<p>Do I have a chance?
3.6 UW GPA, 3.9 W (low, but I go to the best school in the west coast/ top 10 in USA so our deans tell us that It'll be low)
2120 SAT, going to retake it
740 SAT us history
720 SAT Bio E
I think I stand out in the ECs</p>
<p>Internship: invited twice to work at UCLA robotic surgery office as an intern,
paid intern in a design firm in Amsterdam (by myself, in a whole different continent, does it look good?)
Varsity Fencing 4 years, Junior Olympics 3 times
club fencing too, total fencing 5x a week
Honor Society, Honor Roll at school, AP Scholar with Honors
Spanish Honor Society
Editor at our school newspaper (past 22 years we have won best in state/ USA)
Captain of FRC Robotics team. I'm the only girl in the team/first in the teams history to be a captain...is this a perk?
First language is Polish, hold a polish passport, parents escaped/smuggled from the communist state.</p>
<p>Part of Christian Club at school, Chinese pen pals club
Expect to have very good letters of rec</p>
<p>White Female.
Do you think I can get in, or would I be wasting my ed?</p>
<p>What’s your class rank? I realize that your school may not rank but you should be able to determine whether you’re in the top 5%, or Top 10%. The rank, given the huge variation in grades among high schools, is more important than the GPA. I expect that your school subscribes to Naviance. If so use it to see how well previous year applicants from your school did in their application to Penn. There is never a guarantee of admission to Penn. It’s a high reach for most. If Naviance suggests that 25% or so of previous applicants from your school with stats like yours were accepted then ED is worth it.</p>
<p>It’s like 50% that peeps with my stats got in! Wooot! Guess I’ll take the plunge</p>
<p>What school do you go to? </p>
<p>Everyone has a chance, but I don’t think Penn is the best use of your ED (unless you are 100% sure that you want to go to Penn and feel like its the best school in the world). </p>
<p>A few things to consider:
- Can you get recruited for fencing?
- What is your intended major? I think you can write a pretty compelling essay about how fleeing from a communist state has made you want to study economics. Your ECs make you seem more engineering minded though, so writing about that would be an option too if you consider applying SEAS. Writing about journalism could work too.
- What do you think you will get on the SAT retake? Good test scores in terms of SAT I, subject tests, and AP tests will help the admission committee understand the difficulty of your school. </p>
<p>I’m planning to be a doctor (robotic surgery is a thing, hence ucla). I don’t want to do fencing in college though. Well I’m studying for 2 more sat subject tests and they’re all 750+ On practice tests…let’s hope it’ll be on the real thing! </p>
<p>Higher SAT then you got a good chance of getting in ED</p>