Is there any hope? Please chance UPenn ED

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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Objective:

ACT (breakdown): 34 (35/35/32/33)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.80 uw/4.25 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
APs: US History, Research, Human Geography, Seminar, Chemistry, Macroeconomics
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish, AP World History, Honors Biology, International Relations
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Honor, AP Capstone Certificate, some school recognition

Subjective

Extracurriculars:
President of Student Body in Student Government (3 years)
Vice President of Asian Society (1 year)
Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Computer Science Club (4 years)
President of Human Rights and Culture Group (2 years)
Captain and MVP of Varsity Tennis (4 years)
English and Writing Tutor (2 years)
Harvard Model United Nations Participant (3 years)
Member of Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Business Society (4 years)
Member of Gold Key (campus tour guides - 4 years)

Job/Work Experience:
Worked as a bus boy at a restaurant for one summer
Founded my own landscaping business the following summer, been running it for two years now, projected revenue for the year around $20,000
Spent most recent summer working as a Tennis Pro

Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteer Tennis Instructor (80 hours total)
Volunteer work for Dennis Historical Society (about 120 hours over two summers)

State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Private Boarding
Ethnicity: White, Hispanic
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: >200k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM

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Are you attending one of the elite boarding schools in MA? I’d say high match for Penn if so. Also, which school are you applying to? Your interests are fairly broad, so it’s hard to tell.

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@aoeuidhtns Thanks for the insight!! I’d be applying to the College of Arts and Sciences. Would this help or hurt my chances?

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If you are Asian, the bar will be higher for you. You have the right stats, now work on your essays.

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@preppedparent the Asian cultural EC threw me off, but the applicant lists ethnicity as White, Hispanic

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then I think your chances are greatly enhanced.

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Another thread from this applicant lists his ethnicity as Asian, from Korea.

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Haha speaking of which… this thread says “White, Hispanic” whereas Tufts says “Caucasian” and MIT says “Korean.”

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@renaissancedad, @aoeuidhtns yeah sorry for the confusion, I let my Korean friend use my account for a chance me thread and for Tufts I wanted to see what people would think of my application w/o being a URM

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Your academic rigor is a little light. Calc AB not BC, no Physics. GPA is a little light. I think at best you have the same chance as everyone else, less than 10%. Good luck