Ed Chances Please!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>thank you for clicking, but now read and reply! pretty please :)</p>

<p>i'm a taiwanese american female, rising senior in one of the most competitive public high schools in georgia. i'm choosing between biochem/molecular biology and biomed at the different schools i'm applying to, but i want to do biochem at upenn!</p>

<p>sat: 2240; 690 cr, 780 math, 770 writing; retaking the sat in october
sat ii: 780 match iic, 740 bio-m; taking chem in november and possibly retaking bio, but this is primarily for other schools or if upenn defers me (hopefully not)
act: 33; 35 english, 36 math, 32 reading, 27 science; i think i'm retaking, and upenn doesn't superscore the act right? (i know some schools do... i want to get rid of that horrible 27 with a 32 from another seating)</p>

<p>rank: 7-8/530ish
numeric avg weighted: 99.69ish
ap classes: 4 world history, biology, calculus bc, english language, english literature, chemistry, physics b, statistics (all by end of senior year)</p>

<p>extracurriculars
1) clubs
student council
junior varsity math
varsity math
science olympiad
orchestra
fencing team
beta club
national honor society
spanish national honor society
fiddle team, but i quit lol</p>

<p>2) leadership
freshmen year:
junior varsity math team secretary</p>

<p>sophomore year
varsity math team secretary
student council representative</p>

<p>junior year
varsity math team vice president
science olympiad vice president
student council treasurer</p>

<p>senior year
student council president
nhs treasurer
varsity math team president (we didn't have elections yet, but i'm positive i'll be pres)
science olympiad president/vice president (possibly, no elections yet)</p>

<p>3) music
all state orchestra member for consecutive years
all county orchestra member for consecutive years; junior year i was associate concertmaster; sophomore year i was associate principal 2nd
governor honors program semifinalist for violin
royal schools of music diploma (some exam i used to take every year and got a license to teach)</p>

<p>4) athletics (i don't think i could get recruited though...i didn't fence very much this year because my junior year was hectic)
georgia high school fencing league state champion (freshmen)
georgia high school fencing league state runner up (sophomore)
ranked 6th in the state overall in epee at ga state games
junior olympic qualifier 2007</p>

<p>5) volunteer
volunteer 120+ hours at hospital three years in a row, was the captain of the program last year. the hospital is the 2nd or 3rd best pediatric hospital in the nation
food drives at the biggest sit in dinner in the world during holidays
local nature center
peer tutor biology at school
school renovation... me and student council girls painted all the girl's bathrooms at school... i don't know if this is very relevant but it was interesting lol</p>

<p>6) awards
wellesley college book award
discover card tribute award semifinalist
monte jade society award winner
uga merit scholar
national american miss finalist</p>

<p>7) miscellaneous
graphic design... i designed my school's homecoming posters and invitations
fence both epee and sabre
play piano and saxophone as hobby</p>

<p>other schools i plan to apply to (for sure):
duke
brown
johns hopkins
georgia tech
washu
ucla
cornell</p>

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<p>You're in good shape...it's a crapshoot though</p>

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<p>No one can guess anymore. For 2012 & 2013 admissions will be at the hardest they ever were due to the baby boomer's. good luck, literally</p>

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<p>bumping... give me some feedback please.</p>

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<p>bump again...
i'm adding on to my extracurriculars</p>

<p>national american miss georgia pageant:
1. academic achievement winner
2. talent 4th runner up
3. most recommendations winner
4. state finalist award
5. national american miss and all-american miss pageant qualifier</p>

<p>please more feedback! i'm in LOVE with penn and hope that i have a good shot.</p>

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<p>national american miss and all-american miss pageant qualifier? and "varsity math"? not possible.</p>

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<p>well, it is! :)</p>

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<p>you're me competition for sure. we will both be in. ED.</p>

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<p>wow, CC is the most intimidating thing ever invented. If you are for real, you're in at wherever you apply. I say go for HYPS too, but that's just imo.</p>

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<p>good, i am being for real. btw, what does imo mean?</p>

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<p>Do you have friends?</p>

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<p>wow an attractive smart asian female, I might be in love already. haha I'm only a junior but your resume looks pretty impressive. you might want to think about retaking your SAT's and scoring a bit higher like above 2300 because that would put you in a better category. your GPA and course load are very impressive.</p>

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<p>O snap, I got in with the exact same SAT score except move 10 points from CR to Math.</p>

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<p>can someone tell me my chances for the jerome fisher program? :)</p>

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<p>if you don't make it into penn as a bio major it is because of your lack of focus. There is no passion whatsoever in your ECs, but rather a scattered list of this and that. I don't see any support for your desire to be a bio major, but then again your recent question about M&T shows your sporadic nature. You originally say bio, and now you are thinking business and engineering? If anything I could see vegalos, but M&T? If you want your application to be defined, it is necessary to know exactly what you want to do, and have your entire application support your goals.</p>

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<p>m&t? it's all about those essays.</p>

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<p>if i apply to a joint program, between both science/technology and business, would it look weak if i didn't have econ in my first semester senior schedule? i'm planning to take econ during the 2nd semester, probably ap macro or possibly regular (i didn't have room in my sched for first semester).</p>

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<p>don't bother taking econ in high school unless you actually want to. you'll need to take it over again at penn, and probably at a higher level.</p>