<p>I am applying to Penn (Arts and Sciences) Early Decision
Ethnicity: Hispanic (mother is from Peru/Spanish is spoken at home) Did not request financial aid
SAT I: 670 M(grrr..), 730 V, 800 W= 2200
SAT II: 700 Literature, 670 Biology (M)
AP Biology: 5, AP U.S. History: 5, AP Goverment: 4
ACT: N/A
GPA: 3.8 UW (I don't know what it is weighted, school doesn't weight..)</p>
<p>Senior Schedule
AP BC Calculus
AP European History
AP Spanish 5
Physics
Classical English Literature (School doesn't offer honors english)</p>
<p>Junior Schedule:
Honors Precalculus
AP U.S. History
AP Biology
American Authors
Spanish 4</p>
<p>Sophomore Schedule:
Honors Chemistry
Honors Algebra 2
World Lit.
Spanish 3
AP Government
Freshman year: honors math and all that good stuff</p>
<p>Awards:
Haverford College Book Award
Kodak Young Leader Award
2 Outstanding Delegation in Model UN
AP Scholar</p>
<p>Clubs/ Activities
Model UN- President
Gay Straight Alliance- President
Conduct Board Senior Member
Student Ambassador to my school
Habitat for Humanity volunteer (summers)
SCUBA certification/ advanced open water
Drama- in several plays
YMCA volunteer (summers)
Hostess at local restaurant since grade 10</p>
<p>Yes, my school does not offer many APs. The only AP/Honors at my school that I didn't take were AP Chemistry, AP Statistics, AP French, and Honors Physics (only offered every other year.)</p>
<p>Are my SATs too low for Penn? Even with being Half-Peruvian?</p>
<p>They're not too low and you know it. Also, don't include race as a factor, if anything it'd be based off of your socioeconomic class if your scores were "too low", and since you're not requesting Aid it's safe to assume you're well off, so don't include "too low" and "even being half-peruvian" as an excuse, although it will help regardless.</p>
<p>I think you have a pretty decent shot: URM, good ECs, GPA, (I'm assuming rank), and good SAT/AP scores, so I don't see why you wouldn't have a shot. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Well, it SHOULD be based off socioeconomic class, but I kind of think that even if a hispanic student is in no way disenfranchised, they are accepted with lower SAT scores. But yes, you are right, it most certainly is not a legitimate excuse, but colleges will look at those scores from a hispanic person differently than they would a white person, as far as I know anyway.</p>
<p>I don't know for sure, but my friends who're applying ED to the Ivies said they find out online on Dec15.
Good luck. I think you have a good chance...but I don't know much about chancing.</p>
<p>Hey, I'm half hispanic also and I have the same SAT combined as you...I didn't apply ED to Upenn though so my chances will probably be lower. I really hope it's true that our scores are above average for UPenn? But anyway, everything looks good! I hope you get in. GOOD LUCK!!!</p>
<p>PS - What major are you considering? and where else will you apply? Just wondering. I'm applying to many other schools...</p>
<p>History is my intended major. I am applying to Haverford, Middlebury, Northwestern, Tufts, Dartmouth, OSU (already in Honors), Michigan, and Duke (my brother goes there.) What about you? What is your SAT score broken into sections??</p>
<p>cool, my intended major is International Relations and I'm applying to: UNC-chapel hill early (got a likely letter but I don't want to go there because I'm in-state lol), Duke, UPenn, Yale (my first choice), Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Brown. Basically most of those are schools I absolutely love but am not expecting much from...heh. & my SAT was 700V, 710M, 800W (2210).
but yeah the only thing I am worried about is my SAT score and class rank that's been messed up because of my student govt. class which is standard weight and not honors. I really hope they do look at ethnicity though, if it helps at all.. but I'm only half so who knows?</p>