Did I Screw Up?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Alright, so I just finished my first year of high school with somewhat mediocre grades (3.05 gpa) due to being extremely lazy and lacking the forsight at what may come from my poor efforts. </p>

<p>My school offers no honours courses.</p>

<p>My course load was this:
Alg 1
English 9
Comparative Cultures
Spanish 2
Biology
Photo 1
PE</p>

<p>Next year I will be doing:
Geomety
Alg 2
Spanish 3
Western Civ
English 10
Chem B
Electives</p>

<p>If I manage to get the straight As I know I'm capable of, and continue that with more rigourous courses in my Junior and Senior year, while combining all of this with good ECs, do you guys think I can still have a shot at Wharton?</p>

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<p>if you do get straight As (or almost straight As) then yes</p>

<p>although you may still be competing against those who have a good freshman year as well, so you will have to make up for it by doing exceptionally well in your next three</p>

<p>dont be lazy</p>

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<p>Yeah, certainly not gonna be lazy again.</p>

<p>What are some good summer econ/business programs I can do over the coming summers?
By the way I am going to an american school based in london</p>

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<p>Wharton has a program. IMO you’re better off getting a job than doing a summer program at some college though.</p>

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<p>Wharton maybe not so.</p>

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<p>Can you give more detail please cdz512?</p>

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<p>Btw I go to a very competitive private school with over 15% of students going to ivy league schools and many moregoing to top schools.</p>

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<p>Are you at a top prep school by any chance?</p>

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<p>no honors courses and no AP courses. You’re swimming up a waterfall with that. I doubt Wharton is sympathetic to bad high schools. I mean it’s in their best interest that you don’t bite off more than you can chew by coming there.</p>

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<p>There aren’t really any aps available to sophomores, but if all goes well Ill be taking 4 junior year</p>

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<p>What I mean is that you have a B average in school for the first two year and you don’t have any honors courses. You will be competition for acceptance with students who took all honors and even some who took APs as freshman and sophomores. Even if you go to a top school, it doesn’t help that you have a 3.05 GPA.</p>

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<p>3.05 was my gpa freahman year, I haven’t started sophomore year yet, those are my planned courses that I’m taking this coming school year.</p>

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<p>Necro… he just said he goes to a school where 15% go to ivies.</p>

<p>If you get near a 4.0 for the next 3 years you have a shot, a slim one, but a shot nonetheless.</p>

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<p>someone predisposed to laziness wouldn’t enjoy wharton imo</p>

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<p>Rferns, I don’t believe a statistic like that. Nevertheless, if it’s true, he is even more screwed because a school that sends 15% to Ivy schools probably has plenty of kids who are doing better than 3.05 gpa.</p>

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<p>Necro, sorry, I mis calculated, 45 of the last 360 graduates went to an Ivy, so 12.5%.</p>

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<p>Stanford won’t look at yr freshmen yr grades, but i think they look at the gpa of all 4 yrs. not sure though…</p>

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<p>nychica, please read the name of the thread you are on. We are not talking about Stanford (nor did anyone mention Stanford).</p>

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<p>wow…did u honestly think i thought i was on the stanford thread…?</p>

<p>the point is, penn looks at fresmen grades–stanford doesn’t, so maybe the op should try there. the op probably understands that that was what i was suggesting</p>

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<p>I had a low GPA freshman year too… they care more that you show significant improvement from freshman to senior year. Just work as hard as you can!</p>