Official University of Pennsylvania Class of 2015 ED Decisions Thread

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>School applied to: Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology (Single Degree Choice: Wharton)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] ACT: 36/36 (35-E, 36-M, 36-R, 36-S, 7-Essay)
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): complicated, but Penn saw 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): None
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Dual Enrollment for all courses. Incredibly rigorous.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): State Champion- Science Olympiad, Theatre Awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Theatre (Vice President and Director, PR Rep), Knitting Club (President and Founder), Residence Hall Association/Student Activities Club, Dodgeball Team (Captain), Soccer Team, Student Council Representative
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Cardiovascular Genetics Research
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 50+ hours in the school/community, created a project for the knitting club where we knit hats for chemo patients at a local hospital (wish I had talked about this).
[</em>] Summer Activities: Research
[<em>] Essays: I think they were memorable. Mixed reactions.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’d say strong. One teacher has constantly seen bright students, and thus I am probably not one of his best, but I think he likes me. Other teacher taught me marketing and really wanted to help me get into Wharton.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: It was there, but not especially good. Mentioned how honorable I am.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Know a little about it, but from what I know he writes a really good recommendation. He offered to write it for me, so I assume it was strong.
[li] Interview: N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public Charter/Dual Enrollment
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 250,000+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs are focused, but not numerous.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Didn’t talk about my community service initiative in my essays.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My weaknesses outweighed my strengths, but my scores are good.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ED Applicant</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>rrrreeejected! (from CAS)
they say it nicely though</p>

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<p>Deferred. Will post stats later. It was probably my SAT II scores. Sucks to be Asian.</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>School applied to: CAS</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT: 23 (I know, test anxiety > stated in application)
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/290
AP (place score in parenthesis): Two fives for U.S History, and Psych
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Heavy
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nominated Principal’s Leadership award, AP Scholar Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honors Society, Art Club, Anime Club, Elijah Cummings Youth Program, Mock Trail, Debate Team, Soccer, Tennis(2 yrs), Track, Volleyball Team Manager, Literary Magazine, Library Aid, Photography Club, Envirothon.
Job/Work Experience: Math Tutor for elementary and middle school kids.
Volunteer/Community service: Comcast Cares Day, over 100 hours of community service, has assisted school library for 3 years, volunteered for Maryland Day Election (2010), 3rd Annual Teen Summit of Elijah Cummings Youth Program
Summer Activities: International trip to Israel (Through Elijah Cummings Youth Program)
Essays: Great
Teacher Recommendation: Amazing
Counselor Rec: Amazing
Additional Rec:
Interview: Great
Other
State (if domestic applicant): Maryland
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public - least competitive
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <$30,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): African American, first Generation,
Reflection:
Strengths: GPA, Elijah Cummings Youth Program
Weaknesses: Test Scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test Scores, and my rec from Senator Bobby Zirkin didn’t work out, and Rep. Elijah Cummings did not send recommendation in time
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: um im sure I WILL be getting into College Park, Temple, Towson, and Northeastern. All safe schools.
General Comments: I really just want a decision know, UPenn wants to elongate my misery.</p>

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<p>rejected…and after everybody said that i’d definitely get in.</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>School applied to: CAS</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (760 800 740)

  • ACT: NA
  • SAT II: 800 (Math 2C), 660 (Physics)
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): NA
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 15%
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5)
  • IB (place score in parenthesis): None
  • Senior Year Course Load: 4 AP, 2 College Dual-Enrolled, 1 Honors
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President/founder of club, vice president of another, general member of various others.

  • Job/Work Experience: none
  • Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours of translation.
  • Summer Activities: governor’s school - anatomy & physiology
  • Essays: creative, if not great.
  • Teacher Recommendation: haven’t seen them
  • Counselor Rec: havent seen them.
  • Additional Rec:
  • Interview: none
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): VA

  • Country (if international applicant): Korea
  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Male
  • Income Bracket:
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths:

  • Weaknesses:
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: bad gpa due to transition periods.
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i’ve applied to penn only
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments:</p>

<p>The one I made earlier had waitlisted instead of deferred, so I fixed that.</p>

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<p>@HastyCentaur: I’m in the exact same situation.</p>

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<p>Rejected. :(</p>

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<p>Accepted wharton school!!!</p>

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<p>I HAVE SERIOUS QUESTION!
If you have been deferred can you send ADDITIONAL RECS.
I am in program with a U.S representative and worked for a Senator
they want to send recs, along with one Penn alumni.
Can they send it?</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred
School applied to: CAS</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1910
ACT: NA
SAT II: 600(Biology), 640(Math II)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.55
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 125/400
AP (place score in parenthesis): 2 AP
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 2 APs
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Track And Field
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: 100 Hours At Hospital
Summer Activities:
Essays: Great
Teacher Recommendation: Great
Counselor Rec: Great
Additional Rec:
Interview:It Was OK</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): PA
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 200,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):URM, Recruited Athlere</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: URM, Athlete
Weaknesses: SAT, Ec’s, UW GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: See Above
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision:Rejected</p>

<p>School applied to: CAS</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 700 CR 770 M 720W
ACT: N/A
SAT II: 720 Bio 710 Chem 660 Math II ( these blow -_-)
GPA: 96/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank.
AP (place score in parenthesis):4 chem 5 english lang and comp
Total AP’s: 6- Ap chem, Ap bio, Ap physics C, Ap calc B/C, Ap Lang and comp
Senior Year Course Load: Hardest course load Senior and Junior year from anyone in school.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NONE</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis, XC, Future leaders of medicine, Science League, etc…
Volunteer/Community service: usual,
Summer Activities: did a selective biomedical program, botany research at university, and doctor shawdoing.
Essays: Passionate…Enlgish teacher said it was poignant and spiritual, and he was really impressed…Supplement was REALLY Unique.
Teacher Recommendation: strong?
Counselor Rec: probably horrible, my counselor and i have akward convo’s when i need help…
Interview: akward, but ok</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Crappy Public
Ethnicity: Asian - (Indian)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: alot, did not apply for FA
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): -__________-</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: Great Ec’s which focused on medical stuff, i thought essays were unique…apparently not
Weaknesses: EVERYTHING + Crappy stats
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I SUCKED HARD
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Nowhere important…</p>

<p>General Comments: Penn is a great school, but puck fenn lol, i worked really hard on penn so that’s why im kinda disappointed, its not the rejection but the fact that i put so much time and effort into a flat out REJECTION and not even DEFERRAL. I hope everything works out in the end, but from what i’ve seen from others and my life so far…it never does.</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED CAS</p>

<p>May post stats later… I’m off to their bookstore now. :)</p>

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<p>Accepted CAS!
Will post later</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred
School applied to: Wharton</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 760 M, 750 CR, 680 W
[</em>] ACT: None
[<em>] SAT II: 770 US History, 760 MII, 710 Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6985, HPA-4.2985
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 21/425 (Top 5%)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 AP Psych, 5 AP Lang, 4 US History, 3 World History
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Most Rigorous, all Honors, AP, and College… taking 9 courses (AP Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Gov, Finance H, Marine Bio H, Physics H, Macroecon(college), Microecon(college) Journalism 7 H)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st Place District Parli Pro, FBLA, 1st Place District Business Ad, FSPA, AP Scholar with Honors</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): BBYO (International Vice President of Communications and Fundraising), FBLA (District Parliamentarian), Yearbook/Newspaper (Founded and maintain websites for both), NHS, Quill and Scroll, Blood Drive Committee, Varsity Cross Country
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked at a Medical Real Estate Development firm over the summer
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Through BBYO, I have done a lot of community outreach projects… I’m jointly in charge of running an international campaign for such.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Leadership programming and travel through BBYO, summer internship this past year
[<em>] Essays: Excellent
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>] Additional Rec: Employer from summer and an ancillary teacher rec, both great
[li] Interview: Excellent</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Not reporting.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Extracurriculars, essay, recommendations
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA and Rank
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: GPA and Rank, I’ve had a significant increase since freshman year, but they probably just want to see my midyear report
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted directly into IU Bloomington’s Kelley School of Business as a Hutton Honors College Student. Accepted into Tulane with Honors</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: Congratulations to those who were accepted, my heart goes out to those rejected, good luck to my peers in the deferral category! Hoping for March!</p>

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<p>Everyone is getting rejected/defered lol!!
Are you sure there’s no problem in the system ! like a bug or something lol</p>

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<p>deferred Wharton
2350 sat</p>

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<p>[size=+2][color=green]**Decision: Accepted & WHARTON!!![ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>Posting now because I’ve been sobbing for the last 37 minutes and making rounds of excited phone calls!! Congrats to everyone else who got in!! And best of luck to those whose received rejections and deferrals.</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2210/2400 or 1410/1600 (680 M, 730 CR, 800 W)
ACT:
SAT II: 780 Lit, 770 Bio M, 670 USH (oy…)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.61
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): valedictorian (of 153)
AP (place score in parenthesis): not sent :confused: but mostly 4s
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP French, AP Lit & Comp, AP Lang & Comp, AP Gov (aka 6 APs + Phys Ed)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): </p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): heavily involved in tennis and DECA business club
Job/Work Experience: work 16 hours a week at a local bakery
Volunteer/Community service: >900 hours in high school (probably 1000+ by the end of senior year). Facilitated 4-year-olds in a divorce/death support program that I went through when I was little. Soup kitchen, soup kitchen, soup kitchen. LOTS of time at local hospital’s administrative offices. Very, very involved at church; youngest parishioner ever to give a sermon/lead a service.
Summer Activities: Abroad with Rotary ambassadorial exchanges summers of 9th, 10th, 11th grades (to Asia, Scandinavia, mainland Europe, respectively). Community service (at the hospital mostly & vacation bible schools), and worked.</p>

<p>Essays: Personal statement on working at a bagel store. Why Penn? was eh, maybe too generic (especially considering how much I love the school)- but hindsight is always 20/20, right? And sent an unsolicited supplemental essay on a family obstacle (which was severe enough to warrant the involvement of child protective services; was not fabricated).</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation: 3 (from English, History, and Biology teachers). Guidance counselor enthused that all were complimentary.
Counselor Rec: very nice, if generic
Additional Rec: Principal of school; not sure of quality
Interview: With ’00 Huntsman grad who was a half hour late! Went fairly well- lasted two hours even after alum arrived. A little…odd, but I think the write-up was probably nice (if generic, again).</p>

<p>Other:
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public (hoorah!)
Ethnicity: Caucasian, Protestant (I know religion isn’t an ethnicity, just thought it might be interesting to include it for future CCers). Biological father is native to Africa.
Gender: female
Income Bracket: $130,000 total household income; upper middle class-ish
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Um, none.</p>

<p>Reflection:
Strengths: Class rank? Personal statement? …? Your guess is as good as mine.
Weaknesses: 680 SAT I Math score & applying to Wharton. 670 USH SAT II score (could’ve been much better, I think, had I put in the effort. Big, big regret.). White female from NJ. Very little emphasis on business interests in app.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to University of Vermont (UVM- free app/ VIP candidate), waiting on three EA schools</p>

<p>General Comments: This is surreal! Especially considering the abysmal SAT I Math score! Ridiculously excited!!!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted
School applied to: Wharton</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 790 CR, 760 M, 750 W
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 700 Math II, 740 Biology M, 700 French
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0? (90/100 on Ontario scale where 80-100 = A)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%, #1 in Gr. 11
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Not available.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Not available.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: All toughest available in academic subjects, save for Drama. (8 in all)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I was in a play that won “Best in Province” in the Sears Ontario Drama Festival?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Students’ Council 4 Years (President last 2), Anti-bullying committee 4 years (cofounder, cohead), MUN Club 1 year (founder, president), Gr. 8 RCM Piano, lots of theatre, some radio
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Local theatre academy workshop leader, sales associate
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: None really.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Aforementioned work, travel.
[<em>] Essays: I tried to make them humorous and revealing of myself as a person (and concise).
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both stellar I hope.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: A little generic but good.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None.
[li] Interview: It was very long (2.5 hours) and we both enjoyed it.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): N/A
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Canada
[<em>] School Type: 700-800 Student Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~ 130 000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None (unless rural counts?).</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Math II score.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was genuine in my essays! And I tried to make my app very cohesive (sending a solid message).
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Applied nowhere else.[/ul]</p>

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<p>[size=+2][color=green]**Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[size=+1]School applied to:[CAS]</p>

<p>**Objective:[ /b][list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): M-750 CR- 740 W- 660 (1490/2150)
[ *] ACT: DNT
[ *] SAT II: Math 1-750 Math 2-730 US-680
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/470
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5- Gov 4 - Micro, US, English 3- Comparative, Euro, World
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP - English lit, Macro, Calc BC, Stats, Physics C, Psychology. Honors - Debate
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2nd Place Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament, 5th Place Emory Speech and Debate Tournament, 12th Place National Speech and Debate Tournament</p>

<p>[ /list]**Subjective:[ /b][list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate - President 12th grade, Legislative Debate Captain 11th grade and 12th grade, Vice-President 11th grade, Executive Board member 10th grade, member 9th grade Microfinance Organization - Founder and President 11th and 12th grade Model UN - President 12th grade, Vice-President 11th grade, member 10th grade Voter Registration - President 12th Grade, member 11th grade Judaica Club - President 11th grade, Treasurer 10th grade, member 9th and 12th grade Exchange - President 12th grade, member 10th and 11th grade Lacrosse Club - Member 9th, 10th and 11th grade. Environmental Club - Vice President 10th grade, member 9th, 11th and 12th grade National Honor Society - Member 10th, 11th and 12th grade Brain Brawl - Member 12th grade Young Democrats - Member 10th, 11th and 12th grade Junior Statesmen of America - Member 10th, 11th and 12th grade Invisible Children - Member 10th and 11th grade
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Coldstone Creamery Crew Member March 09-Present
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Internship with Dan Gelber for Attorney General of Florida
[ *] Summer Activities: (Internship)
[ *] Essays: One was very well written, but I didn’t love the subject of the essay. The “Why Penn Essay” was extremely unique and showed my passion for the school.
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: I assume both were good.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Nothing special.
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview: AMAZING!</p>

<p>[ /list]**Other[ /b][list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Legacy.</p>

<p>[ /list]**Reflection[ /b][list]
[ *] Strengths: EC’s and Debate affilliation. My school has one of the largest teams in the Nation and I’m the President.
[ *] Weaknesses: SAT’s were average. Being white and Jewish.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea.</p>

<p>[ /list]**General Comments:[ CONGRATS EVERYONE WHO GOT ACCEPTED! /b]</p>