<p>see, finally someone agrees with me, any others?</p>
<p>The thing that makes me iffy about spending so many hours on essays of all things, it just seems to me like they wouldn't be... spontaneous. I mean you can spend 50 hours on those 500 words making sure every letter is in its exact place, but wouldn't it be kinda boring? To me, it seems a spur of the moment essay would be much more original and interesting.</p>
<p>Hey don't bash the kid -- he's right. People with stats like his get rejected at top colleges too, you know, and a lot more often than you may think.</p>
<p>Regardless, if you can show you're really enthusiastic about what you do, and you can show your genuine interest in business and that you know a lot about the school and really want to go here, you'll have a great shot. Definitely incorporate the One University philosophy as a way to elaborate on the breadth of your interests.</p>
<p>Your EC's are perfectly fine, in my opinion. I think at this point the admissions officers would be primarily concerned with whether or not you're an interesting/genuine person and not just a studybot. What I've usually seen is that people who can talk a lot about the school itself and apply it to their interests have quite good luck (that is, show you've done your research and aren't just applying for the hell of it -- really give a good argument for why Wharton is right for you).</p>
<p>In other words, make everything as interesting and convincing as you can, and there will be no real reason to reject you at all :)</p>
<p>If you can do that, you'll have a much better shot. Good luck!</p>
<p>ED ought to help you out a lot. It overcomes the asian male thing applying to wharton....</p>