<p>I'm fairly sure Penn is my first choice and I am going to ED Penn come Fall. Yes, I did post this in the "My Chances" forum but I wanted a view on my chances to get into Penn from people experienced with the Penn process. I'm well aware that admissions can be rather unpredictable but I'd like to know if I have a shot.</p>
<p>CAS</p>
<p>Class of 2010
Ethnicity: Asian
State: NY</p>
<p>GPA: 96/100 for 9-10, don't have updated with 11th grade yet (W, school doesn't UW)
**Rank: **Top 5% in competitive public highschool (we send upwards 20-30 kids to ivies). ~550 in class. (School doesn't rank and that's the best estimate)</p>
<p>SAT:
Superscore: 2320 (M: 790, CR: 750, W: 780)
Highest oneshot, 2210 (M: 790, CR: 640, W: 780)</p>
<p>SAT IIs:
Bio/M: 700
Chem: 720
Math 1: 700
Taking US History, Math II and possibly Lit in June.</p>
<p>APs:
World: 3 (9th grade)
Euro: 5 (10th grade)
Took Physics B, English Lang and US History this May
Next year: Taking 5 APs- US Gov, Macroeconomics, Lit, Calc BC, Chem/Bio (undecided)</p>
<p>EC's<a href="bleh">/B</a>
School Jazz Band
10 years playing piano, 7 years playing alto sax- passed level 5 NYSSMA on Piano and level 6 (highest) on Sax.
Model Congress Debate Team (Vice President)
Science Research (Doing experiment at Hofstra for summer) **Maybe
120 hours volunteering at Chinese School
100 hours volunteering at local hospital (currently, will have more)
National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine
Graduated Chinese school-bilingual.
Blackbelt in jujitsu (7 years learning, stopped 2 years ago)
[Summer Internship at Bank this summer]</p>
<p>Commended/Semifinalist (got 214 on PSATs)
National Honor Society
Italian Honor Society
Eventual AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<h2>Random question: How much better would it look if I got my Jazz Band director to make officer positions just so I could throw it onto my resume? (I hereby declare myself president of jazz band...)</h2>
<p>If it helps at all, I'm a strong essay writer (11 on my SAT essays, should've gotten 12 >.>) and I also have a separate English tutor who'll help me with it.</p>
<p>My guidance rec will definitely be the best, tight with her, she also was my brother's counselor so I've actually known her for like 8 years now.</p>
<p>Teacher recs: Kinda a gamble? My sci teacher's attitude towards me seems hot/cold depending on the day, but she did write me the letter which got me into the summer research program...so I dunno. English teacher will probably write a good one, our personalities are very similar (not sure how great that is though haha) and he's had me for two years now. (9th and 11th)</p>
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<p>Junior Year Classes/Grades (1st 3 grading quarters)
AP Physics B- B,A,A
AP US History- A,A,A
AP English Lang- B+,A,A
Honors Calc-prep class (the prerequisite in our school for BC)- A,B+,B(meh), getting an A+ so far in last quarter
Italian 4H- A,A,A
Research- A,A,B+</p>
<p>Those are the significant ones...the other less significant ones (Band, Health, Gym) are all A+s. </p>
<p>Sorry for long post and thanks for viewing :D.</p>