Official Canadian Penn Thread

<p>How many Canadians here? </p>

<p>Which province are you from? </p>

<p>Stats? </p>

<p>Which school? </p>

<p>ED/RD?</p>

<p>Any questions? </p>

<p>I have one...to those applying for financial aid, what is "university school" and "graduation date" on the application for Canadian citizens?</p>

<p>How many Canadians here? </p>

<p>Well there’re two now =)</p>

<p>Which province are you from? </p>

<p>British Columbia. represent!</p>

<p>Stats? </p>

<p>GPA: 93.6/100
Ranking: Top 5%, exact rank unknown
SAT: CR 730 M 800 W 800 Total 2330
SAT II: Math II 800, Physics 800
ACT: N/A
Course Load; Would have taken every AP course offered at my school by graduation</p>

<p>AP/IB: Microeconomics 4
Macroeconomics 4
Psychology 4
Calculus AB 4
English Composition and Language 3 (=( )
Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction
Fermat Contest National Winner
AIME x 2
CMO x 1
numerous medals from table tennis tournaments and in-school awards</p>

<p>Leadership: President of Math Club,
Captain of Varsity Table Tennis team, President of recreational table tennis club
Co-founder and co-president of school’s tutoring organization
Community Service: Youth camp counselor, 200 hrs
School teaching assistant, 150 hrs
Other Notable ECs: Basketball writer/ freelance translater (11,12)
Officer of Student Council (11,12)
Community Youth Committee (12)
JV basketball (9)
Ethnicity: Asian
Applying for Financial Aid</p>

<p>Special Circumstances: Low-income (15k), recent immigrant (3 years ago)
Gender: Male</p>

<p>Which school?</p>

<p>Wharton</p>

<p>ED/RD?</p>

<p>ED</p>

<p>Any questions? </p>

<p>@powerbomb Why don’t you post your own stats first? =P</p>

<p>To answer your questions: 1. the specific university college that you’re applying to (Wharton in my case)
2. the month/year that we’ll graduate from that college if accepted.</p>

<p>Oh, also. We don’t have to submit the CSS PROFILE if submitting the FA application for Canadians, right?</p>

<p>I guess I should post my stats too, eh? </p>

<p>2240 superscored (770 CR, 740 M, 720 W)
4.4 WGPA/ 3.9 UWGPA
SATII: US Hist 750 / Math II 700
AP Scores: 5/5/5/5/5/4/4/3
Major ECs: Took gap year to go to Thailand to work with an organization on human trafficking
-Worked at an at-risk youth centre as a regional coordinator and sat on the city’s board
-started a radio show for youth and sold ads, etc.
-interned for elections
-districts debate
-Science olympiad
-tons of community service
-first clarinet/district band</p>

<p>Which school? CAS - international relations</p>

<p>@Mathematicism - yup, no CSS profile unless your parents are divorced in which case you would need to fill out the CSS noncustodial form.</p>

<p>btw, it took me 15 minutes to fax in my financial aid application…a lot of people must be faxing things in right about now…</p>

<p>^ Well there isn’t a strict deadline for financial aid application anyways. It took me about that long to fax in my FA materials too. How many pages did you have?</p>

<p>32 pages including the cover sheet.</p>

<p>Wow. Where did you get that many? Mine only had 23 pages including the cover sheet</p>

<p>I don’t know, I just gathered all the schedules, T1, T4, etc and it came out to be 32 pages…though I attached a letter for section K of the application to explain special circumstances.</p>