<p>Man I don’t know. I really hope they do spend time to look at the context of the high school and curriculum like they claim.</p>
<p>@pianogeek I really do think they spend that time because they called my guidance counselor. It is good that they spend that much time on their applicants.</p>
<p>@Millian If Penn rejected someone because they did not receive SAT scores, would they tell the applicant that that was the reason? If not, how would the applicant know and ask to reexamine?</p>
<p>how is everyone calculating their gpa on a 4.0 scale? my school does /100</p>
<p>I’m asking this because you wrote “I definitely would not worry about the SAT score issue. At best, it would be a good thing because if they rejected you, the will reexamine your application.”
I don’t know how to quote like 45 Percenter did. Sorry.</p>
<p>@Aguileon if you are deferred, you can call the admissions office and ask them why and what you could do to improve your application. Sometimes GCs do this for you too if you ask. </p>
<p>@Millian I know I asked this earlier in the thread, but if they didn’t call my high school for more info, does it mean they weren’t interested in me? Only about 5-7 people apply each year from my school, and about 1 out of 8 get in…does this mean they already know enough about my HS? Penn doesn’t even have any of my senior grades yet. </p>
<p>I feel like this “chance me” stuff isn’t helpful or informative or even fun…elite college admissions is so inherently random that it isn’t about being “qualified” so much as standing out from a large group of other “qualified” candidates. For a school like UPenn, most applicants will be academically qualified so it won’t come down to slight differences in GPA or SAT. Once you pass the academic threshold, the deciding factor is who you are and what you will ultimately contribute to the UPenn community. </p>
<p>@writerly so what would you say is approximately the safe GPA threshold for Penn?</p>
<p>@pianogeek –– One of my friends is a current UPenn student and she had a 3.5uw when applying. That’s the lowest I’ve personally heard of. Point is: you never really know what’s going to happen. It can really come down to the whims of a guy or girl in a business suit. I’ve heard of people who have been rejected from UPenn, accepted to Harvard. College process is random and unpredictable af. </p>
<p>Also, re legacy admissions: yesterday my dad got a letter from UPenn saying “In Early Decision last year, applicants were admitted at a rate of approximately 25%, while the children (and grandchildren) of our alumni were admitted at roughly double that percentage.”</p>
<p>Either way, chancing is completely meaningless right now, as this is the Early Decision only thread, meaning that all apps are already in. There is nothing to gain</p>
<p>I agree with @writerly. It’s not really going to come down to some minuscule difference in your GPA/SAT score. If you’re talking “”“safe GPA threshold”""" at basically any Ivy League, I would say 3.9 and up. but this threshold doesn’t really exist. No one is truly safe, no matter what GPA they have; I’m betting hundreds of kids are applying with 4.0s and stellar (2300+) SATs. Trust me when I say I know a lot of them still get rejected. It’s going to matter more on how you express your experiences through your essays, what you do outside of school; some people get 3.6s and still get into great schools. It’s because they don’t let their GPA define them, and let their experiences speak for them instead. Besides, different schools have completely different GPA systems, and totally different levels of academic rigor. At this point (or at any point, really) chancing’s going to do nothing. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, you still have a few weeks to apply to a dozen other great schools where at least one is probably going to want you.</p>
<p>Guys, GPAs and test scores stop mattering beyond a certain point. And even below that point, you never know.
Last year, a Yale admissions officer visited my school. They had 400 applicants with 2400 on the SAT Reasoning Test and 800s across three or more subjects. So those with 2400s but below 800s on the Subject tests and vice versa would be even more in number. Guess how many of them Yale accepted. 150. That’s right. They rejected 250 students with perfect SAT scores which also means that they accepted around 2000 students who had less than 2400s. So you can never really calculate the odds. That’s a crapshoot of the highest order. I know someone who got rejected from every college that she applied to (even her safeties). But Yale admitted her.
Point is, you can never be sure. It really depends on what the admissions officers are thinking while having a look at your app. Sit back. Relax. Spend these next 8 days on something that distracts you from thinking about this. If it’s in your luck to have it, then you will get in. If not, the doors don’t close there. Don’t stress too much over it. Hopefully, by March, you’ll all be accepted to amazing colleges. Cheers!</p>
<p>This thread is literally going on 24/7, no stop…</p>
<p>This doesn’t feel real that I will know where I’m going to college in 7 days… anyone else agree? </p>
<p>my main concern is actually finding out that after those 7 days, i still won’t know where i’m going… D:</p>
<p>Either I find out where I’m going in seven days, or I don’t get my first acceptance letter until March. >.<</p>
<p>The past few posts have given me hope though. Thanks @cstbzksfmgv , @presque , and others </p>
<p>I’m in a similar boat. 3.76 UW GPA but 2360 sat score.
Hopefully, Penn truly looks at all aspects of our applications. </p>
<p>4.0/2280/34 pretty average but oh well</p>