Chances of Acceptance/Penn Engineering

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<p>I was just wanted to know what you guys at college confidential think my chances are of being admitted to the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering as a Chem. Eng. Undergrad. Here’s some of my info:</p>

<p>BLACK/MALE
NEWARK NJ… THE HOOD
RANK: 3 OUT OF 154
V610 M710 W730
SATII CHEM 630 MATH700 LIT600
weighted gpa: 4.51</p>

<p>APS Taken:
Senior:
AP Psych
Calc AB
English Lit
Spanish Language
U.S. History</p>

<p>Junior:
AP Chem</p>

<p>Soph:
AP European History</p>

<p>ECS:
 Co-Coordinator for the new “Vocabulary Expansion” program.</p>

<p> Co-Director for the “new” Forensic Science/CSI Club.
 Bookkeeper for Construction Company.</p>

<p>Peer Leader(2005)  Winter Indoor Track (Nov 2004-Jan)</p>

<p>Spring Varsity Track (Feb 2003-May 2003)</p>

<p>Recreational Basketball League (Ym-YWHA North Jersey Champions) (Nov 2004-Jan)</p>

<p>Fall AAU Basketball (September 2003-Nov 2003)</p>

<p>JV Basketball(Nov 2003-May 2003)</p>

<p>Keystone State Basketball Camp-Summer 2003 5 days</p>

<p>Intramural Volleyball-2004-2005</p>

<p>Intramural Football- 2002</p>

<p>SEA SCOUT/ SAILING CLUB</p>

<p>Chess and Games Club (2002-03-04)</p>

<p>1st Honors Award (13 times) </p>

<p>National Hispanic Honor Society Member( La Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica) (May 3, 2004-…)</p>

<p>Member of the Venture Scholars Program</p>

<p>National Society for High School Scholars Member</p>

<p>Scholar Athlete Award 4 times</p>

<p>President’s Education Award Recipient-(recognizes Outstanding Academic Excellence) 3 times.</p>

<p>Inducted into the National Honors Society 2005</p>

<p>County Finalist/State Finalist/Accepted and attended the NJ Governor’s School for Engineering and Technology(Summer 2005)- intense 4 week summer program focusing on engineering/internet technology/matlab/robotics/programming/seismic structures and physics</p>

<p> Recipient of Juniors achieving Honors for Three Consecutive Marking periods Award-2004-2005</p>

<p> Recipient of the Certificate of Distinction for demonstrated excellence in the area of Internet Technology from the NJ Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers University</p>

<p>Community Service/Volunteer Work
Thanksgiving 2003- Volunteer to help feed the elderly at senior citizens’ home in Newark.</p>

<p>Christmas 2003- Volunteer to help feed the elderly at senior citizens’ home in Newark.</p>

<p>Halloween 2004- Help prepare goody bags for children in local school district.</p>

<p>Esopus Weekend 2004- Spent weekend before beginning of the school year incorporating freshman into school community.</p>

<p>Esopus Weekend 2005- Spent weekend before beginning of the school year incorporating freshman into Roselle Catholic High School community.</p>

<p>Assisted the guidance department/counselors- every day of school year.</p>

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<p>Based on your stats, since i do not know you, lol... I would say strong. You seem like a talented writer even though your Verbal may be on the low side. You are engineering so I dont see that having an effect. I would say good chances. The Governor's school is prestigious among your other accomplishments.</p>

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<p>thanks for the constructive criticism man, it is really appreciated.</p>

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<p>where is the helpful PENN Criticism....??????</p>

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<p>u guys are dead</p>

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<p>um.. test scores are a little bit on the low side.. but id say URM could work to your advantage.. also if you can turn your ECs and scores into something cohesive on your app.. thatd be great (since clearly youve done a lot of things all across the board)..</p>

<p>you can never be sure at penn.. they reject perfect sat scores and valedictorians on a regular basis.. but nonetheless.. you have a shot</p>

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<p>your great, thanks for the reply, and good luck.</p>

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<p>did you apply early decision? if you did, then your probably in since your african-american and scored a composite of over 1300 (math and verbal) on the SAT. Class rank is really good too. I've seen other urms who have slightly better test scores than you (670m, 670v) who get into yale, stanford etc. I'd say your a shoe-in if you apply ed, if you apply rd you have a pretty good shot as well (though not as good as ED).</p>

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<p>Scores are on the low side and you don't have much in the way of really meaningful ECs...I'd say your chances are okay though, because of rank/GPA/URM.</p>

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<p>Very impressive class rank and overall good stats. I'll see ya at Penn! (I'll be the one with the bucket and mop)</p>

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<p>I think the URM and Rank will probably get you through, but I'd still retake the SATs and the SATII math. Engineering schools are stringent about SATs more than non-engineering schools and Penn SEAS is no different.</p>

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<p>Penn is very interested in hearing specific, personal, persuasive reasons why you want to go there. </p>

<p>In other words, why Penn SEAS as opposed to any other engineering school?</p>

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<p>Wait asec... I saw this same thread in the MiT section of this site...</p>