Northwestern to Wharton? Chance me?

Transfer Students
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<p>Hello! To start off, I would like to introduce myself first. I'm currently a freshman at Northwestern, and I would like to go to Wharton because I want a business school environment - more practical stuff instead of the theoretical. I don't think I had a good rank/GPA/SAT score in high school, but I don't know how much those matter in college?</p>

<p>Here are my stats:
SAT: 2140 - a bit low for Wharton, I know =[
Reading - 670, Writing - 750, CR - 720.
HS GPA: 4.65/4.00 weighted, 3.88/4.00 unweighted.
* my school was very competitive, so that gpa earned me rank 42/758?
bad 2nd semester senior year grades - 4 B's and 3 A's - will that hurt me?
also I'm retaking Calc 1 & 2 in college, and intro to macro too; they both showed up in my hs transcript, which is a dark side. =(
College GPA: 3.925</p>

<p>Extracurrics: </p>

<p>COLLEGE </p>

<ul>
<li>I'm on the Alumni Relations team in Institution for Student Business Education (ISBE), which is the 2nd largest group on campus/largest biz group.</li>
<li>vice chair of UN Development Programme for Northwestern's Model UN</li>
<li>applying to be a team member of the Boxing Co., which is an entrepreneur boxing company that's run by students. I'll probably get in; results come out before March 15 anyways. </li>
<li>I work for the Phonathon - I call alums and ask them to donate; I heard it sounds good on apps bc it develops communication skills?</li>
</ul>

<p>HS: </p>

<ul>
<li>Model UN - 1 award? </li>
<li>debate - won a bunch of awards</li>
<li>Junior Achievement - student entrepreneurship- Pres.</li>
<li>Business professionals of america - won a bunch of awards</li>
<li>Mock trial - Pres</li>
<li>NHS - chaired some things</li>
<li>lots of volunteering hours, including president's bronze award, worked at the place I volunteered as a Teacher assistant.</li>
</ul>

<p>What are my chances to Wharton? Yale?
considering - my retakes because my AP scores weren't sufficient =/</p>

<p>Thanks! be brutal please! :)</p>

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<p>no need to be brutal</p>

<p>the bad (or not great...there is more good so wtv)</p>

<p>wooah your retaking three hs classes in college? that, to me, seems a bit (sorry cant think of a better word) cheap to take a class in which you are already familiar with the material and kind of defeats the purpose of learning something new...i dont think this will be looked upon in a good manner by wharton</p>

<p>second semester grades most certainly will be factored into your admissions decision if you are applying this early...in fact, outside of the grades you earned this semester, they could be your most important semester grades if only because they are the most recent (outside of your semester at college)</p>

<p>the good:</p>

<p>your gpa in hs and college are quite strong...your ec's seem to be quite strong as well...sat's i dont think will hurt you all too much</p>

<p>i think you will have a shot at wharton, yale is, as im sure you know, insanely hard to get into so i dont know about your chances for there...</p>

<p>best of luck</p>

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<p>haha i'm only retaking because i didn't do well on my APs - NU only takes 5's and I had no other choice but to retake. which is why i think that might keep me out of wharton. yale is prob. a crapshoot still.</p>

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<p>i dont think ap's are a big factor in admissions, if at all, although i could be wrong...i know they arent a factor at all for nyu...</p>