getting recruited to any ivy (UPENN)?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok so here's the situation; i've decided to apply ED to UPenn this fall to the Jerome Fisher program, secondary school is SEAS. I play soccer at the highest level possible (played with the U17 US national team even) and i don't wish to relinquish this by going to college, i still want to play. My stats are already solid and i think i have a good chance of getting in but i know that being recruited HELPS!! your application, but i have no idea how to go about getting recruited and thats where i need you guys help, thanks in advance.</p>

<p>PS..my stats are as follows:</p>

<p>Student:</p>

<p>URM: Yes (Black/ African American)
Gender: Male
Graduation Year: 2008
High School: Private
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top private schools ( most go to SUNY)
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 95.274
GPA - Weighted: 3.926
Class Rank: Guidance counselor said 2nd
Class Size: She didn't tell me</p>

<p>Scores:
(Sat scores are from last year....get new scores in TEN DAYS!!!)
SAT I Math: 700
SAT I Critical Reading: 640
SAT I Writing: 660
SAT II Math Level 1: 740
SAT II Physics: 690
No APS offered at my school, only honors...will that hurt? (I've taken all the honors at my school so far)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Soccer (12 years) 4 year varsity starter and captain. 2 State Championships with club team. All Borough and All City freshman year. All Sate in sophomore and junior years. All Region this year.
President of Chess Club
Capoiera (14 years) President of school Club
Music : Part of school orchestra, played guitar for a little under 8 years
Founder and President of a peer-to-peer tutoring program at school
VP of Computer Club
Own a Web/ Graphic design Company (Urbonikz.com) for 3 years
Office assistant for Heather J Best CPA
Over 200 hrs of volunteer/community service</p>

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<p>SAT not so good
ecs r ok
AA will help if Penn uses dat</p>

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Class Size: She didn't tell me

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<p>Can't you guess?</p>

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<p>show interest by contacting the coach and asking if u could possibly be recruited, and yes if u get recruited u will get in bc athletes dont really have to meet any kind of university academic goals.</p>

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<p>sansan...sorry for the newbie question, but what's AA?</p>

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<p>oh and duygu...i would say class size around a couple hundred; 200 or 300 tops. It's a small school about 800 students tops</p>

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<p>o lol AA is this system where some universities prefer minority races (aka black and hispanic, etc)than others during the admission process</p>

<p>nothing wrong with dat, but u know , it really helps!</p>

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<p>AA = afirmitive action</p>

<p>per NCAA rules, you cant get recruited until your junior year ends (im pretty sure this is correct)... afterwards, contact the coach, send tapes, resumes, recs from coaches, etc.</p>

<p>URM+Recruited Athlete... wow, good chances</p>

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<p>ooo ok duh!..wow i just had a slow moment, lol. Crouton i have heard of those NCAA rules, but some of me teammates mainly juniors, but even some sophomores have already signed letters of intent for schools like UMD. Stanford, and Duke, so that's why i posted. I was wondering if their was a way of being recruited that i didn't know about, hehe!? But thanks for the adivic, i have alread started filming my games and i even emailed some coaches already. And my coach tells me every practice that w/e school i want to go to he'll harass the coach until i'm a recruit...lol</p>

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oh and duygu...i would say class size around a couple hundred; 200 or 300 tops. It's a small school about 800 students tops

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<p>Ok, cool :)
Your rank is pretty impressive then, by the way.</p>

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<p>ur into Penn no doubt about it. U17 Nationa Team?! I'd consider even going pro, maybe even aim a little higher than Penn</p>

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<p>If your SAT went up on second try, you'd have as good a shot as any, even without being recruited. With recruit, even with SAT as is, I'd bet you're in.</p>

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<p>sandyrun yeah...i play with coach john down in bradenton, we might go to the world cup in Asia this year <em>wink wink</em>, but yea i don't really want to go pro, i mean i wont be stupid if someone gives a decent offer, but i really love penn. I love Philly i love the atmosphere I LOVE IT!! And the Jerome Fisher Program...ITS MADE FOR ME!!! lol....thats really my dream school, i would go there rather than play pro, go to hyp, mit, stanford ANYTHING! lol, yea yall could say I'm a UPenn groupie.</p>

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<p>start working on your essays now ! I think you have a good chance.</p>

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<p>How're you getting your SAT scores in 10 days? The March SAT scores aren't up till April 4th.</p>

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<p>the march SAT scores are available online on the 29th, it says that on the collegeboard site</p>

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<p>Keep on trying man...if you give up, you'll never succeed...but if you don't try then you'll never fail!!!</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>The fact that your a minority will help you a lot. Take the SAT again this fall...make sure critical goes up and you'll get in. Good luck.</p>

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<p>your in imo. your sat scores are a bit low but you have incredible ECs. what position do you play?</p>

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<p>URM+athlete+rank/GPA= good chances. </p>

<p>concerns:
-your sat scores are too low for M&T and are consquently you're out of the running. (I don't think AA helps that much for M&T specifically)
-you selected SEAs as backup. You don't seem to be interested in engineering and this puts a damper on the situation. Would you perfer to go to wharton instead of engineering? I think I heard somewhere that Wharton takes in many of Penn's recruited athletes.</p>