<p>You should know that Penn takes a good portion of its class from its ED applicants. Although you may be well qualified, you may give up your chances for admission if you do not apply ED. If you love Penn, apply and don't look back. </p>
<p>Also, Princeton never had EA. It is an ED school.</p>
<p>The ivies will look very favorably on your work experience, be sure to let them know how you funded the summers yourself. As for the question of ED, take some time to evaluate your Dream. Better to reach for the HYP and fail than always wonder. Just accept the real possibility of a match or safety school if you don't get lucky! (Or if you have a weakness in those recs or apps.) Though it seems like a huge monolithic challenge to overcome, you will have a lovely school next year.The possibility of rejection is just a step to adulthood, a realization that the world out there is not always going to provide what you want, but can still surprise you occasionally! Good luck!</p>
<p>It's quite obvious you're extremely competitive at nearly all the schools in the nation. Even though your rank is sort of poor, considering the circumstances (grade inflation, near perfect SATs/SATII's) I would not worry about your academic profile. Considering that you took 4 AP exams I'll assume your courseload is quite rigorous, hopefully extremely rigorous for your school. If you were to apply ED to Penn, Columbia, Duke, Cornell, etc. you'd nearly be a lock however RD they will be low reaches/ high matches. Harvard and Yale are reaches....if you don't want to apply ED for fear of paying you may want to SCEA Yale. Good Luck.</p>
<p>wow thank you so much.</p>
<p>another thing is that i got three 70's and 1 65 in freshman yr...and my 10th and 11th year i put blood,sweat and tears and got really upper 90's and since AP's add .10 percent that even helped more so i boosted up my grade to the 95s and also in 8th grade i took 3 high school courses and earned 98s in them so that helped too..but im still scared because of the poor grades in freshman yr</p>
<p>hey guys i was wondering if i even stand out at all? and if i do what makes me stand out?</p>
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<p>Harvard is a roll of the dice. I know kids who have NO hook and ok scores and I know people who are legacies who are morons and I know really smart kids who are at the school. You need to do something to better your chances but once you are in the pool who you are and what you did is irrelevant.</p>
<p>so does anything bout me stand out? if so wat</p>
<p>sports- tennis--ranked number 1 in public school leauge--won many awards</p>
<p>That's what stands out....</p>
<p>anyone/anything else?</p>