getting into UpENN

<p>Okay, I am a Philadelphia Public School student (junior) and I want to apply to UPENN for Early Decision;
I took my SAT 1= Reading 630
Math 650
Writing 700
overall 1980 =( 1st time taking it</p>

<p>I also SAT 2's;
Biology 620
Chemistry 630
Spanish 760</p>

<p>I am an International Baccalaureate Program student, all my classes are IB/AP classes; like TOK, Psychology, History, Language, English, AP Calculus, AP Physics I am taking senior year and this year I took AP Chemistry, and sophomore year I took AP Biology.
when I took the AP Biology test I got a 3, this year i took AP and IB tests for Chemistry (still don't know the grades but let's assume for AP Chemistry test I got a 4).
for Volunteering I volunteered a whole summer of my sophomore year in a Library, this summer volunteering in American Cancer Society</p>

<p>Senior Year I might be Editor of my school newspaper.
My overall activities ;
Tennis= 9th, 10th, and 12th grades
Spanish club= 10th grade</p>

<p>My GPA is 4.08 and my rank in my school in 3rd place. </p>

<p>My awards were;
I got 2nd place in my school's Shakespeare Oratorical Competition 11th grade
I got 3rd place in UPENN's Neurology Dept. Brain Competition 10th grade</p>

<p>I don't know what I am missing, want to apply to UPENN college (not like wharton school or anything). </p>

<p>what do you think??? anything else I should do?</p>

<p>I would definitely take the SAT again to at least 2200 to join competition. Study hard before your 2nd time because you don’t want to take it too many times. More EC’s where you achieved leadership would be good too. For tennis, have you gone to any tournaments, won anything?</p>

<p>What’s your unweighted GPA, cause the weighted GPA seems kinda low for the amount of weighted courses you’ve takenl. It should be around 3.9+. But definitely take the SAT again (as well as some subjects)</p>

<p>Thank you, i was thinking of studying for sat again but what if instead of SAT taking again, I could take an English subject test in october and shoot for 750 above, and then that will show that i got english subject test 750+, then on actual SAT 1 i already got a 700 in writing, and that could seal it rather than take the whole sat again?</p>

<p>That won’t work. The English subject test is different than the Critical Reading section of the SAT reasoning. The Subject is more specifically on literature (poetry, prose, etc).
The two should be thought as separate; you need at least 2200 on the SAT or so for an Ivy League school.</p>

<p>Penn likes students from Philadelphia schools and even offers free-ride mayor’s scholarships. One of my Penn classmates, from South Philly, got in because she did Lithuanian folk dancing. (She majored in anthro and wrote a senior thesis about the Mummers.) Can you take an evening class at Penn or come to a summer program? Let people get to know you. Good recommendations can carry a lot of weight.</p>