<p>@pengem playing Dragon Age:Origins</p>
<p>@pengem playing Dragon Age:Origins</p>
<p>@olasko nah man you must have the wrong guy…sorry haha!</p>
<p>@midwestbandie hey when I went to PEEP they explained how they do the holistic review
- Academics - The Transcript, all the classes you’ve taken, what you are taking now, grades, and how strong of a curriculum you took
- ECs - Not just clubs, they also want to know if you do anything outside of school
- Essays - they tell our story and show our personality, for why penn it should show we actually care about the school
- Test Scores - the correlation between success and test scores has not been proven and they are moving away from it being a major factor, the only reason they matter is to validate your academics so a high gpa should have a high test score but not necessarily.
- Leadership/Recommendations - are you as great as it seems
- Interview - used to gauge interest in school</p>
<p>@Ermar101 Knowing the importance would not change our chances, but thank you for sharing this!</p>
<p>Thank you @Ermar101!</p>
<p>You’re right. I wonder what I have even been doing in the past five years. Labouring over APs in the library until closing time, ditching dates with friends for executive meetings, and generally not having a life. I thought to myself that I ought to spend this much effort if I want to reach my ultimate goal: getting into the best university I can. I managed to do all this because I wanted to go to Penn so goddamn much. It’s a challenge for me, and I love challenging myself. Penn is the validation of my five years of hard work. But in the end, I guess the process is what really mattered, not the result. I will still be hurt that I simply didn’t reach Penn’s standards, and my dream school will tell me that they just don’t want me there. But in the end, life goes on, like it always does. In a few months, all this anxiety and worry will be for nothing. In a few years, perhaps I’ll chuckle at the 17-year old me, and all the unnecessary stress I put myself through. If I had to do high school again, I’m not sure if I would have done what I did (especially since I’m Canadian so I did a lot of superfluous stuff), but this has made me the person I am. Good luck everyone. </p>
<p>Do any of you guys think a typo in the supplement essay would be considered really bad? I was looking over my supplement essay and instead of “It would not only be a life-changing…” I wrote “It would be not only be a life changing…” Would that be considered really bad? Because its my only typo, and I read that essay like 6 times, but I submitted it the night before it was due so I must have just not realized… </p>
<p>@HvePassion
And at which email address is the financial aid lady available? <a href=“mailto:sfsmail@exchange.upenn.edu”>sfsmail@exchange.upenn.edu</a>?</p>
<p>@priya97 They do observe those type of errors.</p>
<p>@pengem Preparing for my A-Level exams. Got all Maths Papers (Algebra, Calculus, Mechanics and Stats) on Monday. I’ll probably screw it up because of the stress of the decision. :/</p>
<p>@midwestbandie would that be a cause for rejection? I thought it would be too minute for them to consider rejection based on those terms.</p>
<p>@priya97 I doubt it would be grounds for automatic rejection, but when I applied to a DIVOH at another school I had a grammatical error in my essay. When they called and gave me feedback on the app they mentioned it and said to make sure that a similar mistake was not made on an actual app. This is all to say that adcoms do pick up on them.</p>
<p>So hard to focus on L’Hospital’s rule when I have Penn on my mind ~X( $-) :-@ </p>
<p>@priya97 An admissions rep at a school of a similar caliber to Penn said that they see small typos all the time and it wouldn’t be a basis for a rejection.</p>
<p>oh thank god, I was so worried about it, because all the little things might all just add up to rejection.</p>
<p>@HvePassion I know what you mean and can completely relate to what you wrote. Having a dream and being willing to work for it is a great character trait that will get you somewhere in life, no matter what happens and what college you go to.
Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I completely forgot to put NHS on my application. Hopefully that isn’t a deciding factor.</p>
<p>@nwinston NHS most certainly isn’t a deciding factor</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Penn can only see my withdrawal on their transcript after the semester ends? </p>