ED or RD?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I can't decide if I'm better off applying to Penn ED because of the advantage you get when applying ED. I don't know if my stats would even give me a good enough chance for ED though. My problem is also that I want to apply to SEAS, but I know my math scores are below average for a typical engineering student. So that's also why I feel like I need the advantage of ED, but might not even be good enough in that pool. Do you think I should apply ED to SEAS or just forget about engineering altogether and apply RD to something else?</p>

<p>gpa- unweighted 4.0
sat- math 700, cr 770, writing 800
math II 720, literature 750, us hist 710
ap euro hist 5, apush 4, ap environ sci 5
I've taken 19 honors or Ap classes (the most I could), and 5 AP classes this year
and I have a lot of volunteering/extracurriculars that I don't feel like listing (they don't really help me for engineering anyway)</p>

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<p>Your scores are really good (2270 SAT, straight A’s, and rigorous courseload), so I think you would have a chance at ED. Why are you interested in engineering? It seems like more of your classes were geared towards the humanities (AP euro, APUSH) and no engineering extracurriculars.</p>

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<p>SEAS will kill you unless you are very good at Math. You will be in classes where at least 50% of the kids got 800 on SAT ii, SAT and 5 in BC Calc. You will be curved.</p>

<p>In short, your life will suck in SEAS even if you get in. </p>

<p>You appear to be a great writer. Congrats! I’m jealous. Pursue something that will play to your strengths.</p>