improving chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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I am currently a freshman in high school involved in varsity weightlifting and Habitat for Humanity. I currently have a 3.825 unweighted GPA and I am involved in very rigorous courses. My courses for next year are as follows:

English 2 pre ap
Ap environmental science
Ap physics
Ap Calculus ab
Ap Art History
German 3
Ap world history

I am a first generation American with both of my parents from Germany. None of my parents have graduated from a 4 year college and I would be the first to do so.

I know the University of Pennsylvania is a long shot, along with the other Ivy league schools, but I was wondering if there is anything else that I can do to improve my chances of getting in to the University of Pennsylvania or any other Ivy league school. Thank you in advance.

2

start a company, get a job and work there all through high school, making something historically relevant to Germany so you can make a really powerful essay? What are you passionate about outside of school, what do you love to do?

3

What is your life like, what is hard, what is easy? These are things to think about when trying to figure out who you are as a unique applicant. Your parents moving from Germany is unique I think.

4

It was tough with my parents being from Germany because the immigration that arose from it. At 8 years old I had to testify to a court on my family’s behalf to stay in the U.S.