<p>you may try to rework on your essays. your stats are very good and your class rank is #1. no reason you don’t get strong recs from counselor and teachers. i would say it may be due to your essays. here is the post from upenn’s board:</p>
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<h2>I attend an Ivy and assisted in the admissions office last year. The vast majority of people on this board believe that their (or their child’s) essays were excellent, but I can tell you from experience that excellent essays are very rare. I’d say around 5% of the essays are excellent. About 40 percent are terrible. The rest range from adequate to slightly above average. The applicant who truly submits a series of excellent essays receives a trememdous boost. I suspect that those accepted with an SAT below 2000 were those with truly excellent essays, and those rejected/deferred with an SAT above 2200 were those with very average essays. That’s how it worked in our office. </h2>
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