (so 12x)
Scholar Athlete Award (7x)
10th Place in National French Competition (probably going to place higher this year)
Various art awards in Computer Graphics
Probably going to at least be National Merit Semi-Finalist</p>

<p>Work:
Floor Hockey Ref (2010-present)
Camp Counselor (2012-present)
I also design t-shirts/ads for my aunt's screen printing business</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Tutoring
Community service</p>

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<p>EC’s look really shallow based on what you posted here. I’d say your grades are great, the SAT, if above 2200: is solid, if above 2300: is good. The 700’s on the SSAT are weak, I’d say shoot for a 780+ on math II,( they really like math) and above 750 on the other ones. I’d say the weakest point right now is the ECs, you really need to flesh those out and show some leadership and show how you have led the clubs/ what you have done in those clubs.</p>

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<p>Well, I’m captain of two varsity sports, currently on the board for one club and probably for another one or two next year. To show more leadership, would I have to do something special with those clubs?</p>

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<p>SAT Subject Tests: I’ve taken Biology-M and World History and gotten 700s on both, but I don’t plan to submit either.</p>

<p>You’re required to submit all scores for SAT and ACT.</p>

<p>I plan on applying ED in the fall (I know that helps my chances a lot).</p>

<p>Actually not.</p>

<p>Why do you even want to go to Wharton? I don’t see any reason in this material.</p>

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<p>Well, as you can see from Penn themselves at [Incoming</a> Class Profile - Penn Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/apply/incoming-class-profile]Incoming”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/apply/incoming-class-profile), ED definitely does help. And I don’t know why knowing why I want to go Wharton matters to you, but I would like to go there because it is the best business school and I feel it would set me up for a great future.</p>

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<p>Regarding EC’s, schools like Wharton don’t care if you are the president/board member of 10 clubs, and they don’t necessarily care how much time you put into them (for example, your 500 hours for a community-service club aren’t going to be a big deal); they do, however, care if you do something VERY special, such as leading your DECA team members to place well at internationals or doing <em>meaningful</em> researches (notice the word meaningful)-something that 99% of high school students don’t do.
To be honest, you don’t stand a very good chance, unless you do something spectacular in the upcoming few months.</p>

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<p>Gonna have to disagree with these guys. Your EC’s look ok (I know people with worse EC"s, myself included, who have gotten into Wharton ED). The real thing that could kill your application are your test scores and grades. Even though my EC’s were on the weaker side like yours, I had pretty dang good test scores (2390 SAT, 35 ACT, 3 800s on subject tests) and good grades (rank 3/405) to make up for it. Getting to the point, if you really want to get in, you better jack up your test scores.</p>

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<p>You’re getting clobbered on here. That usually happens when someone post in here how worried he is about his chances then reports pretty strong stats.</p>

<p>You are in the zone if everything pans out as you predict. Then your chances are what they are, no one can put a number on it. Just know you did your best. </p>

<p>And write great essays. Don’t go pursuing clubs and grades and things based on input from here so far. You’ll just drive yourself crazy.</p>

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<p>I got deferred ed with similar stats so all in all wharton is pretty random and hard to get into</p>

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<p>Yeah, there’s really not anything major I can do EC-wise at this point. I’m just going to stick with what I have, try to get the best grades I can, and see what happens. If I don’t get into Wharton, there’s plenty of other good colleges that will take me.</p>