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<p>Hi all, I hope I’m doing this right. Please let me know my chances RD at Wharton, or the college, any suggestions would be helpful. thanks</p>

<p>Math- 800
Reading-710
Writing-760</p>

<p>SAT II’s
Math IIc- 800
US History- 800</p>

<p>Top 30 school in NJ (send about 4-6 ivies a year), 300 kids in my grade- no ranking
GPA Weighted- 94.234 (I know…) but there is a huge upward curve.
Fr- 89
so- 94
jr- 98</p>

<p>AP’s
Macro- 5
Micro-5
US gov- 5
comp gov- 4
Euro-5
Composition- 4
My school doesn’t offer AP’s to sophomores, so all of the above are from junior year. Also, the only ones i took in school as part of a class were Composition, and Euro- all the others were not offered so I self studied. </p>

<p>Senior year-
AP Spanish, AP Calc BC, AP Biology, AP US History, AP Literature</p>

<p>Freshman year- 2 B’s (Spanish, math)- does freshman year count?
Sophomore- All A’s</p>

<p>EC’s:</p>

<p>Freshman:
JV Baseball (season ending injury in my first V game)</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Captian of DECA Quiz Bowl team and Consumer Bowl Team- South Jersey Champions in my first year (Sophomore)
DECA Quiz Bowl- 6th in state
DECA- 1st in the state International Business Plan
DECA- fourth in the state E-Commerce
70 hourse community service
JV and V baseball- knee injury in county championship- wasn’t allowed any more baseball</p>

<p>Junior year-
DECA VP- chapter of over 150 kids
DECA- 1st in state marketing management
DECA- 1st in state quiz bowl (second year as captain)
DECA- 1st in state International Business Plan (defended my title)
DECA- 1st place in international competition International Business Plan- officially became #1 in the world.
Consumer Bowl- southern jersey champions (captain)
50 hours community service
560 hours working at a bank- accounting, loans, and certified teller</p>

<p>Senior year-
Same as last year, im out to defend my titles. </p>

<p>Also- last summer i worked at a hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. Awesome experience</p>

<p>Considering my EC’s primarily have to do with business, would it seem odd to the College if i apply there? It’s just that Wharton is sooooo hard to get into (not that the college isnt, but you know what i mean) that i dont want to risk losing all my chances at penn by applying to Wharton. I really would love a degree from the college (interested in the pol science, economics, philosophy major, but my preference would be Wharton).Thanks.</p>

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<p>Great scores, wow @ that trend in grades, your GPA isn't bad to begin with anyway. You've got a great shot, but Penn's an ivy league and it's been getting tougher to get into every year so you never know.. I DEFINITELY would try for Wharton though--for one, admissions officers might think you're trying to backdoor into Wharton, and also, you'd have a good shot at Wharton so you should try it if that's where you want to be!</p>

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<p>ya, everything looks good</p>

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<p>awesome, thanks a lot</p>

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<p>depends on how your school weights. at my school, that weighted GPA would be only decent.
My school adds 10% to all honors and AP classes. If your school does something similar then that is definitely the weakest point of your application. It will put you in the lower end of that category.</p>

<p>Make sure the rest of your application is solid and cross your fingers.</p>

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<p>mine isnt quite as much. AP's get 8%, honors get 5%- still quite a bit.</p>

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<p>yeah you have some sick ECs for business so id definitely say apply wharton since you have a lot of experience and some interns.</p>

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<p>thanks for all the input. Another thing I should probably mention- im an indian male applying from NJ- does that change things? I moved to the country in 1997, and although Hindi was my first language, I can no longer speak it- but I can understand it (soon after being born in India, I moved to Thailand and then came to US- but i went to international schools so I learned a lot of English).</p>

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<p>bump, bump, bump...</p>