Chances?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Hello! I applied to CAS for early decision and intend to major in Health & Societies, concentrating in health policy. I am sort of regretting because the early decision acceptance rate for the Nursing School seems to be about 80%. Oh well, too late now T^T If I DO get accepted, though, I am thinking of doing dual degrees at the Nursing School and the College</p>

<p>Asian Male (International Student, South Korea)
Competitive private high school. Was once mentioned in the Wall Street Journal for sending many grads to Ivy League schools.</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.18. Decent but not stellar compared to others.
Took 3 classes at a university, but unluckily the Korean high school system doesn't allow the courses to be included in my transcript. Could've boosted my GPA T^T</p>

<p>SAT: 2290 (CR 770 Math 770 WR 750) OMG Am I really an Asian male?
SAT2: Chem 800 Math II C 800 World History 800
AP:
5: World History, Chem, Macroeconomics
4: Psychology, environmental science, Microeconomics
3: English Language </p>

<p>Awards:
AP International Diploma
Translation Competence Certificate
Merit Scholarship given by the school
Letters of commendation for volunteer service
Various awards in and out of school
Leader/Founder of Translation club</p>

<p>Extracurriculars and Volunteer Service:
Internship at Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul National University
Caring the disabled (150 hours)
Volunteer in Korea-Kazakhstan Goodwill Hospital in Kazakhstan (20 hours)
Volunteer translator for a human rights NGO (300 hours)
Translated and published a book
Published two research papers on health care, one on school academic journal and one on a national journal</p>

<p>Essays:
Commonapp long essay: 4/5.
Commonapp short answer:4.5/5. Wrote about translation. Unconventional.
Why Penn: 5/5.
My interviewer, who used to work in the admissions office at Penn, said the essay was great. My only hope lol
Which Professor: 3.5/5. </p>

<p>Recs:
Waived my rights, but teachers write regular reports on their opinions on our progress, so I think I can see the general picture.
Counselor: generic I guess...
Teacher 1: 4.5/5.
Teacher 2: 4/5</p>

<p>Extra recs:
I got two supplementary recommendation letters from professors at Penn from whom I took classes. I guess the letters are generic. Got good grades though. </p>

<p>Interview: It went nicely, but interviews don't really count, do they?</p>

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<p>For CAS, i’d say things look great. Good luck man</p>

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<p>Are you applying for financial aid?</p>

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<p>did u ever get to read those supplemental rec letters from the Penn profs? if so, how are they? length-wise AND content-wise?</p>

<p>btw, i think u stand a pretty good chance there. good luck. good luck to us all.</p>

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<p>skyykh> no, I am a non-financial aid candidate. Applying FA as an international student is mad, isn’t it?
yournamehere> no I didn’t, or coudn’t; one professor hand-delivered the letter to the office, and I asked the other professor to seal the envelope.</p>

<p>may the force be with us all :)</p>

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<p>your chances are pretty good (in fact, you seem to be rather similar to me: 800 Math II 800 Chem, though I managed a 2340 SAT :stuck_out_tongue: and interest in premed with good volunteering and research background and my GPA is also good but not top notch = 4.19)…I really do hope you get in b/c if you don’t then my chances are low too haha…</p>

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<p>nj> our stats look similar. agreed. hope we both get in :stuck_out_tongue: but I’m not doing premed though.
only 1 day and 17 hours left. OMG</p>

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<p>The translation stuff is pretty unique. You obviously have a great shot, but unfortunately nothing is definite.</p>

<p>gad, have you decided what you’re doing about finding out the decision? Just waiting until 6am?
My host sister said maybe I should just sleep all afternoon tomorrow so that if i stay up waiting for the decision, I won’t be too tired the next day (sooo busy Saturday, ugh).
I hate being on the other side of the world for this decision!! 5am sucks…</p>

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<p>scribbler> think I’ll just go to bed and wake up at five, and call the admissions office and explain how I can’t access the Internet. then I’ll ask them to tell me the result.
I do not know what to do when I stay up all night and wait for the decision. The electricity goes out at 2:00 A.M. I obviously have nothing to do in between. lol My school sucks kkkk</p>

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<p>Er, still pretty sure they won’t tell you over the phone…but you can try, I guess.</p>

<p>Wait, your electricity goes out at 2, as in your can’t turn your lights on?? (what about alarm clocks haha?!)</p>

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<p>Alarm clocks run by batteries, don’t they? :slight_smile:
I believe I can still depend on my alarm clock.</p>

<p>As for finding out the result… I’ve seen someone finding out his result via phone at Harvard, so I guess that is not impossible.</p>