<p>ughh that sucks so much teslasnake. I feel for you =(</p>
<p>I am also an asian male, my SAT score is a 2380, I have a near perfect GPA, great EC's, yet none of those were why I felt I got into Wharton. I worked hard to make sure that Stetson and the rest of the adcoms knew that I wanted to go to Wharton for a specific purpose, and that I was choosing it over other schools also for a specific purpose. I truly think it was my essays and conversations with them that got me in. No I do not have legacy, I don't think I come from a reach area (public school in Sacramento?) I just think they might have seen something in me, and they saw something in the other people that they admitted. Still, while it sucks to work so hard and then not get in, don't dwell on it. Wharton11, making another thread about the subject isn't going to help. It's not healthy, and I'm sure that you're a perfectly qualified candidate that's going to get into a great school.</p>
<p>dopamine... how did you get to speak with stetson? Did you email him and your RD a lot??</p>
<p>1 main factor: family background.</p>
<p>If your dad owns successful business, ur chances shoot up. (direct source from a wharton admission student part time worker :) )</p>
<p>Coz think about it...ur gonna run ur dad's business, right? and thats why wharton will invest its name in you...</p>
<p>That stuff just doesn't matter -- I can attest to it, at least.</p>
<p>Wow, I applied to Jerome Fisher (Wharton if it doesn't work out) but going in, I'm thinking "I have a chance, but it's not certain." It won't be the end of the world for me if I don't get in. I know that I have a very good and affordable school (UMich) to fall back on in case I don't get in. I applied to 5 Ivy league schools. I'm not gonna go around telling many people, so I don't have to deal with the slight pain I had when I was rejected from Stanford. Michigan is good, anything else is a bonus. Some people are setting the bar unrealistically high.</p>
<p>MIT should be getting jobs...they are hardworking</p>
<p>are u serious? no hate on MIT kids, they are brilliant, but just because someone can get great SAT scores does not mean they are hardworking. You must be a fool to have that attitude.</p>
<p>I think that your father having a large and important business, or also a small family run business, can help because many times that's what drives one to want to study business. I got into wharton and I stressed how my father running his business (a large privately owned corp. in mexico) inspired me to want to learn business. I'm sure that that always helps. The question is, howver, is there a preference between a small family run business or a large corporation a parent works in or owns? (personally I think it would be wrong to favor the latter, but who knows maybe wharton figures that people with the latter will have a better chance of promoting the school)</p>
<p>Stetson was at an event in Sacramento, I was staying late afterwards to speak to the Harvard and Stanford reps, and I just saw him sitting there by himself after MCing the entire event, so I walked over, he invited me to sit down, and we spoke for a while. He basically convinced me to apply ED to Wharton. He gave me a card with his email and said to keep in contact.</p>
<p>Overall, he's a great guy, really funny and extremely convincing. I had to fight for two hard months to get my parents to allow me to apply ED to Wharton, and I think one of my teacher recs may have talked about that.</p>
<p>wow that's insanely lucky. I wish I had met him...</p>
<p>me too ^^^^</p>
<p>maybe your essays just weren't as memorable as those "crappy score" applicants. if you're not cocky about getting into wharton, why do you have "Wharton11" as your username?</p>
<p>Everybody knows they accepted them all just to hurt YOU. The whole admissions committee had a good laugh at that one and then went to the president's house for a wild coke party.</p>
<p>At the party, they bragged about the dirty things they had done with your sister, and then never called her anymore.</p>
<p>you had to battle your parents to let you apply to wharton? ***, its freaking wharton, any advantage you get by applying can only help you, why would your parents not let apply there early, its just really retared</p>
<p>They could have wanted him/her not to use up the early decision "one shot" on a school they were not confident their kid could have gotten into, and instead wanted Junior to apply to easier schools like Georgetown or Emory or Duke.</p>
<p>Conversely they could have been ultrasnobs and instead wanted Junior to apply early to Harvard or Yale.</p>
<p>Haiximei, actually, Wharton11 got rejected from Wharton, which is the reason why he/she made this thread.</p>