Is this good enough for UPenn (ED)?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Especially to the Jerome Fisher M&T program or (as a backup), the SEAS.</p>

<p>Caucasian male from NYC suberb (Westchester county)
School does not rank, but either top 5% or 10%
~96/100 UW GPA
2100 SAT, 800M/640CR/660W (w/o studying, intended retake in Oct)
SAT II's- Bio 740 (freshman yr), Math IIC and Physics waiting on results, but confident in 800 for IIC and 780-800 in Physics</p>

<p>Schedule of:
9th Grade- Math 10H, Bio H, Global History 9H, English 9H, Italian II, Concert Band, PE
10th Grade- Math 11H, Chem H, Physics (no honors offered), Global History 10H, English 10H, Italian III, Concert Band, PE (medical excuse for 1/4)
11th Grade- Pre Calculus H, AP Physics, Regents US History (no honors offered, did not like AP teacher), English 11H, Italian IV, Concert Band, Health, PE (medical excuse for half)</p>

<p>Next year- AP Calculus BC, AP Psychology, AP Macroeconomic (micro not offered), AP Italian, Sports and Literature, Science Fiction, Concert Band, Law and It's Consequences (required credit of gov), PE (possible medical excuse)</p>

<p>EC's:
National Honor Society 11-12
Italian Club 9-12
Ranked 3rd in National Italian Test for Italian I in 8th grade for non-natives
Italian Honor Society 10-12, Secretary as Senior
Math Team 9-12, Co-Captain as Senior, won state medal as Junior
Math Honor Society 11-12, possible officer as Senior
Science Olympiad 11-12
Science Honor Society 11-12, possible officer as Senior
Received Bausch and Lomb Award from the University of Rochester for Science as a Junior
Academic Challenge Team 11-12, Assistant Captain of A team as Senior
Debate Club 11-12
Habitat for Humanity 9-12, Sergeant at Arms as Junior, President as Senior
Leo Club 10-12, Member of the Board of Directors 10-12
Jazz Band 10-12
Concert Band 9-12, Secretary as Junior, Drum Major as Senior, and possibly President as Senior
3 years on Varsity Baseball (10-12, but injured both 10 and 11 and served as statistician due to injury, section champions 10 and 11)
Rec League Baseball in town
Volunteer for town baseball league and local church</p>

<p>What does everyone think? Would these be ok for Yale or Princeton as a RD?</p>

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<p>Good enough for SEAS, not for M&T.</p>

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<p>i'm not sure you can consider seas a safety, maybe a match... maybe*... practically no chance at m&t</p>

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<p>I am an international student going to ma senior in an international christian school in indonesia. i will graduate in 2006. The school i attend is really small (total 70 students). Being a small school there arent many oppurtunities. No AP courses, no clubs, and only two sports teams. Although AP Calc AB is being offered for the first time next year and i have enrolled for it. I have taken the AP Chem test, without taking the course, awaiting results. I also plan on taking AP Bio. I have taken the SAT II Chem in june, expecting 720 +. I took the SAT for the first time in Nov 2004, 590 Verbal, 690 Math. I plan on taking it again in Oct. I have enrolled in the most difficult course my school has to offer. My class rank iz pretty bad..around 5 or 6/20. Ave GPA 3.678 I have not played in any school teams because my house is a 1 1/2 hours drive from my school, although i hope to make the varsity basketball team next year. I have played tennis for years at a local club nearby. I have a total of about 200+ hours of voluntary work. 150 social service (old people's home..etc) and about 50+ hours of hospital voluntary work. Livin in Indonesia there arent any oppurtunities for research work and stuff..althouhg i would love to do sometin like dat. I have received the school math champion award, been in a musical, christmas choir, organized several fund raisers for ma class and incharge of snack shop at my school. i plan to major in bio med eng. i plan to apply to the following universities..please let me know ma chances at each..thanx
Johns Hopkins, Duke, UCSD, U Wash, Stanford, U Mich- ann arbour, Georgia tech, Rice, Case, U texas-austin, Tex AM-college station and Northwestern. Please let me know ma chances at each..i would also like some advice on how to boost ma resume...
thanx</p>

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<p>Duke/ JH/ Rice/ U Mich are all reaches, and Stanford is a huge reach</p>

<p>Definitely improve your SAT I's- they are way too low to match up with several of those scores</p>

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<p>yea i plan to take the SAT in Oct. I hope to get aleast 2100++ Math 800, CR 700+ writ 700+....what bout my chances at GA Tech, UCSD, Case?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>What kills you IMO is your easy schedule. 5 AP is just too little IMO when your competing against fellow IVY hopefulls who ALL have taken at least 10. I personally will take around 15 ap. I would say rech for UPenn ED.</p>

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<p>You don't need to take many AP classes when your school offers 'Honors' instead</p>

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<p>... Honors is so much easier then AP. Honors is designed to help you prepare for a collage course hence the term Pre-AP.</p>

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<p>Well, I'm not sure it works at the original poster's school, but I know that honors are quite significant at many of the prep schools. For example, some do not even have any AP classes available to freshmen, some do not have any AP English courses (although students still take APs), some have no AP biology (but the students take the Biology AP from honors Bio), etc.</p>

<p>What are the 15 AP classes you are taking?</p>

<p>One of the Calc classes, two Econ, 3 history?, foreign language, chemistry, physics, biology?</p>

<p>What more?</p>

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<p>world History, APUSH, BIO, Phyiscs IIC, Micro Economics, Government, Comparitve Government, AB Calc, English III, English IV , Stats, Psychology, Environmental science</p>

<p>Hmm looks I miss counted. Oops -_-. 13 AP.</p>

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<p>At my school, a relatively small public school, the opportunity to take a lot of APs is pretty low due to certain requirements. They are only now making the Environmental Science AP available, and only for freshman, next year. Also, they would not let me take AP Macroeconomics this past year, then they wound up not having enough people, so nobody was able to take it and they dropped the class. We dont offer Micro, and we only have an AP English. The AP English class at our school is taught poorly and our English department is pretty poor overall, so I dont see it as really being helpful. When I visited Penn, I spoke to a student in the Fisher program, and she said that I would probably be fine without it. Honestly, my problem has been that my guidance counselor, who was really horrible, left after last year. She forced me into AP USH, which I didn't wanna take because I hated the teacher. The teacher is very biased and grades unfairly if you are a Republican (which I am). Hence, I didn't feel it would help me to be in that class. If I had known that I would drop AP USH, I would have taken AP Psychology last year and another AP this coming year in it's place (probably Chem). Another thing is that the school is adding AP Stat this coming year, but there is no room to fit it into my schedule because of the way the classes are spaced out (English electives and Social Studies electives are every day for a semester, but PE is every other day for the entire year. I could probably manipulate the PE classes to be every day for a semester, but I did that this year, got hurt, and got like no PE.</p>

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<p>Also, as I forgot to mention, there are a lot of prerequisites for AP classes in my school. To be able to take AP Bio, Chem, or Physics, you must have completed the regular class of all 3 (or be concurrently enrolled in physics and AP Bio/Chem). A lot of this works against the possibility of taking massive loads of APs.</p>

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<p>"What kills you IMO is your easy schedule. 5 AP is just too little IMO when your competing against fellow IVY hopefulls who ALL have taken at least 10. I personally will take around 15 ap. I would say rech for UPenn ED."</p>

<p>I got into the M&T program this year and I had 1 AP class (Calc). Plus, I'm an international :o from canada....so, Metsfan you're in much better shape with 5 APs...</p>

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<p>Maybe internationals dont need aps? lol -_-</p>

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<p>I think you are a shoe-in to Penn, 99.5% acceptance rate for you.</p>

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<p>Im not jealous or anything, but I dont think ANYONE is a shoe in to Penn</p>

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<p>True</p>

<p>Not a definitive top 5% of class and only 2100s also makes the original poster far from being a shoe-in</p>

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<p>The reason I may not be top 5% is that my grade is the first really competitive grade in a long time with a lot of overachievers (a lot of whom happen to be Asian). In my school, some of my teachers use tests to take points away, rather than to give them to you. I have lost at least 3 pts on my history grade this year because my teacher insists that he is right, when he is wrong. Also, the 2100 is without preparing at all, which I will do before taking the October SATs.</p>

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<p>THE CAT!!!!!!!
speaking of those over-achieving asians why don't you take APs out of school like that psycho Beck</p>

<p>btw the validictorian you speak of has been forever blessed with good things and happiness so he will help all future applicants from our school</p>

<p>time to actually do some work at work cya</p>